Seeing and Re-Seeing Dan Romero’s Work In the Inland Valleys
Art museums have opened up again, but I’m not comfortable going yet. I’m not worried for myself, but for my parents and immunocompromised friends... Read more →
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Book Review: That Strapless Bra in Heaven by Sarah Sarai
Sarah Sarai’s new collection That Strapless Bra in Heaven is in parts both scatological and surreal. I mean that statement as high praise. Here,... Read more →
Book Review: The Doctor Will Fix It by Bunkong Tuon
Bunkong Tuon’s poetry collection, The Doctor Will Fix It, follows his journey from the time that he becomes a father to his daughter Chanda until... Read more →
Book Review: Bulletproof by Matthew Murrey
In the third poem of Matthew Murrey’s Bulletproof, Murrey tells the story of his mother going to the backdoor of his childhood home and firing his... Read more →
Book Review: Dandylion Riot by Jeanette Powers
For me the lines that summarize what is most beautifully humane and real in Jeanette Powers’s Dandylion Riot is found in the following lines: For... Read more →
Review: Alongside We Travel: Contemporary Poets on Autism, Edited by Sean Thomas Dougherty
I write this from my High Sierra campground where I am listening to Wolverton Creek flowing down below me. A Sunday afternoon breeze blows through my... Read more →
The Perpetual Motion Machine by Brittany Ackerman
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 →
Book Review: Spaghetti and Meatballs: Poems for Hot Organs by Mendes Biondo
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 →
Book Review: Darwin’s Garden by Lee Rossi
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 →
A Farewell to Bacon
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 →
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