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 m
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. 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 h
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, r
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 ini
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 rea
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 col
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 jour
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 pers
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 letharg
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 wor
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 mascul
