Journal to check out: RipRap
CSU Long Beach’s journal RipRap surprised me. The whole program has. Their poetry department has some of the finest poet-teachers in California. But I digress. RipRap 29 is the most recent edition, with a cool selective focus, hand toned cover, the content was definitely a pleasant surprise. Jessica and I had helped out in the selection process for the poetry side, so we’d read almost all of that, and knew what to expect, but the prose kept up the same standard. “At the Panaderia” by Raul Martinez and “A Hard Way Upwards” by Matthew Nakamura were some of my favorites, but I took a wandering approach to it, so there are probably some hidden gems in there still waiting for me, as I’ve liked most of what I’ve read, which is kind of hard to find in most student run journals these days. They are also accepting submissions, between October and December, here’s a link to their submission guideline page, check it out. It’s worth it.