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We are a Bay Area seedbed for poets who push boundaries in the arts. The Back Room✺ is our multidisciplinary online publishing project.

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“A YouTube astrologer quotes Heraclitus through my screen: The soul is explored forever to a depth beyond report,” begins artist & musician Sofía Córdova in a painterly, poetic exploration of place for The Back Room.

https://t.co/Mhkkgs5zLw

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Tracking an apparition, Karla Kelsey pens a love letter to the poet Mina Loy for The Back Room’s latest.

“When I say that Mina Loy is one of my dearest friends, I’m not being metaphorical. I am trying to say in simple language a truth...”

https://t.co/375fu1iW7p

[Dorothy, a publishing project @DorothyProject]

If you missed Renee Gladman's TOAF (etc.) event at @smallpresstraff last week, don't be sad, you can watch it on their YouTube channel right now! (You really should!)
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TONIGHT: Don't miss this celebration of the reissue of Renee Gladman's TOAF @smallpresstraff!

Register here for in person or the livestream (link will be sent 30 minutes before the event).
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We are honored to present the first SPT reading with Renee Gladman in 10 years next Tuesday, October 1st! do not miss this. (livestream will be available!)

https://t.co/Pw6IeWzH3f

[DongLi 李栋 @PoetDongLi]

Belatedly, an almost-ekphrastic poem "Are You OK." Fun to be part of this project in conversation w/ "Into View: New Voices, New Stories" group exhibit! Thanks to editor Claudia La Rocco @smallpresstraff & @HeadlandsArts @asianartmuseum! Here's the link: https://t.co/8xbsLD2bvx

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On "a fairly out-of-the-way audio recording of Sodome et Gomorrhe ... things recently heated up over the comment ‘Beethoven’ ne se prononce pas ‘bitovèn,’ proving that there really are trolls for every niche activity on the internet." -Layla Forrest-White

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"The idea to read Proust in French made such sense to me that it seemed immediately unlikely that I hadn’t yet been doing it. I didn’t know any French, which could be construed a hurdle..."

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"I am faithful with a kind of lunatic dedication, having, like a nun, created my own confines and strictures as to what it might mean to also be married to a book."

The Back Room is delighted to kick off our fall season w/Layla Forrest-White. And Proust ... always, Proust...

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Happy summer solstice! Spend it with The Burning, a sonic composition improvised and recorded by Danishta Rivero for The Back Room.

https://t.co/nPWTB39ISw

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After almost a year of collaborative work, we’re celebrating a huge event in our print collection archive project: we’ve got shelves! 🥹

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“Future Past” is also a collaboration with @HeadlandsArts; five of our commissioned artists are spring 2024 residents.

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Now on The Back Room! We’re delighted to present “Future Past,” 10 artists & writers in conversation w/“Into View: New Voices, New Stories,” a group exhibit @asianartmuseum organized by Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Programs Naz Cuguoğlu:

https://t.co/ZXDOD0sNvR

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@ChisaraAsomugha!
@HemanChong!
@rivertransforms!
@PoetDongLi!
@kuntalope!
Aidan Koch!
Sarah Cargill!
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta!
Priyanka D'Souza!
Willa Smart!

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Now on The Back Room! A thoughtful conversation between poet and City Lights editor Garrett Caples and translators Emilie Moorhouse and C. Francis Fisher on the brilliant “bare-balls” writing the of poet Joyce Mansour.

https://t.co/8bgO4Dg5PF

@CityLightsBooks @worldpoetrybook

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On the last day of May, come celebrate friendship and the lived experience of literary connections with Gabrielle Civil and acclaimed Bay Area poets!

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On June 1st, we’re celebrating Steve Dickison, Elise Ficarra and their years of organizing poetry readings at San Francisco State’s beloved Poetry Center, on the occasion of their retirement.

This reading is organized by Norma Cole and Susan Gevirtz. See you there!

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@elisabethnicula and the dogs love you ♡

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This Friday, May 10, we're celebrating the launch of three new Krupskaya books at @et_al_etc ! "Cinders" by Maria Sledmere (@mariaxrose), "Comeback Death" by Jennifer Soong, and "The Dogs" by Noah Ross.

Reading at 7 pm, Livestream at 7:30 pm!

https://t.co/GKCQgTQ3oa

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Now on The Back Room, musician Tim Perkis pens a dispatch from his new home in Gothenburg after decades working in the Bay Area's worlds of improvisation and electronic music.

https://t.co/H50IolwsTD