Poet and regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual

Professor and Revolutionary Poets Brigade poet

Teacher, poet, and Vietnam and Navy veteran

Performance poet, activist and feminist

Author

Author, teacher, recipient of the San Diego Book Award and Nazim Hikmet Prize

Spoken word poet, advocate for Chicano issues

Poet and Vietnam veteran

Poet, lyricist, teacher, mother

Poet, writer and musician

“i miss being an alcoholic” I miss being an alcoholic. In the bar nearest to my bed I sit with temples pounding Jaw clenched tight To the rim of a pint Confused between plateaus Of being in love and being alone But I’ve known worse paralogia Than feigning some grand re-entrance To the alcohol game…

Danielle LaFrance is a poet, librarian and militant. She is the author of Friendly + Fire (Talonbooks, 2016), Species Branding (CUE, 2010) and Pink Slip (SIC, 2013). Since 1983 she has resided on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh, Úxwumixw, Stó:lo, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Olga García is a bilingual poet, physicist and mathematician and…