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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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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.

Home that Passes through the River 

By Boudia Crow Lafleur on June 17, 2024
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A poem on queerness and finding home.

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
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