{"id":47195,"date":"2016-05-29T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47195"},"modified":"2016-05-29T20:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T20:46:51","slug":"la-poets-document-the-city-in-coiled-serpent-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47195","title":{"rendered":"LA poets document the city in \u2018Coiled Serpent\u2019 anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/arts-and-entertainment\/20160325\/la-poets-document-the-city-in-coiled-serpent-anthology\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>LA poets document the city in \u2018Coiled Serpent\u2019 anthology<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n2016-03-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Richword\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Richard Guzman<\/strong><\/a>, Arts and Entertainment Reporter<br \/>\n<em>Long Beach Press Telegram<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As students take part in a guitar workshop inside his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiachucha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tia Chucha\u2019s Centro Cultural &amp; Bookstore<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylmar,_Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Sylmar<\/a>, Los Angeles Poet Laureate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luisjrodriguez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Rodriguez<\/a> grabs a copy of the latest book published by his nonprofit organization.<\/p>\n<p>He walks outside to a small table and sets down his blue <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winnie-the-Pooh\" target=\"_blank\">Winnie the Pooh<\/a> coffee cup, exposing a faded forearm tattoo of a long-haired indigenous woman as he flips through the pages of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44653\" target=\"_blank\">Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes &amp; Shifts of Los Angeles<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the beauty of it. The poems really stand out, and I think it\u2019s really reflective of the city. The city is beautiful in so many weird ways,\u201d says the poet and novelist, who is perhaps best known for his memoir \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/Always-Running\/Luis-J-Rodriguez\/9780743276917\" target=\"_blank\">Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamayor.org\/mayor-garcetti-appoints-luis-j-rodriguez-poet-laureate-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\">named<\/a> poet laureate by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Garcetti\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Eric Garcetti<\/a> in 2014, has long been an advocate for the city, its poetry and the power of words to change lives.<\/p>\n<p>And the new book exemplifies those tenets with a collection of poems that capture the experiences, cultures and even the weirdness that intertwine \u2014 and at times collide \u2014 to create the fabric of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The anthology includes the voices of more than 160 L.A. poets who are part of the sweeping 371-page tome&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/arts-and-entertainment\/20160325\/la-poets-document-the-city-in-coiled-serpent-anthology\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA poets document the city in \u2018Coiled Serpent\u2019 anthology Los Angeles Daily News 2016-03-25 Richard Guzman, Arts and Entertainment Reporter Long Beach Press Telegram As students take part in a guitar workshop inside his Tia Chucha\u2019s Centro Cultural &amp; Bookstore in Sylmar, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez grabs a copy of the latest book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,5,14646,8,20],"tags":[455,787,16473,23923,644],"class_list":["post-47195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-book-reviews","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-california","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-daily-news","tag-luis-rodriguez","tag-richard-guzman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47197,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47195\/revisions\/47197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}