City Lights and Lithic Press celebrate the publication of
Solar Hits
By Tate Swindell
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Tate Swindell in conversation with Julien Poirier in the Poetry Room at City Lights.
The first full length collection by San Francisco poet and archivist, Tate Swindell. These poems reflect Swindell’s long acquaintance with various ways of working with language. It’s all here: the jazz – the city – the mind – the longing – the high – the friend – the birds – the skin – the street – the show – the no where to go – the next election – the loss – the what-to-do – the Say-Hey – the marketing concept – the lava within – the imaginary dreamer – the human shout… this is Tate Swindell picking the lock of the heart with a question for the sun, which comes singing back to you.
Archivist, Poet and Photographer, Tate Swindell is the founder of Unrequited Records, which specializes in poetry records released on the vinyl format. Editor of On Valencia Street: Poems and Ephemera by Jack Micheline (Lithic Press, 2019). Co-editor of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman for City Lights Books (2019). Tate, and his brother Todd, worked extensively on the Harold Norse archives, which were donated to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. He is currently writing short stories about his experiences in the San Francisco medical cannabis movement. Previous collections of writings include Palpitations; The Creation of Deadlines; and Fotopomes.
Julien Poirier is a poet living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of several poetry collections, and the editor of an anthology of writing and a book of travel journals. His published work includes El Golpe Chileño (Ugly Duckling, 2010), Stained Glass Windows of California (Ugly Duckling, 2012), Way Too West (Bootstrap, 2015) and Out of Print (City Lights). He is one of the founding members of Ugly Duckling Press and currently edits the journal called Night Mail.
Made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.