The Spotlight

"The Spotlight is where we preserve our past, celebrate our present, and encourage our future contributors."

-CSUDH English Graduate Association

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TREADMILL – Ryan Ritchie

you had a girl and an apartment and cats and all that stuff. now you’ve got you. this is what you asked for, what kept you awake those...

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From: Mrs. Snuggle-Wump – Nathaniel Gilliam

Her fingers were stuck over the “keyboard” (the contraption was an upgrade from the typewriter, if one could believe it). Each finger hit...

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Maybe – Jon Sebastian

‘...what? He’s your father, too.’ ‘Oh, was he? Since when?’ ‘He, is, God Dammit! Is!’ They were siblings by blood but not by love. They...

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“Mis Colores” - Andrew A. Leung

Mis colores son Fuertes, felices, tristes Dame la vida

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Ken Malloy Harbor Park – Chris Pigao

As a 15-year-old girl I sat and watched the ducks, birds, people minding their own business while my brother who worked a triple shift...

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Wine

By Belen Mercado | For me, poetry is not only words that you write in order to pass time. Poetry is the color of the soul and the beauty...

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Chemical Burns

By Brenda Sanchez-Barrera | Chemical Burns was written in a state of grief and anger. It explores the depths at which heartbreak can...

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To Whomever

By Ashley Smith | I wrote this poem way before Covid reached the monstrosity that it has become. It was something that could have been...