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4 unusual facts about City Lights Bookstore


Broadway, San Francisco

The street is home to several notable venues, such as the Showgirls theater, the Broadway Tunnel, Convent of the Sacred Heart High School and the City Lights Bookstore.

Lisa Jarnot

Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems: 1992-2012 was published by City Lights in May 2013.

Semezdin Mehmedinović

In 2002, Mehmedinović published another book of poems entitled "Devet Alexandrija", which was later published by the City Lights of San Francisco under the title "Nine Alexandrias".

Stefan Brecht

A collection of poems, self-published in 1976, was picked up by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights and appeared in their City Lights Pocket Poets Series in 1977 as Stefan Brecht: Poems.



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