celebrating the release of

Here Come the Warm Jets

the latest release in the City Lights Spotlight Series

Charged with swagger and sensuality, tenderness and cold fact, the 10th Spotlight series installment, Here Come the Warm Jets, is the brash debut volume by Bay Area poet Alli Warren. Taking its title from the Brian Eno classic, Jets jumbles gender, class, and space-time perspectives into a chorus of contemporary idioms and lyrical longings. Against the daunting backdrop of contemporary political-economy, Warren launches her missives of desire, in writing that is at once raw and sly. From the Bishop of Worms to Flipper to E-40, nobody's safe from the easy virtuosity with which she makes language sing.

Praise for Here Come the Warm Jets:
"Here Come the Warm Jets starts by cycling through swaths of factless job-voice before pitching an unfolding exuberant doom-diction through the book's positively evil prosodic middle. Relative time, absolute time, ornery time, palpation time, and a kind of time I can't name are all in play along the way. I think Warren's end of capitalism would come with the richest planes of full life, but only the poems and their upending of the never-ending blossom hull make me think so."—Anselm Berrigan

"When form and form's fiancé come maundering Alli Warren will undo them both with tart prepositional gambits and the vagaries of fortune-telling and a fine poker-faced command of stagecraft itself. With nods to the congress of manners (and hat tips too to Brooks, Duncan, and others) Here Come the Warm Jets plays at neither checking nor abashing but chronicles what it just might be to be beyond the reach of any drama, any architecture. This is one heavenly book."—C. S. Giscombe

Praise for Alli Warren:
"[She]'s one of those poets who, once you read her work, instantly becomes a necessity."—Ron Silliman

"Warren displays a serious commitment to delineating the multifarious registers of communication that collide into what we think of as culture."—Noah Eli Gordon

Alli Warren reads with Pulitzer-Prize Winner Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout is a professor of writing in the literature department at the University of California at San Diego. She has taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Bard College, Naropa University, San Diego State University, and San Francisco State University. Her poetry collection Versed received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Armantrout's work has been published in many anthologies, including The Oxford Book of American Poetry and Scribner's Best American Poetry of 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, and 2011, and in such magazines as Harpers, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Alli Warren will read from her first book, Here Come the Warm Jets. Previous chapbooks include Grindin (Lew Gallery), Acting Out (Editions Louis Wain), and Well-Meaning White Girl (Mitzvah Chaps). New work is forthcoming in Lana Turner Journal, Sprung Formal, and Dusie.

Moe's is located at 2476 Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley CA 94704. Please call (510) 849-2087 for directions.

Alli Warren and Stephanie Young take part in the Ruthless Grip poetry series held at The Black Squirrel.

The Black Squirrel is located at 2427 18th St NW Washington, DC. The nearest subway station is Woodly Park on the Red Line.

Alli Warren reads with Stephanie Young.

Snockey's is located at 1020 S 2nd St in Philadelphia, PA 19147. Please call (215) 339-9578 for directions.

Alli Warren reads with Stephanie Young.

The Poetry Project is held at St. Mark's Church  located at 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003. Please contact 212-674-0910 | or info@poetryproject.org for directions.

Alli Warren will be reading with Stephanie Young and Kari Freitag.

Alli Warren reads with Stephanie Young in St. Bonaventure's Visting Poets Series. 

The Visiting Poets Series is sponsored by grants from the Leo E. Keenan Jr. and James J. Martine Faculty Development Endowments at St. Bonaventure as well as the university's Visiting Scholars Committee.

St. Bonaventure University is located at 3261 W State Rd in St Bonaventure, NY 14778.

Please call (716) 375-2000 for directions.

Alli Warren reads with Stephanie Young.

The University is located at 3435 Main St  Buffalo, NY 14214. Please contact (716) 645-2000 for directions.

Alli Warren will be reading with Feliz Molina.

The Poetry Center is located at San Francisco State University in HUM 512. This event is free and open to the public.