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For On the Seawall, Wayne Catan brings the new edition of Jean Daive's Under the Dome: Walks With Paul Celan (City Lights Books), translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, into conversation with Pierre...

While we were blogging away last month, Julien Poirier was in conversation with Charles Plymell at the City Lights blog, Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here. Plymell was a...

Like many of you, we're still saddened by the loss of Joanne Kyger, who died last week at the age of 82. At the City Lights blog, Garrett Caples, who...

We have Philippe Soupault, City Lights, and Joseph Nechvatal at Hyperallergic to thank for setting the record straight on Surrealism as it rose to prominence as a leading movement of...

At Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here, poet and City Lights editor Garrett Caples pays homage to poet and City Lights author, David Meltzer. Meltzer, who passed away last...

It’s been a challenging twenty months for Puerto Rico. Against the backdrop of an ongoing economic and political crisis and the PROMESA bill’s imposition of a financial control board or...

At City Lights, Garrett Caples has written an homage to Bill Berkson. Caples looks at Berkson's friendship with Frank O'Hara and other New York Schoolers; his own work and friendship...

Writer's Almanac reminded us this morning that today is City Lights founder and legendary Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's birthday. Happy Birthday, Mr. Ferlinghetti! From Writer's Almanac: It's the birthday of poet...

You can't get enough of it! At City Lights's blog Abandon All Despair Ye Who Enter Here, Garrett Caples brings to readers' attention Julien Poirier's innovative poetry album Higher in...