Seeing the world’s challenges through poetry past and present.
Poets on the Beat is a collaboration between Capital & Main and Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.
California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick on how poetry became a weapon against hate and erasure in the face of COVID-era attacks on Asian Americans.
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.
Student poets respond to a hotter and diminished planet.
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 always been at the center of the American story.