Nicholas Reiner of So Cal ACLU

Thursday, August 14 at 2:30 PM on KPFK: My guest this week is Nicholas Reiner, a poet and teacher and Associate Director of Media & Storytelling at the ACLU of Southern California. As part of Bibliocracy’s recent series of shows featuring scholars and activists confronting, explaining, and resisting Trumpism and the fascist GOP agenda, I’ve asked Reiner to catch me up on the work of the ACLU of Southern California, and also ask what he’s doing lately as an literary artist. He discusses why he writes, and reads a poem. Nicholas Tino Reiner is an American poet of Mexican heritage. His debut poetry chapbook Levitations was co-winner of the inaugural Alta California Chapbook Prize, a bilingual edition from Gunpowder Press. His poems have appeared in Spillway, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Western Humanities Review, and Zocalo Public Square. He earned an MFA in Writing from UC Irvine.

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