Nen G Ramirez’s ALL WOMEN ARE BORN WAILING confronts myriad forms of violence against Latinas. Drawing on personal and family experiences with mental illness, the poet challenges the “crazy Latina” stereotype and examines the ways it has been used t...
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THE WIZARD’S HOMECOMING is a sword-and-sorcery tale of heroes and villains on a cosmic and human scale. Paired with ten years of poetry, this is the next step in Cotman’s hybrid bibliography. "Elwin Cotman draws from a rich vein — subversive, blist...
Taking place in the other California, the desert city of San Suerte, LUSTRE is about the luckless Lustre Little, a boy haunted by the violence of his hometown; ex-convict Sharone Bonilla, who is haunted by his history; and Destiny Deveraux, an orpha...
A LOVE LETTER has the power to speak outside of time (or through time) as did my beloved aunt who left a paper trail that evidenced she kept me in her thoughts. She’d drafted an Advance Directive, and purchased some modest burial insurance, and prot...
Karen Llagas’s ALL OF US ARE CLEAVED explores how we are shaped by the connections we form and are thrusted upon us. From the intimate spaces of marriage and family to the wider experiences of migration, political engagement and a global pandemic, t...
ANALOG POET BLUES captures the journey of a poet searching for romance and seeking justice in a world transformed from the analog to the digital age. This dazzling collection ventures beyond the mainstream at intersections of race, gender, sexuality...
GROWN-UP ELEMENTARY is a critique of, and reflection on, growing up in the midst of this wicked world. The transition from childhood to adulthood is often shepherded through a way of learning, through a curriculum, through lessons that aren’t always...
POWER OF OUR WOMBS is an ode, a tribute, and honor work. It’s my mirror work to go back and fetch- infant me. It’s my ‘personal responsibility’ towards Sankofa. I hope these poems elucidate or better yet sing both the gospel and the blues of my entr...
SOFT ARMOR is a meditation on love in its many enactments and forms —romantic, parental, ecological, spiritual, and communal. It is an insistence on being in love with a burning, disappearing, and increasingly elusive world, each poem its own testi...
As a chunk of the Chinese Space Station, Tiāngōng or 天宫一号 or Heavenly Palace, hurls itself into the Monterey Bay, the main character finds themselves enmeshed in the same colorful, chaotic crashing through spheres of space or voids of phones or the...
VUELTA is a long poem on a quest to recover the body through myth & memory, a reckoning with colonization & the return to our Pachamama. Vuelta to revolt, to return, to revoltijo, to revolución, to transform. It is a journey of tongue & breath that ...
Influenced by Sonny Rollins and Thelonius Monk, powered by chi, inspired by Bruce Lee, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL: ONE-INCH PUNCH FICTION weaves through lines of love, loss, pain, discovery, and redemption, with dollops of whimsy and notes of wond...
Stephen Meadows’ WINTER WORK is a collection that resounds with intense observations of place. Each poem is a clean and reverent gesture of understanding–natural elements, the damage we inflict upon the land, our history. With brevity and precision,...
Like a hanging mobile, the stories in THE NEW LOW move around each other, creating ever-changing insights between its characters. Each of whom struggle with identity, addictions, judgments, and life’s contradictions. Fiction.
SON OF BYFORD is a meandering mining of meaning from the memory of many middle passages. This collection refracts 1970’s shades of Black and blues that give way to hip hop, post-millennium tensions, and godless queer queryings, informed by love, con...