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Some ways of looking at a poet, businessman, and pedestrian
After a 30 year absence, Poetry Festival Santa Cruz returns.
Mike the Poet recites his homage to the bright literary stars of Watts and Leimert Park.
Mike the Poet highlights the writers who have celebrated the diverse black arts community in Los Angeles.
Mike the Poet recites his homage to Los Angeles authors.
The only way I can even get close to defining the Latino zeitgeist is to go back to all the people I've interviewed in the last 11 years as a daily reporter in L.A. Here are some of them.
Mike Sonksen a.k.a. Mike the Poet celebrates the bright moments of literary Los Angeles in his new column. The works of Lionel Rolfe and Johnny Otis are highlighted.
Bill Mohr's new book on poetry in Los Angeles is a rich, exuberant and pleasurable history of nearly 50 years of extraordinary writing.
At the year's ending, we all remember for the sake of some "long time ago."
The passport's green cover and eagle on a cactus doesn't do it for me anymore.
In April, Maria Rivera stood in Mexico City's main square and read "Los Muertos," a poem that for one of the first times in public dared name those killed in the country's government and drug cartel violence war.
I know a few Chileans in Los Angeles. The first one I met was Joaquin Murieta.