Featured Poetry

Sandra So Hee Chi Kim is a writer, scholar, educator, and activist. She teaches Asian American studies as a Visiting Assistant Professor at The Claremont Colleges and is the founder and co-executive director of Asian American Justice and Innovation Lab (aajil.org). Though Kim has published her research in various academic journals, it is only recently … Read more

From the Laundromat I’m writing you from the laundromat, it’s all beige tile and green countertops for folding clothes. Detergent dispensers, vending machine, a wallpaper of patterned socks hanging on a clothesline, those laundry baskets that roll on wheels, and I’m sitting in a yellow bucket seat watching my clothes spin so hard the room … Read more

A green cabinet I opened the drawer in the cabinet Wind rose Sometimes blood circulates to the right I turned my head Who’s there, I would have asked if I was at the house we used to live in I would answer shortly, Yes Sand splashed out of the drawer Don’t cross over, I will … Read more

Sweet Corn We each hold a corn on the cob with both of our hands and right in our faces. For a moment, we are just two chipmunks, digging in, mouthful of golden nuggets. I want to sing it loud: “How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You.” I sweep across the corn field … Read more

In the sea, I see The sea awakes in the morning, breathes a breeze of fresh air, Waves like eyelids opening, Dolphins brushing through her hair. On sky, the majestic forehead I trace, the rising sun- a dot, the ‘bindi.’ In the sea, I see a beautiful face, “Illusion,” you say, I say, “It’s the … Read more

Praying South Young is the cacophony of frogs chiming that night has come The insects ripe on our tongues The meaning of tire tracks sighing away from us Until there was only the I, childhood Was a lonely time. My children don’t know this: As the proprietor of that disorganized song’s Regular return to memory, … Read more

These Truths I hold these truths–the self-evident ones–that all men all of them, are created and equal, creatively. They are endowed, all these men with certain, but unnamed, inalienable rights. But some are named and we hold them, hold space for them, cradle them, swaddled, coddle and allow the men to believe in themselves, in … Read more

Don Kingfisher Campbell, MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, taught Writers Seminar at Occidental College Upward Bound for 36 years, been a coach and judge for Poetry Out Loud, a performing poet/teacher for Red Hen Press Youth Writing Workshops, L.A. Coordinator and Board Member of California Poets In The Schools, poetry editor … Read more

George On his soul’s final sojourn his prayer was answered. He called to his mama sprinted to her embrace and no man’s weight would ever hold him down. James Evert Jones is Executive Director of Expressions L.A., having curated and hosted spoken word events for over 30 years throughout the Los Angeles area. James also … Read more