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In honor of National Poetry Month, "Que Hubo Jose te Manda Saludos La Lindsey", a poem Lindsey Haley.
Celebrate National Poetry Month with KCET Departures as we highlight a poem a day from the Departures installments, the student producers of Youth Voices, StoryShare participants, and from special guest poets.
It took the death of a poet for me to sit up and wonder what the hell is going on in Ciudad Juarez.
Irvin R. Lai born in Locke, California in 1927, served in both WWII and the Korean War. Through his passionate dedication to service, he became a civil…
He's an acrobat of words, hard-wired from his infancy in Mexico City to reject a singular definition and instead see each palabra as a fork in the road, with multiple paths to leapfrog, skip, duel with, embrace, kiss, or pass up.
Student poets force me to see--and read and hear--the possibilities of USC like I never have before.
Frank Rios was born in the Bronx promptly abandoned and moved to a foster home and was unable to speak until the age of 6.
Located in the old Venice City Hall, built in 1906, is LA's preeminent center for literature and arts directed by Fred Dewey.
Lindsey Haley was raised in Venice, her family part of the Chicano wave that took roots on the Westside during the 1960s and 1970s
At MOCA, L.A.'s poetry old-guard held out the torch to the young bucks and said... psych!
Carol Muske-Dukes is prepping to hit the California highways in a "Magic Bus," full of poets who want to share their love for the written word.
A parking lot a block from MacArthur Park used to be the Vagabond Theater. As a teenager in the late 1960s painter John Valadez spent a lot of time there watching art house films.