Poetry

Belinda Le Wells

I’ve been an artist and a writer for as long as I can remember, across my university years and into the 20+ years of my professional life. I’ve written over […]

Eye by Kiona

Kiona (they/she) is a creator who loves to share their perspective of the world through words and photographs.

earthtovirgo

A Long Beach based writer exploring her experiences in life and translating it into art.

Poetic Phoenix

Thoughts and poems to invigorate and explicate the artist within.

Shy But Flyy

Shy But Flyy is a poet, singer, author, and events coordinator. Shy currently hosts multiple open mics and events weekly and monthly. Along with running events Shy is the lead […]

DreamOut People’s Project is a customized workshop that blends oral history, creative writing and visual art for the purpose of community building. Our mission is to nurture dynamic connections between […]

Mike Sonksen

Mike Sonksen aka Mike the PoeT was born in Long Beach and is a 3rd-generation Southern California native. Poet, professor, journalist, historian and tour-guide, his latest book Letters to My […]

Michelle Brittan Rosado

Michelle Brittan Rosado is the author of Why Can’t It Be Tenderness, which won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and published by University of Wisconsin […]

Omejica

As an artist, I have come to recognize that art is a process. It represents more then the an act of creating, deeper then simple body or mind expression, and […]

Alice LeFae

I’m a mixed media artist and writer. My best friend is an enormous cat named Pine Cone, who provides wonderful scope for the imagination and inspires a lot of my […]

enacillep

enacillep is Charles Joseph Pellicane, born naked in New York in 1986. After developing a work ethic forged by 20 Wisconsin winters, I now live in Long Beach, California. Bright, […]

Nancy Lynée Woo

Nancy Lynée Woo was awarded the 2018-2019 Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach, and is a 2015 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. She is co-founder of […]

Yeltsin Penado

Filmmaker, Painter, Writer and Educator Yeltsin Penado (b. 1990, Los Angeles, CA) studied Painting and Community Arts Engagement at Otis College of art and design (BFA, 2018). He lives and […]

Dawgness

Vocalist/Producer from Long Beach, CA. Dawgness exists purely within the realm of the psychedelic and seeks only to strengthen your uncertainty.

Jorge Flores

My art is influenced by my heritage. I am Mexican American. I identify with both cultures. As a Mexican, the bold festive colors and patterns are in my DNA. California […]

Myriam Gurba

Myriam Gurba lives in California and loves it. She teaches high school, writes, and makes “art.” NBC described her short story collection Painting Their Portraits in Winter as “edgy, thought-provoking, […]

Nicole Mitchell

Nicole M. Mitchell is an award-winning creative flutist, composer, bandleader, poet and educator. Having emerged from Chicago’s innovative music scene in the late 90s, and having relocated to Long Beach, California […]

Julayne

Julayne Lee is an adopted Asian American poet, artivist, producer, occasional blogger and Futbolista. Writing is a source of inspiration, community, liberation and survival for her. She has been published […]

Katherine Elizabeth Jackson

Katherine Elizabeth Jackson, known as “Katie” or “Oya”, is a Writer and Poet, a Visual Artist, Photographer, Reiki Therapist and Meditation Guide. She is also the Founder and Facilitator of […]

Clifton Snider

Writing as an openly gay man, my poetry, fiction, and scholarly work cannot help but be political. However, my poems, and to some extent my novels and stories, are not […]

liz gonzalez, Author and Director of Uptown Word & Arts

liz gonzález, a fourth-generation Southern Californian, grew up in the San Bernardino Valley. She is the author of Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected (Los Nietos […]

Griselda Suarez

Griselda Suarez is a writer, artist, cook, and a teacher. She was born in unincorporated East Los Angeles and walked Whittier Blvd and Brooklyn Ave in black and white saddle […]