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Rodriguez, Luis J. From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer. Seven Stories Press, 2020.
Kelly, Donika. Bestiary. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016.
Foster, Sesshu. City of the Future. Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2018.
Foster, Sesshu. City of the Future. Los Angeles: Kaya Press, 2018.
Foster, Sesshu. City Terrace Field Manual. New York: Kaya Production, 1996.
Foster, Sesshu. World Ball Notebook. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2008.
Murillo, John. Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry. New York: Four Way Books, 2020.
Becca Klaver reads poetry from her debut collection LA Liminal (2010).
In this reading, originally given with Peggy Shumaker, Eloise Klein Healy reads from the collection A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings (2013).
Luis J. Rodriguez reads from The Concrete River (1991) and Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (1993), along with poems that would later be collected in Trochemoche (1998). He also discusses his experiences with Los Angeles gang violence and the Chicano movement as well as his work with at-risk youth.
Los Angeles poet Sesshu Foster reads from City Terrace Field Manual (1996), World Ball Notebook (2008), and City of the Future (2018). He reads poems that engage with East LA, the influences of his father, and his own life as a father, mixing candor and humor throughout.
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