Welcome to the City Lights Foundation! |
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For over half a century, City Lights Books has demonstrated a commitment to preserving and promoting the diversity of voices and ideas that are represented in quality books. As the increasingly concentrated mass media and new information technologies change the way people live, work, and think, we believe that nurturing the ability to think critically, to discern truth, and to communicate knowledge is essential to a democratic society.
With this in mind, we have formed the non-profit City Lights Foundation with the goal of advancing deep literacy, which is not only the ability to read and write but fluency in the knowledge and skills that enable us to consciously shape our lives and the life of our community. |
Featured books from the City Lights Foundation
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Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose Raw, inspired testimony and work from the teachers of the National WritersCorps
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Criminal of Poverty Growing Up Homeless in America A daughter’s struggle to keep her family alive, through poverty, homelessness and incarceration.
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The Other Side of the Postcard In conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library, poet laureate devorah major made a public appeal for poems that explored the realities of people's lives in a city as tough and tragic as it is beautiful and exhilarating. This anthology collects...
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The Political Edge In the wake of the astonishing popular mobilization on behalf of an underdog campaign to elect Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez mayor of San Francisco, The Political Edge analyzes emergent political energies, where they came from and where they're...
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San Francisco's Telegraph Hill The City Lights Foundation has collaborated with the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association to update and reprint David Myrick’s classic Telegraph Hill, a beautiful, lavishly illustrated book that is an invaluable community resource documenting the story...
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