“Members of the Los Angeles Glass Table Collective consider the topic ‘late-stage writing’ in the essay collection ‘What Falls Away is Always: Writers Over 60 on Writing & Death.'” Continue reading What Falls Away is Always, Ed. Katharine Haake and Gail Wronksy
A new volume of quintessential L.Á. poet Wanda Coleman’s poetry, “Wicked Enchantment” and eidted by poet Terrance Hayes, has brought the Watts born poet into the spotlight. Continue reading Literary History: The Fearless Invention of One of L.A.’s Greatest Poets
By Steve Salvidar
FROM: Los Angeles Times
Author and former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis J. Rodriguez says he’s been visiting California’s prisons for more than 40 years since leaving his own gang youth behind and losing 25 friends to drugs and street violence.
Continue reading “Luis J. Rodriguez On Changing Lives Through Poetry”
“Slouching Towards Los Angeles” is a collection about Joan Didion’s claim on California and its writers. 20 of the books 25 contributors are women. Continue reading Review: Writing in Didion’s Honor — And Her Shadow
By Patrick J. Kiger
FROM: L.A. Times
Most mornings, poet, memoirist and essayist Luis J. Rodriguez gets up around 5 a.m. at his San Fernando Valley home, reads for a few minutes for inspiration and then quickly goes to his computer to start writing. “I read, and then it’s, hey, man, I’ve got to do something!” he says. “If I can get a couple of hours in the morning, then I’m happy.”
Continue reading “Why Luis J. Rodriguez is Perpetually on the Run”
Distinguished Mexican American writer, Luis J. Rodriguez, meditates on the place of Xicanx culture in what he sees as a sick and increasingly fragmented global society. Continue reading FROM OUR LAND TO OUR LAND
by Grace Singh Smith
From: SMC In Focus
This year—fall 2018—marks the 30th anniversary of Santa Monica Review (SMR). The national literary arts journal published by Santa Monica College (SMC) showcases the work of established authors alongside emerging writers, with a focus on West Coast fiction and nonfiction; it happens to be the only nationally-distributed literary journal at a community college.
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As 2017 comes to a close, a lot of local writers have published in literary journals and magazines. They even published plenty of books. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, mystery novels, literary noveles, poetry of place, among others, It was definitely a year of publishing success in the Los Ángeles literary community. Here is what and where they published. Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2017
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