John Curl

HIKING ON SINAI

my new poetry video I tore myself away from the everyday misery my people inflict on each other, and I went hiking through the foothills of Mt Sinai. A poem. https://youtu.be/H3nVaIDKgm4

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My InterCollective Memoirs on FoundSF

FoundSF, the online San Francisco Digital Archive,  has just published two documentary memoirs of mine  about the Collective Movement in the Bay Area in the 1970s-‘80s,  and the organization known as the InterCollective....

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My Reading at Sacred Grounds

This is a video of my poetry reading at Sacred Grounds on March 8, 2023 I read from my new poetry collection, Rainbow Weather. Serving up poetry since 1972, Sacred Grounds is one of the longest-running open poetry reading series in the world....

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My Aztec translation in OTHERLANDS

My translation of ancient Aztec poet Nezahualcoyotl is published in OTHERLANDS: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds, by Thomas Halliday, an acclaimed study by a British palaeontologist, published by Random House and Penguin, exploring life’s adaptability and...

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