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Pacific Christian on the Hill (PCH), originally Pacific Christian High School, was founded in 1965, but its roots went back to 1904 with the formation of Los Angeles Free Methodist Seminary (later Los Angeles Pacific College) by the Free Methodist Church. When the college was torn down, a new high school was built on the lot on the hill under ...
California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (California Legacy) (editor, with Chryss Yost and Jack Hicks) (2003) The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles (editor, with Scott Timberg) (2003) Twentieth-Century American Poetry (editor, with David Mason and Meg Schoerke) (2004) "The Art of the Short Story" (editor, with R. S. Gwynn) (2006)
The author himself read the poem. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton said of the poem, "Edwin Markham's Lincoln is the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and the greatest that ever will be written." Later that year, Markham was filmed reciting the poem by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
She was a finalist for California poet laureate (2005). [11] Coleman died on November 22, 2013, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. [12] She had been ill for a while. The Los Angeles Times described Coleman as "a force on the Los Angeles poetry scene" and the city's unofficial poet laureate. [12]
MacAdams was the author of a dozen books and tapes of poetry, and his poems have appeared in many anthologies. In 2001, he published his Birth of The Cool , a cultural history of the idea of cool. As a journalist, MacAdams was a contributing editor of L.A. Weekly and wrote regularly on culture and ecology for Rolling Stone , Men's Journal , the ...
In 1884, Lummis was working for a newspaper in Cincinnati and was offered a job with the Los Angeles Times.At that time, Los Angeles had a population of only 12,000. Lummis decided to make the 3,507-mile journey from Cincinnati to Los Angeles on foot, taking 143 days, all the while sending weekly dispatches to the paper chronicling his trip. [4]
Born in Los Angeles, California, [5] [6] Gorman was raised by her single mother, Dr. Joan Wicks, a 6th-grade English teacher in Watts, [7] with her two siblings. [5] [8] Her twin sister, Gabrielle, is an activist [9] and filmmaker. [10] Gorman has said she grew up in an environment with limited television access. [11]
She is a Visiting Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. [ 3 ] Espinoza's works have been published in Poetry Magazine , [ 4 ] PEN America , [ 5 ] Lambda Literary , [ 6 ] The Offing , [ 7 ] Shabby Doll House , [ 8 ] Electric Cereal , [ 9 ] Voicemail Poems, [ 10 ] and The Rumpus .