Volume 6, Issue 1

This Year We’ll Try Color

An Awkward Lunch with the Queen

Automate This

At the Veggie Grill

The Bad Gospel of Brown Dad

(Forthcoming) September 2023

2022 Annual 6

Show You Matter

Issue 16/Summer 2022

holidays are holidays

I am not unique

August 2022

Running a Tab

Issue 5

Gods of the Liquor Store Video Game

20 April 2022

Breathing America

Every Other Word Is Silence: A Broken Pantoum

Bury It When You Land

Escape Is a Cradle to grave Profession

Evergreen Bowling Lanes

11 April 2022

Origin Story

20 December 2021 (Selected Best Poem of the Year)

How to Clean Unhealing Wounds

11 October 2021

A Living and Hateful Silence

8 October 2021

Monster Gets the Surgery

Even the Fake Waterways Are Yours Because We Listen

Envisioning a Never Me

Fall 2020

Locked in a High Castle Where Every Sound Repeats Itself

My Partner is My Mask When I Need to Be Lighter

Pala Casino 7am

Available at Barnes and Noble

Spring 2021

Genetic Memory Can Be More Than Trauma, For a Moment

Wanting Only Work But Knowing The Body Won’t Last

Monster Looks for a Friend

Perverts

2020 (Pushcart Nominee)

The Problem with History in Hawai’i

July 2021

It Isn’t Ignoring, It’s Love

Moving On Up

Chasing a Happy Memory

Summer 2021

A Living and Hateful Silence

2020

My White Brother Can’t Find a Job

San Pedro Voted LA County’s Surliest City

12 June 2020

San Pedro: The Place I Live

2020

The Desert Tortoise Is New

Volume 4, Issue 3

The Bullets That Were Close to Me

Gatekeepers Create a Mission Statement

(Forthcoming)

Brown Dad Taught What He Could

20 May 2022

Jonah Meyer asks me questions about my writing.

11 January 2022

A Review of Navigating with (out) Instruments by traci kato-kiriyama

30 July 2020

A piece using descriptions about San Pedro in Charles Bukowski’s poetry as the starting point to explore the city’s history.

When: 21 May 2022

Where: Sims Library of Poetry

What: A Monthly Reading of Community Literary Initiative students

Featuring: Long Beach Chapter

When: 12 May 2022

Where: Page Against the Machine

What: A Monthly Reading

Hosted by Nikolai Garcia and Soul on Fire

Featuring:

Bridgette Bianca

Christian Hanz Lozada

Lupe Limon Corrales

Andres Sanchez

When: 7 October 2021

Where: Re/Arte

What: A Monthly Reading & Open Mic for Black and Brown Writers

Hosted by Nikolai Garcia y Dryland

Featuring:

Christian Hanz Lozada

Juliana Chang

E.M. Franceschini

When 28 August 2021

Where: The Miller Room, The Billie Jean King Main Library, Long Beach Public Library

What: Spoken Word/Spoken Art Series

Hosted by Mike the Poet Sonksen

Featuring:

Christian Hanz Lozada

Kelsey Bryan-Zwick

and Others (because I can’t remember. sorry!)