Good news in the sh*%storm: I have a new poetry collection coming later this year! Beginning to Sense, @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social, October 2026. (That's not the cover. I just mocked up a title page for this announcement.)

Nán Fiero’s latest album is slated for release on Cinco de Mayo. His music highlights West Oakland’s overlooked Mexican community.

Bay Area poet Alan Chazaro @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social couldn't afford to stay. So he wrote a book about it. These Spaceships Weren't Built For Us reimagines displacement, gentrification, and survival through sci-fi & poetry. Out April 14 on Red Hen Press. www.coyotemedia.org/these-spaces...

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The great @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social talked with Pato O’Ward for the @essesmag.com Newsletter. Read it!

Stoked to once again work with the great @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social, who traces the VERY Oakland origin story of one of Mexico City's hottest restaurants. W/ appearances from Cosecha, People's Kitchen Collective, the Black Panthers, Alice Waters, and Charles Phan. www.kqed.org/arts/1398783...

Look, I'm gonna need my writer friends to slow down because I can't keep up with all your books showing up on my nightstand. (But for real, HEY, NEW @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social!!!)

This week’s calendar is out! Curated by the great @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social, it features nefarious tales about Vallejo history, jazzy renditions of A Tribe Called Quest, and queer line dancing for beginners. www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen...

They were high school poets, dancers, and rappers. Now they're headlining shows, publishing bestsellers, and performing at the SF Ballet. @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social checks in on five of his former OSA students who've gone on to extraordinary things. www.coyotemedia.org/the-oakland-...

As usual, @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social has two spunky posts, one on a new cookbook out of Orinda of all places: www.coyotemedia.org/orinda-raise...

Along with the music, we've got: - Live sets from Roc Marciano & Jay Som - @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social profiling Frak for @coyotemedia.org - A double dose of Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon from @imgarysuarez.bsky.social and @rapmusicplugpod.bsky.social - Footage from the ELUCID & DJ Haram tour Tap in!

From folding wontons with her Chinese-Korean mom and grandma in Orinda to 4M followers online, Maxine Sharf's journey into food wasn't planned — until a layoff changed everything. Her debut cookbook drops March 3. @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social reports: www.coyotemedia.org/orinda-raise...

Frak The Person, San Francisco’s lovable, mutli-hyphenate battle rapper-slash-comedian, isn’t actually running for office. But with his ambitious mixtape project and live show extravaganza ‘Foursquare,’ he’s won the hearts and minds of Frisco residents — and @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social’s vote.

In 2016, the last time the Super Bowl came to the Bay Area, SF residents vandalized statues, threw a nationally-covered protest, and bemoaned the high cost to taxpayers. Why are things so quiet this year? I break it down in @coyotemedia.org.

Esses Issue 05 TOC just dropped… www.instagram.com/p/DUOKr6TDaj... Stories by: @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social @pjsauer.bsky.social @foster.bsky.social @charleylocke.bsky.social @alexkirshner.com John Sunyer Louis Cheslaw Katie Lockhart Toni Cowan-Brown and so much more… @essesmag.com

"Minnesotans are doing all they can, but they can’t keep fighting alone," writes @soleilho.com. "It’s time for a nationwide general strike: a coordinated withdrawal of labor across industries and regions until ICE is abolished."

i am so proud of @coyotemedia.org for being a place that can run stuff like this without pulling punches and i also feel it should be known that @soleilho.com wrote this powerful piece in like two hours *with the flu*

Fantastic interview/profile of @mohammadearth.bsky.social by @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social for @coyotemedia.org here.

cleanse your brain, cleanse your spirit: read @rahawahaile.bsky.social and @maggietokudahall.bsky.social in conversation about pigeons www.coyotemedia.org/local-woman-...

Lil B was the godfather of internet rap, a meme-able prophet who foretold our society's doom. We could use his zany positivity now more than ever. ✍️ @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social 📸 @amir.photo

TYBG @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social On Lil B and New Beginnings www.coyotemedia.org/on-lil-b-and...

"There are very few other places in life which unite careful concentration and shower shoes." Read Danny Lavery on bathhouse rules, towel etiquette, and the thrill of plunging into the unknown on COYOTE. www.coyotemedia.org/visting-a-ga...

