RSS Feeds The Completely Effable Business of Poetry
I’m not wild about linking to William Logan’s article, but even MY MOM is cutting it out of the New York Times and MAILING it to me: I’ll save you the bother of reading it. Every New York Times op-ed with a headline such as “Nobody Buys Poetry Books Anymore” is the victim of poor […]
San Francisco’s Second Crowdsourced Poetry Book: Tandem, Volume 2
Is the Lit Slam still a startup? As Tatyana Brown prepares to close out the second season of her publishing experiment, it’s looking more and more like a success. The first “minimum viable product” out the door has sold out. An E-book tied to the Women of the World Poetry Slam racked up over 1,000 […]
Book Signing and Poetry Reading at Alley Cat Books!
Missed the Lit Slam debut of Tandem? Come see it stepping out and about in public! In daylight, no less! We’re thrilled to announce the bookstore debut of Tandem at Alley Cat Books in the Mission (where else?) on Sunday, January 27th, from 4-6PM. Local poets whose work appears in Tandem will be on hand […]
Well-Known Poets. Randomly-Chosen Editors. In Tandem.
Tandem is a book born from a crazy idea: what if we took a poetry slam and anthologized it? What if we crafted our anthology in the true spirit of poetry slam, and let the audience at our shows decide which poems they’d like to read over and over again? After a year of Lit […]
Celebrate the Release of Tandem!
 For the past year, the indefatigable Tatyana Brown has been on a Mission: To create a poetry anthology combining the voices of the best touring poets in the country with the best homegrown San Francisco Bay talent. The result is Tandem, the newest Bay Area poetry journal and the take-home version of San Francisco’s Lit […]
Two New Tasting Flights of Limericks
Phew! With so many of our friends (and authors!) busy organizing or competing in the National Poetry Slam, we won’t be too conspicuous in our exhaustion. Nationals preparation did delay our monthly refresh of limericks, however, and for that we apologize. On the other hand: Both of our new tasting flights are free downloads! Howzat […]