In just a few weeks the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books returns to the University of Southern California campus. Literary authors, mystery authors, middle grade authors, poets, celebrity authors and more, will feature. Check out the schedule. Continue reading Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Returns
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.
Continue reading “David Ulin Talks USC’s New Literary Journal ‘Air/Light’ And Its Focus On Southern California”FROM: Prism Review
Genevieve Kaplan: I met Michelle Brittan Rosado’s poems when she read from her just-released chapbook, Theory on Falling into a Reef (Anhinga Press, 2016), and I remember being so captivated by her work, which is precise, narrative, and moving as well as inventive and musical. Michelle’s poems tend to feel very located in our shared landscape of California, they make keen observations, and they speak to directly readers. When her full-length book, Why Can’t It Be Tenderness, was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil for the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and published by University of Wisconsin Press, of course I wanted to talk with her more about it! Happily, Michelle, the PR poetry judge this year, agreed to offer insights into her poetic process and attentions. Read on:
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