Based in Lagunitas, CA, The Bare Life Review was founded in 2017 as the only literary journal whose sole mission is to publish immigrant and refugee writers. While the impulse behind the journal’s founding was political, and while they recognize fully its political implications, its focus remains wholly artistic.
Based in Oakland, CA, Poets Reading the News is the innovative literary journal publishing original, extraordinary poetry about current events. Poets Reading the News’ mission is to enact poetry’s vital cultural function as a processor for violence, cultural complexity, and political change for a society overwhelmed by the headlines.
Pete Hsu 