Book Release Party June 15!

New Poetry from Michael Dwayne Smith!

Available at: 

Rainbow Stew, Yucca Valley 

& Space Cowboy, Joshua Tree!

Click here to order your copy from Amazon!

Fix your Calendar! June 11, 2017 3 PM

After the reading, Michael Dwayne Smith will also signing copies of his new book Roadside Epiphanies. You may purchase your copy there for $10. If you are on Facebook, you can let us know you're interested or you're going for sure by clicking here! 

Issue 6 ready to stick to your mind!

Cholla Needles Issue 6 has been released, and will be available to purchase this week at the Rainbow Stew in Yucca Valley and Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree. The wonderful authors in this issue are:


Gillian Spedding
Simon Perchik
James Marvelle
Dave Maresh
Pat Anthony
Charles D. J. Case
D. Marie Fitzgerald
Ruth Nolan
Noreen Lawlor
Michael Dwayne Smith

The spectacular cover is by Ruth Nolan.

    Click here to purchase at Amazon.

Young Writers Meet and Read =:-)

Cholla Needles featured the Young Writers of the Morongo Basin in Issue 4, and they got together to read aloud to an audience of their peers at Joshua Springs Calvary Chapel on May 18. Featured writers are Brianna Robertson, Brendyn Godley, Dakota Lazaovitz, David Gessaman, Dillon Lovejoy, Evalynn Large, Haley Perkins, Jack Melvin, Jaren Pendergrass, JJ Frederick, Jonathan Brake, Josiah Fontillas, Maile Long, Max Hart, Rebekah Billings, and Seth Nazario. Cholla Needles is available at Rainbow Stew in Yucca Valley, and Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree. Click here to buy a copy of Issue 4.

Lasting Notes by James Marvelle

New release from Cholla Needles! Lasting Notes by James Marvelle 

"James Marvelle has been blasting poetry through pens into notebooks since his birth in 1949. He kept delicate track of every life he encountered between here and there with detail, humor, pathos, and whatever else flew freely. James was taught the joy of nursery rhymes from his earliest moments, and continues that childhood joy by sharing the songs he writes with everyone."

Click here to purchase from Amazon =:-) 

The Movie Release of May 14, 2017!

Thanks to Jean-Paul L. Garnier of Space Cowboy Books! 

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