Mira Costa, Palos Verdes boys water polo teams reach CIF Division 3 quarterfinals
Top-seeded Mira Costa advanced to the quarterfinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 3 boys water polo championships with a convincing 17-7 win over visiting Corona on Wednesday. Drew Rogerson scored seven goals, Andrew Burdiak recorded three goals and Corey Erickson, Austin Norris and Jake Tolt each scored two goals in the offensive barrage. Mira […]
Hermosa Beach choreographer tackles mental illness with dance
Hazel Clark was on a walk listening to one of her favorite artists, Laura Marling, when inspiration struck. “I was listening to her song, ‘My Manic,’ and it just hit me,” said Clark. “I just saw a mental institution and a set with a man struggling with schizophrenia and a woman in the institution in […]
Letter to a Young Poet [POEM]
Dear Jenni, Consult the vocabulary of wildfires, the diction of rivers and waterfalls, the lyrics of sunrise mead- owlark choirs, and a thunderstorm’s sky-bursting calls – the solemn, conclusive affirmations of stone, the laughter-borne conversations of leaves, belated con- fessions and obits, foreknown – the vehement rhetoric of wind and turbulence, the Sun’s impassioned decree […]
Letter to JB Kennedy from the Wood River Valley [POEM]
Dear JB, In the sweet bellow of the evening we relearn our walking. A rim runs the riverbank and flattens to a small path where the wood smoke leans along the valley. I sleep a little here to know how stars might pierce this darkness. Sister grass sleeps in the near moon, no dusk […]
In the river of lions: JB Kennedy and the practice of poetry
Legend has it that the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León ‘discovered’ Florida while looking for the Fountain of Youth, a fantasy which has nurtured fiction in all its forms. In reality, physical youth is meant to be transitory. It can’t be sheltered from the autumn of years and the winter of decades. Indifferent to […]