by Frances Phillips | Jan 15, 2015
Poet Abena Songbird and the Native American Cultural Center, a program of the San Francisco Arts Commission, collaborated to produce “RoundDance,” a group poem instigated on the Web among Native American writers. Their process culminated with publication of the poem...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 3, 2015
Linda Norton is collaborating with staff and visitors to Peralta Hacienda Historical Park (Peralta Hacienda) to explore how mass incarceration affects the daily lives of low-income families living in the blocks around the Peralta Hacienda site in Oakland’s...
by Frances Phillips | Nov 2, 2014
The West Coast literary magazine ZYZZYVA collaborated through a close editorial relationship with emerging fiction writers to shape their first novels. The project culminated with publication of four first novels (in chronological order): False Alarm by Heather...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2014
Fiction writer Suzanne Rivecca is collaborating with Homeless Youth Alliance (HYA) to create a work of fiction about homeless youth in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood. For more than 40 years, the Haight has been a mecca for marginalized kids, who struggle...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 3, 2014
Kuwentohan (Talkstory) is a collective work in which eight poet-artists carry on a sustained correspondence, leading to a new work of poetry by Barbara Jane Reyes. The poet’s and Poetry Center’s idea is to create a multi-staged work based on collective exchange....
