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Friday, December 23, 2011

Eliot said April
but did he ever
spend December
in northern California?

Posted by SB Stokes at 2:14 AM

SB Stokes: SB Stokes, a fourth generation Californian, has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area all of his life.

His first book of poetry, A History of Broken Love Things, was published by Punk Hostage Press in January 2014. You can order it here: https://www.createspace.com/4592178

In October 2014, through a joint effort by The Gorilla Press and Pedestrian Press, a new chapbook of SB's poems called DARK ENTRIES was published.

SB is a founding producer and art director for Uptown Oakland's free, annual literary event, Beast Crawl, which happens for its fourth year on Saturday, July 11, 2015.

SB has also produced the blog MASS COMMUNICATIONS since 2004 and videos of him reading his work can be found on both YouTube and Tumblr.

He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and is a former poetry and art editor for Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review.

His poems can be found in print and online in/at Red Light Lit, Writing Without Walls, The Bicycle Review, SEX + DESIGN, Gesture, Metonym, sPARKLE & bLINK, MUST street 'zine, The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology, The VelRo Reader, Saturday Night Special's Year One Anthology, Bare Hands, Bong Is Bard, ElevenEleven, Luciferous, Red Fez, and numerous other quality publications.