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NUALA LINCKE-IVIC, EDITOR
West Los Angeles College
From the Editor
Mission & Submission Guidelines
Flash Fiction Contest
Joseph McDaughtery Introduction
Steven R. Kutcher Interview
Four Poets Interview
essays
Noa R. Gross: Addiction to Illusion
Troy Turner: Universal Truths from Ancient Beauty
Ronnie Williams: I Remember
poetry
Louise Martin Brown: The Thought
Anthony A. Lee: Memory of Abel
Mari Spiezia-Nobre: Lost in Translation
stories
Shanna South: And So It Is...
Tiffany Tang: Mint Mocha Nostalgia
Darrell Woody: The Fire Constellation
Contributing Editors...
WILLIAM WALLISLos Angeles Valley College
Poet’s Corner
“Poets are people who roam the universe of literature looking for lightning within themselves to inspire their own verse…”
A. JAY ADLER Los Angeles Southwest College
Poetic License
“… a poem is not a vault for protecting meaning from those without the key, but a map to the treasure instead…”
ANTHONY A. LEE
West Los Angeles College
The Subaltern Voice
“History is what we choose to remember about the past, and simultaneously what we choose to forget…”
Students...
JOSEPH MCDAUGHTERY:West Los Angeles College
"Earthquake"
“I grew up like an earthquake, all across Southern California…!” he spits as he fuses the power of rap beats
with the message of the Gospel burned into his heart and inked onto his skin...
NOA GROSS West Los Angeles College
"Addiction to Illusion"
"…‘Hollywood’ is a nomadic society: a Diaspora. And this Diaspora known as Hollywood is full of unrealistic and irrational ideas and ideals regarding ways to live life, which are responsible for influencing the typical person and suggesting principles for him or her to live up to and emulate."
TROY TURNERWest Los Angeles College
"Universal Truths from Ancient Beauty"
"My feelings ranged from apathy to concern upon entering the gates to the museum… I had to find the voice of the past through other media that, deny as I might have, did not speak to me with a voice as clear as those of the murmuring fountains."