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
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. 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. 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 an
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. 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. Pepper
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. 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. 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,
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 ev
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 Ph
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 poli
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
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 uns
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
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 e
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 si
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 langu
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.
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. There's really no literal translation of "Quiéreme;" it's in between "like me" and "love me" but, unlike in English, t
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. SEAHORSE follows the poet as she navigates the terrain between male and female. The reader follows on her harsh and rocky journey from the you of her youth to the "I" of her r
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 hilar
Poetry. Women's Studies. DEAR ANIMAL, is a re-imagination of the Linnaean taxonomy from a feminist perspective. This collection is a love letter to the resilient feral female and an exploration of the
Fiction. These are stories of desire, identity, folly, tenderness, and maybe even hope. Hapless males with heart, but not exactly gumption, walk into situations with strong women with ideas on what to
Poetry. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. PROFETA WITHOUT REFUGE engages in poetic experimentation through the writing of an Afrocentric and womanist crea
Poetry. Women's Studies. Film Studies. Via two alternating voices—interior (observed) and narrative (observer)—that speak to one another, the striking, image–rich poems in SCORE AND BONE's two section
Fiction. California Interest. Latino/Latina Studies. LOW VILLAGE explores the symbiotic relationship between dominant and submissive personalities: fathers and sons, hustlers and hoes, hunters and the
Poetry. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. EVOLUTIONARY HEART is one journey of love, from self– to partner–love, dissolution, and back to self, the home to whic
