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Hector Tobar and David L. Ulin on the inauguration as literature
This morning, staff writer Hector Tobar and I talked about Monday's presidential inauguration through the filter of its writing, paying particular attention to President Obama's inaugural address, and the commemorative poem, "One Today," by Richard...
Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Sidewalk poetry box wins more fans for free verse
"I'm still getting reactions to the article," said Peleg Top, the Silver Lake resident whose frontyard poetry box charmed readers when The Times profiled him in September. The business coach and life mentor had taken the kind of sidewalk box usually...
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Letters: L.A.'s poet laureate -- an appreciation
Re "Poet laureate is chosen for L.A.," Dec. 7 In the early 1980s, I was a restless transfer student at Cal State Northridge, an undeclared major and uncertain in most things. On a whim, I attended a poetry reading in a packed CSUN office. Eloise Klein...Tags: California State University, Northridge, Same-Sex Marriage
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Video Game Awards: Telltale’s ‘Walking Dead,’ ‘Journey’ win big
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comAttendees and home viewers of the 10th edition of Spike TV's Video Game Awards were treated to trailer after trailer ...... -
Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson!
Today is the 182nd anniversary of Emily Dickinson's birth. Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Dickinson may now be one of the most recognized names in poetry, but in her day, she kept much to herself. Her work was not widely known until after her death --...
Tags: Social Media, Amazon Kindle Fire, Emily Dickinson
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Balancing family and rock 'n' roll attitudes in Redd Kross
The holidays are for spending time with family. That doesn’t necessarily mean they have to be your own. After all, brothers Steven and Jeff McDonald of L.A. rock institutions Redd Kross, who will headline a New Year’s Eve concert tonight...
Tags: Jonas Brothers (music group), Music, Popular Music (genre), Punk (genre), Entertainment
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Eloise Klein Healy anointed L.A.'s first poet laureate
L.A. NOWMayor Antonio Villaraigosa will introduce Eloise Klein Healy as the city's first poet laureate. She is a stalwart of the Los Angeles literary scene and author of seven books of poems.... -
Richard Blanco named Obama's 2013 inaugural poet
President Obama has chosen Richard Blanco, the 44-year-old son of Cuban immigrants, to be the 2013 inaugural poet. He will be the first Latino poet, and the first openly gay man given the honor of reading at a presidential inauguration. “Richard&...
Tags: Barack Obama, Book, Immigration, Human Interest
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Justin Timberlake rolls through L.A. in new 'Suit & Tie' video
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticJustin Timberlake rolls through Los Angeles in his new video for "Suit & Tie," the first single off of his forthcoming studio album. It's been a while since Timberlake, who earlier this month released the track as his first new solo material since 2006,...Tags: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (music group), Music, Jessica Biel, Entertainment, Justin Timberlake
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Inauguration 2013: Poet is a worthy successor to Walt Whitman [Updated]
[This post has been updated from its original version. It originally spelled the poet's name "Bianco," not "Blanco."] If President Obama had been casting about through American history for the ideal poet to deliver his inaugural "Song of Ourselves,"...
Tags: Barack Obama, China, U.S. Congress
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Yannis Ritsos and the poetry of witness
It’s tempting to read the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos, who died in 1990 at the age of 81, as an embodiment (of sorts) of Percy Bysshe Shelley's admonition that “[p]oets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” A lifelong communist,...
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Maged Zaher's out-to-lunch poem
There’s a handmade quality to Maged Zaher’s third volume of poetry, “Thank You for the Window Office” (Ugly Duckling: 74 pp., $15 paper), and not just because of the rough-hewn beauty of the book itself. No, the work here —...
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