Jordan Karnes is a writer, reporter, poet, and teacher who chairs the creative writing department at Oakland School for the Arts, and was an Audio Academy Fellow at KALW.
They’re the author of It Hasn’t Stopped Being California Here and More Silver Than Gold.
They also run an April poetry mailer: Congratulations, It’s April.
Audio
Reflecting on 30 years of the WNBA → KALW
Women, non-binary players tackle America’s game → KALW
What does it take for a queer bar to survive in the Bay Area? → KALW
Meet Cal football’s most unlikely fandom → KALW
Why is it harder for women’s sports leagues to reach new fans? → KALW
Question of the Bay: What do women’s sports mean to you? → KALW
Oakland celebrates the return of Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu → KALW
Oakland’s beloved queer bar Friends and Family closing → KALW
Thousands of California immigrants lose their trucking licenses → KALW
Strike begins today for San Francisco Superior Court clerks → KALW
Compton Cafeteria approved to initiate landmark designation → KALW
Governor Newsom deploys National Guard to support food banks → KALW
SF community groups and labor unions announce boycott of Airbnb → KALW
Oakland unveils e-bike lending program → KALW
Optimism → The Cut podcast with Avery Trufelman (contributor)
Essays
Imagining the Unimaginable: Optimism, Cheer, and the Fight for Black Lives → The Believer
Distancing #51: Emergency Ward → The Believer
Unrequited Rivals → New Life Quarterly
Breaking Down a Body: Mythology, Sex-testing, & Bad Design → New Life Quarterly
Living in Your Own Private Nowhere Place → New Life Quarterly
Opposing Energies → New Life Quarterly
The Ficus Among Us: The Life & Death of San Francisco’s Street Trees → Place Talks @ The Prelinger Library
Poetry
Tunitas → The Portable Boog Reader Pt II: An Anthology of New York & San Francisco Poetry
Appellation → Eleven Eleven Journal, Issue 19
Indian Summer → Explosion Proof, Issue 3
2nd Arrondissement → Transmission Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1
18th Arrondissement → Transmission Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1