Breaking the Dangerous Habit of Silence
California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick on how poetry became a weapon against hate and erasure in the face of COVID-era ...
Seeing the world’s challenges through poetry past and present
The overwhelming volume of news can leave us numb. That’s where poets can rescue us with vivid new ways of seeing. As the poet Adrienne Rich noted, politically engaged poems can inspire by “reaching into us for what’s still passionate.”
Capital & Main and the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center have commissioned six distinguished California poets to write short essays that link poetry to social and political themes. The authors harness the poetry of the past and present to provide new perspectives on such topics as climate change, growing inequality, the immigrant experience and police violence.
California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick on how poetry became a weapon against hate and erasure in the face of COVID-era ...
From different centuries, the poems of Bertolt Brecht and Angel Dominguez convey the lonely yearning of Los Angeles exiles.
Southern California writers have long used distant blazes to create atmosphere. Worsening fires have changed all that.
Three years after Floyd’s death, a poet searches for meaning amid 400 years of Black dispossession.
From rust belt assembly lines to Amazon warehouses, former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis Rodriguez reminds us that labor has ...