...Dana Gioia Dana Gioia provides his accounting of his work as California’s tenth Poet Laureate. Originally delivered to the California Senate Rules Committee, this interview accounts for Gioia’s understanding of how poetry and the arts can connect with ordinary Californians in collaborative ways...

...Christine Bacareza Balance On October 30, 1975—a historical pivot point between 1930s film noir and 1990s gangsta rap— Bay Area poet Nashira Priester introduced to San Francisco State University’s (SFSU) Poetry Center audience the city’s latest musical outlaws: the West Coast Gangster Choir...

...David Lau This essay is a review of two recent books of criticism: Bill Mohr's account of the Los Angeles poetry scene and Ignacio Lopez-Calvo's account of recent film and fiction set in Latino L.A. The essay argues for a conception of L.A. rooted in understanding the political and economic history...

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...Louis Warren; Spring Warren Poet Gary Snyder talks about West Coast poetry and being a California poet. © 2011 by the Regents of the University of California 2011 geography poetry place landscape West Coast boom | FA L L 2 011 5 Boom: A Journal of California, Vol. 1, Number 3, pps 5...