The Back Room

2024

The Volta: Sara Larsen and Dalia Neis in Conversation

Cheryl E. Leonard

My Mornings with Marcel

Layla Forrest-White

dense, opaque light filtered by heavy smoke and framed by a window against an interior wall

Danishta Rivero

Six Poems by Joyce Mansour

C. Francis Fisher

Emilie Moorhouse

All-Encompassing Desires: On Translating Joyce Mansour

C. Francis Fisher

Emilie Moorhouse

Hello to All This

Miguel Gutierrez

Ozu in San Francisco

Kaori Miyashita Takatsuji

an old photograph of amy trachtenberg and jeff miller standing together in front of a dark green shed

Leading and Following: Amy Trachtenberg and Jeffrey Miller in Conversation

Amy Trachtenberg

A Body That’s All Surface

Elisabeth Nicula

I Always Loved Love: Alison Mills Newman in Conversation with Lynell George

Alison Mills Newman

2023

Majestic Star Tuning Winter Solstice 2023 for Small Press Traffic

Zachary James Watkins

A Tea Table’s Progress Toward Decline

Stanislav Snytko

Deep Relationships: Teresa Baker and Grace Rosario Perkins in Conversation

Grace Rosario Perkins

A page from a journal that has been half obscured by water that has caused the ink to bleed into the paper

Shedding a Split Self

Rio Valledor stands next to The Blessing (for Rio) (1970), a luminous, round white canvas Leo Valledor made a year after Rio's birth.

How I Now Remember Then

“what kind of girl am i?”

A detail shot from Moyra Davey's art work Subway Writers I

Writing on the Subway with Moyra Davey

Connie Zheng's digital collage, titled A map of many small doors

A Map of Many Small Doors

Fuchsia super bloom flowers.

Claudia La Rocco

To See Language as Lace

Two glass jars to the left, in front of white paper that reads "Petal / wind a petal."

The Poetry I Felt Was Walking: Brett Goodroad and Laura Moriarty in Conversation

Blue notebook with yellow pen on table. To the right is a smaller red notebook.

When It Was Leningrad

Cordova and La Macacoa in blacklight.

Backlit oleander and cup.

Oleander Oyster Organza

Sara Shelton Mann

Upping the Frequency: Sara Shelton Mann in Conversation with Keith Hennessy

Sara Shelton Mann

Image of a group of people in front of paintings at a gallery.

2022

Curt McDowell, Wieners and Buns Musical (1972), 16mm film. Courtesy of the Estate of Curt McDowell and Canyon Cinema Foundation.

To Love What Persists

Overtarci firehydrant.

In a Room Occupied by One or More Cats

Alice Rahon in Paris, c. 1934-35. Photographer unknown. Photo courtesy Gallery Wendi Norris.

Only Correspond

Molto Caldo

APOCALYPSE 4800

Layla Forrest-White

Claire Grossman

Faye Carol sextet.

This Is My Culture: Miss Faye Carol in Conversation with Valerie Troutt

A black-and-white portrait photograph of the author Franz Kafka in suit jacket, shirt and tie leans against a window. Behind it is a blurry street view including a sidewalk, building, deciduous trees and, in the immediate foreground, a ridged metal roof.

The sun as a molten orange disc of light spilling along the horizon, with blue-white cloud cover above and below.

Marvin K. White

Mixed group of people sitting on the floor against white wall with paintings hung on it. Group is looking at a reader on a screen.

Make Yourself Comfortable

Claudia La Rocco

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Eternal Present

Claudia La Rocco

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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