“I hoped to impart the sense that there’s this urgency to speak, always.” Annie Delmedico speaks with Jake Rose about JOAN, Rose’s debut poetry collection, out now with @uchicagopress.bsky.social And, read two poems from JOAN. Read: zyzzyva.org

Welcoming ZYZZYVA 132! Our newest issue, according to our Editor @ovillalon.bsky.social, might be the most experimental we’ve done in years. We’re so excited to bring you these intrepid pages. Read + subscribe at zyzzyva.org

Tonight at six, we'll be at Golden Sardine, a wine bar/eatery/poetry bookstore that epitomizes the spirit of North Beach: charming, welcoming, and besotted with culture. Hope you can join us!

See you tomorrow? 🎉

We’re celebrating our newest issue (again!) Join us on Thursday at the fantastic Golden Sardine bar for readings from 132 poets Geraldine Jorge, Caroline Kessler, and Noelani Piters

Tonight! @booksmith.bsky.social!

“The proliferation of destructive wildfires continues to increase both in the American psyche and in reality. And who better to write on these fires than those who fight them?” Caio Driver reviews three memoirs from wildland firefighters Jordan Thomas + @riverselby.bsky.social +Kelly Ramsey

🎉 At City Lights TONIGHT Tuesday 5/5 7pm PT ZYZZYVA Literary Magazine Issue 32 & Cinco De Mayo Celebration! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @ovillalon.bsky.social @anitafelicelli.bsky.social @sarahkmatsui.bsky.social In-store only! Seating on a first-come, first-serve basis, free!

See you tomorrow? 🎉

A new ZYZZYVA is here and you know what that means. We’re celebrating! Join us with our friends @citylightsbooks.bsky.social for pizza, drink, and readings from 132 contributors @anitafelicelli.bsky.social + @sarahkmatsui.bsky.social + Carolyn Burke. Cinco de Mayo, 7pm Free to attend

Our newest issue this way comes… And you can preorder your copy now! Find Issue 132 at zyzzyva.org

“Searls takes up the problem of memory, sometimes his narrator’s own, but ultimately the collective memory of his generation.” Benjamin Flaumenhaft reviews Damion Searls’s novella, Analog Days, out with @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

We’re so excited to share that “Muscle to Muscle, Toe to Toe” by @kimsamek.bsky.social, which originally appeared in ZYZZYVA No. 129, has won a 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction! Congratulations to Kim. What a joy to revisit this strange and singular story.

We’re thrilled to publish excerpts of Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer, from @weslpress.bsky.social, introduced by its co-editor Daniel Benjamin. Plus Paul Wilner reviews the collection. Spend time with this piece of Bay Area literary history: zyzzyva.org

Proud to have had @fetaplace.bsky.social in our Issue 105!

Thank you for the read! @abookanditsauthor.bsky.social You too can read Issue 131: zyzzyva.org

Tonight! Excited to hear from Karen Russell (who we’re thrilled to have in our upcoming issue 132…) 7 pm, @booksmith.bsky.social, free to attend!

Come out tonight to see/hear our senior editor @manjula.bsky.social with Suzanne Simard + @greenapplebooks.bsky.social 7pm, SF Botanical Garden, free to attend!

“Literature, for Mayer, is an embodied and living thing, to be treated with as much love and familiarity—and as little veneration—as her own infant daughters.” Maisie Bilston reviews Bernadette Mayer’s collection, The Golden Book of Words, reissued by @ndbooks.bsky.social Read: zyzzyva.org

“Now the shadow that I couldn’t fully comprehend at the time, or separate from the other shocks I was going through—one I’d never paused to identify or process in the ensuing years—finally had form. It had witnesses.” New nonfiction from Joe Donnelly in our latest issue! Read/subscribe: zyzzyva.org

Thrilled to be the West Bay bonus! Come see us tomorrow, hear poems, celebrate our newest Issue 131. Friday, 6pm, Golden Sardine bar

Check out this exciting project that our Senior Editor @manjula.bsky.social is part of!

Join us this Friday! All words are welcome, as are listening ears, as we sit around a table with beer and water and share poems, very informally. Then troop over with us to Golden Sardine to listen to poets Kelly Gray, Nica Giromini, and Brian Ang on the mic for the @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social launch!

