Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, died a century ago today, but he is still publishing books. He wanted it that way—he specified that his full autobiography not be published for 100 years …
Read More >Yesterday on KPFA 94.1 FM, Jack Foley hosted the prequel to an 8-part series based on Poems for the Millennium Volume Three, edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson. In yesterday’s …
Read More >In honor of National Poetry Month, Richard O. Moore reads from his new book, Writing the Silences. Moore was part of the San Francisco Renaissance literary movement of the 1940s and 1950s. …
Read More >UC Press is proud to be a sponsor of National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. Throughout the month of April, we’re joining the Academy of American Poets to …
Read More >“Mark Twain at Play” Exhibition at the Bancroft Library Mark Twain was a hardworking and prolific writer, but how did he spend his time when the “bread-and-butter element” was put aside and …
Read More >When most people think about about government funding, the arts are probably not the first thing to come to mind. Arts funding is often shunted aside in favor of other priorities, and …
Read More >“I borrowed my boat from Rousseau, who describes, in Reveries of a Solitary Walker, floating aimlessly in a lake observing only the flickering of his consciousness in concert with the various patterns …
Read More >Poet Sarah Gridley has been selected as a 2010 Creative Workforce Fellow in Literature by the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture in Cleveland, Ohio. The $20,000 fellowships are awarded to local …
Read More >On February 18, 1885, Mark Twain published the American edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Early reviews ranged from praise to scathing criticism: the San Francisco Chronicle called it “the most amusing …
Read More >“I used to write shorter poems,” said Lisa Robertson, author of R’s Boat, in a recent interview on the Canadian radio station CKUW’s program Speaking of Poets, with host John Herbert Cunningham. …
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