Read the Resistance, November 2018: American Hate
Read the Resistance, September 2018: Hope in the Dark
Los Angeles Book Club: Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
The PEN Ten with David Tomas Martinez
"As my work pulls directly from my life it is important for me to accurately balance who I’ve been, who I am, and who I want to become." More
Read the Resistance, July 2018: The Poet X
Los Angeles Book Club: Post Traumatic Hood Disorder
Read the Resistance, June 2018: Tell Me How It Ends
Read the Resistance, May 2018: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
Read the Resistance, April 2018: The Left Hand of Darkness
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