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Persis Karim is poet, editor and professor of World & Comparative Literature at San Francisco State University. She holds the Neda Nobari Endowed Chair and serves as director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals including: Callaloo, Reed Magazine, The Raven’s Perch, and The New York Times. She is the editorContinue reading “Persis Karim”

Maw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet, editor, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in theContinue reading “Maw Shein Win”

Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released over 60  collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in ten countries and cyberspace. Publications include the long-form novel DoveLion: A Fairy Tale for Our Times; the form-based Selected Poems, The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets (1996-2019), THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Selected Visual Poetry (2001-2019), INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems &Continue reading “Eileen R. Tabios”

Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), and Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge (Ghost City Press, 2021). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and aContinue reading “Alan Chazaro”

Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His curriculum on the extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His books include, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press, 2015), Heaven Is All Goodbyes (2018 California Book Award and 2018 American BookContinue reading “Tongo Eisen-Martin”

Connie Post is a San Francisco Bay Area Poet. She served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California from 2005 – June 2009. During her term, she created two popular reading series “Wine and Words” and “Ravenswood”. She wrote 25 poems for civic and community events. The City of Livermore published this collection entitled InContinue reading “Connie Post”

Thomas Stanton is the 2018-2020 Benicia Poet Laureate. Born to a writer and an artist, he grew up writing poetry and now he and his wife Christine own Bookshop Benicia, the city’s literary hub. He has been involved in Benicia’s First Tuesday Poets group since 2004. Tom is one of a very few Poet LaureatesContinue reading “Thomas Stanton”

Shikha (Saklani) Malaviya is a poet, writer & publisher, born in the U.K. and raised in Minnesota and India. Her book, Geography of Tongues, was launched in December 2013, in India, to acclaim and featured in the Bangalore Literature Festival, Times of India Literary Carnival, Poetry with Prakriti & other festivals. Shikha is publisher & co-founder of TheContinue reading “Shikha Malaviya”

Ronnie Holland served as the City of Dublin’s First Poet Laureate (May 2008-2010), writing many “poems of place,” hosted poetry readings, and read at other events, dedications, schools and for Hope Hospice. She has been published in anthologies, newsletters, and two Ekphrasis chapbooks with artist Lily Xu. She continues to attend and read at regionalContinue reading “Ronnie Holland”