Join us next week to celebrate our new issue ZYZZYVA 131, this time on the San Francisco side of the bay at the fantastic Golden Sardine bar. Ft. readings from contributors Brian Ang, Nica Giromini, and Kelly Gray. Friday, March 6, 6pm @ Golden Sardine, SF

“I watched the moon abandon a sinking blue ship. The night we parted still glitters in me.” New poetry from John Yau in our latest issue! Read + subscribe: zyzzyva.org

Come see us tomorrow at Local Economy + pop right next door to visit the wonderful @ebbooksellers.bsky.social

Pizza, contributor readings, wine, celebrating all things ZYZZYVA 131! See you Thursday?

Join us next week to toast our newest issue ZYZZYVA 131! Ft. readings from contributors @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social + @mawsheinwin.bsky.social + Suzanne Rivecca. Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm @ Local Economy, Oakland

Read this new, vital interview in Issue 131: zyzzyva.org

“The person I call in situations like this is Colette, the city government version of me, an abstinent ex-junkie disliked by the mayor, with a soft spot for schizophrenics, a love for lancing abscesses, and zero work/life balance.” New fiction from Suzanne Rivecca in our latest issue: zyzzyva.org

“What is one to make of these complex lives? Is forgiveness in order?” Paul Wilner reviews Joan Silber’s novel, Mercy. Read at zyzzyva.org

Our newest issue has arrived! Within 131 you’ll find new fiction, poems, nonfiction, art portfolio + a new Q&A. Read Issue 131 (and subscribe!) at zyzzyva.org

“The question of where our gaze is focused, what is takes in and willfully shuts out, is integral to Animal Stories.” Caio Driver reviews Kate Zambreno’s essay collection, Animal Stories, from @transitbooks.bsky.social Read at zyzzyva.org

Join writer and ZYZZYVA contributor David Guterson for a writers’ workshop. February 7 at Mechanics’ Institute. Plus! ZYZZYVA subscribers/supporters get a course discount…

Wishing you a happy New Year’s Eve! From all of us to you, thank you for championing ZYZZYVA this year. Whether you read, subscribed, donated, rocked a ZYZZYVA tote, celebrated new issues with us, or came out to a reading or movie night, we’re grateful for this one-of-a-kind literary community.

One more week to reach our matching grant! Up to $5,000 until December 31st

We got a match! Every donation made to ZYZZYVA will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $5,000. Now through December 31st. If you’ve been thinking about supporting our work, now is a fantastic time. zyzzyva.org/donate

A new issue approaches! Just in time for holiday reading, ZYZZYVA No. 131 is available for pre-order. Get your copy today: tinyurl.com/584cwnfr

The great Paul Beatty, a member of our Board of Directors, on supporting ZYZZYVA. Read, subscribe, and/or donate: zyzzyva.org

Read Tom Bissell on Jaws in Issue 130: tinyurl.com/f8cx9c9f

This #givingtuesday help us make ZYZZYVA possible. Your gift, any shape and size, directly supports writers, artists, education, and community. 🔗 zyzzyva.org/donate

"There are two San Franciscos at least. San Francisco remains a city of great beauty and disposition. It is also a city that is plagued by the effects of income disparity, a problem at the heart of much that is wrong with our country."

Got your tickets for Wednesday? Movie night at the Roxie + our holiday party!

I still love reading journals and periodicals without needing to be logged in.

bay area friends, this will be so lovely—a party 12/3 raising funds for @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social & @litquake.org, two beloved organizations hit hard by NEA & NEH cuts hosted by daniel handler, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, jonathan escoffery, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, & @alexismadrigal.bsky.social

Come for the movie! roxie.com/film/zyzzyva... And stay for the party! www.eventbrite.com/e/zyzzyva-li...

This year's final ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social will be Wed., Dec. 3. Our featured guest will be Daniel Handler, and the movie: "Aventurera" (1950), starring Ninón Sevilla. Starts at 6 p.m. And get a ticket to join our party right after the screening! roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...

“But it was one thing to bury the roots of a tree and watch it grow, and another entirely to bury a part of the body.” New nonfiction from Frances Stroh in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org

Embrace the unknown this Halloween season… 3 issues from our backlist, chosen at random, $25…

We join our Bay Area community in mourning Susan Griffin. If you’re wanting to sit with Susan for some minutes (again or for the first time), we were lucky to have Heidi Benson interview her in our Issue 108. Read: tinyurl.com/bdm2frwj