Los Angeles Literature’s newest literary history essay by Pam Ward.

Los Ángeles has been home to many powerful poets and writers, native born and transplants. They’ve read on stages, both makeshift and otherwise, from The Valley to Beyond Baroque, to Downtown and Chinatown to The Eastside, at Cafe con Libros in Pomona to LibroMobile in Santa Ana and the Ugly Mug in Orange, to long gone spots like Redondo Poets, Papa Bach Bookstore and 5th Street Dicks in Leimert Park and everywhere in-between. L,Á. native Pam Ward, author of Want Some Get Some, Mad Girls Burn Slow and the poetry collection Between Good Men & No Man At All, takes readers back to her first decade in the literary community, between the mid-80s to the mid-90s, remembering how the poets got down and how poetry saved lives.
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