Ed Rosenthal is an author, poet and real estate broker. His newest publication is Salvation Canyon (DoppelHouse Press, 2020), a memoir about his near-death experience in the Mojave Desert in 2010. He is looking for a publisher for his graphic memoir The Projects.
Ed occupies a unique niche in poetry as a commercial real estate poet and performs his poetry for large audiences at public events, most recently in 2023 at the Urban Land Institute Urban Marketplace in the Historic Title Insurance Building and in 2024 at The Doppelhouse Press Interart Intertext event at Beyond Baroque.
Prior events included poems written as dedications of public events at the Hollywood Symposium of the LA Community Redevelopment Agency and in honor of Lulu Washington Dance Theater at the restored Downtown LA Orpheum Theater.
In 2013, he published his collection The Desert Hat (Moonrise Press), and previous to that a hand-made chapbook, Deco Jade (Conflux Press).
As a real estate broker in Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), Ed’s firm New Downtown Brokerage was at the epicenter of a decades-long revitalization effort of the historic area. Combining issues as diverse as real estate deals, minority contractors and homelessness, his socially-oriented poetry has been published in venues from large to small to unusual. In 2002 the Wall Street Journal published a series of his rhyming couplets in which he admonished short-sighted developers. A 2003 LA Times feature covered Rosenthal’s “Poetic Request for an Extension of Escrow,” citing the poetry which helped foster DTLA redevelopment. Rosenthal is the only poet to be published in the magazine of the prestigious Urban Land Institute in Washington D.C., Urban Land.
He lives in downtown Los Angeles.
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Originally published as a handmade chapbook by Conflux Press in 2005.
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Whoever’s known the roots of the willow
is better trained to bend the willow’s limbs.
–Rainer Maria Rilke
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