Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. The poems in BLACK STEEL MAGNOLIAS IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS THEORY interrogate identity, family, loneliness, and the expectations of masculinity. Using dreams, blues, and a chorus of voice...
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Poetry. ADAPTATIONS is an exercise in envisioning the worst case scenario and asking, "What next?" It explores concepts of alienation and survival in a world that's largely inhospitable, and what it means to be human once traditional mechanisms of c...
Poetry. California Interest. AN OBJECT IN MOTION is the reckoning of firearms from the fictional through the physical, an exploration of these most vicious tools in regard to the bodies they impact and the narratives that have developed as a result....
Fiction. African & African American Studies. California Interest. Set in the Central California countryside and the Southern California desert, BY THE LEMON TREE's old school stories chronicle the collision of wide-eyed childhood with the end of liv...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. HOW IT HAPPENS explores the world with eyes wide open and a willingness to engage "the light and dark of it all" while inviting the reader to imagine life as a black woman in today's A...
Poetry. Women's Studies. California Interest. At the close of the frontier, during a queer elsewhen, IF THE COLOR IS FUGITIVE asks for witness to vagrants searching for landmarks amidst rubble. Peppered with invented idioms and slant colloquialisms,...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. California Studies. The world is full of good people who do bad things—drunk drivers, dumpster divers, absent lovers, astronauts, waitstaff, aunts and uncles, and people who have cell phones. Is that you? If you've ever secre...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Essays. African & African American Studies. California Interest. WHEN A PURPLE ROSE BLOOMS is a collection of poetry and essays that reflect writer Jeneé Darden's journey through Black womanhood. Through heart and humor,...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Photography. Nomadic Press' annual journal of art (photography and/or painting), poetry, and fiction. Contributors include Meriwether Clarke, Keith Donnell, Alisa Golden, Jonathan Greenhause, Maggie Hellwig, Ruhi Jiwa...
Poetry. California Interest. COLLAPSE is a doomed love, temporary, free on bond, haunted by rage and regret, fueled by Hip-Hop beats, and clinging like the remains of the Ghost Ship fire—with the world burning around us, it is time and place, politi...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. QUIP (Queers in Print) is an anthology of writing by young queer authors. Through a series of five workshops, seven teenagers from the Bay Area constructed a community of art, acceptance, and revolutionary empathy through wr...
Poetry. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Art. Through strikingly sensitive poetry and song, Rohan DaCosta contemplates the change of a place through the eyes of a changing person. Haunting street photography shows us the roma...
Poetry. A father's compassion, a son's attempted suicide, and an effort to reconcile the mystery of being through spirituality and the body intersect in FISH BOY.
Poetry. California Interest. In tweet-length bursts, NOTES FROM WORK hurls into the spotlight the absurdity of the everyday, the ridiculous insistence on taking ourselves so seriously, and the lethargic underbelly of a nation gone mad. Read with une...
Poetry. California Interest. RAPID TRANSIT is a humorous and poignant romp down the rusting tracks of American public transit, filled with haunting and colorful characters—those we wish to embrace, run from, those we see ourselves reflected in. It b...