Archive - oakland garden club

Living rivers, poetry, urban space, clouds of flies, and flocks of butterflies

A to-go bag for your early summer

Jun 3 •

Alexis Madrigal

May 2025

The literary underground is teeming with life right now

Come support the brilliant Transit Books this Saturday in Oakland with me

May 22 •

Alexis Madrigal

March 2025

Come chat about The Pacific Circuit, writing, books, seeing the real world

A space for us to connect

Mar 18 •

Alexis Madrigal

The Narrows of the Book

On the compression of a project and its re-expansion IRL (also contained herein: my March book tour dates)

Mar 12 •

Alexis Madrigal

February 2025

Notes on My Book, The Pacific Circuit, in the Present Moment

an intricate tableau of the city of Oakland that is at once a groundbreaking big-idea book, a deeply researched work of social and political history…

Feb 26 •

Alexis Madrigal

January 2025

A life project, a simple conversation

"every person on this earth is a monstrously huge landscape, and yet, we can drop into any of it with a simple incantation, the right string of words…

Jan 2 •

Alexis Madrigal

November 2024

The Overlooked Lesson of The Parable of the Sower

On the power of the big dream in Octavia Butler's prescient novel

Nov 16, 2024 •

Alexis Madrigal

October 2024

On Annie's Annuals Closing

And what it's like to lose a place you love

Oct 4, 2024 •

Alexis Madrigal

September 2024

A mulberry leaf

Come look at this with me

Sep 2, 2024 •

Alexis Madrigal

August 2024

Soviet Pomegranates

and the rest of the 20th century

Aug 10, 2024 •

Alexis Madrigal

May 2024

maybe you can steward an Iranian okra

"You’re not gardening to say 'Look at my beautiful garden.' You are gardening because you have this relationship with this plant. We’re carrying each…

May 23, 2024 •

Alexis Madrigal

let yourself be haunted

my commencement address for UC Berkeley's Geography department

May 15, 2024 •

Alexis Madrigal

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