“Those to Whom Interesting Things Happen”: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, Lew Welch, and Joanne Kyger, and the Genome of San Francisco Renaissance Poetry

Alan Soldofsky is the author of the 2013 collection of poems, In the Buddha Factory. With David Koehn, he is coeditor of Compendium: A Collection of Thoughts About Prosody, by Donald Justice. He is working on an anthology of poets born outside the U.S. or who first or second generation descendants of immigrant families, titled From Somewhere Else: An Anthology of American Poetry of Diaspora, Migration, and Exile. He has also been doing research to compile and edit an anthology of the poetry of the Bay Area and Northern California titled, Through the Western Gate: The Poetry of the San Francisco Bay Region, 1849 – Present. His interview with Juan Felipe Herrera appears in the Summer 2018 issue of The MELUS Journal, accompanied by his article on Herrera’s work and career, “A Border Crosser’s Heteroglossia.” Soldofsky is a professor of English and comparative literature at San Jose State University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.