Cadence Collective: Long Beach Poets is a website dedicated to showcasing poets and poetry events in the Greater Long Beach Area. This anthology features the best poems from the first twelve months on CadenceCollective.net. The Cadence Collective community includes a daily poem featured online, monthly poetry readings called "2nd Mondays Poetry Party" at Gatsby Books, an online calendar of poetry events, interviews and spotlights on local poetry news, as well as a new annual print collection.

The Unnamed Algorithm is a chapbook of poems centered around the procedural steps of unknowing. The intuition of love reaching in the dark past, present, and future.

What does it mean to say someone does something "like a girl"? This booklet is a collection of poetry, prose and art in response to the theme of feminine identity. Like a Girl: The Pre-Show was created specially for the LA Zine Fest 2015. The first edition was a handmade, stapled zine. We are proud to now bring the booklet to a wider audience as a perfect-bound paperback booklet. All the beautiful formatting of the zine remains the same. Why is it called the pre-show? This zine is a sneak peek of a larger anthology called Like a Girl: Perspectives on Feminine Identity. Visit...

Cadence Collective: Year Two Anthology covers the best poetry featured on the website, CadenceCollective.net, between August 2014 and July 2015. Like Year One, all the poets in this anthology are connected to the Greater Long Beach, California area. 27 opinionated readers selected the 147 poems from the 71 different poets. Includes artwork by Esmeralda Villalobos and yearbook portraits by Fernando Gallegos.

Gutters & Alleyways is a collection of poetry, prose and art from over 80 contributors who share personal, compelling, and often gritty work on the topic of economic inequality. Travel across America and around the world into these dark alleyways and humble homes. This anthology is the first of many from Lucid Moose Lit, a small press that engages the literary arts with social justice issues. Impact 1. First and foremost, the goal of the book was to simply hold space for marginalized perspectives to emerge, and to grant them dignity and respect. 2. Second, we wanted to open up the lens of...

Then & Now: Conversations with Old Friends is a collection of poetry and art in conversation with the past. Within these pages appear pairs of works, which provide an insight into the growth of the artists and poets as both creators and as people. With contributors both well-known and up-and-coming, this book is a journey through time, through reflections, and through pain. The breadth and depth of the work within will enlighten, delight, and reveal life in all its beautiful glory and harrowing darkness. Come, join the conversation, and discover something new.

There are many types of fires within us. Some have been lit from the outside. Some we are born with. When channeled, our fires can be a light. Whether the source be chemical, biological, circumstantial, or ancestral, many of us hold fires within. We can use the flames to shine from out of the darkness. However long the light may last, we can be incandescent. This collection aims to be a small representation of poetry, prose, and art expressing light created from internal fire, namely around the topic of mental and emotional health. Experiences with depression, bipolar, grieving, being a...

Incandescent Minds: Issue Two, Winter 2017 explores the beauty and grit of the human psyche and what it takes to deal with adversity, to survive, to sometimes admit defeat, to thrive, to heal. This is a collection of joy, sorrow, confusion, and love, but most importantly it is a collection of life, the persistence to exist, and express brightly in a world that often tries to keep the lights dim. -Karie McNeley, Editor of Bank Heavy Press There is beauty in strength, in fragility, in having the courage to face one's darkest fears and speak them aloud. Even as thoughts plague us, we construct a...