When Bay Area poets Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, and Geoffery G. O'Brien were beaten by police during a peaceful protest at Occupy Berkeley, the answer to the question the headline poses was answered in dramatic fashion.

The news spread quickly in the poetry community. We...

San Francisco's Litquake -- America's best (and wackiest) literary festival -- is upon us. For a glorious week in glorious October, the City's Mission District celebrates literature not simply by adding liquor to ice but by chasing down that pair with some of the best readings around. Think...

Matthew Zapruder is one of the Bay Area's most interesting poets. He and I recently had an interesting conversation about poetry, poetic craft, and the reader. Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry. His most recent book, Come On All You Ghosts (Copper Canyon, 2010), was...

At the minimum, there are five weeks of summer left. For some, close to eight. There is no way you have read as much as you wanted this summer, even if you have perused the PDF of Go The F*ck To Sleep every day since early June. Except...