Laurence Carlyle Tatum — Log Cabin Lyrics
A young Black poet joins Texas memory and 1918 Los Angeles print culture in a large, complicated book of lyric, dialect, faith, and song.
L. Sandra Deeth — Desert Dwellers
A road book, field guide, campfire album, and desert songbook in one: 133 poems roaming from the Colorado River to Death Valley with a stubborn eye for place.
Kep Taggart — Bacon
A Los Angeles poet-philosopher-humorist turns life’s lean and fat streaks into seventy-nine comic, domestic, spiritual, and elegiac poems.
John Martin Newkirk — Wild Clover
A gifted student and minister-in-training wrote poems of nature, faith, love, and disability before tuberculosis ended his life at thirty.
Joan LaBombard — Collected Poems
A nearly vanished California poet makes sprinklers, marbles, a remembered Ohio street, and the rituals of childhood glow with exact, unforced wonder.
James Marshall Warnack — Soul Symphonies
A religion editor, actor, yogic seeker, and possible literary hand behind Autobiography of a Yogi writes toward unity across faiths.
James Hartness Griffes — Collected Poems
Rubaiyat, labor songs, Georgist argument, and antiwar poems from a Chicago reformer turned California radical.
Jack Greenberg — Hear Ye the Court
A 1939 Los Angeles dramatic poem puts courts, churches, press, punishment, and class justice on trial.
Irene Wilde — Driftwood Fires
A journalist, librarian, juror, prizewinning poet, and novelist arranges love and loss into Flame, Embers, and Ashes.
Howard L. Terry — Sung in Silence
A Deaf poet gathers decades of travel, California landscape, home, family, ballad, and memory into a 1929 selected volume.