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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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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 →
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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 →
ArtPoetry

Seeing and Re-Seeing Dan Romero’s Work In the Inland Valleys

By John Brantingham on July 8, 2020

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 →
Poetry

Book Review: That Strapless Bra in Heaven by Sarah Sarai

By John Brantingham on June 24, 2020

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 →
Poetry

Book Review: The Doctor Will Fix It by Bunkong Tuon

By John Brantingham on June 10, 2020

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 →
Poetry

Book Review: Bulletproof by Matthew Murrey

By John Brantingham on May 27, 2020

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 →
Poetry

Book Review: Dandylion Riot by Jeanette Powers

By John Brantingham on March 18, 2020

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 →
Poetry

Review: Alongside We Travel: Contemporary Poets on Autism, Edited by Sean Thomas Dougherty

By John Brantingham on June 19, 2019

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 →
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 →
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 →
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