James's Poetry Collections
The God of San Francisco
The God of San Francisco
The God of San Francisco
In The God of San Francisco, James J. Siegel examines queer grief during the onset of the AIDS crisis through a lavender-and-leather pantheon: St. Christopher, Allah, and the God of San Francisco transubstantiate a sarcoma’s cicatrix into sequins, a viral dowry into a benevolent plume of dazzling feathers.
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How Ghosts Travel
The God of San Francisco
The God of San Francisco
This collection seems to have been written with vapor—the unseen made visible through James Siegel’s intuitive eye. The poems also form an elegy of place, Ohio. Personal phantoms populate this physical and metaphysical locus. Haunted by history and its ruins, the poet deciphers “[t]hat fur-covered / folklore crawling out from under the skin.”
- Dean Kostos, author of This Is Not a Skyscraper and Rivering
Literary Speakeasy
For more than a decade, James has hosted and curated the popular Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni's Piano Bar in San Francisco. Held on the last Thursday of every month, Literary Speakeasy celebrates Bay Area authors, poets, and songwriters.
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