Happy Birthday City Lights! May 8, 2013: Can't decide how to celebrate City Lights's 60th birthday? Try this on for size- courtesy of City Lights' blog: C'est Street Fair 1959 an "ektachrome," yes ektachrome, home movie by Edward Silverstone Taylor, documenting a Street Fair on Upper Grant Avenue, in San Francisco: "the center of beat culture." (Right around the corner from City [...] by Harriet Staff

Two-Way Mirror: David Meltzer’s Notebook of Poetics January 22, 2013: Next year, City Lights Press will publish an expanded reissue of Tw0-Way Mirror, David Meltzer's notebook of poetics. Garret Caples, Meltzer's editor at City Lights, has posted a thoughtful profile of both Meltzer and the forthcoming reissue on the City Lights Blog. Two-Way Mirror first appeared in 1977 on Oyez Press, Robert Hawley's Bay [...] by Harriet Staff

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Interviewed at Interview January 10, 2013: Pardon the redundancy, but make your way over to Interview to read this great interview with Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Christopher Bollen leads the conversation and introduces the piece by comparing Ferlinghetti to that other great American revolutionary George Washington: Our heroes tend not to own stores. But there is an exception—poet [...] by Harriet Staff

Boulder poetry bookstore only the third of its kind in the US January 11, 2011: ColoradoDaily reports on the opening of a new bookstore in Boulder where poetry alone occupies the shelves. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe is only the third such bookstore in the country, following Open Books in Seattle, Washington and Grolier's in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to Publisher's Weekly, there are indeed only two other [...] by Harriet Staff