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 spotlights four recent poetry books with connections to San Francisco, the Beat Generation, and Surrealism.
This week L.A. Letters picks up where last week's column left off, with a long list of special events, venues, and announcements related to National Poetry Month.
This week L.A. Letters celebrates National Poetry Month with a litany of locations for live poetry.
This week L.A. Letters explicates two remarkable releases that are making major waves nationally: a book by award-winning poet Douglas Kearney, and an album by the singer-songwriter, emcee, and multi-instrumentalist Aloe Blacc.
This week L.A. Letters salutes rising women writers and two events around the city featuring significant women.
This week L.A. Letters spotlights five emerging women authors who are doing important work in our contemporary scene.
This week L.A. Letters highlights a new play celebrating Latina voices, along with five iconic L.A. women writers.
This week L.A. Letters examines the unfolding debate at Cal State L.A. and discusses why Ethnic Studies and events like Black History Month remain important.
This week L.A. Letters spotlights Luis Rodriguez's distinguished career and also highlights the larger community of writers from Boyle Heights to Pacoima and Sylmar that count him as their mentor.
This week L.A. Letters celebrates the important public murals of Richard Wyatt with extra close attention paid to his eighty-foot long mural in the East Portal at Union Station.
This week L.A. Letters showcases four African-American poets that have made major contributions to the city's literary community.
This week L.A. Letters pays tribute to Washington, and briefly highlights the groundbreaking Black assemblage art movement he came to rise within Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s.