Next week, Gioia Woods joins us for a conversation about her new book on City Lights! Check out this excerpt featured in LitHub: lithub.com/the-radical-...

Rebuking President Trump, Congress votes to maintain most of the federal funding for libraries, museums, and archives. www.everylibrary.org/congress2026... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Sunday, February 8th is Neal Cassady's centennial!

The latest episode of our podcast LIVE! From City Lights has dropped Featuring a timely discussion of @projectcensored.bsky.social's STATE OF THE FREE PRESS 2026 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, or Spotify! Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/livefromcity... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/14R4...

City Lights LIVE! Event Tonight ⛰️ Wednesday 2/4, 7pm PT/10pm ET Jeannette L. Clariond with Forrest Gander @princetonupress.bsky.social If you can't make it to the bookstore, register for the livestream here! citylights.com/events/jeann...

City Lights LIVE! Event Tonight 🔦 Tuesday 2/3, 7pm PT/10pm ET @ralphremington.bsky.social with Ted Russell PENETRATING WHITENESS: How White Supremacy Built America [Books That Save Lives] If you can't make it to the bookstore, register for the livestream here! citylights.com/events/ralph...

The deportation dragnet runs on Amazon Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides the crucial database management ICE depends on to track immigrants and power its massive deportation machine enforced by violent, masked agents. TELL AMAZON: End Contracts With Ice: bit.ly/3NSTbSIThe

In case you were looking for the Slovenian translation of THE END OF SAN FRANCISCO, here she is!!💞 Originally published in 2013 by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social and still available in English as well, of course!!💕

TONIGHT at City Lights! 🛣️ Thursday 1/29, 7pm PT/10pm ET Grant Faulkner & Gail Butensky (moderated by @mawsheinwin.bsky.social) something out there in the distance @uchicagopress.bsky.social If you cant make it into the bookstore, register here to join the livestream: citylights.com/events/grant...

City Lights will be closed all day January 30th in support of the national shutdown to abolish ICE. Like many others, we are horrified by the unmitigated use of force on civilians in Minneapolis, in the United States, and beyond our borders. Hope to see you in the streets.

Next week, Feb 4 at 7:00pm PST, @citylightsbooks.bsky.social is holding a reading of the vibrant and compelling poems of acclaimed Mexican writer Jeanette Clariond, translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander in Even Time Bleeds! Don't miss this free, hybrid event: buff.ly/IApTK9D

You step out on yr porch for a minute & are swept up shot down or you turn to stone: Those are the choices —Diane diPrima from “MEANWHILE THE WORLD GOES DOWN” published in THE POETRY DEAL San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5 City Lights, 2014 Photo of diPrima by Sheppard Powell

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

"I know that dude." " . . . When Renee Good said, 'That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad,' I heard her addressing every man who would or could or might take advantage of us as women." —Rachel Louise Snyder @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

“All the bookstores here are fighting this,” she said, “I can’t overstate how involved all the stores are and how much work everybody is doing. It is a really incredible moment to be here. And to be part of this.”—Angela Schwesnedl, Moon Palace Books in @literaryhub.bsky.social

Art by Molly Fair justseeds.org/artist/molly... Image description: Thousands of people march in the streets of Minneapolis carrying protest signs against ICE with a purple gradient. Text: Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to CRUSH ICE as a play on his lyrics

they will never break minneapolis’ spirit. this is why we will win brass solidarity band brought the resistance and joy from george floyd square to whittier tonight

brass solidarity band performing “ain’t no stopping us now” at pimento in minneapolis, blocks from where alex pretti was murdered by border patrol agents. truly the best of this city ❤️❤️❤️

“i believe in music” is a new one in the brass solidarity band repertoire. very healing to be here in whittier next to alex pettri’s memorial among so many people

“Truth is an uncomfortable venue for those who pretend to serve our society while in fact serving only themselves—at our expense.” — Michael Parenti from his preface to BLACKSHIRTS & REDS Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism Published by City Lights, 1997 Michael Parenti Rest in Power 🌷

This week’s episode of LIVE from City Lights! is available to listen on Spotify, Soundcloud, and Apple Podcasts now! ICYMI Anne Waldman reads from and discusses new work, MESOPOTOPIA @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1yVc... Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/livefromcity...

City Lights will be closed on Weds January 28th, all day, for our annual inventory. We are open every other day 10am to 10pm

TONIGHT! Join us in the bookstore—no registration required! Or register for free to join the livestream at this link: citylights.com/events/john-... @melvillehouse.bsky.social

Please join us when Thea Matthews reads via zoom for PathwaysArts -- Tuesday nite 1/20 7:30 ET -- link will be available on Tuesday afternoon. Her latest collection is GRIME via @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ...

