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13
Jun

The Radical Roots of Pride Month

As we celebrate GLBT Pride Month, Executive Editor Niels Hooper looks back at the radical movements throughout history that expanded and redefined notions of gender and queer culture. Guest post by Niels Hooper …

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13
Jun

Pegasus Award Recognizes Robert Duncan Books

Big congratulations are in order for Peter Quartermain and James Maynard, the respective editors of Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays and Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose. The two books received the Poetry Foundation’s …

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05
May

Albie Sachs Honored by Governor Jerry Brown

Here is UC Press author Albie Sachs conversing with Governor Jerry Brown at a dinner honoring Sachs and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the transition to democracy in South Africa. His memoir, The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter, which …

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02
May

Top Graduation Gifts

To Repair the World Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices …

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29
Apr

Lamantia and Music

To conclude our celebration of National Poetry Month, we asked Andrew Joron, one of the co-editors of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia, to reflect on Lamantia’s poetic development and the sources of …

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22
Apr

Poets Gone Wild

In honor of National Poetry Month, please enjoy this archival footage of a young Michael McClure reading to lions at the San Francisco Zoo from his 1964 collection, Ghost Tantras. The clip …

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