lvl3:

Born in Agana, Guam, Alika Cooper currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2006. Alika’s work has been exhibited in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and throughout the U.S.

How did your interest in art begin?

shipsthatpass:

You: Dashing youth in a white T-shirt sitting al fresco at Beans and Bagels by the train tracks. I am the señora sitting at a table with a newborn, young boy, and husband. We are attractive and dark. Your hair is tousled, and you are giving keen interest to Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of…

morequasar:

The apparently indefatigable Julia V. Hendrickson will soon be printing Grow No Moss, a collection of her own clever and finely tuned poetry. What makes her work a pleasure is her sense of timing: it allows her to situate her apt, sometimes wry metaphors at perfect junctures. One feels—in an…