“Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo will be one of the featured authors at the Los Angeles Libros Festival, a free bilingual book festival for the whole family,” on September 23rd at the Central Library. Check out her interview. Continue reading L.A. Libros Fest: Interview With Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Luivette Resto discusses her recently released third book of poetry “Living on Islands Not Found on Maps,” that “traces Resto’s Puerto-Rican roots to her upbringing in The Bronx.” Continue reading Luivette Resto Releases Her New Third Book of Poetry
An interview between two veteran L.Á. mystery writers Naomi Hirahara and Gary Phillips. In Phillips new novel “One Shot Harry” he strives to keep L.Á. history at the forefront of the story. Continue reading Naomi Hirahara talks to LA crime writer Gary Phillips about the lost landmarks of Los Angeles
“[Mike Davis] equally hailed and hated for decrying the dark side of the region’s eternal boosterism — has battled cancer for the past five years.” Continue reading Column: Mike Davis Has Terminal Cancer. But His Big Worry is What is Happening to Our World
Two novelists discuss writing empowered women and against colonial expectations.
By: Madhushree Ghosh
FROM: Bomb
The women writers of color are producing spectacular work lately, almost as if the world—pandemic included—cannot control us anymore. Earlier this year, R. O. Kwon published the much anticipated list of 2022 women writers of color showing just how many of us are writing—and still writing. As I work toward the release of my own memoir, I am mesmerized by the brilliance of their work, but mostly, amazed at the camaraderie, support, and mutual cheering-on that’s pure, sincere, and exciting. The Lee and Low Diversity survey from 2019 notes that in America, only seven percent of published writers are South Asian, Asian or Native Hawaiian, and only five percent are Black, Afro-American, or Caribbean. Over seventy-five percent of published authors are white. That’s why we need to celebrate these two women of color whose journeys are so spectacular and most definitely worth our attention.
Continue reading “We Write Because We Must: Natashia Deon and Namrata Poddar Interviewed by Madhushree Ghosh”
FROM: Blog Talk Radio
This week’s episode of Poetrunner features Carolina Rivera Escamilla—Educator, writer, actor, and documentarian—Born in El Salvador. Exiled in Canada in the mid 1980s. Organize events as a cultural promoter in Los Angeles since the 1990s. Has been published in Analecta Literary Arts Journal, Texas Austin University, Hostos Review CUNY University, Pen America/ Strange Cargo Anthology. Collateral Damage: Women Who Write About War Anthology, University of Virginia Press, as well as in the Migrant Anthology, Somewhere We Are Humans By HarperCollins press. The Broad Museum, among others. Her book of short stories, entitled …after… was published in 2015.World Stage Press.
Continue reading “Carolina Rivera Escamilla on Poetrunner”
By Jonah Meyer
FROM: Mud Season Review
An Interview with Christian Hanz Lozada.
Continue reading “On How People – Like Fish – Absorb Their Surroundings Through Skin”“It’s like the dude on the dance floor whose arms are flailing to their own beat. Yeah, we’re looking, but not because they’re cool – it’s because we don’t want to get randomly smacked.”
Christian Hanz Lozada
By News Desk
FROM: WEHO Times
Mike Sonksen is our fifth poet profile who is featured at The West Hollywood Gateway, for Poetry Month 2022. Located at 7100 Santa Monica Boulevard, The Gateway continues to support poets each year on the main digital billboard at the courtyard.
Continue reading “Meet Mike Sonksen: Also Known as Mike The Poet”
FROM: Shoutout LA
We had the good fortune of connecting with Poet Astrid and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Continue reading “Meet Poet Astrid | Author, Poet, & Writer”
FROM: Shoutout LA
We had the good fortune of connecting with Luivette Resto and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Continue reading “Meet Luivette Resto | Mother, Poet, Educator”
Los Angeles Literature 