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Please join us for Making & Breaking the Lyric featuring Kelsey Street Press poet Denise Newman as well as Sarah Rosenthal, Dean Rader, and Rolando André López.


City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave in San Francisco or register for online attendance.


Denise won’t be able to join us as she is mending from severe injuries incurred when she, her husband Steven, and their beloved daughter Eva were hit head-on by another car. Eva, 22 years old and a jewel of a being, died upon arrival at the hospital. This reading (including excerpts from The Redesignation of Paradise) is dedicated to Eva's memory.




Kelsey Street Press is proud to announce the publication of IF AN ELSEWHERE (The Burrow) with art by Cybele Lyle and poetry by Jocelyn Saidenberg.


About this work, Johanna Drucker has said, "Cybele Lyle’s drawings show it is still possible for the graphic language of suggestive allusion to illuminate a densely intimate poetic text. Jocelyn Saidenberg’s nuanced ruminations express a precise personal algebra of moment-to-moment exchange while Lyle’s forms present embodied experience in which these tensions and pleasures play out. Few writers are as adept at exploring the complex intimacies of relationships in rigorously disciplined terms as Saidenberg."


With this publication, Kelsey Street Press returns to its long history publishing books poet and artist collaborations, including Endocrinology by Kiki Smith and Mei-mei Bersennbrugge and Arcade by Erica Hunt and Alison Saar.


The book will ship in early February 2025. Stay tuned for upcoming events and readings!

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