On March 4th, the 7th Annual Boca de Oro Festival returned to Downtown Santa Ana, celebrating visual, performing, and literary arts and culture. Local poets read and high school students performed. Continue reading The 7th Annual Boca de Oro Festival
“I want people to see that violence creates more violence. I grew up being frisked…I saw trauma inside and outside of my home and was told that wasn’t trauma.” Continue reading A Quick interview with Gina Duran
Interviewed by Taylor N. Schaefer
FROM: The Shore
TNS: In your poem “S.O.S With Warble and Cell Tower,” you utilize large shifts in tone and rhetorical position— from call for help to call to action— from dream imagery to concrete reality. How did you come to these craft choices in the poem?
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By Gabriel San Román
FROM: Los Angeles Times OC
Above the din of cumbias and a nearby vegan food fest, Dr. Natalie J. Graham’s poetic cadence soothed the crowd that gathered last month in downtown Santa Ana to hear her read. Seated in front of LibroMobile’s garage entrance, she began with works of other poets before turning to poems of her own.
Continue reading “Orange County’s First-Ever Pair of Poet Laureates Make Their Debut”
By Brian Dunlap
There is a new open mic in El Sereno. It’s on Wednesdays at 7:30pm at MOBAR, located on Huntington Drive South. This past Wednesday was the first edition.
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FROM: Brooklyn Poets
Chiwan Choi is a poet, writer, publisher and lifelong seer of ghosts. He is the author of four full-length books of poetry: The Flood (Tia Chucha Press, 2010) and the Daughter Trilogy, three books that explore his lost daughter as ghost: Abductions (Writ Large Press, 2012), The Yellow House (CCM, 2017) and the forthcoming my name is wolf (summer 2021).
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Los Angeles Literature 