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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.

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Wayfarer

By Tim Rudolph on January 6, 2025
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"No direction home / but I’m somebody’s someone somewhere"

Illumination

By Jeannette DesBoine on January 6, 2025
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"In the dark times, reflection hides / itself in corners and waits..."

At seven

By Tiara Swearington on December 7, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A poem by Tiara Swearington.

Sweeping in the Rain

By Tiny Gray-Garcia on December 3, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Let the trucks come / Take my pain and wash it away with this endless rain

Slam Bio

By LeaJay Harper on December 3, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
I learned that a house / has walls and foundation / But my home was whatever / porch I found to sleep that night

Clearing

By Tiny Gray-Garcia on November 7, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"We are fighting and writing / We are building and crying"

abort that cop, baby

By Jaz Colibri on November 7, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"throwing funding at “prevention” / don’t mean nothing / when the genocide is ongoing"

Ordinary People

By Jeannette DesBoine on October 7, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
We are changing our names— / From ‘poor’ people to ‘ordinary’ people

Loving Oakland is a Plywood Maw

By Cassandra Dallett on September 5, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Loving Oakland / is a series of tripping / with no luggage / Of baggage without a place / to put it down.

the airport local 

By Charlie Getter on August 5, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"so you get on the bus but you’re not alone..."

a numbers game 

By Jaz Colibri on August 5, 2024
Arts and Culture   News   Poetry
"Between shelters and sweeps that recycle us on, off, and back on these streets, in a fiscal year reap around: $35,000,000 that us poor people never see

Rooms

By Olivia Rudd on August 5, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"The history the structure elicits of some multidimensional space Am I remembering some capsule?"
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