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Then

dense, opaque light filtered by heavy smoke and framed by a window against an interior wall

The Burning

Danishta Rivero

Future Past

The Editors

Six Poems by Joyce Mansour

C. Francis Fisher
Emilie Moorhouse

All-Encompassing Desires: On Translating Joyce Mansour

C. Francis Fisher
Emilie Moorhouse
Garrett Caples

Hello to All This

Tim Perkis

Aging Awfully

Miguel Gutierrez

Ozu in San Francisco

Kaori Miyashita Takatsuji
an old photograph of amy trachtenberg and jeff miller standing together in front of a dark green shed

Leading and Following: Amy Trachtenberg and Jeffrey Miller in Conversation

Amy Trachtenberg
Jeffrey Miller

A Body That’s All Surface

Elisabeth Nicula

I Always Loved Love: Alison Mills Newman in Conversation with Lynell George

Lynell George
Alison Mills Newman

Majestic Star Tuning Winter Solstice 2023 for Small Press Traffic

Zachary James Watkins

A Tea Table’s Progress Toward Decline

Stanislav Snytko

Deep Relationships: Teresa Baker and Grace Rosario Perkins in Conversation

Teresa Baker
Grace Rosario Perkins
A page from a journal that has been half obscured by water that has caused the ink to bleed into the paper

Shedding a Split Self

Hope Mohr
Rio Valledor stands next to The Blessing (for Rio) (1970), a luminous, round white canvas Leo Valledor made a year after Rio's birth.

Duets

Hakim Bishara

How I Now Remember Then

Steve Benson

“what kind of girl am i?”

Lynell George
A detail shot from Moyra Davey's art work Subway Writers I

Writing on the Subway with Moyra Davey

Dodie Bellamy
Connie Zheng's digital collage, titled A map of many small doors

A Map of Many Small Doors

Connie Zheng

Now

Holding onto Feelings: Gabrielle Civil in Conversation with Theadora Walsh

Gabrielle Civil
Theadora Walsh

History Is Made at Night

Rick Prelinger

Here

Kim Nguyen

A Space for Us

Larissa Velez-Jackson

The Volta: Sara Larsen and Dalia Neis in Conversation

Sara Larsen
Dalia Neis

Autumn Orisons

Cheryl E. Leonard

My Mornings with Marcel

Layla Forrest-White
Holding onto Feelings: Gabrielle Civil in Conversation with Theadora Walsh
Gabrielle Civil
Theadora Walsh
History Is Made at Night
Rick Prelinger
Here
Kim Nguyen
A Space for Us
Larissa Velez-Jackson
The Volta: Sara Larsen and Dalia Neis in Conversation
Sara Larsen
Dalia Neis
Autumn Orisons
Cheryl E. Leonard
My Mornings with Marcel
Layla Forrest-White
dense, opaque light filtered by heavy smoke and framed by a window against an interior wall
The Burning
Danishta Rivero
Future Past
The Editors
Six Poems by Joyce Mansour
C. Francis Fisher
Emilie Moorhouse
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Small Press Traffic is a Bay Area seedbed for poets who push boundaries in the arts. We present programs, publications, and curatorial opportunities with an ethos of radical inclusivity. Committed to this mission since 1974, we highlight diverse, multidisciplinary, and intergenerational practitioners in our public programs, and prioritize equity, accessibility, and collaboration in our working model. SPT also stewards an archive of small press material produced and circulated in the Bay Area over the last half century.

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