LIVE! From City Lights

Updated: 15 Oct 2025 • 175 episodes
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The official podcast for City Lights Publishers & Booksellers in San Francisco. Featuring readings and archives. Hosted by City Lights events coordinator Peter Maravelis.

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City Lights celebrates the publication of Indigenous Poetics, edited by Inés Hernández-Ávila and Molly McGlennen, published by Michigan State University Press. You can purchase copies of Indigenous Poetics directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/poetry-criticism-biographies/indigenous-poetics/ Originally

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Mosab Abu Toha reading from “Forest of Noise: Poems” by Mosab Abu Toha, published by Knopf Publishing Group You can purchase copies of “Forest of Noise: Poems” directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/forest-of-noise-poems/ Originally broadcast via Zoom on Monday, November 4, 2024. Hosted by Peter Maravel

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Daniel Borzutzky in conversation with Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, celebrating the publication of "The Murmuring Grief of the Americas" by Daniel Borzutzky, published by Coffee House Press You can purchase copies of "The Murmuring Grief of the Americas" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/murmuring-gri

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Bushra Rehman in conversation with May-lee Chai, celebrating the publication of "Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion" by Bushra Rehman, published by Flatiron Books. You can purchase copies of "Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/general-fiction/roses-in-the-mouth-of-a-lion-2/

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City Lights celebrates the publication of "Blessings," a novel by Chukwuebuka Ibeh, published by Doubleday. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/blessings/ Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a natural athlete. B

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Tarek El-Ariss

Tarek El-Ariss in conversation with Peter Maravelis, celebrating the publication of "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War" by Tarek El-Ariss, published by Other Press. Purchase here: https://citylights.com/middle-east/water-on-fire-memoir-of-war/ "Water on Fire" tells a story of immigration that starts in a Beirut devastated

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