Issue #1

Volume 1,  Number 1 – Fall 2025

INTERVIEW WITH  FERRIS JABR
Author of Becoming Earth:  How Our Planet Came to Life

 

INTERVIEW WITH DR. HARRY EDWARDS
Author of The Revolt of the Black Athlete

INTERVIEW WITH DR. GARY GREENBERG
Author of The Secrets of Sand

 

 

ART of SANDOW BIRK  “CA Substance Abuse Facilityand State Prison”

 

INTERVIEW WITH  JEFF JONES Co-Founder of the Weather Underground, Co-Author of Prairie Fire

ESSAY BY SUZANNE LUMMIS:
“THE POEM NOIR:  Too Dark to be Depressed”

INTERVIEWS

COLLIN DAVIS
Prison at San Luis Obispo, California

DR. GARY GREENBERG
Author of The Secrets of Sand

FERRIS JABR
Author of Becoming Earth:  How Our Planet Came to Life

 

DR. HARRY EDWARDS
Author of The Revolt of the Black Athlete

MELLISA HIPPLE
Mother of Collin Davis

JEFF JONES
Co-Founder of the Weather Underground and Co-Author of Prairie Fire

Amazon Rain Forest

DR. ROBERT WEIDE
Author of Divide & Conquer:  Race, Gangs, Identity and Conflict

ESSAYS

MICHAEL BLAHA
“The Edinburgh Fringe Festival”

TERRANCE STEELE
“In the Matrix”

SUZANNE LUMMIS
“The Poem Noir:  Too Dark to be Depressed”

Edinburgh

POETRY

ELYA BRADEN
“In the Breath of Non-doing”

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
“The Music of Death & Heaven —
Thousands of Miles from Spain”

RON KOERTGE
“‘Jagged Blade Found in Cake Destined for Inmate’”
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LEE ROSSI
“Plain Jain”

DAVID L. ULIN
“Early Flight”

CONNEY D. WILLIAMS
“You Are Los Angeles”

CYNTHIA ALESSANDRA BRIANO
“The Mouth Carriers”

TRESHA HAEFNER
“Tiki Torch”
“why the earth cannot make its way towards you

SUZANNE LUMMIS
“Jump”
“Bad Gun”
“Bare-Handed”
“Adolfo”

CHARLES HARPER WEBB
“Angelenos in the Rain”

“You are Los Angeles”

ART

SANDOW BIRK
“Substance Abuse Facility and State Prison at Corcoran”

YVONNE McGRATH
“Calla Lilies”

DON HATA
“Soaring” “On the Road to Topaz” “Manzanar Fishing Club” “Jail Birds”

DEBBIE GREEN “Art Studio”

CONTRIBUTORS

FROM THE EDITOR