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California Community College literary art movement in journals and web collectives, and a look at Gary Enns' dreampop e
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Posted by thenovelist Mon Sep 25, 2006 14:16:15 PDT
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0 responses 0 comments There's a literary arts flowering in the community colleges of California and Gary Enns is right in the middle of it. Enns is one of those rare individuals who contributes to Bakersfield and Kern County culture in a big way: through music, literature and academics. He’s even part of a local Brit Car Club—talk about a subculture of car enthusiasts who eat, breathe and dream in terms of Brit cars. Could such enthusiasm have anything to do with Brit music? Read on…

As a creative writing and English composition professor, Gary runs the Metamorphoses (Met) literary and arts journal out of Cerro Coso Junior College in nearby Ridgecrest/Lake Isabella. Hands down, it’s the nicest lit journal out of Kern County, better than the Orpheus journal out of CSUB (The link only goes to the 2002-2003 edition, although I saw a printed copy of the latest edition. The layout was nice, but the printing wasn’t).

Met is about Kern County Writers. That’s important. My story Pinay is in there, as well as art, photos, poetry and literature from Janet Thorning, Jennifer K. Ellis, Angela M. Bell, Valyrie Ice, Joan Desmond, Angela Rose, R. D. Hermansen, J. Hermansen, Karen L. Mitchell, Melinda Sue Hutchings, and Dan Tuttle. Matildakay has some pieces within, and you can too. Met has a new hip website and will be taking new submissions through November 27th. You better believe I’m writing something special for the next edition of Metamorphoses. I’m thinking something more of a memoir piece, or a ‘streets of Bakersfield’ kind of literary exploration of the urban senses…

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