“A YouTube astrologer quotes Heraclitus through my screen: The soul is explored forever to a depth beyond report,” begins artist & musician Sofía Córdova in a painterly, poetic exploration of place for The Back Room. https://t.co/Mhkkgs5zLw

Tracking an apparition, Karla Kelsey pens a love letter to the poet Mina Loy for The Back Room’s latest. “When I say that Mina Loy is one of my dearest friends, I’m not being metaphorical. I am trying to say in simple language a truth...” https://t.co/375fu1iW7p

If you missed Renee Gladman's TOAF (etc.) event at @smallpresstraff last week, don't be sad, you can watch it on their YouTube channel right now! (You really should!) https://t.co/Ki6kkKxNPw

TONIGHT: Don't miss this celebration of the reissue of Renee Gladman's TOAF @smallpresstraff! Register here for in person or the livestream (link will be sent 30 minutes before the event). https://t.co/5Na2fRK9S5

We are honored to present the first SPT reading with Renee Gladman in 10 years next Tuesday, October 1st! do not miss this. (livestream will be available!) https://t.co/Pw6IeWzH3f

Belatedly, an almost-ekphrastic poem "Are You OK." Fun to be part of this project in conversation w/ "Into View: New Voices, New Stories" group exhibit! Thanks to editor Claudia La Rocco @smallpresstraff & @HeadlandsArts @asianartmuseum! Here's the link: https://t.co/8xbsLD2bvx

On "a fairly out-of-the-way audio recording of Sodome et Gomorrhe ... things recently heated up over the comment ‘Beethoven’ ne se prononce pas ‘bitovèn,’ proving that there really are trolls for every niche activity on the internet." -Layla Forrest-White https://t.co/F505HJB0WK

https://t.co/F505HJAt7c "The idea to read Proust in French made such sense to me that it seemed immediately unlikely that I hadn’t yet been doing it. I didn’t know any French, which could be construed a hurdle..."

"I am faithful with a kind of lunatic dedication, having, like a nun, created my own confines and strictures as to what it might mean to also be married to a book." The Back Room is delighted to kick off our fall season w/Layla Forrest-White. And Proust ... always, Proust...

Happy summer solstice! Spend it with The Burning, a sonic composition improvised and recorded by Danishta Rivero for The Back Room. https://t.co/nPWTB39ISw

After almost a year of collaborative work, we’re celebrating a huge event in our print collection archive project: we’ve got shelves! 🥹

“Future Past” is also a collaboration with @HeadlandsArts; five of our commissioned artists are spring 2024 residents.

@ChisaraAsomugha! @HemanChong! @rivertransforms! @PoetDongLi! @kuntalope! Aidan Koch! Sarah Cargill! Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta! Priyanka D'Souza! Willa Smart!

Now on The Back Room! We’re delighted to present “Future Past,” 10 artists & writers in conversation w/“Into View: New Voices, New Stories,” a group exhibit @asianartmuseum organized by Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & Programs Naz Cuguoğlu: https://t.co/ZXDOD0sNvR

Now on The Back Room! A thoughtful conversation between poet and City Lights editor Garrett Caples and translators Emilie Moorhouse and C. Francis Fisher on the brilliant “bare-balls” writing the of poet Joyce Mansour. https://t.co/8bgO4Dg5PF @CityLightsBooks @worldpoetrybook

On the last day of May, come celebrate friendship and the lived experience of literary connections with Gabrielle Civil and acclaimed Bay Area poets! https://t.co/WXJKwKfZkP

On June 1st, we’re celebrating Steve Dickison, Elise Ficarra and their years of organizing poetry readings at San Francisco State’s beloved Poetry Center, on the occasion of their retirement. This reading is organized by Norma Cole and Susan Gevirtz. See you there!

This Friday, May 10, we're celebrating the launch of three new Krupskaya books at @et_al_etc ! "Cinders" by Maria Sledmere (@mariaxrose), "Comeback Death" by Jennifer Soong, and "The Dogs" by Noah Ross. Reading at 7 pm, Livestream at 7:30 pm! https://t.co/GKCQgTQ3oa

Now on The Back Room, musician Tim Perkis pens a dispatch from his new home in Gothenburg after decades working in the Bay Area's worlds of improvisation and electronic music. https://t.co/H50IolwsTD

We recently acquired a collection of titles from Krupskaya, an experimental publishing collective that’s been based in the Bay Area for over 25 years! As our print collection archive grows, and we prepare to make it available to the public, we’re excited to begin to share it.