The fourth installment of Los Angeles Literature’s interview series “The Influencers: Writers Talk About Who Shaped Their Work” features Venezuelan American poet and writer, Lisbeth Coiman. Learn how her Venezuelan upbring and education and the Greater Los Ángeles literary community has influenced her work. Continue reading The Influencers: Writers Talk About Who Shaped Their Work – Lisbeth Coiman
Editor-in-Chief Brian Dunlap’s unpublished book review on Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s debut poetry collection “Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge,” originally written in 2017.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
FROM: VoyageLA
Today we’d like to introduce you to Juan Cardenas.
Juan, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I was originally born in Leon, Guanajuato Mexico and raised in the City of Van Nuys in San Fernando Valley, California. My story is about migration, displacement and belonging. Crossing the Tj border for the second time at 10, and not feeling welcomed by family or city left tremendous scar in my heart. It was when I discovered expression through art and writing that I was able to heal and discover who I am, and I always had been a Chicano.
By Janet Kinosian
FROM: L.A. Times
Certain books give off the sense that you won’t want them to end, so splendid the writing, so lyrical the stories. Such is the case with Southern California novelist Susan Straight’s new memoir, “In the Country of Women.”
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