Mike Sonksen
Equally a scholar and performer, Mike Sonksen, also known as Mike the Poet, is a 3rd-generation L.A. native acclaimed for published essays, poetry performances and mentoring teen writers. Mike teaches at Woodbury University.
This week L.A. Letters celebrates Burbank, one of the Southland's media capitals with a small town feel.
This week L.A. Letters celebrates one of the greatest to ever pick up a pen, write a play or rip a poem. Long live Leroi Jones.
The first L.A. Letters of 2014 looks at three early iconic books focused on Los Angeles.
Picking up where last week left off, this week L.A. Letters presents more notable books from 2013, as well as a few new developments and notes on the last year in literature.
Books and love for Los Angeles form the backbone of this column, along with California history, urban studies, architecture, and poetry with some selected fiction. This week L.A. Letters looks at the past year in books.
Nestled between Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Gabriel, San Marino, El Sereno, City Terrace and Monterey Park, Alhambra is one of the oldest suburbs in Los Angeles County, dating back to the arrival of the transcontinental railroad and the boom of the 1...
This week L.A. Letters honors celebrated poet and essayist Wanda Coleman, who passed last week.
This week L.A. Letters unpacks the politics of preservation via two books published by the University of California Press: "California Vieja" and "Tokyo Vernacular," and examines a historic location of Japanese-American history in Huntington Beach.
This week L.A. Letters honors Light, Eagle Rock and Filipino/a history in Southern California.
This week L.A. Letters spotlights two poets, who both in their own way create ultramodern poetry of collision that inevitably answers metaphysical questions as it unfolds and unravels.
In the last three decades Monterey Park became known as the first city and suburb in America to have an Asian majority. Advertised in Asia as the "Chinese Beverly Hills," the city's unique social history has made it the subject of several books in the ...
This week L.A. Letters covers a kaleidoscope of L.A. arts issues equally tragic and uplifting.