Community News
Since the last community news in June, a lot has happened in the literary community. Avenue 50 Studio has had issues with its landlord, authors published books, poetry slams have occurred and more. Continue reading Community News
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Community News
Poets Lois P. Jones and Matt Sedillo and Los Angeles Zine Fest are just some of the writers and organizations that have been making news lately. Continue reading Community News
City on the Second Floor
“Many compare him to Amiri Baraka, Jose Montoya, and so many other fiery or political poets. To me, his work is a cross between Allen Ginsberg and Wanda Coleman.” Continue reading City on the Second Floor
Step Off: Mowing Leaves of Grass – The Matt Sedillo Episode
Listen to political poet Matt Sedillo talk about politics and his poetry, the origins of his poetry career and everything in-between. Continue reading Step Off: Mowing Leaves of Grass – The Matt Sedillo Episode
Book Release: My Name is Romero
By Brian Dunlap
It was a hot, August Sunday in Boyle Heights. Mid-afternoon, Ceaser Chavez was quieter than usual. It might’ve been due to the Delta variant raging across the county. It might’ve also been due because it was Sunday, the only slow day in L.Á. Still, some stores were open like Boyle Heights Amor, a small store front selling natural medicine.
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Poetry Today: Kathryn Smith and Matt Sedillo
By Ruben Quesada
FROM: Kenyon Review
Matt Sedillo is a Chicano poet, writer, creative director, and public intellectual. He is the current literary director of the dA Center for the Arts and author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (Flowersong Press, 2019). His forthcoming collection of poetry is City on the Second Floor.
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POETRY: Mowing Down Statues and Tipping Sacred Cows
In poet Matt Sedillo’s book “Mowing Leaves of Grass” he discusses lived experience, a Chicano growing up in the barrio, all while critiquing American society and history. Continue reading POETRY: Mowing Down Statues and Tipping Sacred Cows
Like Bullets For Fascists: Q+A with Political Poet Matt Sedillo
By Viva Padilla
FROM: Dryland
Chicano revolutionary poet Matt Sedillo met up with Viva Padilla (proper masks were worn) in El Sereno this past weekend to catch up and talk about his newest poetry collection Mowing Leaves of Grass (published by FlowerSong Press). During this interview they drove around the Eastside. They came upon a squeaky clean Black Lives Matter/Defund the Police protest in Pasadena, boarded up and tagged “R.I.P. George Floyd” storefronts in the belly of high gentrification in Highland Park, and the homeless encampment at the Veteran’s Monument in El Sereno–a proper backdrop for the political insight Sedillo delivers like a gun-slinger in his book where American institutions rooted in white supremacy are dragged out by the hair and left on the side of the road to rot.
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Two Interviews With Viva Padilla and Nikolai Garcia of Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central Los Angeles
Two interviews with two Los Ángeles poets, VIva Padilla—Órale Boyle Heights—and Nikolia Garcia—The Badass Bookworm Podcast. Continue reading Two Interviews With Viva Padilla and Nikolai Garcia of Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central Los Angeles
Venice Beachhead Interview with Poet Matt Sedillo
By Mike Bravo
FROM: Venice Beachhead
Matt, thanks for your time I know you’re a busy dude. I’ve never done one before but congratulations on being my first interview. I’ve known you for about 5 years now maybe. I feel I know you pretty well. How would you summarize yourself and your artistry for those that don’t know you?
For those that don’t know me I’m a poet, I write political poetry a political poet. I write a lot about the important and contentious issues that are facing us in this time and age. On top of that I’m a Chicano poet and very proud of being part of that lineage as well. I write a lot about the struggle of the Chicano peopl and the struggles of all working class people in general. I also write about topics surrounding the fact that we’re living on a planet that’s being destroyed by the very wealthy.
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