Let's try this again. TONIGHT (11/5) is our event celebrating HOWL! For direct access to the livestream, please use the Zoom link below: us02web.zoom.us/j/88006325274 Or join us in person at the bookstore! Looking forward to seeing everyone.

TONIGHT! 7pm PT, Celebrating HOWL Pat Thomas w Garrett Caples, @interbeing.bsky.social, Judy Halebsky, Rozemin Keshvani, Dennis McNally, DA Powell, Tate Swindell, & @mawsheinwin.bsky.social To join us on Zoom, please use the link below for direct access to the event: us02web.zoom.us/j/88006325274

Happy Publication Day to devorah major!"word time" is devorah's fourth book with City Lights, and we look forward to welcoming her back to the store to celebrate this Thursday evening at 7pm. devorah reads at Marcus Books, Oakland, on Sunday, Nov 16 at 1pm

Standing room only at Morehouse tonight. An incredible book talk on Jennifer Black and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s new co-edited volume ‘Beneath the Mountain.’ Free Mumia! www.prisonradio.org/commentary/o... @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

There's still time to register for tonight's virtual event with @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to celebrate tomorrow's publication of Feedback: Translations from the IrRational by Elliott Sharp! Learn more here: citylights.com/events/ellio... #ElliottSharp #music #reading

This week I’ll be having a conversation with @honestdogbooks.bsky.social about my new book Little Red Barns, out now from @citylightsbooks.bsky.social — it’s free and you can sign up at honestdogbooks.com/events. Hope to see y’all there!

TONIGHT 11/3 6pm PT/9pm ET Kicking off November at City Lights LIVE with Elliott Sharp and Jonathan Lethem Celebrating FEEDBACK: Translations from the IrRational @weslpress.bsky.social Online only, register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/ellio...

San Francisco / Bay Area! The Leonard Cohen Festival is back, next week! More details here: www.sfleonardcohenfest.com

Trump is now attempting to fire the head of the U.S. Copyright Office in retaliation for a report that suggested some copyrighted works used to train generative AI models would likely require licensing. action.everylibrary.org/locpetition via @everylibrary.bsky.social

TONIGHT (10/29) at 6pm PT/9pm ET join us on Zoom to for a conversation with author Gabriela Alemán to celebrate her new book, SMOKE, a City Lights title! Gabriela will speak with Dick Cluster, who translated the book from Spanish. Presented with our friends at @catranslation.org See you there! 💨

" . . . A blind man listening to a match replay on his radio said to curious runners-by; don't hurry, the match ends with the defeat of both teams, but they didn't get the joke." — Nasser Rabah "Dead Cats Continue to Meow" from GAZA: THE POEM SAID ITS PIECE (City Lights 2025)

Register and join us online tonight to celebrate Gabriela Alemán's new novel SMOKE, translated by Dick Cluster, pub'd by City Lights citylights.com/events/gabri...

Happy Publication Day to former City Lights staff member Suzette Partido! LOVE WILL SAVE US, Right? is a tender & funny memoir about the joys and challenges of parenting a neurodivergent young adult. For fans of Dorothy Allison, Anne Lamott, Alison Bechdel and David Sedaris. bit.ly/49ahnIT

🚜 TODAY 10/27 7pm PT, @willpotter.bsky.social joins us in the bookstore to celebrate the publication of his new City Lights title, LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable Join us! Or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/will-...

🌊 TONIGHT 10/21, 7pm PT, @royscranton.bsky.social with Mark Greif Discussing Scranton's new work, IMPASSE: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress @stanfordpress.bsky.social Join us in the bookstore, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/roy-s...

🏺 TODAY 10/20 at 7pm PT City Lights LIVE celebrates the publication of GLOVE MONEY [Nightboat Books] by @sophiadahlin.bsky.social who will be in conversation with @lindsbo.bsky.social Join us in the store or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/sophi...

📚 SUNDAY 10/19, 12:30pm PT, Read The Room: A Celebration of Books @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social @booksnotbans.bsky.social Join us in Kerouac Alley for an afternoon filled with connection, revelry, music, games & stories! Registration is required. Please register here: citylights.com/events/read-...

🌿 TONIGHT at 7pm PT, @litquake.org presents: WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING [@ndbooks.bsky.social] with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara in conversation with Achy Obejas Join us in the bookstore! Registration is required and can be found here: citylights.com/events/litqu...

The Presidio Theatre presents FACING THE MOON: Songs of the Diaspora Spend this year’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with the Del Sol Quartet and San Francisco’s poet-laureate Genny Lim, as they turn their gaze to the full moon in a journey of reflection and renewal. bit.ly/4hgx4jy

"After their first winter in prison, and after the snow melted, the Issei at Fort Missoula noticed, all over the prison grounds, stones. . . . "— @brandonshimoda.bsky.social in @tricyclemag.bsky.social bit.ly/47b9Dn4

Read the rest of Thea Matthews's conversation with Rob McLennan: bit.ly/3KKEP5j Thea Matthews is the author of GRIME: City Lights Spotlight No. 25, just published by yours truly ❤️

Happy Publication Day to Gabriela Alemán and translator Dick Cluster for their novel SMOKE, published by City Lights! citylights.com/fiction-city...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Thea Matthews / @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/12-o...

The California Teen Poet Laureate (TPL) is a new position established under California law. This young artist will be an advocate for poetry in the Golden State and will represent the state and the California Arts Council (CAC) at events throughout their two-year term. See capoetlaureate.org/teen

"I have now spent most of my life bearing witness to humanity at its worst, and in doing so I have placed myself in positions where I have also been able to witness humanity at its best."— @willpotter.bsky.social in conversation @kalwradio.bsky.social bit.ly/42yPciF

This interview is incredible. Congrats to László Krasznahorkai & his publisher, the excellent New Directions, on the Nobel Prize for Literature ❤️

"There’s no one in the street, so empty it’s like she’s the only one who’s dared to defy a curfew. . . . " Read an excerpt from Gabriela Alemán's novel SMOKE, translated by Dick Cluster & pub'd by City Lights at Latin American Lit Today bit.ly/4nMsKLm

Read the featured #Excerpt #Poem for October 2025 along with words from the poet. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity @citylightsbooks.bsky.social phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social action.everylibrary.org/bookbanpledge

Perfect for Banned Books Week -- John Waters reads from Lady Chatterly's Lover at City Lights, 2013.

@citylightsbooks.bsky.social - Six Gallery Reading 70th Anniversary Celebration today - allenginsberg.org/2025/10/t-o-7/

Carribean Fragoza, author of EAT THE MOUTH THAT FEEDS YOU (City Lights 2021), joins Galeria de al Raza / Studio 24's LUNADA, this evening, 7pm!

📢 Tuesday 10/7 7pm PT @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social in conversation w/ Daphne Muse celebrating POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back @princetonupress.bsky.social In-person, or register for Zoom here: citylights.com/events/joshu...

Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece by Nasir Rabah @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ‬⁩ #poetry

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A ROSE SHOULDERS UP Don't ever be surprised to see a rose shoulder up among the ruins of the house: This is how we survived. by Mosab Abu Toha

Expedition Press launches a poetry broadside contest! Enter now through October 31st, and see your words in PRINT 😍 expedition.press/pages/broads...

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We are very happy to announce that SMOKE, the forthcoming novel from Gabriela Alemán & translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster, is a finalist for the Cercador Prize! citylights.com/city-lights-...