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SPT events happen in a variety of venues (art spaces, galleries, bookstores) and online. All events are recorded and/or livestreamed for accessibility. Email us to reserve ASL services at least two weeks in advance. Further accessibility notes can be found on each event page.

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The Auction

Saturday, May 31st | 2:00-7:00 PM
5.31.2025
11:50 pm
Join SPT + Et al. for a fundraiser and silent auction on May 31st
Multidisciplinary
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The Back Room Party

Monday, June 9th | Doors at 6:00 PM, Readings and remarks at 6:30 PM
6.9.2025
11:55 pm
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Please join us June 9th for a party celebrating The Back Room, co-hosted by Small Press Traffic and the San Francisco Review of Whatever
PAST EVENTS
4.5.2025
Nat Raha + Willa Smart
3.15.2025
Soul Tether Revival: A Homecoming with Michael Ross and Friends
2.22.2025
A Collective Reading of Lyn Hejinian’s “My Life”
2.1.2025
Cecily Nicholson + Leila Weefur
1.26.2025
Laminations: An Experimental Fiction Workshop
12.6.2024
“Dreams of an Impossible Princess”: Book Launch for Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews
11.29.2024
Global Reading in Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon
11.16.2024
POSTPONED: HOW(ever) & How2: Feminist Lineages, Archives and Interventions
10.27.2024
Reading and Writing through Hoa Nguyen
10.1.2024
An Evening with Renee Gladman
9.21.2024
Bay Area Poetics Workshop
6.22.2024
My San Francisco
5.31.2024
A Friendly Reading & Social
5.10.2024
An Evening with Krupskaya
4.20.2024
Watch Party Workshop: Tongues Untied
4.6.2024
Classics Illustrated by Francie Shaw
3.23.2024
Watch Party Workshop: Poetic Justice
3.2.2024
San Francisco Poets Theater Festival
2.23.2024
A tribute to kari edwards
2.15.2024
An Evening of Nice: On David Melnick
2.10.2024
Listening Party: Where Would I Be Without You
1.28.2024
Bay Area Poetics 1960s - 2020s
1.27.2024
THE PARTY
11.25.2023
International Reading for Freedom of Expression & Solidarity with Palestine
11.17.2023
About Ed by Robert Glück: A Celebration
11.6.2023
Alice Notley
10.29.2023
Sonic Language 4: Wrap Up
10.22.2023
Sonic Language 3: The Mutable Poem
10.15.2023
Riso Broadside Workshop
10.8.2023
Sonic Language 2: Sound as a Generative Process
9.29.2023
Gia Gonzales + Muriel Leung + Jocelyn Saidenberg
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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