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‘The Poet Laureate of The Struggle: Why Matt Sedillo is Considered One of the Best Political Poets in America

by Astrid
From: L.A. Taco

matt-sedillo-poetMatt Sedillo is a Chicano poet, writer, creative director, and public intellectual called “the poet laureate of the struggle” by Dr. Paul Ortiz and “the best political poet in America” by investigative journalist Greg Palast. He has been featured in over 80 colleges and universities and various media outlets including All Def Digital, Los Angeles Times, and C-SPAN.

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Voices of the City: Robin Coste Lewis’ Fierce and Arresting Poetry has its Roots in Compton

By Jeffrey Fleishman
From: Los Angeles Times
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The white fence is new but the tree she planted as a child still stands in front of the wood house, now stucco, pale yellow and cracked, forgotten Christmas lights hanging from its eaves. She laughs.

Time sucks her back, the way it does, and she talks about backyard camping, cockfights and how men dressed up in suits after dinner and strolled through Compton until way after dark, imagining what they might have become if they were another color. Not black.

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“There’s a Nazi in the White House”- Chiwan Choi

An interview with one of America’s greatest living poets, Chiwan Choi.

By By Ed Lin

From: Giant Robot Media

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Chiwan Choi is a one of our country’s greatest living poets.

I’m not saying this lightly. His work has an immediacy of a cereal jingle and also the permanence of haunted childhood memories.

Don’t take my word for it. The New York Times recently featured a poem from Choi’s third book, The Yellow House (2017, Civil Coping Mechanisms). His other books include Abductions (2012, Writ Large Press) and The Flood (2010, Tia Chuca Press).

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