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Writer Sarah Rafael García is a modern-day Brother Grimm, transforming Santa Ana, California's stories into fairy tale format.
In 2017, Mayor Garcetti and the L.A. Department of Cultural Affairs will be announcing our city’s next official Poet Laureate. Dating back over a century, there is an illustrious poetic tradition in L.A., which the Poet Laureate is expected to propagate.
In her original poem, April Wells from iLead North Hollywood confronts her mother who accuses her of becoming a stereotypical black woman.
Keithayonna Davis, an 18-year-old from College Bridge Academy, shares her experience of growing up in South Los Angeles and the harsh realities that many immigrants face in America.
José Montoya (1932–2013) captured the sentiments and struggles of the Chicano movement. His writings and drawings depicted zoot suiters, campesinos, pachucos and pachucas, revolutionaries, and everyday people that shared Chicano history.
Coiled Serpent evokes the city's checkered past in hopes of protecting it
On March 23, 1969, 1500 Mexican Americans students convened at the Denver Youth Conference, unifying under the term "Chicano." In commemoration, Sybil Venegas, Chair of Chicana/o Studies Department at East Los Angeles College, explains what's changed s...
The history of City Lights Publisher and Bookstore is shaped by the serendipitous meetings between writers and decades of touchstone publications that have made this institution one of California's most significant cultural landmarks.
This week, L.A. Letters spotlights Willowbrook's unique combination of agrarian history, diverse architectural styles, longtime residents and forthcoming…
Juan Felipe Herrera officially takes over his duties as the nation's first Mexican-American poet laureate this month. He recently shared his thoughts with Artbound about his upbringing, his creative process and his new position as U.S. poet laureate.
Award-winning writer Claudia Rankine ruminates on tennis phenom Serena Williams, YouTube artist Hennessy Youngman, and African American identity in this excerpt from her book "Citizen: An American Lyric."