CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>California Southern: writing from the road 1992-2025 is the first collection of prose and poetry by longtime Los Angeles-based poet and journalist Adolfo Guzman-Lopez.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Guzman-Lopez writes about the head-swirling images and sounds at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Tijuana as well as growing up Mexican and undocumented in blue-collar National City and surf-city Pacific Beach as well as the Los Angeles he's spent nearly 25 years reporting on for the NPR affiliate in L.A.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Join Guzman-Lopez as his writing takes the reader along the neighborhoods of Southern California seen through the lens of an immigrant father husband son poet journalist Mexican and American.</span></p><p></p>