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Poetry has and continues to be at the center of the most political questions. Explore L.A.'s thriving poetry scene and discover how artists use their poetic verse to speak up and speak out.

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This week in L.A. Letters I celebrate two towering women literary figures: journalist Joan Didion and the poet Ursula Rucker.
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This week L.A. Letters celebrates two new books and two open mic venues that put the community over the individual in order to improve our environmental and cultural landscape.
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This week L.A. Letters highlights a new book and recent events that celebrate life and death in Los Angeles.
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Music and poetry have been the ultimate mediums for expressing the wide range of human emotions since the dawn of man.
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For African American History Month, L.A. Letters features two important books that expand, as well as question, the canon of 20th Century African-American Poetry.
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This week L.A. Letters salutes the talented musicians that reflect the shifting range of California seasons.
S.A. Griffin's got a bomb...but it's not filled with what you would expect. Take a tour with "The Poetry Bomb" as his 'disruption' bursts in Venice.
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It's been two decades since three friends came together while attending UCLA.
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Huell Howser was an emissary for "The Gospel of Beauty" as preached by poet Vachel Lindsay.
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Sing forevermore for the late piano prodigy from Venice.
After a devastating fire in 2004, the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony is being resurrected by community efforts in a secluded natural setting in Temecula.
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Lewis MacAdams on environmentalism, poetry, art, and revitalization of the river.
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