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Mike Sonksen

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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.

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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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California, and Los Angeles specifically, has always been considered a laboratory of the future.
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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.
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The burgeoning tide of Los Angeles literature grows bigger every year.
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If I've said it once, I've said it a million times -- there's a golden age of arts flourishing these days in L.A.
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Poets have always played the role of the voice of people since the dawn of man
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Myth making has always been a big part of the California dream.
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I know I am not alone when I say I am very thankful for the Los Angeles art community.
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