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Poetry for the People Extended Interview: Leslie Simon
by Paul Buckley Poetry for the People was founded 50 years ago at City College of San Francisco by professor Leslie Simon. Currently housed in the Interdisciplinary Studies department and taught by professor Tehmina Khan, the course celebrates poetry by asking, “how can poetry connect us to our shared humanity?” Forum interviewed Leslie, Tehmina, and…
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An Interview with Vince Gotera
From City College of San Francisco graduate to Poet Laureate of Iowa, Forum contributor and native San Franciscan Vince Gotera talks about his poetic influences: war, the Haight Ashbury, his Filipino heritage, sea dragons, and “the city.”
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Forum, Spring 2025 Edition
Poetry Fiction Nonfiction / Interviews Visual Art
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“We’re not the heroes of this future”: An interview with Eman Abdelhadi
by Gracia Hernandez Rovelo and Ilgiz Khisavov Thursday March 21, 2024 It’s a sunny day in Dolores Park in San Francisco’s Mission District, and Eman Abdelhadi is soaking up the warm spring sun and enjoying the pleasant March weather – a marked difference from Chicago, where she has flown from. Abdelhadi is sitting for an…
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“The places I went as a child don’t exist anymore”: Interview with Leila Mottley
by Susan Topf Tuesday April 16, 2024 It’s a Tuesday afternoon in Poetry Month and Leila Mottley is on the CCSF Ocean Campus. In an hour, she will be giving a reading co-organized by CCSF’s Women’s & Gender Studies department, Creative Writing department, Project SURVIVE, Poetry for the People, the school of Social Sciences, Behavior…
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Cabbage
Written by Susan Stone I used to be able to smell grandma’s house walking up the back steps to her covered porch. The house always smelled the same, like cooked cabbage, even though she now only made golumpki for holidays. Christmas night was our annual celebration with the Zechlinski family. We would have already been…
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Ode to Rebellions for Queer Liberation
Written by Carla Schick Praise to the streets that bear footprints indelible storm on Christopher StreetTo the person in a tie, gender undescribed who threw the first punchTo the Molotov cocktails and the tough & tender brown & black trans women who tossedtheir high heels to claw against the cops reaching down their throats, voices…
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Random, Rain
Written by Joel Alas “Will God remember you after you’ve taken your last breath…!?” he cried out, “Will He…!?” Under the faint streetlamp light, he searched for any eyes that dare look back into his. My eyes crossed his unexpectedly for a moment after he whirled around from about ten feet in front of me,…
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Red Wine, Gold Cake
Written by Allyson Baker My mother baked a cake for my seventeenth birthday. I remember it well because it was the first time that I had eaten gold. I had asked for months to try a gold flake from her bakery, but she always refused. “Gluttonous bastards” was the phrase that she used to describe…
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Subduction Leads to Orogeny
Written by Austin Lui Mello History is deep andoutside my reach; butwet echoeslap sand,leaving tracesand topographies. In the trench,hungry fossils connivein absolute obscurity,trailing silken notionsfrom vane or spine,carrion falling, freezing,stirs abyssal appetites,a toothy shifting in the murk;not far from where i flewhome from the hospital tolearn to bob and toddle on teak;not far from the…
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