Last week, the Greater Los Ángeles literary community lost John Brantingham, a talented writer, passionate teacher, and friend who consistently showed up for others. Journalist and professor Toni Albertson reflects on the man and his work that touched her life. Continue reading John Brantingham, Writer, Poet, Professor, and One of the Best Things that Ever Walked into Our Newsroom
As a science fiction writer, Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. On the eve of a major revival of her work, this is the story of how she came to see a future that is now our present. Continue reading The visions of Octavia Butler
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
Last week, Los Ángeles chronicler and Marxis Professor MIke Davis, passed at the age of 76. He’s most famous for his book on the social history of Los Ángeles “CIty of Quartz.” Continue reading D.J. Waldie, a Onetime Critic of Mike Davis, Praises His Immense Influence
“[Mike Davis] equally hailed and hated for decrying the dark side of the region’s eternal boosterism — has battled cancer for the past five years.” Continue reading Column: Mike Davis Has Terminal Cancer. But His Big Worry is What is Happening to Our World
FROM: Blog Talk Radio
This week’s episode of Poetrunner features Carolina Rivera Escamilla—Educator, writer, actor, and documentarian—Born in El Salvador. Exiled in Canada in the mid 1980s. Organize events as a cultural promoter in Los Angeles since the 1990s. Has been published in Analecta Literary Arts Journal, Texas Austin University, Hostos Review CUNY University, Pen America/ Strange Cargo Anthology. Collateral Damage: Women Who Write About War Anthology, University of Virginia Press, as well as in the Migrant Anthology, Somewhere We Are Humans By HarperCollins press. The Broad Museum, among others. Her book of short stories, entitled …after… was published in 2015.World Stage Press.
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By chance and serendipity Michael Sedano ends up reading “…After…” by Carolina Rivera Escamilla. Continue reading After I Saw That Wall, I Read the Book
Writer Victoria Chang writes about grief and loss in her new book “Dear Memory.” Continue reading Victoria Chang’s Correspondence with Grief
L.Á. poet Amanda Gorman talks about her development as a poet and activist and how she plans to use these two roles to make change going into the future. Continue reading Amanda Gorman Talks Writing, the Power of Change and Her Own Presidential Aspirations
FROM: Writers and Fighters Podcast
In episode 29 of Writers and Fighters, A.J. Ortega recaps UFC 264 and interviews Jose Hernandez-Díaz, a writer, poet, and author of The Fire Eater. We talk about how he got into writing and why he chose to focus on prose poetry for The Fire Eater. He reads a couple of poems for us and we finish up with some fight talk. Follow him on Twitter @JoseHernandezDz and Instagram @jose_hdz_dz. Pick up a copy of the book here: https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781680032086/the-fire-eater/
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