Bana Witt was an incredible poet, performer, musician, and technology aficionado. Her books on Zeitgeist include Compass in an Armored Car (1988) and Hollow Quills & Jackal Fur (2021).
Continue readingAuthor of poetry books “i speak to the poet in man”, “how sweet it is”, and “whose really blues, new & selected poems”. QR was a brilliant, practical activist and poet. His warmth and support for poets and people made him eternally a leader in the Bay Area.
Continue readingCheck out the new books listed below. These authors will be reading at upcoming Zoom events!
Continue readingR.I. P. Christopher Trian, poet, artist, devilish original man of the Bay. Author of When There’s No More Room in Heck, the Darned Will Walk the Earth. Illustrator, painter, and a damn fine friend in a world of too few. You will be missed, Chris.
Continue readingJan. 4 & 9: Please join us for a Poetry Workshop 2:00 p.m. on Jan. 4 at Winchester Cultural Center in Las Vegas for a workshop on the leading poet of the 20th century to write in Yiddish. On Thursday Jan. 9, a film of his life Black Honey will be shown at the Brenden Palms Theater at 7:00 as part of the Jewish Film Festival. Joanne Gilbert, noted author of Holocaust-related materials will join…
Continue readingTerry Tempest Williams, perhaps the leading author of desert ecology prose, visits Las Vegas in two events. First, on Jan. 24 at 7:00 p.m., she will read at the Historic 5th Street School from her new book Erosion. On Jan. 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the Adelson Educational Campus she will moderate a screening of the film Wrenched, a story of the Earth First environmental movement inspired by the writings of Edward Abbey. Both events…
Continue readingZeitgeist Press is very excited to present two new Julia Vinograd books celebrating the life and work of this remarkable woman who energized and shaped the poetry of the SF Bay Area for over fifty years. This FREE, festive afternoon of celebration begins at 2pm on October 20th at Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Ave. in Berkeley, California (RSVP on Facebook here). Books will be for sale at a one-time discount (less than half the retail…
Continue readingZeitgeist Press is thrilled to present two new Julia Vinograd books at LitQuake’s Babar in Exile FREE event. A Symphony for Broken Instruments, a seminal collection of selected works along with a big section of previously unpublished poems. Never before has such a tour de force of Vinograd’s work been together in one volume, which is 384 pages in total, including art by Deborah Vinograd and Chris Trian. At the same event, editor Deborah Fruchey…
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