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is a Bay Area seedbed for poets who push boundaries in the arts.
Nick Sturm on the launch of the Small Press Traffic Archives
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Reading
Tyehimba Jess + Tongo Eisen-Martin
Wednesday April 8 | 6-8:00pm PT
4.8.2026
6:00 pm
For the first time, Tyehimba Jess and Tongo Eisen-Martin read at 1275 Minnesota Street Project Atrium on Wednesday, April 8, 2026.
Reading
An Evening with Terrence Arjoon, Sophia Dahlin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson
Saturday, April 25 | Doors at 6:30 PM, Reading at 7:00 PM
4.25.2026
7:00 pm
Join us for a spring mega-reading
Multidisciplinary
Etcetera
Golden Gate: An Oral History of Bay Area Poetics
Sunday, May 17 | Film Screening at 3:00 PM
5.17.2026
3:00 pm
Film Screening with Q&A
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"Sharpen Conditions of Your Presentation System": A Conversation between Ariel Goldberg and Juf
Ariel Goldberg
Juf
"THE SPIRIT WAS WILLING": On Fran Herndon amid the San Francisco Renaissance
Sanja Grozdanić
No longer in parenthesis
Tumelo Mtimkhulu
ANNOUNCEMENTS
SPT’s Print Collection Archives Reading Room in San Francisco is now open!
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SPT is celebrating 50 years! Learn more about our history, anniversary programs and developing archives
50 years ago...
Small Press Traffic Receives Preservation Grant from the Mellon Foundation
Funding supports archival work as our 50th anniversary approaches in 2024.
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