James Toupin’s first book, Upon the Century Called American, was issued in November 2024 by Main Street Rag Publishing. It tells, from the author’s point of view, histories running from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire through the Covid pandemic. Of local Community interest, it includes a poem inspired by the drive from San Francisco to the 2010 Workshop (which remembers the author’s taking the same ride as a child) and another depicting Lake Tahoe in the drought of the 1980s that first ran in an anthology next to a poem by Robert Hass. More info here.
