Overview

Poets and writers explore the devastation of the cataclysmic 2025 fires in Los Angeles, California, penetrating the unfathomable despair of losing everything, exposing the struggle with the ensuing grief, and, through it all, summoning the courage to rise again. Fueled by dry conditions and relentless Santa Ana winds rushing over the landscape with speeds upwards of 100 miles per hour, everything bending to the will of the wind, the spark of Los Angeles’s January 2025 fires exploded into an unprecedented gut wrenching apocalypse. In this superbly curated collection, edited by award-winning L.A. poets S.A. Griffin and Richard Modiano, contemporary poets and writers from L.A. and beyond explore the intense horror of devastating loss, the helplessness of watching from across the country, the grief in the aftermath, and the resolve to rise again together from the ashes. Contributors include: Susan Auerbach, Lin Nelson Benedek, Mary Anne Berry, Michelle Bitting, Laurel Ann Bogen, Lynne Bronstein, Jeffrey Bryant, Mona Jean Cedar, Teresa Mei Chuc, Jeanette Clough, Brendan Constantine, Iris De Anda, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Rich Ferguson, Kathleen Florence, Land Flowers, Kat Georges, S.A. Griffin, Spencer L. Griffin, Susan Hayden, Steve Hochman, jerry the priest, La Rombé, Tom Laichas, Rick Lupert, Suzanne Lummis, Phoebe MacAdams, Sarah Maclay, kamla maya, Holaday Mason, Ellyn Maybe, Richard Modiano, Bill Mohr, Chris Morris, K.R. Morrison, Majid Naficy, Jim Natal, Harry E. Northup, Cynthia Perello, Puma Perl, Kennon B. Raines, Nicca Ray, Riot Renwick, Marilyn N. Robertson, Beth Ruscio, Cathie Sandstrom, Dan Saucedo, Maryrose Smyth, Mike Sonksen, A.K. Toney, David L. Ulin, jimmy vega, Pam Ward, Dig Wayne, Hilda Weiss, Jessica M. Wilson, Gail Wronsky, and Z.

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Author:   S.A. Griffin ,  Richard Modiano
Publisher:   Movement Publishing
Imprint:   Movement Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
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9781513677712

ISBN 10:   1513677713
Pages:   148
Publication Date:   05 January 2026
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction – S.A. Griffin There is no hope – Z Hurricane of Fire – Dig Wayne In the Shadow of the Unicorn – Puma Perl Dateline Altadena, California – Suan Auerbach What Was Waiting at the Front Door – Kathleen Florence Perello Family’s Journey to Re-Establish Our Lives (January 2025) – Cynthia Perello And This Too Shall Burn... – A.K. Toney Catastrophe... – Dan Saucedo The Ojai Fire – Phoebe MacAdams A Sense of Urgency – Cathie Sandstrom Non-Sonnet for Burning – Iris De Anda Fire Ecology – Mike Sonksen Ice and Fire – David L. Ulin ghost town – Nicca Ray My Sadness is as Great as a Mountain: A Haibun – Teresa Mei Chuc Perello Family’s Journey to Re-Establish Our Lives (February 23, 2025) – Cynthia Perello Water Hose Man – Pam Ward Ashes Over Angels – Richard Modiano Fire Head – Rich Ferguson Sudden – Michelle Bitting What Remains – Ellyn Maybe Walking Home on 14th Street – Hilda Weiss L.A. Fires and Me – Marilyn N. Robertson The Eaton Fire, Altadena, CA, January 7-8, 2025 – Mary Anne Berry Mother Nature Talks Back – Laurel Ann Bogen Oxygen – Brendan Constantine A Drive Along the Coast – Harry Northup A History of Fire Drills – Susan Hayden Equal Footing – Kat Georges Winds-Day - Spencer L. Griffin Snow Born From Flames – Riot Renwick It Seemed the Sea was Speaking in Tongues – Suzanne Lummis Canyon Country – Tom Laichas Wild Fire – Majid Naficy What I Didn’t Lose in the Great L.A. Fires – Maryrose Smyth 4 Haiku – Land Flowers Fire Roulette – Jeanette Clough Perello Family’s Journey to Re-Establish Our Lives (March 17, 2025) – Cynthia Perello A New Plague – Rick Lupert Something Thrown Away – Sarah Maclay Shockproof – Chris Morris Singed Memories – Jessica M. Wilson If all my dreams had come true... – Kamla Maya State Farm Said to Keep a Journal but I Wrote a Poem Instead – Lin Nelson Benedek Perello Family’s Journey to Re-Establish Our Lives (July 1, 2025) – Cynthia Perello And Then the Fires Came – Kennon B. Raines Like a Movie – Jim Natal Wild winds whipped war... – Mona Jean Cedar To the Living, Breathing Arsonists, the Molochs of Electricity – Bill Mohr Rivers of Debris Quilt the Sand at Low Tide – Holaday Mason The Arsonist – Jeffrey Bryant And for California, it’s Only June – Beth Ruscio Wildfires, Redux. – Alexis Rhone Fancher Ashes at Random – jerry the priest Antidote for a Firestorm – Lynne Bronstein I Know Too Well – Gail Wronsky listening to your playlist while driving made me feel like i was in your car again going around l.a. – jimmy vega The Renter Key – Steve Hochman Pagamento – K.R. Morrison Perello Family’s Journey to Re-Establish Our Lives (July 25, 2025) – Cynthia Perello WE WILL REBUILD – La Rombé ♪ ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

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S.A. Griffin lives, loves, and works in Los Angeles. He has been publishing books, chapbooks, broadsides and recordings on his Rose of Sharon imprint since 1988. He is the winner of the Firecracker Award for The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (co-editor), and the first recipient of Beyond Baroque Literary Art Center Distinguished Service Award. Wanda Coleman named S.A. Griffin Best Performance Poet for the LA Weekly. His most recent book of poetry is Pandemic Soul Music (Punk Hostage Press). While a resident of New York City, Richard Modiano became active in the literary community connected to the Poetry Project where he came to know Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William S. Burroughs, and Ted Berrigan. In 2001 he was a programmer at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, joined the Board of Trustees in 2006, and from 2010 to 2019, he served as Executive Director. The Huffington Post named him as one of 200 people doing the most to promote poetry in the United States. Richard Modiano is the winner of the 2022 Joe Hill Prize for labor poetry and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. His most recent poetry collection, The Forbidden Lunchbox, is published by Punk Hostage Press.

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