Rediscovered: Bancroft Library Talks Poet George Sterling 0 ▲ Up and Down These Mean Streets 2 hours ago · Writing · hide If you like Zoom seminars, on Thursday November 19 — noon to 1p.m. Pacific Time — Bancroft Library is hosting a discussion in re: Jack London’s best pal, poet George Sterling. Titled: Meet George Sterling The Famous Poet Nobody Remembers (but Bancroft) Sign in at the link, if interested. I’m happy to spread the word since I was a pioneer in modern Sterling Studies — also something few remember. But we got a new plaque put up on Russian Hill and on the side managed to get the park it is in named George Sterling Park. Among other things I put together a reading of poetry from the California Romantics — of which Sterling, his mentor Ambrose Bierce and his protege Clark Ashton Smith were mainstays. I notice with some amusement that Donald Sidney-Fryer’s current Wikipedia entry describes this reading as a play written by DSF, saying: “Sidney-Fryer wrote the group drama California Romantics, which was performed in 1982 in San Francisco by Sidney-Fryer, Fritz Leiber, Margo Skinner, G. Sutton… Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town
