🥳 TONIGHT 9/22 at 7pm PT, @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social is holding their Issue 130 Celebration at City Lights! Emceed by @ovillalon.bsky.social with a reading by @keenanthewriter.bsky.social Attend in person for pizza and wine, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/

Toronto! @willpotter.bsky.social speaks about the repression of social movements this Thursday, Sept 25th, 7:30pm at TYPE BOOKS, 883 Queen Street.

@willpotter.bsky.social speaks at PRATT, this Weds., Sept 24, 12:30pm. PRATT Institute, Brooklyn, East Hall Room 312. Free and Open to the Public 🐄

Thea Matthews celebrates the publication of GRIME: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 25 with Dorothea Lasky at BOOKS ARE MAGIC this Thursday, September 25th, 7pm! www.booksaremagic.net/events

Thank you! That was fun. Go get a signed copy of one of these books when you visit @citylightsbooks.bsky.social!

Today!!!

One week from today at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco: "Celebrating Euphrase Kezilahabi," presented by @catranslation.org / @twolinespress.bsky.social. I'll be reading from ROSA MISTIKA and conversing w/ the endlessly thoughtful Annmarie Drury :) www.catranslation.org/event/jay-bo...

André Breton had views on . . . astrology?! Find out in the October issue of @harpers.bsky.social "On Astrology" is excerpted from CAVALIER PERSPECTIVE: Last Essays 1952 - 1966, translated from the French by Austin Carder & just published by City Lights 💥

"In addition to his work as a poet and bookstore owner, Ferlinghetti was a devoted painter, draftsperson and printmaker who worked across a variety of media for more than 60 years."— Ann Radillo, @missionlocal.org bit.ly/46oRVvQ

"Few figures are more beloved in San Francisco than Lawrence Ferlinghetti. . . . Thanks to an intimate and lovely exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Ferlinghetti is now cultivating a new reputation as an artist."— @deanrader.bsky.social @hyperallergic.com bit.ly/4mnyvxw

TOMORROW ~ SAN FRANCISCO & ONLINE: Register to attend ~ hear from DAYDREAMERS author @alvinlu.bsky.social at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social citylights.com/events/alvin... SYRACUSE- head to Patrick Lawler, author of CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS www.lemoyne.edu/event/poetry...

Happy to Celebrate Arthur Sze as our New Poet Laureate of the U.S.!

Happy 5th Anniversary to The Markaz Review! Established in 2020, TMR is a non-profit literary publication that amplifies voices from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (SWANA). In 2024, we pub'd STORIES FROM THE CENTER OF THE WORLD: New Middle East Fiction, featuring work from The Markaz!

"ABANDON ALL DESPAIR YE WHO ENTER HERE" 🌎🥰🌍🙂🌏-- historic photo from @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco -- #CityLights #CityLightsBookstore #Dante #DanteAlighieri

This week! citylights.com/events/ 👑9/15, 7pm PT Michael Thomas THE BROKEN KING [@groveatlantic.bsky.social] ⛰9/17, 7pm PT @alvinlu.bsky.social w/ Stacey Levine DAYDREAMERS [@fictioncollective2.bsky.social] 🍄9/20, 1pm PT Ralph Metzner’s Life and Legacy of Consciousness Exploration 📍Berkeley Alembic ‬

On-line registrations are filled up, but you can still join us tonight! Copy / paste this link into your browser at 7pm PT / 10pm ET: us02web.zoom.us/j/81527290109

". . . No mail for years — who'd want to write to a dead man?" —Nasser Rabah, "No Mail For Years" published in GAZA: The Poem Said Its Piece City Lights Pocket Poets Series No 64 Translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal & Khaled Al-Hilli Foreword by Mosab Abu Toha

Join @willpotter.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social this Friday, Sept 12th, 7pm, when he discusses his latest, "LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable" with Abby Martin of the The Empire Files ! A powerful exposé of the forces at work to mask the harms of industrial agriculture.

A very busy week for new #poetry #books from Perugia, Four Way Books, Knopf, Copper Canyon Press, @weslpress.bsky.social, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, Nightboat Books, Button Poetry, @upittpress.bsky.social, and many more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

Next Wednesday, 2 readings, 2 Coasts! ~SYRACUSE: catch Patrick Lawler, author of CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS at Lemoyne www.lemoyne.edu/event/poetry... ~SAN FRANCISCO, & on ZOOM: catch @alvinlu.bsky.social author of DAYDREAMERS at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social citylights.com/events/alvin...

Join us tonight at City Lights to celebrate the publication of GRIME by Thea Matthews! And, if you can't make, sign up for the livestream and be with us online: bit.ly/3VcFTAK

Happy publication day to Thea Matthews for GRIME: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 25! From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist lens with a rare deftness of poetic form. bit.ly/3IeylKU

Nice evening to drift around North Beach and Chinatown and drop by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, where copies of Daydreamers are on the shelf.

We're celebrating two new City Lights titles! Join us in person, or on the livestreams: citylights.com/events/ ⚪️ TONIGHT 9/9 7pm PT, Thea Matthews w/ Patrick James Dunagan & @mawsheinwin.bsky.social GRIME 🟡 9/11, 7pm PT, André Breton Tribute Austin Carder w/ Garrett Caples CAVALIER PERSPECTIVE

Gratitude and love to Paul Yamazaki, City Lights's longtime book buyer, who will receive the Northern California Book Awards GROUNDBREAKER AWARD at their ceremony this Saturday, 2pm, held at the SF Main Library’s Koret Auditorium. It's free to attend. See you there? poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...

