writing
when there is no one and there is everyone
Magic Helicopter Press, 2017
Ted Hawkins Innovative Poetry Series
"there is no wish you were here / without you wish," say the friends keeping the sun in each other. little church of lost accents coming back in unison, bay to river to aubade.
a collage-like mixtape of techniques and influences, when there is no one and there is everyone explores how to story a self to life in an unjust world, where gentrification and intersecting oppressions play themselves out in the intimate geographies of bodies, minds, and cities.
rex renée's debut collection of poems and illustrations is a celebration of friendship, freakdom, and what it means when people on the margins come together to rough it out in tough times.
it’s night in san francisco, but it’s sunny in oakland
Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014
what gathers in the pages of IT'S NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO BUT IT'S SUNNY IN OAKLAND is a snapshot of a poetic moment. This book is a candid flash of the ever-evolving politics, relationships, and forms that make up this particular experience of poetry in Oakland. The anthology is 60 contemporary East Bay poets in a post/Occupy house reading that never ends.
queer south: lgbtq writers on the american south
Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014
included on the American Library Association's OVER THE RAINBOW list of recommended LGBT reading for 2015 as one of the top-10 favorites! this anthology, dreamed up and edited by Douglas Ray, features poetry and prose that sings of and explores the queer experience of the American South.