Garrett Caples

Garrett Caples is the author of three books of poems and a book of essays, Retrievals (Wave Books, 2014). He is also an editor at City Lights Books, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. He co-edited The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California, 2013), Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (Omnidawn, 2015), and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New & Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights, 2016). For City Lights he has edited books by Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Diane di Prima, and David Meltzer, among many others. For ten years, he wrote for the venerable San Francisco Bay Guardian on hip-hop, art, and literature.

He will be reading from his new book of poems, Power Ballads (Wave Books, 2016).