"The heart doctor treating me now recommends only one thing: stop writing the diaries of a dead village." —Nasser Rabah, "Dead Cats Continue to Meow" published in GAZA: The Poem Said Its Piece City Lights Pocket Poets Series No 64

We're looking forward to celebrating Thea Matthews's GRIME next Tuesday, September 9th, 7pm, at the bookstore. Thea will be joined by Maw Shein Win & Patrick James Dunagan In the meantime, read work from the book published in The Atlantic bit.ly/4lXAS9Y

RIP Poet, fiction writer, translator, Jimmy Nolan Born September 3, 1947 * Died August 22, 2025 bit.ly/3JHziMg

One month from today @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco (and via livestream): "Celebrating Euphrase Kezilahabi – with Jay Boss Rubin and Annmarie Drury." I'll be reading from Rosa Mistika, and in conversation with a fellow translator of Kezilahabi. Karibuni! citylights.com/events/celeb...

Portland, OR friends! Mark your calendars. Thea Matthews celebrates her new book GRIME: City Lights Spotlight No 25 at Up Up Books with Matthew Dickman on Thursday, October 30th, 7pm!

Today is the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. If you don't know about the man who organized it, you should find out. @citylightsbooks.bsky.social citylights.com/city-lights-...

Great news, San Francisco peeps! There are now signed/doodled copies of Lessons in Magic and Disaster in @booksmith.bsky.social , Fabulosa Books, @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social , Dog Eared Books, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social and of course @greenapplebooks.bsky.social 💘✨⭐🎉😻

Honoring Jenny Feder, Cofounder of Three Lives & Company, who died at age 73. bit.ly/4fZOb8P

Happy Publication Day to André Breton's CAVALIER PERSPECTIVE Last Essays 1952—1966 Translated from the French by Austin Carder Published by City Lights citylights.com/city-lights-...

Belén Fernández signed copies of her new book THE DARIÉN GAP at the historic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. Pick up a copy! @citylightsbooks.bsky.social citylights.com/new-nonficti...

Portland!! @willpotter.bsky.social returns to Powell's City of Books on Friday, Sept 12, 7pm!

Toronto! @willpotter.bsky.social will discuss his new book LITTLE RED BARNS at Type Books on Thursday, Sept 25 at 7:30pm!

ICYMI, watch the recording of our City Lights LIVE! event for THE SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY BOOK OF INTERVIEWS, edited by Adam Biles, and introduced by our Parisian sister store's proprietor, Sylvia Whitman. @shakespeareandcompany.com Watch on our YouTube channel! @CityLightsBooks youtu.be/56ssIqoT3OE

We will miss Malcolm Margolin, author, publisher, founder of Heyday Books, and a true Berkeleyan! 1940 - 2025 Read this remembrance @berkeleyside.org www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/20/m...

The Poetry Room at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social August 15, 2025 #SanFrancisco

Featured this summer are reviews from @shannonmattern.bsky.social, @karenkubey.bsky.social, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Jess Myers, Nora Wendl, Jay Cephas, @sevensixfive.bsky.social, @curryhackett.bsky.social & @sabinathegreat.bsky.social, on a wide array of important subjects. Read more from our critics!👇🏼

City Lights LIVE events! 🌟 Mon 8/18 6pm Inés Hernández-Ávila & Molly McGlennen w/ Casandra López INDIGENOUS POETICS 🪄 Tues 8/19 6pm Ira Landgarten & Tate Swindell Exploring the Life & Work of Ira Cohen 🖼 Thurs 8/21 6pm Celebrating Neeli Cherkovski THE PORTRAIT GALLERY CALLED EXISTENCE 📍Kerouac Alley

Join us to celebrate Neeli Cherkovski's "The Portrait Gallery Called Existence" this Thursday, 6pm, in Kerouac Alley!

Thank you!! @unboundedition.bsky.social

Listen to @willpotter.bsky.social on @projectcensored.bsky.social radio discussing his new book LITTLE RED BARNS, just published by City Lights! www.projectcensored.org/factory-farm...

If you didn't catch the book launch that Paul Buhle and I did with @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in July, here is the video. Look for our book, "Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues" writings on popular culture by Franklin Rosemont from @pmpress.bsky.social maxe youtu.be/rRgl1CzOpBI?...

Events! 🟡 8/12 6pm @kwamedawes.bsky.social, Chris Abani, Siwar Masannat @akashicbooks.bsky.social ⚪️ 8/13 2pm Jennifer Jihye Chun & @dotorious.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social 🟢 8/14 6pm @nicolethecuffy.bsky.social w/ Veena Dinavahi @oneworldbooks.bsky.social Register: citylights.com/events/

City Lights LIVE! ✨ TODAY 8/7 6pm, Elaine Castillo w/ Robert Mailer Anderson discussing MODERATION @vikingbooks.bsky.social 🏞️ Sunday 8/10 2pm, Poetry & Sex in Public Places: A Celebration of Mutsuo Takahashi’s “Ode” w/ @randallmann.bsky.social & D. A. Powell 📍Kerouac Alley citylights.com/events/

Thanks to all who joined us last Thursday to celebrate the life and legacy of Lew Welch. ❤️ to our co-sponsor @altajournal.bsky.social Pictured above: Peter Coyote and, below (l to r): Kai Snyder, Judy Halebsky, Patrick James Dunagan, Garrett Caples, Brad Ressler, and Peter Maravelis