Marthine Satris

India Street Lettering: A Book A journey through typographic craft and culture

OK we're planning to end Late Pledges on the India Street Lettering campaign tonight. One day left to reserve your book through Kickstarter!

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Or pre-order on our site (this isn't going anywhere):

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The sadness of my life after I gorged myself on homemade turkey enchiladas as a teenager, got a stomach bug & vomited everything all night long, then had to endure total nausea on the days following Thanksgiving when that was the leftovers meal. For years!

We had such a good time, poems were read, wine was imbibed, more poetry was heard inside, in the street, pasta was eaten, the streets were jammed all night, Coit Tower was aglow, books of translated poetry were read in our best opera voice, late night oysters and drinks kept us out until 1!

If you are an enemy of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting you are a villain. There’s nothing good about you.

Bathers August arts event calendar

Bathers calendar

List of contributors to Bathers Library August events calendar

Monthly arts calendar for the Bay Area from Bathers Library is out today, print only! Find in select spots around Oakland. Full of mini essays, interviews, reviews, and things to do.

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

"this is an ideological project to remove local news access from rural communities... It eliminates access to information within one’s own community. This is about changing the information ecosystem that eliminates local news and replaces it w/ national news." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/01/c...

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Fantastic and unnerving story by @evaholland.bsky.social
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Holy shit. A cherished institution providing genuine public service to EVERYONE is just gone now.

Today! Join us in the late afternoon, hang out with the poetry into the evening

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

Whether through indifference, incompetence, or political calculation, these leaders have allowed atrocities to unfold slowly, often being paid by the Israeli lobby to provide political cover for Israel’s war crimes.

By @abemarquez.bsky.social

The full story: lataco.com/politicians-...

If you’ve been meaning to take the Berkeley or SF South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, we just announced seven more tour dates for 2025:

www.berkeleysouthasian.org

We share stories of four generations of Bay Area feminists and freedom fighters, high school students and civil rights activists.

And here is the month's inspiration if you want some generative guidance: whittlemicropress.com/publications...

Increasingly, a way I approach my work is "what can I write and report that ChatGPT could not answer or figure out?" It usually involves talking to multiple people, data analysis, drawing together new connections to precedence, adding context, and clearly crediting the sources.

It's First Friday in North Beach this week! Golden Sardine is hosting their regular poetry reading at 6pm

But first, come to Kerouac Alley around 4:45/5, join us at a table with a beer & soak up what sunshine shows up, share some poems of our own, & then tramp the streets looking for poets.

diagram developed by Environmental Science Associates that displays the typical fill -> breach -> drain -> close cycle of bar-built estuary inlets

For those of us interested in California coastal ecology, the timing of the coming tsunami is particularly interesting. By this time of year, many of California's estuaries are closed off from the ocean by a sandbar that forms in response to decreased inflows and constructive wave energy:

Colorado RattleCam Livestream YouTube video by Project RattleCam

Calling all burying beetle biologists! (tag 'em)

Our live-streaming camera is currently capturing some high-drama insect interactions as they feed on a rattlesnake carcass. Tell us the details of what is happening, in the live chat?

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I'm heading to Headlands for poetry and supper on Wednesday, North Beach for more poems on Friday: what's your literary flavor of the week?

New calendar! Lots of great poetry hangouts and there's movies too

Here's when sunshine will finally return to S.F. After the coolest first two months of summer in many Bay Area cities in decades, thinner cloud cover will allow more sunshine to emerge this week.

Here's when sunshine will finally return to S.F. www.sfchronicle.com/weather-fore...

Our 2025 Community Anthologies are now open for submissions - Seventh Wave Submit to one of our five 2025 Community Anthologies: On Separation, On Liminality, On Girlhood, On Collapse, and On Repetition.

Last 2 hours to submit to Seventh Wave's anthology on repetition! Can't wait to read what ends up in the final selection: theseventhwave.org/announcement...

"Alameda’s famous pig, Bosco, who lives nearby, was also unaffected."

This is actually the only important and newsworthy part of the story!

This poem!! John Murillo oh my god.

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we've lost the art of cutting high-waisted, full legged trousers that will show off a man's buttocks

A glorious homage to enduring friendship by Kim Addonizio, who, by the by, will be reading alongside D.A.Powell at our Sixteen Rivers Benefit in Berkeley on October 19! Stay tuned! #poetry #poems #poetnews #poetrycommunity

AND Winslow House Project in Vallejo is having an open house on Sunday at 3 pm!

RSVP to Collideoscope Presents: Constellations ✨ | Partiful Enjoy A Intimate Night Of Spoken Word From Our 2 Featured Poets! OPEN MIC IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE! Be There On Time To Get On The List! 💫

more fun literary things happening in Oakland than I can keep track of! I don't think this made it onto the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org calendar for this week, but D'Mani's poems are great, I would definitely show up for this on Sunday if I were you: partiful.com/e/jtze1zSoNy...

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

Sixth Street at Taylor Avenue Closed After Old Pipe Bomb Found in Storm Drain - Alameda Post On Tuesday, July 22, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit identified an old pipe bomb in the storm drain.

I saw this in the Alameda post's Instagram and thought of you! alamedapost.com/news/sixth-s...