Extremes and Moderations
A Historical Anthology of Los Angeles Poetry
Spanning the 1850s–1970s, this anthology traces Los Angeles poetry from booster verse and frontier elegy through modernist experiment, Beat drift, feminist interventions, and punk-era performance.
“Dantés” is the pseudonym of a poet who published in La Gaceta, Santa Barbara, during the years 1979-1881...
After a series of accidents, Fuller was not able to walk or sit, and so he began traveling around the United States to sing his verses...
Sturges, creator of the love cult Helios, was imprisoned in 1922 for sending obscene material through the mail...
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The Pemberton-designed Redondo Beach Public Library, built in 1930, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981...
Kercheval was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of poet Albert Fenner Kercheval...
Lummis was offered the job of City Editor at the Los Angeles Times in 1884; he chose to make the 3,507-mile journey on foot...
Kercheval crossed the continent with a group of miners from Peoria, Illinois...
While imprisoned, Byers wrote the poem for which he would become nationally known, ”Sherman’s March to the Sea”...
Spalding became a vice-president of the Los Angeles Times and engaged in fruit growing for several years...
A prominent member of the staff of the Los Angeles Times, Mosher committed suicide on the beach at Santa Monica...
Dillon was Secretary-Director of the Chino Chamber of Commerce for seven years...
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Ethelean Gaw co-wrote the play Pharaoh’s Daughter and became the editor of The Lyric West publication...
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Bibb Thompson’s A Reply to the Clansman (1915) was a screenplay in response to the film The Birth of a Nation...
The Poets Garden, which began with the naming of trees already in Le Prade’s backyard for poets, was formally dedicated in 1927...
Gilman is perhaps best known for her autobiographical account of postpartum depression, “The Yellow Wallpaper."...
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Born in Japan, Kagawa studied at nearby Stanford University, where he met poet and literary scholar Yvor Winters...
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Hughes was the brother of Howard R. Hughes Sr. and uncle of billionaire Howard R. Hughes Jr...
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Having befriended many European avant-garde artists, notably Marcel Duchamp, Arensberg assembled one of the greatest collection of Modernist art in the country...
His most famous work, America Is in the Heart, an autobiographical novel, appeared in 1946...
In 1963, he testified in a California Supreme Court obscenity hearing on Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer...
Her poem “Young Girl” won the Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize in 1920; a volume, Young Girl and Other Poems, appeared the same year...
Kwan initially emigrated to San Francisco, but moved to Los Angeles in 1915 to work in the film industry...
MacLeod was born in Anderson, Indiana and spent his early life working on a farm...
MacPherson was born in Kansas, where he worked as the comic editor of the Wichita Eagle...
Percival is best known to historians of Los Angeles as a great collector of Asian artifacts...
Channing was born in Rhode Island to William Francis Channing, an inventor who had worked with Alexander Graham Bell...
In the thirties, Green published poems in the science fiction journals Weird Tales and Amazing Stories...
Jeffers’s first book, Flagons and Apples (1912), written in metrical verse, is very much the work of a novice...
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Burden studied under Thornton Wilder at the University of Chicago, from which she graduated in 1936...
His first book, The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems, was published by Scribner in 1965 and won the Lamont Poetry Prize...
There Are Seagulls on Our Lawn (1947), illustrated by Betty, reflects his training as a botanist...
While at Stanford, she was part of the circle of Yvor Winters who included her in Twelve Poets of the Pacific (New Directions, 1937)...
He was working as a professional puppeteer in Glendale when his first poems appeared in Grover I. Jacoby’s Variegation and Recurrence...
Though he moved back to Colorado in 1949, he published frequently in L.A.-based poetry journals Variegation: A Free Verse Quarterly, and Recurrence: A Quarterly of Rhyme...
Jacoby edited two long-running national poetry magazines, Variegation (1946-1959), devoted to free verse, and Recurrence (1950-1959)...
Yates is best known as a music critic and supported of the experimental arts in Los Angeles...
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Her first book, Ring Song, was published by Scribner’s in 1952 and was nominated for the National Book Award...
McGrath appeared as an unfriendly witness before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953...
Rolfe moved to Spain to volunteer for the Spanish Civil War as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade...
Best known as the “maverick” publisher of Trace (1952-1970), May was an essayist, poet and fiction writer...
Brecht, one of the most renowned playwrights and poets of the 20th Century, was born in Augsburg, Germany...
Meyers was the son of Sephardic Jewish parents who emigrated from Spain to Brooklyn and then settled in Los Angeles...
Weisburd was, in addition to his poetry, known as an innovator in air pollution control...
Spingarn was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, descended on his father’s side from Portuguese Jews who had arrived in in the U.S. in 1820...
Ain was a finalist in the Yale Younger Poet series in 1952, the year that W.H. Auden judged the contest...
Pillin was born in Zaporizhia (then called Alexandrovsk) Ukraine to Elconon and Anna Pillin...
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Thomas was primarily associated with Venice, where he lived for most of his adult life after hitchhiking across country...
During his lifetime, he published in the Evergreen Review and other underground journals...
