Tag: poetry
City Looking For Next Poet Laureate
WEST HOLLYWOOD— On June 22, the City of West Hollywood announced that they are accepting applicants for this year’s Poet Laureate. The winner will...
A Poetic Journey
UNITED STATES—Since being on the airplane to Madrid, I'd reencountered poetry. I grabbed a few scraps from the shelf above my desk because we...
Nostalgic
UNITED STATES—Lovely event at the library in Echo Park last Friday. The poet Patricio Maya gave the first of three Friday talks devoted to...
Lucky Dog
UNITED STATES—Two thousand dollars was an unusually small amount for a trust deed. For that amount I had sewn up as collateral the whole...
Full Circle
UNITED STATES—Astonishing how things blossomed after joining the Spanish-language theater group. After one of the group's rehearsals Rafael, the director, invited me to check...
UCLA Graduate New U.S. Poet Laureate
BRENTWOOD—Juan Felipe Herrera, 66, a graduate from UCLA, the former poet laureate of California, is now the poet Laureate of the United States. The Library...
A Mother’s Day Memory
BEVERLY HILLS—My mother once said, "It doesn't matter if you love or hate the person who brought you into this world, you owe respect...
