Family History: Cenizas by Cynthia Guardado
A book review on Inglewood native Cynthia Guardado’s recent poetry collection “Cenizas.” Continue reading Family History: Cenizas by Cynthia Guardado
Tag: Poets
Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2022
It’s Los Angeles Literature’s 7th Annual Los Ángeles Writers Publish list. This is an exhaustive a list as I could make of all the local writers who have published in 2022. It’s long. Short pieces in magazines, news papers, journals. Books publications as well. If I missed anyone or missed someone’s publication I sincerely apologize. Congratulations to all the hardworking writers in the Los Angeles literary community. Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2022
Trumpets in the Sky by Jerry Garcia
“Trumpets in the Sky” is poet Jerry Garcia’s latest poetry collection. “[H]e is able to focus on the magic of the world in the way that Kerouac, Snider, or Whitman were so often able to do.” Continue reading Trumpets in the Sky by Jerry Garcia
A Decade After Her Death, This Bawdy Latina Lesbian Rebel Poet is Overdue For Recognition
tatiana de la tierra, who died in Long Beach in 2012, “Wrote fierce, bawdy, politically outspoken literature,” but “never broke into the literary mainstream anywhere.” Continue reading A Decade After Her Death, This Bawdy Latina Lesbian Rebel Poet is Overdue For Recognition
Building Community Through Workshops and Writing
“I find myself helping writers improve their metaphors, identify their narrative arc, and helping them organize their manuscript.” Continue reading Building Community Through Workshops and Writing
Switching Codes with Luivette Resto
“The 56 poems in her new collection deal with her everyday life as a mother, teacher, lover, daughter and dreamer. Humor, candor, love and loss are equally represented. Her three children aka her revolutionaries all make several appearances throughout the poems.” Continue reading Switching Codes with Luivette Resto
Words Are Free, But Poets Are Cashing In
“There is a poetry renaissance,” said Hiram Sims, the executive director at Community Literature Initiative (CLI) a nonprofit organization that offers courses on writing. Continue reading Words Are Free, But Poets Are Cashing In
News Around the Community
News from around the Los Angeles literary community. Its poets and writers are always busy. Continue reading News Around the Community
There Is A New Reading Series in Town
“Trenches Full of Poets” is a new monthly poetry reading series at Page Against the Machine in Long Beach, co-hosted by Nikolai Garcia and Mauricio Moreno. Continue reading There Is A New Reading Series in Town
Pamela Shea Passes the Laurels to ST 10th Poet Laureate Alice Pero on April 9, 2022
“Alice Pero will be inducted as Sunland-Tujunga’s new Poet Laureate,” a program established in 1999 “to honor the legacy of John Steven McGroarty who served as California State poet laureate form 1933-44.” Continue reading Pamela Shea Passes the Laurels to ST 10th Poet Laureate Alice Pero on April 9, 2022
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