The Literary and Arts space founded and run by Viva Padila, Re/Arte, is looking to reopen after a two-month hiatus and is asking for the community’s help. Continue reading Re-opening of Re/Arte Centro Literario in Boyle Heights
By Brian Dunlap
Saturday in Boyle Heights. Cesar Chavez Ave. The grand opening for South Central poet and Dryland founder Viva Padilla’s literary arts venue Re/Arte.
Continue reading “Grand Opening of New L.Á. Literary Space”
Texas based FlowerSong Press is quietly building an impressive list of local writers and other book news from Poet Astrid and others. Continue reading News From the L.Á. Literary Community
By Brian Dunlap
It’s been five years since “Dryland: A Literary Journal Born in South Central Los Angeles,” published its first issue. Since Founding Editor-in-Chief, Viva Padilla, set out to publish “the best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of the Los Angeles literary underground, and to prioritizing Black and POC artists, writers, and poets,” as it states on the journal’s website.
Continue reading “Dryland Expands Its Mission”By Viva Padilla
FROM: Dryland
Chicano revolutionary poet Matt Sedillo met up with Viva Padilla (proper masks were worn) in El Sereno this past weekend to catch up and talk about his newest poetry collection Mowing Leaves of Grass (published by FlowerSong Press). During this interview they drove around the Eastside. They came upon a squeaky clean Black Lives Matter/Defund the Police protest in Pasadena, boarded up and tagged “R.I.P. George Floyd” storefronts in the belly of high gentrification in Highland Park, and the homeless encampment at the Veteran’s Monument in El Sereno–a proper backdrop for the political insight Sedillo delivers like a gun-slinger in his book where American institutions rooted in white supremacy are dragged out by the hair and left on the side of the road to rot.
Continue reading “Like Bullets For Fascists: Q+A with Political Poet Matt Sedillo”
Two interviews with two Los Ángeles poets, VIva Padilla—Órale Boyle Heights—and Nikolia Garcia—The Badass Bookworm Podcast. Continue reading Two Interviews With Viva Padilla and Nikolai Garcia of Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central Los Angeles
By Frank Shyong
FROM: L.A. TimesL.A. Times
It’s hard for poet Daniel Morales Leon, 38, who works as a cook at a coffee shop in the Arts District, to think of himself as an artist with a capital A.
Local poet and South Central native, Nikolai Garcia, recently released his first collection of poetry, the chapbook “Nuclear Shadoews of Palm Trees.” The release party was held at Book Show in Highland Park. Continue reading South Central L.A. Poet, Nikolai Garcia, Releases His Debut Chapbook
By Brian Dunlap
This summer two local literary journals—Pomona Valley Review and Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central L.A.—released their latest issues.
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