Alternative Field is a reading room, poetry library, lab/press, and resource center for inviting poetry to influence, inspire, nurture, and create dialogue as a tool to bring awareness to and exercise thought around issues that are central to our existence and to our potential.
Our poetry library includes books, anthologies, and journals. This is updated weekly. Reference books and magazines are not included in the catalog.
Alternative Field Notes is our lab, our press. We publish poetry anthologies that reflect our collective experiences.
Our lab is also where we develop programming. We’re currently considering workshop/discussion proposals.
Our latest collection is Poetry for Peace, an anthology zine that aims to bring poets and their words together for a collective cause—to utilize poetry as a guiding source that may perhaps reverberate as invocation into the universe.
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SHOW & Tell
Instagram Live Interview Archive
First Annual
Northeast LA Poetry Festival
Support us by shopping our Bookshop Affiliate Store! If you purchase a book from one of our lists, a portion of the proceeds will directly benefit our library! We have two lists up right now: Housing Is a Human Right and/or Books On Our Los Ángeles.