"And for God's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction too, stupid." -John Waters
A hometown hero in the Southern California poetry scene for over fifteen years, Daniel McGinn is known for deceptively simple, meticulously crafted poems. Learn More
Broken hearts, scattered dreams, postpunk politics, and postmodern cut-up collages spiral and flow in award-winning poet Daphne Gottlieb’s latest collection of startling new works that explore survival after personal or communal disasters and the renewal that follows. Learn More
As if she discovered a small army of silenced women captive in her pen, Megan Falley releases them in the spilled ink that is her most brilliant collection of poems, After the Witch Hunt.
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In many ways, "anxiety is a rambling dagger" is an autobiographical diary and journal, set in a series of dreamlike passages of imagery, tangents, rants, and interrelated emotions. Learn More
Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing ó his first book of poetry in more than twenty years ó during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. Learn More
Here a 23-year-old person attempts to explain to himself the possible origins, ends, and cures of anger, worry, despair, obsession, and confusion, while concurrently experiencing those things in various contexts including a romantic relationship, a book of poetry, and the arbitrary nature of the universe. Learn More