I had the opportunity to chat with my former teacher, Suzanne Lummis, at the Café Solo celebration. It is always stimulating to talk shop with her, but in this case something she said really got my wheels spinning. She mentioned that she is currently using the Open Windows anthology in her introductory poetry classes. Because …
Building a sense of community in a city as fragmented and dispersed as Los Angeles is truly an accomplishment. Building it from a diverse background is amazing. Yet building it upon a form as often gentrified, obscured, and misunderstood as poetry is nothing short of a miracle. Today I witnessed poets from around Southern California …
A few months ago, I discovered that one of my poems that won the Poetry In The Windows V competition had been selected to be anthologized in a volume called Open Windows celebrating ten years of this biannual Los Angeles based competition. Due to a lack of udpated contact information, I just received word that …
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