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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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Land of the Free / Reflections

By Samuel Palos Kraemer on October 1, 2025
Arts and Culture   Poetry
'We are not a melting pot / We are an assimilation machine'

The Bus

By Christopher Strunck on October 1, 2025
Arts and Culture   Poetry
'I was wrong I won’t apologize for who I am'

[evening]

By Joni Prince on August 6, 2025
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Consider the remarkable resilience of the Mac Dre Industrial Complex

The Transparent Person

By Taiye Ronald Trotter on August 6, 2025
Arts and Culture   Poetry
I am visible and invisible to you. A reflection that casts no image.

Surviving the Storm

By Reina de Aztlán on May 7, 2025
Arts and Culture   Poetry
'One cannot do this on their own.'

First One Breath, Then Another

By Tim Rudolph on March 4, 2025
Arts and Culture   Poetry
'Here’s to the famished / lion who refuses to eat the lamb.'

Dens of Iniquity

By Jaz Colibri on February 4, 2025
Arts and Culture   Poetry
'who will kiss away / all the men / who marred my lips?'

Wayfarer

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

A Little Bit of Change

By Antoine Rufus on April 2, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"Today we have the chance to create tomorrow."

Rats’ Teeth

By Jaz Colibri on April 2, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
"how many times / can a city take / the last things / an old black man has / on this earth?"

Echolocation

By Jaz Colibri on November 29, 2023
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Poetry by Wood Street Community member and houseless trans organizer Jaz Colibri

Gentrification Blues

By George Wynn on December 6, 2022
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A poem by By George Wynn.
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