Lit Crawl San Francisco

Susan Cohen is an award-winning journalist and poet, the author of a non-fiction book, two poetry chapbooks, and two full-length collections of poems: Throat Singing (2012, WordTech) and A Different Wakeful Animal (2016, Red Dragonfly Press, David Martinson-Meadowhawk Prize)

Lucille Lang Day, coeditor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, has published ten poetry collections and chapbooks, including Becoming an Ancestor and Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems. She is also a coeditor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California... Read More →

Jack Foley was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Berkeley Poetry Festival in 2010, and June 5, 2010 was declared Jack Foley Day in Berkeley. Jack Foley is also the recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.  Since 1988, Foley has also... Read More →

After high school, Dave Holt began setting his poems to music. This led to a reenactment of the well-known songwriter fable, moving from his birthplace, Toronto, Canada, to California. He followed the muse of story-telling and poetry into San Francisco State University’s Creative... Read More →

Talk to me about the California deserts! And all that unfolds there. I write poetry and prose about this mythopoetic, storied landscape, my lifelong home. You can also talk to me about my desert-based writing. My works include: "Badwater," a finalist in the 2018 Hilary Gravendyk Poetry... Read More →