Publication News: Cynthia Guardado
Poet and Professor Cynthia Guardado announces acceptance of latest poetry collection. Continue reading Publication News: Cynthia Guardado
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Mark Lipman to Release Latest Book. It’s About Culver City.
Mark Lipman’s latest book, “Dear Culver City,” is about the challenges facing a modern day Mayberry, like Culver City. Continue reading Mark Lipman to Release Latest Book. It’s About Culver City.
Poet Laureate of West Hollywood Brian Sonia-Wallace, Receives Award From Academy of American Poets
By Brian Dunlap
Last week the American Academy of Poets announced its 2021 Poet Laureate Fellows, including West Hollywood Poet Laureate, Brian Sonia-Wallace. Sonia-Wallace, along with 22 other individual awardees “serve as Poets Laureate of states and cities across the U. S. and will be leading public poetry programs in their respective communities in the year ahead,” the Academy said in a press release. The Fellows will each receive $50,000 (or $25,000 each in the case of the shared Poet Laureate position in Montana) for a combined total of $1.1 million. In addition, the Academy will provide $100,000+ total to 14 local 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations that have agreed to support the Fellows’ proposed projects.
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Re-finding My Love for Poetry Through the Sims Library
By Mimi Lam
FROM: Cultural Weekly
When I first volunteered for the Sims Library of Poetry, I did not expect a physical manifestation of myself–unfinished, still growing, pursuing a dream. Like the library, I was in the process of transformation.
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Seeking L.Á. Stories for Vol. 4 of the Made in L.A. Fiction Anthology Series
By Brian Dunlap
Made in L.A. Writers was founded as an indie author co-op of L.Á. based indie writers dedicated to the support of independent writers. Their styles, themes and story locals differ, but their work is strongly influenced by their hometown and underpinned by the diverse culture and life of L.Á.
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Former Governor of CA’s Granddaughter Writes Memoir of Riches to Rags
By Camylle Fleming
Author Heather Haldeman’s debut memoir Kids & Cocktails Don’t Mix (Apprentice House Press, June 2021) explores machinations of gender and power dynamics in the 1960s and ’70s as Heather comes of age and must decide how she wants her own life to look.
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Announcing the Beyond Baroque Poetry Coalition Fellowship Position!
FROM: Beyond Baroque
The #PoetryCoalition is pleased to announce the 2021–2022 Poetry Coalition Fellowships, which are paid fellowship positions hosted by founding members Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Beyond Baroque, In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets), Lambda Literary, and Zoeglossia. The fellowship program is made possible by the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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An L.Á. Writer and Racial Solidarity
By Brian Dunlap
Last month Maylin Tu posted on Facebook about the pitch she submitted to ROCK PAPER RADIO’s Asian and Black solidarity project, #AZNxBLM. This project is a call for “solidarity and creative awareness-building” as it says on their website, in light of the surge of Anti-Asian violence, and “[sought] to fund a collection of original art and writing that responds to the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes with determination and humanity.”
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L.Á. Poet and Teacher Nurtures Young Artists
By Brian Dunlap
L.Á. native, high school English teacher and poet Alex Hohmann is passionate about her students. She’s always looking for ways to turn them into natural critical thinkers, citizens who evaluate and sort through the barrage of info society overwhelms them with, to understand the topic or issues at hand, to make informed decisions. To be able to understand themselves better.
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A Decade of Women Who Submit
By Thea Prieto
FROM: Poets & Writers
For the past decade an international community of women and nonbinary writers have been working to claim space for themselves in an industry historically dominated by men. Known as Women Who Submit (WWS), the group supports and empowers its members to submit their work in spite of publishing’s inequities. Their achievements have been extraordinary: This July, the organization celebrates its tenth year, with twenty-seven chapters across the United States and Mexico, more than one hundred fifty successful book and magazine publication credits by its members in 2020, and a devoted community of writers, editors, and publishers.
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