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Introduction by Dana Gioia

JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE/YELLOW BIRD (1827-1867)

Mount Shasta
from California

BRET HARTE (1836-1902)

The Society upon the Stanislaus
Plain Language from Truthful James
What the Bullet Sang

JOAQUIN MILLER (1841-1913)

Columbus
A California Christmas
By the Pacific Ocean
Dead in the Sierras

INA COOLBRITH (1842-1928) Visit the Ina Coolbrith Circle site here

The Years
Retrospect

AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?)

A Rational Anthem
Orthography
Two Epigraphs

CHARLES WARREN STODDARD (1843-1909)

Old Monterey

EDWIN MARKHAM (1852-1940)

The Man with the Hoe
Outwitted

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)

Matriatism
California Colors

GELETT BURGESS (1866-1951)

The Purple Cow
The Purple Cow: Suite
On Digital Extremities
Table Manners

GEORGE STERLING (1869-1926)

The Last Days
Ballad of the Grapes
The Black Vulture

YONE NOGUCHI (1875-1947)

I Hear You Call, Pine Tree
from Japanese Hokkus

NORA MAY FRENCH (1881-1907)

Ave Atque Vale
The Mourner

ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)

Continent’s End
Shine, Perishing Republic
November Surf
Hands
Rock and Hawk
Fire on the Hills
Carmel Point

HILDEGARDE FLANNER (1899-1987)

Noon on Alameda Street
Prayer

JANET LEWIS (1899-1998)

Girl Help
Carmel Highlands

YVOR WINTERS (1900-1968)

One Ran Before
The Slow Pacific Swell
A Summer Commentary
At the San Francisco Airport

KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982)

Requiem for the Spanish Dead
Delia Rexroth
from Andrée Rexroth
Vitamins and Roughage
Aspen Meadow

GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984)

The Bicycles and the Apex
The Building of the Skyscraper
Psalm

ROSALIE MOORE (1910-2000)

Still without Life
Shipwreck
Ripeness is Rapid

JOSEPHINE MILES (1911-1985)

Riddle
Conception
Album

WILLIAM EVERSON / BROTHER ANTONINUS (1912-1994)

from The Falling of the Grain
The Making of the Cross
These Be the Ravens

JAMES BROUGHTON (1913-1999)

Aglow in Nowhere

ANN STANFORD (1916-1987)

Double Mirror
The Committee
Done With

ADRIEN STOUTENBERG (1916-1982)

Cicada
Before We Drown

VIOLET KAZUE DE CRISTOFORO (b. 1917)

Haiku

WILMA ELIZABETH MCDANIEL (b. 1918)

First Spring in California, 1936
Burned in the Test

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (b. 1919)

In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See
Constantly Risking Absurdity

ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)

The Temple of the Animals
Poetry, a Natural Thing
This Place Rumored to Have Been Sodom
Roots and Branches

CHARLES BUKOWSKI (1920-1994)

the tragedy of the leaves
my old man
eulogy to a hell of a dame

LEONARD NATHAN (b. 1924)

Letter
Coup
Hole

EDGAR BOWERS (1924-2000)

An Afternoon at the Beach
In the Last Circle
The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten

JACK SPICER (1925-1965)

Improvisation on a Sentence by Poe
Orfeo
Conspiracy
A Book of Music

BOB KAUFMAN (1925-1986)

Round About Midnight
No More Jazz at Alcatraz

MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON (1926-1996)

Coming from Kansas
An Angry Valentine
Birds Know

LEW WELCH (1926-1971)

The Basic Con
Not Yet 40, My Beard is Already White

HENRI COULETTE (1927-1988)

Night Thoughts
Postscript

PHILIP LAMANTIA (b. 1927)

HIGH

HELEN PINKERTON (b. 1927)

For an End
Nature Note: The California Poison Oak

PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)

They Feed They Lion
Animals are Passing from Our Lives
Genius
Waking in March

BERT MEYERS (1928-1979)

The Garlic
Arc de Triumphe

THOM GUNN (b. 1929)

On the Move
Flying Above California
San Francisco Streets
The Man with Night Sweats

GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)

Riprap
Marin-An

DICK BARNES (1932-2000)

Everyman His Own Cross
Few and Far Between

MICHAEL MCCLURE (b. 1932)

Canticle
The Flowers of Politics, I

JOHN RIDLAND (b. 1933)

Lazy Man’s Haiku
A New Person

RICHARD BRAUTIGAN (1933-1984)

