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 >Last year, David and Janet Carle traveled the United States along the 38th parallel, investigating water issues from the Chesapeake to California for their upcoming book. Yesterday, the Carles embarked on the …
Read More >Media-driven myths aren’t harmless, says W. Joseph Campbell, author of Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. Instead, he says, they glorify the news media and can …
Read More >To stay alive, animals must eat and avoid being eaten. This means they must develop hunting and escape strategies, many of which they learn from their parents: “Youngsters who learn from their …
Read More >***CANCELED***We are sorry to announce that this event has been canceled. Unfortunately, due to the grounding of flights across Europe because of the volcano eruption in Iceland, Dr. Farmer will not be …
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 >There are 27 million slaves in the world today, with Iceland and Greenland the only two countries with no known cases of slavery, says Kevin Bales in this inspiring TED Conference talk …
Read More >Over the past couple of years, you may have noticed that there aren’t quite as many Starbucks around as there used to be. Hit by compound financial and identity crises, Starbucks closed …
Read More >Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All, wrote a guest post last week on the Fed Up with Lunch blog, where blogger “Mrs. Q” chronicles her quest to eat a school lunch …
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