San Diego is no place for cows "You should see the casino [the Pala Band] are building up there," Verboom says. "It's the Taj Mahal. They're going to employ something like 1200 people. And they …
June 21, 2021
Brandon Cesmat is past president of California Poets in the Schools, the largest artist-residency program in the U.S., and teaches literature at California State University San Marcos. As a member of the international collective Acanto y Laurel, Cesmat performs poems throughout North America. He was nominated for Poet Laureate of California in 2011. His most recent collection of poetry is When Pigs Fall in Love, published by Caernarvon Press.
Articles by Brandon Cesmat
North County's tiny airports, Palomar Mountain water war
Camptown grubbin’ with migrant workers in San Diego, Jalisco
In August they begin work early in the morning while the day is still cool. Their songs and conversation, in rapid Spanish, drift through the orange grove, muted only by the rhythmic slam of the …
April 18, 1985
Valley Center will never be the same
I must have thought that the difficult access would keep my home secluded: Valley Center, a lousy place to get to, but a nice place to be. In the mid-Seventies this began to change.
April 26, 1984