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Precipitating Event #1: Attending the Professional Survival Weekend for MFA grads and candidates (of which I am neither) hosted by the Mills College English Department the weekend of November 10-11 in Oakland. Listening to poets and publishing industry insiders, especially Brent Cunningham of Small Press Distribution and author of Bird & Forest talk [...]

Everyone should visit and adore the little-shop-that-could, Needles and Pens, in the Mission in San Francisco, and then be grinfully surprised at how easy it is to drop 50 bucks at a zine store like B. and I recently did on a post-brunch stroll on Sunday.
Found: Brian Kim Stefan’s exquisitely prepared chapbook, with letterpress [...]