Black Sparrow Press
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The official Black Sparrow Press, publishers of avant-garde literature since 1966.
Boston, MA
Joined May 2020
The @sfstandard released a list of “Ten Books Every San Franciscan Should Read” earlier this year. In addition to titles such as The Maltese Falcon and The Joy Luck Club, the list included Black Sparrow Press’s FERLINGHETTI: A LIFE by @neelicherkovski.
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In the new @lithub series The Annotated Nightstand, poet and memoirist Kendra Allen spotlights Wanda Coleman’s Wicked Enchantment. Read the article at
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Kendra Allen is the kind of writer who can keep plates up and spinning. She’s a poet, essayist, and now, with her book Fruit Punch just out with Ecco, a memoirist. Her books have come out rapid fir…
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#PageOne Enjoy the brilliant first line of the late Wanda Coleman’s nineteenth book and twelfth poetry collection, Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets (@blacksparrowprs): https://t.co/oi3sb3PPe2
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Book Beat is wild for the great Diane Wakoski’s DANCING ON THE GRAVE OF A SON OF A BITCH: “Back in the day, an impassioned plea for being treated with honesty, truth, and respect passed for “radical politics,” much as it still does today.” @monsterisland
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Poet @Kerrin_McCadden (AMERICAN WAKE) recipient of the '22 Herb Lockwood Prize in the Arts! Author @StephenPKiernan (L.) delivered a tribute to McCadden and @ToddRLockwood (R.), founder of the Herb Lockwood Prize, presented the award https://t.co/0Cl8yry5BV Photo: Andy Duback
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To celebrate the publication of Wanda Coleman’s Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets, the great @poetswritersinc is featuring audio of Mahogany L. Browne reading from her introduction and more. Illustration by Terrance Hayes https://t.co/GGN6jM46l9
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Get a print copy of Godine's Spring-Summer Reader's Catalog, including titles from Black Sparrow Press, by emailing orders@godine.com to request a copy or peruse online at https://t.co/3UmLeLlTBA
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Ferlinghetti’s hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, has weighed in on FERLINGHETTI: A LIFE and it’s a rave: “Cherkovski documents Ferlinghetti’s life in thoughtful prose . . . No one mulling this gentle record will fail to be moved.” https://t.co/zIqhqcpClg
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In a recent @latimes piece entitled “How Los Angeles Transformed American Literature,” the critic David L. Ulin writes: “Wanda Coleman remains among the most essential writers Los Angeles has produced.” We couldn’t agree more! Read the article: https://t.co/4XyTIiX2fA.
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A new expanded edition of the first biography ever published of poet, publisher, bookseller, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti (originally released in 1979) by @neelicherkovski is out. @TheBrooklynRail published an exclusive peek at the book’s new forward https://t.co/kHHNpV3wDP
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CUTTINGS FROM THE TANGLE scribe Richard Buckner pecks out a perfect weekly newsletter on @substack that gives readers, he promises, “an inner peace that normally only comes after eating mac-n-cheese.” We suggest signing up for a paid subscription at
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EVENT ALERT | MAY 20 at 7PM (PT) IN-PERSON: Join @neelicherkovski at @KerouacDotCom for the launch of FERLINGHETTI: A LIFE. Don’t miss the chance to hear a world-class raconteur share stories about the man who published the Beats. Get the event details: https://t.co/9vDeHnFvm6
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Godine's (and Black Sparrow Press's) Spring-Summer Reader's Catalog is out and includes three wonderful new titles. Request a print copy by emailing orders@godine.com or visit https://t.co/3UmLeLlTBA
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Wanda Coleman love has leapt from L.A. and America all the way across the pond to the UK! The @Telegraph recently raved: “. . . Wicked Enchantment is emphatic, explosive . . . a lesson on reimagining the place and usefulness of anger in art and in life.”
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The first UK collection for the late American poet introduces British readers to a thrilling, sardonic voice
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America Magazine @americamag gets right at the heart of our new FERLINGHETTI: A LIFE: “This recently released expanded edition includes a new foreword, epilogue and afterword, each of them alight with moving, intimate stories.” https://t.co/ZakolvFz46
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The Book Beat calls Wanda Coleman's HEART FIRST INTO THIS RUIN “An essential collection of American poetry.” Read the full review here: https://t.co/RxoKlTmsdh
@monsterisland
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In a ⭐ed review, Publishers Weekly calls Wanda Coleman’s forthcoming HEART FIRST INTO THE RUIN “essential.” Coming in June! Read the full review: https://t.co/vS4doZSBXm
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DIANE WAKOSKI? YES, PLEASE! Our friends at @Anhinga_Press are hosting a reading of Wakoski’s poetry this Saturday April 16 at 8PM (ET). Amongst the guest readers is Elizabeth A.I. Powell, whose gorgeous introduction graces that new collection. Event info: https://t.co/uTrdgKnqLO
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Thanks to the Wall Street Journal for featuring FERLINGHETTI: A Life by Neeli Cherkovski and noting the uniqueness of the man as: “A figure who was both a poet and a businessman.” Read the article or listen here: https://t.co/Z3nazl5xSb
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