Poetry. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Art. Through strikingly sensitive poetry and song, Rohan DaCosta contemplates the change of a place through the eyes of a changing pers
Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. The poems in BLACK STEEL MAGNOLIAS IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS THEORY interrogate identity, family, loneliness, and the expectations of mascul
Fiction. These are stories of desire, identity, folly, tenderness, and maybe even hope. Hapless males with heart, but not exactly gumption, walk into situations with strong women with ideas on what to
Poetry. SOUTHERN MIGRANT MIXTAPE relays the experiences and observations of a black, queer man from Virginia who thought he was leaving racism and sexual intolerance behind in the regions where he ini
Poetry. California Interest. COLLAPSE is a doomed love, temporary, free on bond, haunted by rage and regret, fueled by Hip-Hop beats, and clinging like the remains of the Ghost Ship fire--with the wor
Poetry. California Interest. AN OBJECT IN MOTION is the reckoning of firearms from the fictional through the physical, an exploration of these most vicious tools in regard to the bodies they impact an
Poetry. Women's Studies. California Interest. At the close of the frontier, during a queer elsewhen, IF THE COLOR IS FUGITIVE asks for witness to vagrants searching for landmarks amidst rubble. Pepper
Poetry. Latinx Studies. California Studies. The world is full of good people who do bad things--drunk drivers, dumpster divers, absent lovers, astronauts, waitstaff, aunts and uncles, and people who h
Poetry. ADAPTATIONS is an exercise in envisioning the worst case scenario and asking, "What next?" It explores concepts of alienation and survival in a world that's largely inhospitable, and what it m
Fiction. African & African American Studies. California Interest. Set in the Central California countryside and the Southern California desert, BY THE LEMON TREE's old school stories chronicle the col
Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. HOW IT HAPPENS explores the world with eyes wide open and a willingness to engage "the light and dark of it all" while inviting the rea
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Essays. African & African American Studies. California Interest. WHEN A PURPLE ROSE BLOOMS is a collection of poetry and essays that reflect writer Jeneé Darden's jour
Poetry. California Interest. Cyrus Armajani's debut poetry collection is borne of the worlds of public policy and public art. These are public poems, leaving room for readers to question, to doubt, an
Poetry. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. EVOLUTIONARY HEART is one journey of love, from self– to partner–love, dissolution, and back to self, the home to whic
Fiction. California Interest. Latino/Latina Studies. LOW VILLAGE explores the symbiotic relationship between dominant and submissive personalities: fathers and sons, hustlers and hoes, hunters and the
Poetry. Women's Studies. Film Studies. Via two alternating voices—interior (observed) and narrative (observer)—that speak to one another, the striking, image–rich poems in SCORE AND BONE's two section
