WordSwell
is a literary organization founded by a group of San Francisco Bay Area poets and writers brought together by Clive Matson, a Beat Generation direct expression lyric poet and creative writing teacher who mentored under Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, John Wieners, and Diane de Prima and who has published nine volumes of poetry, numerous articles in literary journals, and the writing textbook Let the Crazy Child Write! WordSwell began in 2008 to support the activities of local poets and has been involved in various activities through the years, such as the production of a quarterly mailer, The Scribbler, the sponsoring of writing programs and events, involvement in the Bay Area HipHop community, and figuring in the creation of An Eye For an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind — Poets on 9/11, an American poetry anthology of works by over 100 poets, which Clive Matson both helped edit and wrote the preface for, and which received the PEN Oakland National Writing Award in 2003.
Please email submissions to
wordswellpoet@gmail.com
Please email questions to
wordswelljournal@gmail.com
