By Brian Dunlap
The first annual Sims Library of Poetry Bookfair took place on November 20. Authors and presses set up shop in the library’s courtyard selling books, selling poetry, making connections and building community. Promoting the most important aspects of literature: what makes us human; telling our own truths, our own narratives; bluntly speaking truth to power.
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Interview with budding local poet and Community Literature Initiative student, Tim Mackey. Continue reading Interview with Tim Mackey
Writer Victoria Chang writes about grief and loss in her new book “Dear Memory.” Continue reading Victoria Chang’s Correspondence with Grief
FROM: La Bloga
Alejandro Morales debut collection, Zapote Tree, includes 34 poems reflecting upon childhood, family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, historical figures, mythical beings, metaphysical entities, serpents, ghosts, heroes, villains, and the dispossessed. Weighty topics, like autocracy, racial injustice, and artificial intelligence, mix with good-humored, witty portraits of his wine-drinking dog, overachievers, and slacker repairmen. Zapote Tree‘s pathos and gritty depictions of social outcasts are balanced by Morales’ joyful celebrations of loyalty, love, and resilience.
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By Kathryn Barnes
FROM: Greater L.A.
Lynne Thompson is LA’s 2021 poet laureate. The program is a partnership between the Department of Cultural Affairs and the LA Public Library that aims to enhance the city’s appreciation of the literary arts and reach people who have limited exposure to creative writing.
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A book review on Alexis Rhone Fancher’s new book of poetry “Erotic.” “Rhone Fancher’s first-person evocations of sexual love are landscapes of intensity and danger, located with laser-point specificity in a Los Angeles…” Continue reading Subterranean Lovesick Clues: Alexis Rhone Fancher’s Poetic Topography of Sex
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
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