During these long months of stress, anxiety, and uncertainty- quarantine has been nothing but normal. For the past year, people (including myself) are trying to keep their heads above the water as we survive this new normal. As an Asian American woman living through this pandemic, taking one step outside into the world has never …
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In Herakles, translated by Anne Carson, Euripides writes, “Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream.” Anyone that has lost anyone will feel that longing for something of the person that is gone; and yet, there are ways people stay with us, especially through the medium of poetry, which has the miraculous ability …
For me the lines that summarize what is most beautifully humane and real in Jeanette Powers’s Dandylion Riot is found in the following lines: For the abandoned it feels like everyone has been beating on them for their whole lives and they are the only ones paying the price (30). Powers does a lot in …
One of the fascinating things that a fictional novel can do is to educate readers about world history that most people aren’t aware of. Especially if it’s a history that has yet to be even exposed in the English language. While there may be a few novels that talk about a very specific historical period …
(“Tomorrow’s Voices Today“ is a new series curated by poet and educator Mike Sonksen.) *** The following essay is a celebration of the book, Lowriting: Shots, Rides and Stories from the Chicano Soul, an anthology by Broken Sword Publishing with photographs by Art Meza. Edited by Santino Rivera, over 50 photographs are paired with stories, …
(On Saturday February 27, HINCHAS Press will host a book release party at Gus Harper Art (11306 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066) to celebrate the release of their first print publication, Ghazals for Foley. More details below.) *** In March of 2015, I was able to raise $1,300 on Kickstarter to publish an anthology of ghazals for James …
The vast swell that is the Americas invites exploration. It was built on exploration and exploitation so it’s damn near incredible that now, in 2015, there are still writers that can take you on uncharted adventures across the land of the free. Catfish McDaris is more than “one of the greatest weirdo writers” plying his trade today. When you …
It was a cloudy day on 10 November 1995, when Nigerian writer and environmental activist Kenule Saro-Wiwa was hung, along with eight other prominent Ogoni activists, at the Port Harcourt Maximum Prison, Rivers State, Nigeria, by the government led by General Sani Abacha. In November 2015, it will be twenty years since the death of …
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The subject of this review is a renaissance man named GaKnew Roxwel. Born Lanny Wilson and raised in Inglewood, GaKnew is a poet, emcee, painter, educator and social worker that first became known in Southern California for his rapping skills, winning poetry slams and his appearance on Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry Jam. In summer …
In June, we will celebrate a year of our PUBLISH! project. It’s been an interesting, exciting, frustrating experience that presented us with important lessons about visions and long term focus. We kicked off Phase 1 of PUBLISH! in June of 2013, on a rainy weekend in New York. This first year has been what we …
On Saturday, March 29th, 2014, the best book festival in LA took place at Grand Park. Next week, I will share with you the story from the event, with details and numbers and all that. But for now, please enjoy these photos, taken by various wonderful people who came out and enjoyed a wonderful day …
We are a little over a week away from one of our biggest (if not the biggest) project of the year: the Grand Park Downtown BookFest. It is on Saturday, March 29th, noon–5PM. Come out. It will be a blast and so much unlike that other book festival. This is our second year putting together …
Portland-based poet Wendy Chin-Tanner’s poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous journals including The Mays Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge, The Saint Ann’s Review, and The Raintown Review. She is a founding editor at Kin Poetry Journal, poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown, staff interviewer at Lantern Review, co-founder of A Wave Blue World …
This week, we are attending our very first AWP conference. AWP is the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. We’re both excited and, based on stories from previous attendees, terrified. I am not much for industry trade shows and this appears to be one of those. At least this one is in Seattle, a city …
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