BREAKING: Bottom of the Hill, the storied rock club that’s hosted countless local bands as well as global superstars like Oasis, the Strokes, and the White Stripes, will shutter at the end of this year, owners say. What’s next for the space isn’t clear. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

Breaking some news for @coyotemedia.org here. Incredibly sad about this — some of the best nights of my life have involved this club — but I’m also so honored and grateful to Ramona, Kathleen and Lynn for trusting me with this story. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...

a loss to San Francisco and to me personally. we played there for years and years until there was really no way for us to play there. "too big" I guess but I will never be bigger in my mind than what the Bottom of the Hill is in my heart.

"Metroid 4" recently dropped after an 18-year hiatus. Alan Chazaro weighed in on the music of the classic sci-fi adventure series and how its blend of rock-n-roll futurisms & symphonic electronica has carved out its own lineage in video game soundtrack history. www.passionweiss.com/2025/12/18/w...

Over at @coyotemedia.org my colleagues and I are trying to build a new, worker-owned outlet in the Bay Area. We've already broken stories and had impact. To continue that work we need more members, plain and simple. And now you can get a discount! 🎁 Use COYOTE2026 for 15% off an annual membership.

There are very few people who can get me emotional about ice cream (a dessert I don't even really like) but @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social is one of them. www.coyotemedia.org/oakland-ice-...

"This is political: Every flavor is a statement that we all belong here." In honor of the fifth year anniversary of De La Creamery, a popular ice cream pop-up in Berkeley, @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social spoke to Stephanie De La Cruz about what it's been like to make 'ice cream for the community.

One reason it took me so long to write this @coyotemedia.org essay is I kept trying to find a positive, productive note to end on. All I really got is “fund the goddamn bus.” www.coyotemedia.org/in-which-we-...

As usual, @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social has a sweet, poetic, and insightful piece for you on a Bay Area rapper www.coyotemedia.org/oakland-musi...

Getting to read @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social’s rap criticism for COYOTE is always such a joy, man. I just know I’m in for hit after hit.

After more than a decade in the Bay Area's rap scene, Philip Bank$ is finally releasing his debut solo album. It's a time capsule of Oakland told by someone who prides himself on speaking "for those who aren't able to tell their own stories." ✍️ @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social

What happens when successful nightlife hosts become morning people? Group runs, breakfast burritos, DJ sets, and a whole lot of human-to-human connection. ✍️: @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social

An ICE agent hit by a sandwich earlier this year testified that he could feel the sandwich’s “explosive” impact through his ballistic vest. “I could smell the onions and mustard.” This made us hungry, so we've rounded up our favorite Bay Area sandwiches that are big, messy, smelly, and aerodynamic.

There's one place on Earth that isn't angry with the Mavs right now. I know because we sent @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social to Mexico City last weekend to watch Dallas play & tell us the 30-year journey of how the Mavs became Mexico's team. I loved this story: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...

I fucking love this @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social piece on the new Frida Kahlo museum, what home means, and how tiny pieces of connection out in the world make all the difference.

COYOTE's @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social was skeptical about the new Casa Roja, yet another Frida Kahlo museum in Mexico City. But when he discovered her intimate relationship to the Bay Area, he found a new, personal connection with the famous artist.

Have you checked out @coyotemedia.org recently? We've done some good shit in the last two weeks! 〰️ An essay by @emmaruthless.bsky.social on why all our options seem to suck right now 〰️ A guide to places offering free food to SNAP recipients: www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

The Bay Area is quietly one of the biggest anime hubs in North America—and most people don't even realize it. @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social is here to set the record straight with his latest story.

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

While this federal administration has been busy empowering ICE to become, essentially, an extrajudicial militia allowed to disappear people from our streets, the Bay has been organizing. We will not be beaten down.

Good site with tips for everyone. If your city has its own version of this, feel free to reply with a link!

read @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social always

LOVE this @coyotemedia.org piece from Alan Chazaro. From the Great Mall to Great America, airbrushing is both nostalgia and a Bay Area art form that endures. @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social www.coyotemedia.org/spray-area-t...

Remember getting your shirt airbrushed at the flea market? That sweeping script with your name across the chest? It was peak Bay Area culture in the 90s and 2000s, writes @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social, and a memento of a Bay Area where artists once thrived. www.coyotemedia.org/spray-area-t...

this week for @coyotemedia.org: I went to war-ravaged Portland to find out whether it’s still possible to get a decent macchiato there www.coyotemedia.org/portland-a-w...

Really enjoyed working on this @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social piece about Diego Luna and how his family shaped the player he is today, with an identity that’s still wholly his own. www.theguardian.com/football/202...