John Brantingham, Author at Cultural Weekly

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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Poetry

The Perpetual Motion Machine by Brittany Ackerman

By John Brantingham on March 13, 2019

Brittany Ackerman’s new memoir, The Perpetual Motion Machine, might end dramatically with the stories of drug abuse and suicide attempts that she... Read more →

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Poetry

Book Review: Spaghetti and Meatballs: Poems for Hot Organs by Mendes Biondo

By John Brantingham on February 13, 2019

What struck me first about Mendes Biondo’s Spaghetti and Meatballs: Poems for Hot Organ was how aggressive the sexuality of this new collection... Read more →

Poetry

Book Review: Darwin’s Garden by Lee Rossi

By John Brantingham on January 30, 2019

Lee Rossi has that gift so many great poets have of being able to pull universal truths from purely personal experiences. Rossi’s new... Read more →

ArtLifestyle

A Farewell to Bacon

By John Brantingham on December 9, 2015

I got to know the artist Uncle Bacon a couple of years ago when I began my tenure at the dA Center for the Arts in Pomona’s Arts Colony as the... Read more →