The Brooklyn Rail

Marina Lazzara is a San Francisco based poet & musician, and instigator behind the small press, Two Way Mirror Books. She has published several poetry books: Everything, Everyday, Mostly and Soak (Two Way Mirror Books, 2015, 2016), The Public Sound (fmsbw Press, 2021) and soon to be published, The House Begins an Alphabet (Lithic Press). She is co-editor of Roots & Routes: Poetics at New College of California (Vernon Press, 2020) and herself received a MA in Poetics from this now defunct institution. Currently, she facilitates writing workshops with the Community Living Campaign. Besides her psych-folk solo project, she plays with the improv band Warm Spell, and has played with Dire Wolves, The Rabbles, Poetics, and Blue Gum Art.