Self Interview 7-17-20 Poet : What do you intend to do about the Pandemic? Broker: Why are you asking me? Poet: You’re the one with the connections. Broker: Well you’re the one with the big ideas. Poet: Nobody cares what poets think-even Plato said to get rid of us. Broker: What is it you wantContinue reading “Self Interview”
Author Archives: Ed Rosenthal / Poet-Broker
First Zoom Presentation of Salvation Canyon
Featured with Beverly M.Collinsin Zoom reading rehearsal withMariko Kitakubo of Japan, whotook the photo.
The Digger In Valley Poets Anthology
The Digger by Ed Rosenthal
The lime vanilla ice-pop seen from a mile away
was a woman pushing a stick in the ground.
The wind romanced her rough robe
blowing cotton petals in and out
Her splotched white Dandelion of hair
flung itself around her arms and shoulders
Hikers Tackle Route
Wide Canyon, A love Story
By Ken Sims
Prologue:
Any story I write that features my wife Wendy … is just somehow a love story. …Even
those that are not altogether happy…
Wide Canyon:
I awakened early on the morning of Sunday, February 19, 2006. With nothing more pressing
to do, so I got on the computer and resumed my efforts to chart a course over the Little San
Bernardino Mountains
New Downtown Brokerage Update
My real estate firm New Downtown Brokerage is now involved in finishing several complicated deals in DTLA. As information becomes publicly available, I will post news and updates on this website. I’m very proud of my past contributions to redevelopment of our precious historic resources and the downtown core of the city.
“Downtown Crossroads” from Skid Row Studios
In 2013, I conducted a series of interviews with some of Downtown L.A.’s most interesting characters. “Downtown Crossroads” was lost for many years to me but found again in 2020. It will be relaunched as a podcast.
“The Projects” Awarded at Ventura County Poetry Contest
I’m from the warm red Formica table in the nook
carved from the kitchen of the post war housing
unit that faced the wall hiding the word Frigidaire
emblazoned on the six-inch thick yellow ecru door
which endured meal prep-wars with Mom’s rear…
“Coyote” Published in California Quarterly
Sniffing around my future
where my body crouched broiling beneath a rock,
you pawed backwards over six moonrises
to stop my future by halting my past …
“Landlady” Published in Cultural Weekly
Landlady
I can’t get a straight answer from her but I don’t mind
my mind being bent by beautiful turns of phrase
Quilts of words with soft stitchless edges wrapped
in overlapping designs from one side to the other.
Word bouquets imitate petals bent in the breeze….
Excerpt of Escape from Hell Episode with Bear Grylls
Legendary outdoorsman and survivalist Bear Grylls talks about the fateful and inspired decision Ed made that helped him to survive. Watch here.
