Carrie Rudzinski tours the Bay Area, then PNW.

Bicycle Comics author and 2014 WoWPS Finalist Carrie Rudzinski is touring the West Coast this month. She’ll be at the Berkeley Poetry Slam on Wednesday, June 4, 2014, and at […]

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Carrie Rudzinski Competes at IWPS This Week!

Our own Carrie Rudzinksi is competing this weekend at the 2013 Individual World Poetry Slam in Spokane, Washington. She’s a “Storm Poet” this year, representing herself and her hometown of […]

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Partial List of Active Bay-Area Poetry Shows

Updated August 30, 2013 We’ve made a partial list here for Bay Area poetry. Many local open mics and poetry slams now use Facebook as their primary Web presence. Facebook […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Carrie Rudzinski hits the Bay!

Bicycle’s Carrie Rudzinski comes to the Bay this week! See her at the Berkeley Poetry Slam on Wednesday, October 10, and at the New Sh!t Show in San Francisco on […]

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Danez Smith Features at the Lit Slam!

To heck with your weekend plans, what are you doing this Monday night? It’s the third Monday, which means it’s time for San Francisco’s newest poetry startup, the Lit Slam. […]

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Jessica Helen Lopez features at the Lit Slam!

8 PM | $5 at the door | 998 Valencia St. (at 21st) in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA The Lit Slam, San Francisco’s newest poetry startup, is […]

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The Story of Bicycle’s Limerick Tasting Flights

What’s an old-fashioned limerick company doing in the high-tech capital of Silicon Valley? Well, like most crazy stories, lawyers were involved. Actually just one lawyer. When Artie’s girlfriend took a […]

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Video from the 2011 Slumberfest

Okay, so the San Jose Slumberfest didn’t exactly go off as planned. No worries, though; despite a last minute change-of-venue, Sam and Megan still put on a great show in […]

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