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.
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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...
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Poetry. SOUTHERN MIGRANT MIXTAPE relays the experiences and observations of a black, queer man from Virginia who thought he was leaving racism and sexual intolerance behind in the regions where he initially experienced them. Plunge heart first into ...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Obsessed with hunger and the mythology of safety, the poems in CRADLES interrogate violence, desire, and nativity along lines of both the angelic and the everyday."CRADLES is an absolutely stunning first c...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. California Studies. THE FLOWERS IN MY MOTHERS' NAME is a chapbook collection of nonfiction prose poetry that explores the intersectionality of narrator Philip Harris. A gay, Mexican man from Southern Cal...
Poetry. California Studies. Norma Smith's poems come out of a long life filled with its share of grief and healing, thwarted and unthwarted love, sex, and words. HOME REMEDY reflects the tension and ease of finding the cure for what ails you at home...
Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. A collaborative project told in words and images, PUREPERO STORIES captures the life of a young Mexican girl growing up in Mexico and California with her sisters, tia Rosa, and grandmothers. The stories ar...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. SO FAR AFIELD is a poetic study into the queer nature of love among men—a gay love that's been called contra naturam—tracing their wild desires, spiritual connections, and unspoken encounters, from seaside to cemetery. With ...
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. What does it mean to be American, Californian, queer, even creative, in an era of tweeted populism and hashtags? Miah Jeffra examines our new and rapidly changing public life by questioning a few fundamentals—pe...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. This is an origin tale, a reclamation of memory, a movement towards wholeness in thought that helps shape action and inform deed. These poems are an anchor cast out from the graveyard in the Atlantic ocean...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Forced to flee a violent, inhospitable America, the poems in THE PLANET OF THE DEAD hold an unforgiving mirror, forcing us to take an unwavering look at our current police state, proving there is no safety in the class...
Fiction. Middle Eastern Studies. Youssef Alaoui's short-story collection, FIERCER MONSTERS, is concerned with the symbology of letters and the word as invocation, contrasted with the futility of language. In these stories, Alaoui presents a Neandert...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. THE CATAMOUNT is a book-length narrative poem starring the mountain lion of New England and illustrated by the author.
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. With a close eye on the past and an outstretched hand to the future, DEAD DAD CLUB traces the death of a father and ties it to the rebirth of a son. Weaving together the hilarious and the grotesque, DEAD DAD CLUB is a starkl...