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SPT’s events happen in a variety of Bay Area venues (art spaces, galleries, bookstores) and online. Accessibility notes can be found on each event page. All events are recorded and/or livestreamed.

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Reading

Gia Gonzales + Muriel Leung + Jocelyn Saidenberg

Friday, September 29 | 7:00 pm
9.29.2023
7:00 pm
Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Ustʹe ri︠e︡ki Kemi (Mouth of the Kem River), ca 1912, digital colour composite by Walt Frankhauser, 2005–2020, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Poetry reading with Gia Gonzales, Muriel Leung and Jocelyn Saidenberg at Et al.
Workshop

Sonic Language 2: Sound as a Generative Process

Sunday, October 8 | 2:00-4:00 pm
10.8.2023
2:00 pm
A photograph of graph paper with overlaid ink drawings that disrupt the grid
최 Lindsay Choi and Eliot D’Silva investigate dictation and its documentation in the second installation of the Sonic Language workshop
Workshop

Riso Broadside Workshop

Sunday, October 15 | 12:30-3:00 pm
10.15.2023
12:30 pm
A diagrammatic illustration of a risograph machine
A risograph workshop with Floss Editions and Claire Grossman
Workshop

Sonic Language 3: The Mutable Poem

Sunday, October 22 | 2:00-4:00 pm
10.22.2023
2:00 pm
The book cover for Kimberly Alidio's newest collection of poetry, Teeter
Kimberly Alidio will give an artist talk on Teeter, her new collection of poetry, followed by a generative writing exercise for the third meeting of the Sonic Language workshop.
Workshop

Sonic Language 4: Wrap Up

Sunday, October 29 | 2:00-4:00 pm
10.29.2023
2:00 pm
A musical score is stamped with the a cartoonish-drawing of two children
Noah Ross will wind down the Sonic Language workshop.
Reading

Alice Notley

Monday, November 6 | 7:00 pm
11.6.2023
7:00 pm
Alice Notley artwork
Alice Notley reads from The Speak Angel Series and more at The Lab
Reading

About Ed by Robert Glück: A Celebration

Friday, November 17 | 7:00 pm
11.17.2023
7:00 pm
Cover image for About Ed depicting the author and Ed Aulerich-Sugai by a waterfall
Robert Glück reads from his new book About Ed, copresented by NYRB and City Lights
PAST EVENTS
9.24.2023
Sonic Language 1: living - sign - event
8.26.2023
Gallery Sessions: Connie Zheng
8.12.2023
Gallery Sessions: Dodie Bellamy
7.9.2023
A Tribute to Loren Rex Cameron
6.2.2023
& the beat goes on…
5.24.2023
Look at the Moon! Intuition for Artists of Color with Mihee Kim
5.17.2023
dynasties of street rats [poets who art + art by poets]
5.9.2023
Anti-Narrative Arcs: Experimental Fiction Workshop with Angie Sijun Lou
4.24.2023
Sara Nicholson + Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
3.3.2023
Rosie Stockton, Kay Gabriel + Juliana Spahr, introduced by 최 Lindsay
2.18.2023
CANCELLED The End of the Line: Rhyme and the Poetics of Authority
1.31.2023
Antagonisms of Reality / Problems of Form
1.13.2023
alex cruse + Benjamin Krusling
12.2.2022
Poupeh Missaghi + Anna Moschovakis
11.19.2022
the violet June of autumn
11.18.2022
Ted Rees + Danielle LaFrance, with films by Curt McDowell
10.23.2022
Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro + Eleni Sikelianos: The Personal Equation
10.1.2022
Uncovering Alice Rahon: Reading + Gallery Opening
8.7.2022
Five Stars for Kevin Killian
5.29.2022
Places to Go: On the life and work of Joanne Kyger
5.20.2022
Leena Joshi + Sophia Dahlin, introduced by Claire Grossman
5.6.2022
Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets in Writing + Performance
5.5.2022
Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets in Writing + Performance
4.10.2022
Harmony Holiday on Kamau Brathwaite + Abbey Lincoln
4.1.2022
Jacob Kahn + Diane Ward, introduced by Sophia Dahlin
3.20.2022
The Writing on the Wall: Abolitionist Poetics of Bob Kaufman + Pat Parker
2.27.2022
The Mountain at the Center: Reflections on Etel Adnan
2.18.2022
Madison McCartha's Freakophone World
1.21.2022
Janice Lee + Gail Scott, introduced by Ivy Johnson + Camille Roy
12.3.2021
Mihee Kim, Jean Day, Truong Tran, Aja Couchois Duncan
11.19.2021
Keith Donnell + Gabrielle Daniels, with music by Sholeh Asgary
10.24.2021
Festivals of Patience: Our Rimbaud
9.17.2021
Claudia La Rocco, Camille Roy, ZH Leonard, Anne Walsh
4.16.2021
Lindsay Choi, Saretta Morgan, Tonya Foster, Kaori Suzuki
3.26.2021
Bahaar Ahsan, Lara Mimosa Montes, Trisha Low, Ryanaustin Dennis
2.26.2021
Stephon Lawrence, Muriel Leung, Angie Sijun Lou, Sharmi Basu/Beast Nest
1.22.2021
Steve Orth, Carrie Hunter, Kate Robinson, Madalyn Merkey
12.18.2020
Noah Ross, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Jamie Townsend, Topazu, Subset
11.20.2020
Mary Burger, Alexis Almeida, Colter Jacobson, Zachary James Watkins
10.16.2020
Jameson Fitzpatrick, Kimberly Alidio, Eric Sneathen, Danishta Rivero
9.25.2020
Maxe Crandall, Aaron Shurin, Robert Glück, Matt Sussman

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.

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