Immigration issues from the point of view of the mentally ill
Proud to announce that my short poem Banyan Grove appeared on LaBloga yesterday, March 13. It’s a the bottom of the page, but it’s there. LaBloga is the longest established Latino/a literary blog. https://labloga.blogspot.com/2018/03/los-angeles-la-plaza-hosts-premiere-of.html Here is the poem in case you miss it. Banyan Grove By Lisbeth Coiman The massive Moreton Bay Fig Tree Stands…
In only six more days, I will see the culmination of a long-term personal project, the publication of my debut memoir: I Asked the Blue Heron. As I check off items from the long to-do list leading to this important event in my life, I feel my pulse accelerating, my apprehensions and fears exploding. I…
Chiwan Choi’s The Yellow House (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2017) embraces us like a sad song for what is lost and left behind. The image of the Yellow House seems at times to represent the emotional weight of nostalgia, and at times the madness we inhabit, the place between here and there, between then and now,…