Bay Area Literary Hotspots on a Weekend Afternoon: Photo Friday

To me, this is holy ground. Jack Kerouac Alley in San Francisco - adjacent to City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco

It is impossible to spend too much time in San Francisco. People go for many different reasons. My biggest interest in the Bay Area?

Literary hotspots, historical markers of word-love: these are my favorite haunts in the city known for the Golden Gate bridge, Alcatraz and Cable Cars, among other things.

The view from the window in the poetry room at City Lights, looking out on Jack Kerouac Alley

Emma and I popped into San Francisco briefly Saturday, leaping through North Beach and then heading to Berkeley’s Poetry Walk.

I visited in 2013 and took this view of the Alley from the street level.

 

Another connection: John Steinbeck's words, a Grapes of Wrath + Weedpatch moment meets Kerouac Alley and Me.

 

One of the spots we didn't get to see is almost visible in this next image: Ina Coolbrith Park. Miss Coolbrith was the first poet laureate of California. The view from the park bearing her name is spectacular.

The stairs leading to it are barely visible over Emma's shoulder.

Ina Coolbrith Park will have to wait until my next visit to San Francisco!

 

Emma and I popped into San Francisco briefly Saturday, leaping through North Beach and then heading to Berkeley’s Poetry Walk.

Visual proof she is my child: Emma, ecstatic at the Berkeley Poetry Walk

 

Outside the Berkeley Repertory Theater - a Theatrical Poem by Bertold Brecht

 

Southern California’s Hollywood has a walk of fame of celebrity but the intellectual crowd to the north honors literary illuminati via poetry on plaques in the pavement.

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