Code Unknown: Wiggle Room April 4, 2013: I call people of this sort ironists because of their realization that anything can be made to look good or bad by being redescribed, and their renunciation of the attempt to formulate criteria of choice between final vocabularies, puts them in the position which Sartre called 'meta-stable': never quite able to take themselves seriously because [...] by Bill Berkson

Cedar Sigo Reads for Banned Books Month at City Lights October 25, 2012: Surf over to City Lights's blog to watch a video of Cedar Sigo reading from Cain's Book, by Alexander Trocchi. It's part of City Lights's celebration of Banned Books month. After you watch Cedar, scroll down the list to see a whole slew of San Francisco writers reading banned books! And, for you Chicago readers, be sure to stop by the [...] by Harriet Staff

Cedar Sigo at Take Down the Clouds September 10, 2012: The Volta is having Cedar Sigo Take Down the Clouds with this intimate interview. Here's what Sigo has to say about what he's currently working on: Yesterday morning I took the (still) working parts of an older poem and used these to expand a brand new piece. That process seemed very dependent on returning to the construction every few [...] by Harriet Staff

Loose Diary: Cedar Sigo on Collaborative Writing August 23, 2012: Earlier this week City Lights blog published the latest dispatch from Cedar Sigo, this time focusing on his collaborative work with fellow City Lights author Micah Ballard. A taste: Collaboration is also editing. It’s easy to just fire away contributing lines to a poem, but cutting the final shape together requires a more delicate [...] by Harriet Staff

A Brolaski Extravaganza!!! July 24, 2012: The City Lights blog is lighting it up with TONS of great writing and recordings by and about Julian Talamantez Brolaski. The occasion, of course, is the publication of his Advice for Lovers earlier this year. All of this is brought to us by way of Garrett Caples (recently published here, btw, and recorded here). Caples sets the scene [...] by Harriet Staff

A note on San Francisco Blues April 18, 2012:   Over the course of his 1968 interview with Ted Berrigan for The Paris Review, Jack Kerouac is asked, “Why must the method for writing poetry differ from that of prose?” Kerouac responds, “As for my regular English verse, I knocked it out fast like the prose, using, get this, the size of the notebook page for the form and length [...] by Cedar Sigo

“The radio is teaching my goldfish”: Cedar Sigo on Bob Kaufman March 5, 2012: For those who missed it, last week Cedar Sigo wrote an insightful piece on the poetry and life of Bob Kaufman. Sigo begins by drawing together the often mythic details of Kaufman's life, and describes his 10 year silence following the death of JFK: It seems that the actual facts and dates of Kaufman’s life have been swallowed whole by [...] by Harriet Staff

Celebrating Sigo May 26, 2011: Hey! Ron Silliman applied his admirable analytic faculties to San Francisco poet Cedar Sigo today leading with the sentence "Cedar Sigo is a Frank O’Hara for the 21st century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear & eye for the minutest details, at home in the world of the arts." Yes! Sigo's new City Lights book, Stranger in Town, [...] by Harriet Staff