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Street Spirit is an independent newspaper in the East Bay dedicated to covering homelessness and poverty from the perspective of those most impacted. Est 1995. A publication of Youth Spirit Artworks.

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Claire J. Baker

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Claire J. Baker is a dedicated poet and a self-appointed peace activist.

Street album

September 6, 2022
Arts and Culture   Poetry
May we all keep a photographof the momentsomeone’s eyesmeet our ownand linger—that silvery silence when both acceptour differences and let

Street meditation

July 7, 2022
Arts and Culture   Poetry
We live on this planet wondering who we are beyond our griefs & sorrows, hunger, struggle & war.  Our cares

Stay with the caravan

May 4, 2022
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A poem by longtime Street Spirit contributor, Claire Baker.

The homeless

December 9, 2021
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A poem by Claire J Baker

Anthem for the homeless

June 1, 2021
Arts and Culture   Poetry
We want to work and pay our way—yes we, America’s tempest-tossed.We’re part of and beyond the frayin actions paving our

There was…

February 11, 2021
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A poem by Claire J. Baker

Wear the poem if it fits

January 13, 2021
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A poem by Claire J. Baker

Let it be

October 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
In the changing skiesof circumstancelet us beas flocks of birdsguiding each otherby touching wings.

Worth a Thousand Words

March 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A riveting black & white photo: a homeless man & his dog asleep under freeway overpass. The dog’s head rests on the man’s hand, a guardian in

The Harp of Hope

February 1, 2019
Poetry
When we are numbed,shocked clear through by tragedies inour home of homes, may somehow we finda way to keep pluckingthe harp strings

Winter Moon

December 1, 2018
Arts and Culture   Poetry
The moon flowersinto full bloom.We cradle our handsfor mystical light.We have waited yearsfor such a night.Soundlesslysplendor slipsinto cupped handslike a

Amazing

December 1, 2018
Arts and Culture   Poetry
love remains all after all we go throughtogetheror within our own storyas heaven’s curtain risesjust enoughto offera glimpse of glory.

Phoenix in the Tenderloin

November 1, 2018
Poetry
We wish fair flight for anyone rising from hellish ashes there and here.Since we escaped, it’s not surprisingwe wish wide wings

Birds of a Feather (in homage to homeless)

November 1, 2018
Poetry
Some sparrows preferdowntown streets to parksor neighborhood yards.  They peck at grit trodden byrich & poor, bankers & poets,professors &

Footsteps in the Rain

November 1, 2018
Poetry
We’ve hurried pastthe huddled homeless heaped like potato sacks along city sidewalks.  We never envisioned a saintor savior might sleep under plastic over

A Migrant Worker’s day Ends

October 1, 2018
Poetry
After picking 50 boxesof grapes, hands stung &bleeding, she restsagainst a haystack,inhales in unison with cows. sheep, a curled dog.Nestled in

Coffee Truce

September 1, 2018
Poetry
Imagine a truce calledover made-to-order coffee—mean words surrenderingto flags of coffee fragrance,dreamy humidity of steam.Envision conflicts re-placed by slurping sounds,the

Lemon Wedge

September 1, 2018
Poetry
She sips gingerlyfrom the cup of“try again,”acknowledgeslife’s lemon wedgebitter-brighton teacup’s rim.She tells us the wedgeis a yellow sailon her spunky

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