Thursday, July 2, 2026: Jeffrey Bryant's "A poem that could be about Oakland -----"
Jeffrey Bryant is a Pushcart-nominated queer poet from Los Angeles. His work has appeared in the LA Weekly , LA Times , Poetic Diversity, New Verse News , Poetrysuperhighway.com , Synkroniciti, Quill and Echo, Tension Literary, Journal of the Plague Years, Coiled Serpent, Altadena Poetry Review, Shadowplay, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, Cholla Needles Literary Journal and Tender Hearts Club . He will appear in a forthcoming photography book of Los Angeles poet portraits from Moon Tide Press. His debut collection The Catacombs of Vanished Lovers is out now on Cherry Pie Press. @thecherrypiepress A poem that could be about Oakland ----- I carry my favorite ocean with me on the plane, saltier than bags of nuts, and drink bottomless coca cola, its ice cubes dying in a vat of corn syrup. I moan the safety lecture back word for word in my best Jayne Mansfield, aroused by the idea of holding my ankles if the engines fail, taking ...