California Silence Author|Leonard W. Levine Rather than speaking above our

Rather than speaking above our commodified Pop Art present

or an email from his grandfather when the poet was 18

The middle class continues to shrink

she is confronted by and evil that knows her by name and drawn into a darkness she never knew existed

California Silence Author|Leonard W. Levine Rather than speaking above ourCalifornia Silence was selected by Emily Wallis Hughes for the 2026 Ottoline Prize. An intricate tapestry of urban, natural, elemental, and linguistic worlds, California Silence by Stella Santamara maps a future beyond the fraught border of language politics between English and Spanish. "The poet said nothing, nada," yet Santamara invites us into a full and inclusive world, dissolving separation: the "Floricultura Pacific." In her transformative debut