The fourth installment of our Spotlight poetry series, Stranger in Town is the second full-length collection by San Francisco poet Cedar Sigo. Reflecting queer identity while eschewing all clichés, Stranger in Town exudes an urban mysticism redolent of the SF Renaissance—particularly John Weiners—as it collages the fragmented experiences of contemporary culture.
Born in 1978 on the Suquamish Indian Reservation in Washington state, Cedar Sigo studied at Naropa under Anne Waldman and Lisa Jarnot. His first book, Selected Writings (2003), was reprinted in a revised edition in 2005. A writer on art, literature and film, Sigo recently blogged for SFMOMA's Open Space.

Stranger in Town (City Lights Spotlight, 4)

Literature & Fiction

Sigo, Cedar

Poetry

City Lights Publishers

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Selected Writings: Cedar Sigo

Ugly Duckling Presse

Poetry. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Finally! The second coming of Cedar Sigo's SELECTED WRITINGS in a new expanded edition bound to dig a bicoastal poetic aqueduct with heartland tricklers. Sigo's work is most aptly compared to plumbing without the pipes: water flows in elegant designs through invisible walls at a touch. Cedar Sigo is the author of Goodnight Nurse. His poems have appeared in The Poker, Yolanda Pipeline's Magazine, New York Nights, among other journals. Forthcoming is a book of collaborations, Deathrace V.S.O.P.

Selected Writings, 2nd Revised Edition

Language Arts

"Cedar Sigo is a Frank O'Hara for the twenty-first century: witty, erudite, serious, with a terrific ear and eye for the minutest details, at home in the world of the arts."—Ron Silliman
The gravitron, SEXODROME growing out of apollinaires grave Empty balcony seats, operatic little fills The poems of a Multi-billionaire, a vow of silence Fine and Mellow, all the things you are
Cedar Sigo is the author of eight books of poetry, including Stranger In Town (City Lights Publishers) and Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse). He lives in San Francisco, California.

Wave Books

Royals

"One finishes a poem feeling as though they have taken part in a singular event that can be returned and mined again and again without exhausting the kernel of mystery around which each poem swirls." —BOMB
Cedar Sigo's fourth collection restlessly enacts the pleasures of writing. With a mix of condensed, syllabic poems and longer serial pieces, and with many poems addressed to other poets, Sigo explores the romance of being a poet while also drawing on the color and symmetries of the visual arts of his Native American identity.
twin angels at the impasse stripping wire out from the earth 
bolts of thunder pealed from under the falls 
stones thrown (from very high) to form a ziggurat an hourglass I almost forgot to intone 
Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Royals, Language Arts, Stranger in Town, Expensive Magic, and two editions of Selected Writings.

Guard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry, Sigo plumbs the particulars of modern critique, identity politics, early influences, and poetic form to produce a singular 'autobiography of voice.' Across these lectures, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, while paying homage to revolutionary artists, teachers, and thinkers whom have shaped his poetic aesthetic. Simultaneously timeless and extremely timely, these talks ponder the presences that California Buddhism, LGBTQ+ experiences, and Native Nations occupy in the poetic world and the world at large.

Guard The Mysteries (Bagley Wright Lecture Series)

Essays & Correspondence

All This Time

About the Author\nCedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including LANGUAGE ARTS (Wave Books, 2014), STRANGER IN TOWN (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005) and most recently the Bagley Wright Lecture Series book GUARD THE MYSTERIES (Wave Books, 2021). He has taught workshops at St. Mary's College, Naropa University and University Press Books. He is currently a mentor in the low residency MFA program at The Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Lofall, Washington.\nThe newest collection from poet, editor, and Bagley Wright lecturer Cedar Sigo, ALL THIS TIME, pays homage to artistic influences that have shaped his poetic practices. Lyrical and haunted, these poems call attention to the experience of living as an embodiment of art, reminding the reader that poetry is like an open-air structure; it is open to all who are curious enough to welcome everything in. 
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The newest collection from poet, editor, and Bagley Wright lecturer Cedar Sigo,All This Time, pays homage to artistic influences that have shaped his poetic practices. Lyrical and haunted, these poems call attention to the experience of living as an embodiment of art, reminding the reader that poetry is like an open-air structure; it is open to all who are curious enough to welcome everything in.

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Stranger in Town (City Lights Spotlight, 4)

Selected Writings: Cedar Sigo

Selected Writings, 2nd Revised Edition

Language Arts

Language Arts

Royals

Royals

Guard The Mysteries (Bagley Wright Lecture Series)

All This Time

All This Time