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

ROBERT MEZEY (b. 1935)

Touch It
from Couplets

KATHLEEN FRASER (b. 1937)

Change of Address
The History of My Feeling

STEVE KOWIT (b. 1938)

Hell

ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)

I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra
Oakland Blues

LAWSON FUSAO INADA (b. 1938)

from Legends from Camp

AL YOUNG (b. 1939)

Conjugal Visits
In the Sierras

JAMES MCMICHAEL (b. 1939)

Lutra, the Fisher

ART BECK (b. 1940)

Castro Street
Nicotine

JACK FOLEY (b. 1940)

Prose for Two Voices
The Poet's Tango

RON KOERTGE (b. 1940)

Redondo
Lilith
Sidekicks

MICHAEL STILLMAN (b. 1940)

In Memoriam John Coltrane

DAVID ALPAUGH (b. 1941) Visit David Alpaugh's Small Poetry Press site here

The Young

GERALD LOCKLIN (b. 1941)

california

ROBERT HASS (b. 1941)

Meditation at Lagunitas
Tahoe in August

LYN HEJINIAN (b. 1941)

from Redo
It was only a coincidence

ELOISE KLEIN HEALY (b. 1943)

Artemis in Echo Park
Moon on the Porch

MICHAEL PALMER (b. 1943)

All Those Words
Autobiography

JOSEPH STROUD (b. 1943)

Missing
Hear that Phone Ringing? Sounds Like a Long Distance Call
Manna

GINA VALDES (b. 1943)

English Con Salsa

TAYLOR GRAHAM (b. 1944)

Chances
Pieces of Henry

SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS (1944-1999)

california light

KAY RYAN (b. 1945)

Chemise
Blandeur
Paired Things
Turtle

WANDA COLEMAN (b. 1946)

Voices
Prisoner of Los Angeles (2)

LARRY LEVIS (1946-1996)

The Poem You Asked For
Photograph: Migrant Worker, Parlier, California, 1967

DAVID OLIVEIRA (b. 1946)

Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo

LUCILLE LANG DAY (b. 1947)

Reject Jell-O

STEPHEN KESSLER (b. 1947)

Cigarette Case

AMY UYEMATSU (b. 1947)

Deliberate
The Ten Million Flames of Los Angeles

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY (b. 1948)

Sparrows
Leaving the West Coast

JUAN FELIPE HERRERA (b. 1948)

Exiles

RACHEL LODEN (b. 1948)

My Test Market
The Gospel According to Clairol

LESLIE MONSOUR (b. 1948)

Parking Lot
Nimis Compas Mentis

WENDY ROSE (b. 1948)

For the White Poets Who Would Be Indian

TIMOTHY STEELE (b. 1948)

An Aubade
Sapphics Against Anger

DAVID ST. JOHN (b. 1949)

Hush
I Know

LAUREL ANN BOGEN (b. 1950)

Pygmy Headhunters and Killer Apes, My Lover and Me

DANA GIOIA (b. 1950) Visit Dana Gioia's site here

California Hills in August
Planting a Sequoia

GARRY GAY (b. 1951)

Haiku

BRENDA HILLMAN (b. 1951)

Recycling Center

SUZANNE LUMMIS (b. 1951)

Shangri-La
Sea Chanty

JIM POWELL (b. 1951)

from Time and Light
Doxology

GARY SOTO (b. 1952)

A Red Palm

SUZANNE J. DOYLE (b. 1953)

Some Girls
Hell to Pay

JANE HIRSHFIELD (b. 1953)

Tree
Leaving the October Palace

ROBERT MCDOWELL (b. 1953)

Where and what you are
The Origin of Fear

ALEIDA RODRíQUEZ (b. 1953)

Lexicon of Exile

KIM ADDONIZIO (b. 1954)

First Poem for You
Stolen Moments

FRANCISCO X. ALARCóN (b. 1954)

The X in my Name
Frontera/Border

MARILYN CHIN (b. 1955)

Leaving San Francisco
How I Got That Name

SAMUEL MAIO (b. 1955)

Love Song
In Memoriam

AMY GERSTLER (b. 1956)

Bitter Angel

KEVIN HEARLE (b. 1958)

The Politics of Memory

JOSHUA CLOVER (b. 1962)

Bathtub Panopticon

CHRYSS YOST (b. 1966) Visit Chryss Yost's site here

Lai with Sounds of Skin
Last Night

JENNY FACTOR (b. 1969)

Scotch and Soda
Rubyfruit