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New Writers Retreat: The Joshua Tree Experiential Arts and Writing Retreat

Los Angeles poet Ariel Fintushel has founded the The Joshua Tree Experiential ARTS and WRITING Retreat. It kicks off this year. Get out of LA for a 3-day arts and writing retreat featuring bonfire readings by desert dwellers Ruth Nolan and L.I. Henley. Curated workshops like Altered States and Psycho-Spiritual Legacies of the Desert and High Noon Ceremony lead participants through the natural landscape to … Continue reading New Writers Retreat: The Joshua Tree Experiential Arts and Writing Retreat

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FIERCE AS FUCK THE FUTURE OF POETRY IS BROWN & QUEER

THE FUTURE OF POETRY IS BROWN & QUEER

by Soraya Membreno

From: bitch media

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Despite what National Hispanic Heritage Month would have you think, Latinx writers exist year-round! And despite what headlines like “Poetry is going extinct, government data show,” predict, this is a moment of poetic renaissance and poets of color are paving the way.

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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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H&S Faculty Rocío Carlos: Poet, Teacher, Camp Counselor

by Anna Macaulay

From: ArtCenter College of Design

 

CarlosThis Summer, poet, girls’ rock band camp counselor and Humanities and Sciences faculty member Rocío Carlos participated in a panel, Poetry as Witness, at the Allied Media Conferencein Detroit. We caught up with Carlos shortly after her trip to find out a little more about her role at ArtCenter, her work as a poet and teacher, and her experience presenting at the conference.

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Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2016

As 2016 comes to a close, local writers have found publishing success. Some have published in journals and magazines, others publshed books and even others published both short pieces along with books. There is a richness in the diversity of their narratives. Congratulations to all the hardworking writers in the Los Angeles literary community. Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2016

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