Neeli Cherkovski
Neeli Cherkovski (1945–2024) was a poet, memoirist, and bohemian. In 1974 he made the city of San Francisco his home, and the inspiration for much of his work. The author of many books of poetry, his Selected Poems 1959–2022, Edited by Kyle Harvey, was published by the Lithic Press in 2024. His papers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Three poems
Neeli Cherkovski’s recent poetry collections are hang onto the Yangtze River, and elegy for my beat generation. His biography of Charles Bukowski was recently published in a new edition by David Godine, and he is completing a new addition of his biography of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He is also working on a book of poetry profiles, multitudes and his memoir, hyper. He lives in San Francisco.
The World Exactly by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is one of the finest collections of poetry by a San Francisco poet published in years. Here is the mysterious concision of daily life in a poetry that is decidedly philosophical, yet devoid of the bamboozling rhetoric.
Poet, award-winning translator, and editor Paul Vangelisti’s latest book of poetry, Liquid Prisoner, is a stunning achievement.
Neeli Cherkovski’s recent poetry collections are hang onto the Yangtze River, and elegy for my beat generation. His biography of Charles Bukowski was recently published in a new edition by David Godine, and he is completing a new addition of his biography of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He is also working on a book of poetry profiles, multitudes and his memoir, hyper. He lives in San Francisco.
Charles Bernstein abandons us to a strange land of class humor, street lingo, impressions made to provoke, exuberant language that flies into the clouds, and playful jaunts into literary conundrum. It is an invitation to join him on the high wire.
October 2019In Memoriam
A Tribute to Steve Dalachinsky
Steve was a force of Nature, driven by compassion & curiosity. He was opened to everything & everyone. He was naked inside & outside with no boundary between.
