Small Press Traffic: Archives

About the Archives

The Small Press Traffic Archives encompass 50+ years of literary activity, including a Print Collection and Audio/Video Collection accessible via this website, and materials related to SPT’s history. These collections reflect happenings and genealogies — tracing publishing projects, reading series, and the poets who have called the Bay Area home.

About the Archives
Visit the Reading Room

The Print Collection can be found in the Small Press Traffic Reading Room, located at Et al. gallery & bookstore in the Mission.  If you’d like to visit, please review our Visitation Policy and fill out the Visitor Form.

Visit the Reading Room
Support the Archives

The SPT Archives are in an early stage of development; what you see here is just a fragment of fifty years of small press culture in and around the Bay Area. We depend on the knowledge and support of our community members to maintain these archives. Please, get in touch!

Support the Archives

DONATE 

Archives require significant and ongoing funding for staff time, infrastructure, maintenance, and public accessibility. Please support our work with a one-time, monthly, or annual donation

If you have physical or digital materials you would like to donate, please read our Acquisition policy and then contact us to make an appointment.

We are grateful to the Mellon Foundation for making this work possible, and to SPT’s generous supporters.

CORRECTIONS

The SPT Archives are in an early stage of development; what you see here is just a fragment of fifty years of small press culture in and around the Bay Area. Our small but devoted team is making public as much information as possible; however, there are limitations to what we can manage with limited time, staffing, and resources. 

We depend on the knowledge of our visitors and community members to fill in missing information and offer corrections. Please reach out if you have knowledge to share! We gratefully accept corrections, clarifications, and missing information at archives@smallpresstraffic.org. 

Similarly, if you are the creator, author, or reader of materials you would not like shared publicly, please let us know.