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    Mar 7, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Jerry Brown waxes poetic to celebrate Arbor Day

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    It’s not every press release from the governor of California that begins with poetry. But when it came time draft a proclamation in honor of Arbor Day, the sort of mundane chore that most governors would think little to nothing......
    2. Aug 21, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Peter Berg dies at 73; advocate for bioregionalism

    When thousands of American youths dropped out of mainstream society and descended on San Francisco in the mid-1960s convulsion known as the counterculture, Peter Berg and a small band of like-minded subversives were there to greet them.
    When thousands of American youths dropped out of mainstream society and descended on San Francisco in the mid-1960s convulsion known as the counterculture, Peter Berg and a small band of like-minded subversives were there to greet them. Calling...

    Tags: Lungs and Airways, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Forests, Peter Coyote, Natural Resource Industry

    3. May 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Book calendar events for the week of May 22, 2011

    Words & Ideas Compiled by Grace Krilanovich. SUNDAY David Antin: The poet and critic will discuss his new book, "Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005" with Green Integer publisher Douglas Masserli. Art Catalogues...

    Tags: Arts, Awards and Prizes, Scott Weiland, Book, Tim Burton

    4. Jun 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Wednesday night in Los Angeles: Mike Mills with 'Beginners' [Video]

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    Writer-director Mike Mills, who published a book of illustrations to accompany his new film Beginners, appears Wednesday night in Los Angeles....
    5. May 25, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Culture Watch: 'On Cold Mountain: Songs on Poems of Gary Snyder'

    Culture Monster
    Mark Swed reviews a new recording of songs by four composers to texts by the Beat poet Gary Snyder...
    6. Aug 29, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate

    Reporting from Maui —
    Los Angeles Times
    Reporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...

    Tags: John Ashbery, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Awards and Prizes, Poetry, Robert Bly

    7. Feb 15, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 'Chronic,' by D.A. Powell

    Chronic
    Chronic Poems D.A. Powell Graywolf: 78 pp., $20 There are poets who show us the exterior world and poets who ferry news of their inner turmoil. Yet very few possess the double vision required to do both. Sylvia Plath surveyed and stoked the fires...

    Tags: Sylvia Plath, Death, Poetry, John Freeman

    8. Feb 21, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Kim Stanley Robinson maps the future's gray areas

    In science fiction, there's dystopia and there's utopia.
    In science fiction, there's dystopia and there's utopia. There are the dark wizards of apocalypse, terrifying us with visions of humanity's grim comeuppance. And the starry-eyed fantasists, insisting how much better the future will be than the messy,...

    Tags: University of California, San Diego, Weather, Corruption, Science, Education

    9. Jul 19, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. 'In Such Hard Times' by Red Pine/Bill Porter

    "On this day of drink and depression / I think about life on our Tuling farm / where will I be on the Ninth of next year / in such hard times I can't hope to go home," wrote the poet Wei Ying-Wu in the year 756 AD. At the time he was only about 20, and his world was crashing down.
    "On this day of drink and depression / I think about life on our Tuling farm / where will I be on the Ninth of next year / in such hard times I can't hope to go home," wrote the poet Wei Ying-Wu in the year 756 AD. At the time he was only about 20, and...

    Tags: Bill Porter, Buddhism, Death, Wars and Interventions, Family

    10. Sep 20, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Off The Shelf: Finding the pieces that turn writing into poetry

    When I was in my early 20s, living in Berkeley and drifting toward a PhD in Russian literature, I started writing poetry. It was a completely unexpected development. I definitely hadn't been one of those kids in high school who worked for the literary magazine and wrote moody poems. In college, I took one poetry class, my last semester, which I nearly failed because I kept skipping it to get drunk and hang out with my friends.
    When I was in my early 20s, living in Berkeley and drifting toward a PhD in Russian literature, I started writing poetry. It was a completely unexpected development. I definitely hadn't been one of those kids in high school who worked for the literary...

    Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Education, Literature, Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities

    11. Nov 24, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. The Western sage

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    The California writer Wallace Stegner is well known to readers for novels such as "Angle of Repose" and "Crossing to Safety." But Stegner had another dimension, as an advocate for a literary West -- especially the West of mountains and desert and big...

    Tags: Education, Literature, Folklore and Mythology, Colleges and Universities, Jack Kerouac

    12. Oct 26, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Mountain as muse

    Mt. St. Helens and the peaks of the Cascade Range formed the backdrop of Gary Snyder's youth. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet grew up on a dairy farm outside Seattle and attended a summer camp at the base of Mt. St. Helens. In his life — notable for...

    Tags: Bodies of Water, Forests, Vehicles, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg

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