By Rich Archbold
FROM: Long Beach Press-Telegram
Gerald Locklin, a legendary local teacher, writer and poet who helped shape the literary landscape of Southern California for decades and was friends with the better-known Charles Bukowski, died from coronavirus-related complications Sunday, Jan. 17, said his son, Zachary Locklin. He was 79.
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By Peter Larsen
FROM: Orange County Register
While considering a name for the new literary journal “Air/Light,” editor David Ulin recalled a magazine piece he’d read years ago in which a climatologist described the unusual way that air transforms light in Southern California.
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On June 23, author Carmen Maria Machado announced she had canceled her virtual event with Tattered Cover, Denver’s oldest independent bookstore. “Unlike the owners,” she wrote, “I know that choosing neutrality in matters of oppression only reinforces structural violence.”
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What new L.Á. crime fiction will the Coronavirus Outbreak lead to? Continue reading Will The Coronavirus Outbreak Lead to New L.A. Crime Fiction? The Jury Is Out
By Brian Dunlap
The other day, LitFest Pasadena posted the fillowing press release on its Facebook page. If there is more information regarding this year’s LitFest, I’ll post it on Los Angeles Literature.
By Brian Dunlap
The latest release from local L.A. press Los Nietos is Long Beach poet Thomas R. Thomas’ collection Star Chasing. The collection explores the themes of childhood, marriage, death and the gods of America that Donna Hilbert blurbs “chronicles [life] in tract-house Southern California.” These poems, as author Scott Noon Creley notes, are written with “minimalist lines.”
Accomplished local poet, teacher and mentor, Holly Prado, passed away on June 14th in West Hills. Her impact on the community, contributing to workshops, readings, and literary salons, along with her deeply introspective, mystical, and often spiritual poetry, will be remembered. Continue reading Passing of A Los Ángeles Poet Holly Prado
By Alexandra Umlas
FROM: Cultural Weekly
Arminé Iknadossian’s mother would gather olives from the trees that grew just outside of her daughter’s high school; she couldn’t imagine all of that wonderful fruit going to waste. Iknadossian has not written a poem for this image she remembers all of these years later, but perhaps all of the poems in her first collection of poetry are, in a way, an homage to her mother’s incessant olive gathering.
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“No one knows what terror or delights the next dreamscape will offer, and part of the charm of de la O’s poems is their utter unpredictability.” Continue reading Book Review: Antidote For Night by Marsha De La O
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