Yago Cura reviews the punk poetics of poet and Razorcake magazine Managing Editor Daryl Gussin in his chapbook “The $22 Cheesecake and More.” Continue reading Daryl Gussin’s Punk Poetry in The $22 Cheesecake and More
Carolos Ornelas reviews “Scribble Scrabbles” by Boyle Heights native and poet Sandy Shakes and discusses how he can personally relate to her verse. Continue reading More Than a Chapbook: Poet Carlos Ornelas on Scribble Scrabbles by Sandy Shakes
Desiree Kannel’s book review on “The Aves” by South Central native and Loyola Marymount teacher Ryane Nicole Granados. Granados brings to life the vibrant culture and deep love she holds for the South Central neighborhood that shaped her. Continue reading Infusing Her Los Ángeles Roots in The Aves, by Ryane Nicole Granados
In Los Angeles Literature’s newest book review, burgeoning Southeast L.Á. writer, Gabriel Lopez, reviews the 2nd edition of “Letters to My City” by MIke Sonksen. “While this collection deepens a person’s knowledge of Los Ángeles history, more importantly it profoundly shifts their understanding and relationship to Local Time and Space..” Continue reading I Am Alive in Los Angeles – Identity and Local Time & Space in Mike Sonksen’s Letters to My City: 2nd Edition
Editor-in-Chief Brian Dunlap’s unpublished book review on Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s debut poetry collection “Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge,” originally written in 2017. “In poems of her family living in Boyle Heights and her Chavez Ravine poems, Bermejo brings this true Chicanx L.Á.—away from the overused tropes of a lack of history, of being without, of L.Á. is Hollywood—to the fore.” Continue reading Posada: Finding Home
Poet K.R. Morrison wrote this book review on Linda Ravenswood’s poetry collection Cantadora – Letters From California. “Linda Ravenswood unravels her personal country through an occupied and often cruel nation, offering fresh windows into mixed heritage, migration, otherness, and gender relations.” Continue reading Linda Ravenswood’s Cantadora: A Healer Song to Sing
A book review on Inglewood native Cynthia Guardado’s recent poetry collection “Cenizas.” Continue reading Family History: Cenizas by Cynthia Guardado
“‘To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness’ assembles a hundred and seventy-nine photographs,” from Robin Coste Lewis’s grandmother’s photo collection of family and “of worlds that had vanished.” Continue reading Robin Coste Lewis’s Family Album
“Trumpets in the Sky” is poet Jerry Garcia’s latest poetry collection. “[H]e is able to focus on the magic of the world in the way that Kerouac, Snider, or Whitman were so often able to do.” Continue reading Trumpets in the Sky by Jerry Garcia
“South Central Noir” focuses on one of Los Angeles’s most recognized neighborhoods. As Gary Phillips says in the introduction “The settings herein reflect South Central today or chronicle its colorful past, such as the days of the jazz joints along Central Avenue…From South Park to East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, from the borderlands of Watts to the one-time Southern Pacific railroad tracks paralleling Slauson Avenue, take a tour of a section of Los Angeles that may be unfamiliar to you but you will get to know, at least a little, by the time you finish reading this entertaining and engaging anthology.” Continue reading The Naked City
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