Small Press Traffic

Little Magazine

This series comprises multi-author periodicals characterized by a non-commercial attitude, a penchant for the avant-garde and experimental, and small circulation methods. Holdings marked “Tiny” are journals, magazines, and zines shared through community-distribution, assembled with cheap and/or free materials, and with minimal or light print costs. “Newsletter” holdings, often stapled and folded, are comprised of mailed communications. Items marked “Mimeo” are produced either by mimeograph, duplicator, or in the style of mimeo journals.

Small Press Traffic is a Bay Area seedbed for poets who push boundaries in the arts. We present programs, publications, and curatorial opportunities with an ethos of radical inclusivity. Committed to this mission since 1974, we highlight diverse, multidisciplinary, and intergenerational practitioners in our public programs, and prioritize equity, accessibility, and collaboration in our working model. SPT also stewards an archive of small press material produced and circulated in the Bay Area over the last half century.

Small Press Traffic: Archives

Little Magazine