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John Brantingham

John Brantingham

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John Brantingham is Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park’s first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines and The Best Small Fictions 2016. He has ten books of poetry and fiction including The L.A. Fiction Anthology (Red Hen Press) and A Sublime and Tragic Dance (Cholla Needles Press). He teaches at Mt. San Antonio College. (Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher.)

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Kareem Tayyar and the Complexities of Joy

By John Brantingham on January 13, 2021

I had my students study the work of Kareem Tayyar in my Introduction to Modern Poetry class this last semester, and in it we wrestled with the... Read more →
Art

Brantingham on Brantingham: The Art of Ann Brantingham

By John Brantingham on December 2, 2020

When I met Ann in our early twenties, she was studying architecture, doing good work in the estimation of my young eyes, and I asked her what it was... Read more →
Literature

John Brantingham: Flash Fiction

By John Brantingham on November 25, 2020

Orange You’re sitting on the back porch, peeling an orange, getting down to the deeply spiritual part of the orange, down where you can taste the... Read more →
Poetry

Book Review: Tricks of Light by Thaddeus Rutkowski

By John Brantingham on September 30, 2020

What drew me into Tricks of Light, Thaddeus Rutkowski’s newest collection, was how he captures the universal sense of alienation that seems to be a... Read more →
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Butterfly Alley

By John Brantingham on August 26, 2020

My favorite surprise in downtown Riverside is Butterfly Alley, which has surprised me several times. I forget it for a while and then I’ll be... Read more →
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Brian Sonia-Wallace’s The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter

By John Brantingham on August 19, 2020

Brian Sonia-Wallace’s mission and vision as a poet is beautiful and compelling. He is a full-time poet, and he is able to make a living writing... Read more →
Poetry

Book Review: Open the Fist by Elya Braden

By John Brantingham on August 19, 2020

I meant to write the review of Elya Braden’s Open the Fist fairly quickly. It is after all a chapbook, and those generally take less time because... Read more →
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Storylandia Issue 32, J. H. Malone’s Drunk on Time

By John Brantingham on July 29, 2020

I started reading science fiction when I was a teenager in the 1980s, and I subscribed to as many magazines as I could afford. What I liked about... Read more →
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Millard Sheets and the Inland Valleys

By John Brantingham on July 22, 2020

It’s impossible to get away from the artistic influence of Millard Sheets especially in the Inland Valleys. Sheets was primarily a watercolorist... Read more →
Poetry

Book Review: Prime Meridian by Connie Post

By John Brantingham on July 22, 2020

Connie Post’s newest poetry collection, Prime Meridian is more than just a book that investigates the ongoing life of a family that has been... Read more →
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