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A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · Nov 18

We're here! Come friend, follow, etc.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Blue skies from now on ?

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 17h

📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read

This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 19h

Perfect for Banned Books Week -- John Waters reads from Lady Chatterly's Lover at City Lights, 2013.

John Waters reads from Lady Chatterley's Lover at City Lights Books

YouTube video by CityLightsBooks

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ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 1d

@citylightsbooks.bsky.social - Six Gallery Reading 70th Anniversary Celebration today - allenginsberg.org/2025/10/t-o-7/

Six Gallery Anniversary - The Allen Ginsberg Project

A major anniversary today – the 70th anniversary of the legendary 6 Gallery reading – and a major new book A Remarkable Collection of Angels, David S Wills‘ deeply researched definitive history of the...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Carribean Fragoza, author of EAT THE MOUTH THAT FEEDS YOU (City Lights 2021), joins Galeria de al Raza / Studio 24's LUNADA, this evening, 7pm!

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Tuesday 10/7 7pm PT
@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social in conversation w/ Daphne Muse
celebrating POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
@princetonupress.bsky.social

In-person, or register for Zoom here: citylights.com/events/joshu...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read

This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

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Rose Knapp 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social · 4d

Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece by Nasir Rabah @citylightsbooks.bsky.social ‬⁩

#poetry

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for reading.

brandonshimoda.bsky.social @brandonshimoda.bsky.social · 1d

Please consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of Japanese American incarceration history, and the Wakasa memorial site and stone at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah: t.ly/jh2dE

I wrote about it @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: t.ly/DbxB5

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 5d

A ROSE SHOULDERS UP

Don't ever be surprised
to see a rose shoulder up
among the ruins of the house:
This is how we survived.

by Mosab Abu Toha

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Expedition Press launches a poetry broadside contest!
Enter now through October 31st, and see your words in PRINT 😍
expedition.press/pages/broads...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 5d

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 6d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Process Note #62 : Thea Matthews / @citylightsbooks.bsky.social @mawsheinwin.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/proc...

Process Note #62 : Thea Matthews

The 'process notes' pieces were originally solicited by Maw Shein Win as addendum to her teaching particular poems and poetry collections fo...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 6d

We are very happy to announce that SMOKE, the forthcoming novel from Gabriela Alemán & translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster, is a finalist for the Cercador Prize!
citylights.com/city-lights-...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 6d

"Of course, you can look up everything on the Internet now. But there is something very special about a book — the feel of it in your hands and the way it looks on the table by your bed, or nestled in with others in the bookcase." -- Jane Goodall bit.ly/4mNwASZ

Jane Goodall’s Lovely Letter to Children About How Reading Shaped Her Life

How a public library and a messy second-hand bookshop helped a small girl with no money and big dreams change the face of science.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 8d

🥀 TONIGHT 9/29 7pm PT, Celebrating Euphrase Kezilahabi – with Jay Boss Rubin and Annmarie Drury

@yalepress.bsky.social
@catranslation.org

Join us in person, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/celeb...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Tonight! ✨

Join us online for Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics – with David Marriott, Rizvana Bradley, and Patrice D. Douglass.
@stanfordpress.bsky.social

Please note, this event has a new start time of 6pm PT.

Register for the Zoom here: citylights.com/events/inven...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 12d

@willpotter.bsky.social discusses his new book LITTLE RED BARNS with @democracynow.org

www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/li...

“Little Red Barns”: Author Will Potter on How Industrial Animal Agriculture Breeds Authoritarianism

We continue our conversation with Will Potter, the author of Little Red Barns, an investigation into the state repression of journalists, environmentalists and animal rights activists who attempt to e...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 12d

"This is what fascists do."— @willpotter.bsky.social on the administration's labeling Antifa a terrorist organization in their war on dissent

Watch his interview with @democracynow.org -- bit.ly/3KjMk2M

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 14d

Join us in an hour for James Janko discussing his new book, THE WIRE-WALKER with Maxine Hong Kingston.

Can't make it into the bookstore? No problem—join us on Zoom at 7pm PT/10pm ET: citylights.com/events/james...

@regalhouse.bsky.social

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 15d

🥳 TONIGHT 9/22 at 7pm PT, @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social is holding their Issue 130 Celebration at City Lights!

Emceed by @ovillalon.bsky.social with a reading by @keenanthewriter.bsky.social

Attend in person for pizza and wine, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Toronto!
@willpotter.bsky.social speaks about the repression of social movements this Thursday, Sept 25th, 7:30pm at TYPE BOOKS, 883 Queen Street.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 15d

@willpotter.bsky.social speaks at PRATT, this Weds., Sept 24, 12:30pm. PRATT Institute, Brooklyn, East Hall Room 312.
Free and Open to the Public 🐄

City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Thea Matthews celebrates the publication of GRIME: City Lights Spotlight Series No. 25 with Dorothea Lasky at BOOKS ARE MAGIC this Thursday, September 25th, 7pm!

www.booksaremagic.net/events

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you! That was fun. Go get a signed copy of one of these books when you visit @citylightsbooks.bsky.social!

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Today!!!

ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 17d

Join us Monday to celebrate our new Issue 130! We’ll be @citylightsbooks.bsky.social with pizza, wine, and a reading from Issue 130 contributor @keenanthewriter.bsky.social

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