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Blue Light Press is dedicated to the publication of poetry, fiction and flash fiction that is imagistic, inventive, emotionally honest, and pushes the language to a deeper level of insight. We are all poets and artists based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and our books are artistically designed.

 

Fog & LightA love letter to San Francisco!

Fog and Light: San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here, selected by Diane Frank. In this collection of poems, we show you the city that most tourists miss. Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Alejandro Murguía, Barbara Quick, Thomas Centolella, Kathy Evans, Alice Rogoff, Alison Luterman, Daniel J. Langton, Robert Scotellaro, Jane Underwood, and many other celebrated poets.

"It’s been almost fifty years since I was in San Francisco, but it all comes back vividly in these poems." ~ Charles Rammelkamp, London
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"This collection lingers and holds us with this place’s difficulty, delight and dreamlike human, desert and ocean dramas."
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ISBN: 978‑1-4218-3689-8

 

 

River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st CenturyBlue Light Press has a bestselling anthology...

River of Earth and Sky: Poems for the 21st Century, selected by Diane Frank. More than 100 poets featured, mixing the best voices of our generation with the grass roots – poets who have won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, along with lesser known poets who also deserve to be read.
#2 bestseller on Amazon for poetry anthologies! #3 bestseller for all American Poetry!

"Congratulations on this fantastic coming together of voices." ~ Jane Hirshfield
"Anywhere I turn to read, masterly and compelling work." ~ Robert Scotellaro
A glowing review by Naomi Lowinsky

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Featured Books:


Amusing the Angels
by Stewart Florsheim


Eighteen
by Sandy Steinman


Red Cedar, Red Pine
by Gary Young


These Days of Simple Mooring
by Florence Weinberger


A Magician Among the Sprirts
by Charles Rammelkamp


What We Were Born For
by Emilie Lygren

Deep Limitless Air
The Deep Limitless Air
by Mary Allen

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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