Category Archives: Poetry

TAMSIN SPENCER SMITH

first published in Juxtapoz, March 22, 2023 Object Lessons: A Review of Tamsin Spencer Smith @ Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco // March 24, 2023 – March 26, 2023 Tamsin Spencer Smith exhibits over 20 paintings,

TAMSIN SPENCER SMITH

first published in Juxtapoz, March 22, 2023 Object Lessons: A Review of Tamsin Spencer Smith @ Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco // March 24, 2023 – March 26, 2023 Tamsin Spencer Smith exhibits over 20 paintings,

JACK HIRSCHMAN

Remarks at the Jack Hirschman Memorial, Washington Sq. Park, San Francisco, October 2, 2021 Remarks by former SF Supervisor Matt Gonzalez at the Jack Hirschman Memorial, Washington Square Park, San Francisco, October 2, 2021 TRANSCRIPT — I met Jack [Hirschman]

JACK HIRSCHMAN

Remarks at the Jack Hirschman Memorial, Washington Sq. Park, San Francisco, October 2, 2021 Remarks by former SF Supervisor Matt Gonzalez at the Jack Hirschman Memorial, Washington Square Park, San Francisco, October 2, 2021 TRANSCRIPT — I met Jack [Hirschman]

TAMSIN SMITH

first published as the introduction to The Profound M by Tamsin Spencer Smith (San Francisco: FMSBW, 2021) NEVER LOST Reflections on the Art of Found Photography by Matt Gonzalez Introduction to The Profound M by Tamsin Smith, a book of found

TAMSIN SMITH

first published as the introduction to The Profound M by Tamsin Spencer Smith (San Francisco: FMSBW, 2021) NEVER LOST Reflections on the Art of Found Photography by Matt Gonzalez Introduction to The Profound M by Tamsin Smith, a book of found

JACK HIRSCHMAN

first published in an earlier version in the San Francisco Call, May 24, 2002 Jack Hirschman & Agneta Falk in Varese, Italy, 2007. Photograph by Sergio Sala. JACK HIRSCHMAN (1933-2021): A Bibliography By Matt Gonzalez Books by Jack Hirschman 1.

JACK HIRSCHMAN

first published in an earlier version in the San Francisco Call, May 24, 2002 Jack Hirschman & Agneta Falk in Varese, Italy, 2007. Photograph by Sergio Sala. JACK HIRSCHMAN (1933-2021): A Bibliography By Matt Gonzalez Books by Jack Hirschman 1.

ALLEN GINSBERG

first published in Mesh Magazine #11, September/October 2005 HOWL! by Matt Gonzalez OCTOBER 7TH OF THIS YEAR marks the 50th anniversary of the first public reading of perhaps the most enduring poem of the 20th century. In 1955, Kenneth Rexroth

ALLEN GINSBERG

first published in Mesh Magazine #11, September/October 2005 HOWL! by Matt Gonzalez OCTOBER 7TH OF THIS YEAR marks the 50th anniversary of the first public reading of perhaps the most enduring poem of the 20th century. In 1955, Kenneth Rexroth

ALEXEI KRUCHENYKH, RUSSIAN FUTURIST

first published as Let’s Bellyache! A book review in the San Francisco Call, May 24, 2002 A SLAP IN THE FACE! A book review by Matt Gonzalez [Suicide Circus: Selected Poems by Alexei Kruchenykh (Copenhagen & Los Angeles: Green Integer,

ALEXEI KRUCHENYKH, RUSSIAN FUTURIST

first published as Let’s Bellyache! A book review in the San Francisco Call, May 24, 2002 A SLAP IN THE FACE! A book review by Matt Gonzalez [Suicide Circus: Selected Poems by Alexei Kruchenykh (Copenhagen & Los Angeles: Green Integer,

JACK HIRSCHMAN, POET LAUREATE

first published in the San Francisco Call, May 24, 2002; revised August 22, 2021 Photograph of Jack Hirschman at the Caffe Trieste by John Perino. CHOROSHO! AN AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JACK HIRSCHMAN by Jack Hirschman & Matt Gonzalez BORN IN

JACK HIRSCHMAN, POET LAUREATE

first published in the San Francisco Call, May 24, 2002; revised August 22, 2021 Photograph of Jack Hirschman at the Caffe Trieste by John Perino. CHOROSHO! AN AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JACK HIRSCHMAN by Jack Hirschman & Matt Gonzalez BORN IN

MY GREEN MANIFESTO

first published in Comet Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 1, The Tenacity Issue, 2003 Detail of My Green Manifesto, printed by the Greenwood Press, photograph by Pino Trogu. MY GREEN MANIFESTO by Matt Gonzalez for Isaac Opalinsky, Alison Gibbons, & Erik

MY GREEN MANIFESTO

first published in Comet Magazine, Vol. 4 No. 1, The Tenacity Issue, 2003 Detail of My Green Manifesto, printed by the Greenwood Press, photograph by Pino Trogu. MY GREEN MANIFESTO by Matt Gonzalez for Isaac Opalinsky, Alison Gibbons, & Erik

PREFACE TO DON PAUL’S FLARES: POEMS, SONGS, PROSE

first published as the preface to Flares: Poems, Songs, Prose (SF: Irresistible/Revolutionary, 2001) by Don Paul FOREWORD by Matt Gonzalez I  FIRST MET DON PAUL a couple of years ago on Federico Garcia Lorca’s birthday, June 5. He had come

PREFACE TO DON PAUL’S FLARES: POEMS, SONGS, PROSE

first published as the preface to Flares: Poems, Songs, Prose (SF: Irresistible/Revolutionary, 2001) by Don Paul FOREWORD by Matt Gonzalez I  FIRST MET DON PAUL a couple of years ago on Federico Garcia Lorca’s birthday, June 5. He had come

JACK MICHELINE, RAGGED LION

first published in Ragged Lion: A Tribute to Jack Micheline (Ellenburg, WA: Vagabond Press/The Smith, 1999), ed. John Bennett Jack Micheline & Matt Gonzalez on Albion Street in San Francisco, c. 1993, photo by Andrew McKinley. THE ELUSIVE JACK MICHELINE

JACK MICHELINE, RAGGED LION

first published in Ragged Lion: A Tribute to Jack Micheline (Ellenburg, WA: Vagabond Press/The Smith, 1999), ed. John Bennett Jack Micheline & Matt Gonzalez on Albion Street in San Francisco, c. 1993, photo by Andrew McKinley. THE ELUSIVE JACK MICHELINE

JACK MICHELINE, THE OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY

from the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999); Edited by Alan Kaufman and S.A. Griffin, pg 95-97 Jack Micheline. Photograph by Rosemarie Hausherr (from the Jack Micheline Foundation website) JACK MICHELINE by Matt Gonzalez JACK MICHELINE DEVOTED

JACK MICHELINE, THE OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY

from the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999); Edited by Alan Kaufman and S.A. Griffin, pg 95-97 Jack Micheline. Photograph by Rosemarie Hausherr (from the Jack Micheline Foundation website) JACK MICHELINE by Matt Gonzalez JACK MICHELINE DEVOTED