An interview with lawyer, activist and author, Natashia Deón, on her new novel “The Perishing,” set in 1930s Los Ángeles. Continue reading “The Perishing:”An Interview Between Natashia Deon and Meghana Mysore
Interview with budding local poet and Community Literature Initiative student, Tim Mackey. Continue reading Interview with Tim Mackey
Carribean Fragoza’s domestic surrealist stories in Eat the Mouth That Feeds You are about Chicanas navigating the grotesque and the mundane
By Leticia Urieta
FROM: Electric Literature
Speculative, surreal stories can be doorways to imagine both what is possible and the effects of trauma and change on the most vulnerable people. Speculative storytelling is expansive, incorporating horror, science fiction, and surrealism to help readers tackle what we are most unwilling to see, highlighting how systemic oppression can break open and create new realities.
Continue reading “The Body Horror of Being a Woman”
Hosted by Tim. Z. Hernandez FROM: KTEP—El Paso, Texas
In this episode of Words on a Wire host, Tim Z. Hernandez interviews poet David A. Romero.
Continue reading “Words On A Wire—David Romero”
FROM: LAPL.org
The Poems on Air Podcast is a weekly reading of poetry by Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson.
Continue reading “Episode 31: Brian Sonia-Wallace”
By Rachel Martin and Reena Advani
FROM: Morning Edition
In her new book, Chinese American poet Victoria Chang writes, “Shame never has a loud clang. The worst part of shame is how silent it is.”
Continue reading “‘Dear Memory’ digs into the shame accompanying immigrant silence”
An interview with L.Á. poet and memoirist and author of the newly released poetry collection “Uprising/Alzamiento” (Finishing Line Press, 2021). Continue reading Interview: The Heart of Lisbeth Coiman
FROM: Pen.org
The PEN Ten is PEN America’s weekly interview series. This week, PEN America Los Ángeles speaks with Steven Reigns, author of A Quilt for David (City Lights Publishers, 2021).
Continue reading “The Pen Ten: An Interview With Steven Reigns”
FROM: La Bloga
Alejandro Morales debut collection, Zapote Tree, includes 34 poems reflecting upon childhood, family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, historical figures, mythical beings, metaphysical entities, serpents, ghosts, heroes, villains, and the dispossessed. Weighty topics, like autocracy, racial injustice, and artificial intelligence, mix with good-humored, witty portraits of his wine-drinking dog, overachievers, and slacker repairmen. Zapote Tree‘s pathos and gritty depictions of social outcasts are balanced by Morales’ joyful celebrations of loyalty, love, and resilience.
Continue reading “Zapote Tree By Alejandro Morales”
By Christopher Soto
FROM: LARB
TONGVA PEOPLE HAVE LIVED in the Los Angeles Basin since time immemorial. As someone raised in the outskirts of Los Angeles, I knew very little about Tongva history or culture until my mid-20s, even though I had to study California history in the public schools here. The first Tongva person whose name I learned was Toypurina. I read about her online, while browsing articles about settler colonialism and histories of Indigenous resistance in Southern California. Since then, I have come to recognize her face in murals and on a poster inside one of my favorite venues — the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice. Toypurina was born in 1760 and is best known for leading a rebellion against colonization by Spanish missionaries.
Continue reading “Tongva Writers Today: The Past, Present, and Future are Unfolding Simultaneously”
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