Mar 08
The Broken Buddha by Johnny Cordova (Roadside Press) Johnny Cordova’s The Broken Buddha is a restless, confessional pilgrimage—one that moves through Southeast Asia and India before circling back to the American West, to fathers and daughters, to addiction, grief, music, and memory. Published by Roadside Press, the collection reads like a spiritual travelogue written in …
May 16
No One Here Gets Out Alive I must have been sixteen when I took down the posters above my bed of Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith in beach bikinis with contoured stomachs and lipstick smiles – Charlie’s sexiest angels – and replaced them with a leather-collared close-up of Jim Morrison. When my father ripped Morrison …
Mar 01
Election Night —November 7, 2000 I do my best to ignore the U.S. government but I was listening to the results coming in through my car radio as I made the drive from Oakland to Arizona the exit polls were saying Democrat and then it was too close to call and then Republican maybe and …