The latest episode of our podcast is live! ICYMI, listen to Roddy Bottum discussing his memoir with Brontez Purnell on Soundcloud, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/ZWDGR0VBd2ju... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5ZuC... @akashicbooks.bsky.social

Join authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders on Saturday, January 24th for a virtual discussion about their book "Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship" hosted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social. Link for details: citylights.com/events/rewir... @eff.org

ICE Raids. Japanese & Japanese American Wartime Incarceration. Excellent interview here with @brandonshimoda.bsky.social

The joy of attending the Poetry Room @citylightsbooks.bsky.social (via zoom) to celebrate @naylandblake.bsky.social must own "My Studio Is a Dungeon is the Studio: Writings & Interviews 1983-2024" @dukepress.bsky.social Edited by Jarrett Earnest (pictured here).

TONIGHT, 6pm PT/9pm ET. Join us on Zoom! Register for free here: citylights.com/events/mario... @rutgersupress.bsky.social

In a thousand years, if there’s History America’ll be remembered as a nasty little Country… all autos rusted away, trees everywhere. —Allen Ginsberg “ECOLOGUE” from THE FALL OF AMERICA poems of these states 1965-1971 City Lights Publishers, 1972 National Book Award for Poetry, 1973

It's my 39th birthday today. Sharing this poem (page 39) by Diane di Prima (@citylightsbooks.bsky.social) "beware of those who say we are the beautiful losers who stand in their long hair and wait to be punished... we are not alone... no exile where we will not hear welcome home." #poetry

devorah major from her most recent collection, WORD TIME (@citylightsbooks.bsky.social 2025) for this #twopageplustuesday

Starting soon! Artist Nayland Blake discusses their new book MY STUDIO IS A DUNGEON IS THE STUDIO: Writings and Interviews, 1983–2024 Join us in the bookstore OR online for tonight's event! Livestream registration: citylights.com/events/nayla... @naylandblake.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Our first event of 2026 is starting soon! Join us on Zoom by registering here: citylights.com/events/panel... @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @older.bsky.social

In memoriam, Renée Nicole Macklin Read her poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs,” which won a 2020 Academy of American Poets College Prize. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #90 Ancient History The women are lying down in front of the bulldozers sent to destroy the last of the olive groves. —Diane di Prima

Join Tosh Berman discussing his memoir TOSH: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World (City Lights 2019) with John Freeman & Garrett Caples @altajournal.bsky.social Cal Book Club on January 15th, 5pm PT / 8pm ET! Register here: bit.ly/3N69R8R

"An intake of breath by which birth might be proposed of something said to've been known as meaning made with a mouth filled with air. The soul sucked in by something said..." ~ Nathaniel Mackey @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

Even if you aren't in San Francisco on the 12th you can catch our talk Live by going to the @citylightsbooks.bsky.social site and signing up there citylights.com/events/nayla...

Need hope in this era of political nihilism? Come (virtually) to celebrate speculative resistance & protest with me, @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social & guests, for our new anthology WE WILL RISE AGAIN. @citylightsbooks.bsky.social hosts Sat, 1/10, 11am PT. citylights.com/events/panel...

EFF's Cindy Cohn will be joining Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders for a discussion on their new book, "Rewiring Democracy," on January 24 @ 11AM PT. Mark your calendars so you can tune in to this FREE virtual event hosted by @citylightsbooks.bsky.social! citylights.com/events/rewi...

Starting now! If you couldn't make it to the bookstore tonight, you can still register for the livestream at this link, and join us online! citylights.com/events/befor...

thank you @48hills.bsky.social ❤️ 48hills.org/2025/12/tip-...

#readpalestine thank you @bookcritics.bsky.social ❤️

The City Lights classic black tote bag. Velcro closure. Fill it with books, headphones, your lunch, scarf, gloves, lip balm, glasses, hat; all you need to survive in this crazed world. citylights.com/miscellaneou... Or, come visit us and pick one up!

"Sometimes you had to be alone with your thoughts and maybe a copy of Lunch Poems (1964), while you were on the subway or killing time at a job. The Beats had a kind of popularity that writers, and especially poets, don’t really achieve anymore."—Garrett Caples, editor at City Lights bit.ly/4555gK3

Chosen a Best Poetry Book of the Year by Elisa Gabbert in the New York Times Book Review! Nasser Rabah's "GAZA: The Poem Said Its Piece," translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal & Khaled Al-Hilli City Lights. April 2025

Bay Area People! One month from tomorrow I'll be at City Lights Books, talking Art History, Kink, and Queerness with my bestie Jarrett Earnest ( and also signing books) please come and see us! @citylightsbooks.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

From @citylightsbooks.bsky.social , GAZA: THE POEM SAID ITS PIECE by Nasser Rabah (tr. Emna Zghal & Khaled Al-Hilli) is Social Media Coordinator Molly Ripatti’s pick: bookshop.org/a/169/978087...

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