The 4th Annual Monterey Poetry Festival is now scheduled and booked! Tickets will go on sale Friday March 24th. They sell out fast so don’t wait on them! Buy Tickets

Event: December 10th, 6-8pm Come for an evening with Daniel Summerhill, joined by writers and poets for a special launch of Our Grapes of Wrath, a Project 21 Anthology and a Black history of Monter…

Tickets are on sale now for the 2022 poetry festival!

One of the things that made the last Old Capitol Books store location such a special place to be in was the building itself, with its high ceilings and beautiful wooden beams. The building was orig…

The second Friday of each month, come to Old Capitol Books to hone your poetry skills in a two-hour workshop facilitated by the Boukra Collective.

This month’s reading group is facilitated by Stephanie and will look at two Hegelian theories important for understanding twentieth century revolutionary movements: Dialectics and the Telos o…

Zoe Atlas’s poem, “Plant a Tree in Israel for $18,” is a moving portrayal of complexities surrounding Jewish identity and the displacement of Palestinian people.

This holiday season, buy local from local authors who have written a wide range of books that will appeal to any reader on your gift list! We will have novels, mysteries, cookbooks, children’…

Friday 8 November 2024, 7pm. We will be returning to one of our favorite subjects: Queer Anarchism! Come join us to read important essays and engage in a fun discussion.

We are very pleased to announce Boukra Press, a project of Old Capitol Books.

Kenny Garcia (Boukra Press, CSU Monterey Bay) & Stephanie Spoto (Old Capitol Books) Spoto: In what way do you think poetry is different than prose? Why are you writing this in poetic form rathe…

Interview: Claire Durand-Gasselin (Mad Gleam Press) & Stephanie Spoto (Old Capitol Books) Spoto: Maybe we can look at some of your books of art. Durand-Gasselin: Sure, I have my sketch books, a…

So the reading group is back! And we decided we were feeling masochistic, so we’ve decided to start with Deleuze and Guattari’s Thousand Plateaus. Download Reading for Free Here Theory …

We’re excited to be organizing the 2021 Monterey Poetry Festival (October 1st-3rd, 2021). This will be a collection of poets with diverse styles, subjects, and performances.