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A coyote stands on an urban front lawn.
Poetically Speaking

AFTERBURN

Victoria Thomas, from Pasadena to Crete and back again.

June 16, 2025
The sun is breaking over a mountain ridge and trees and a road.
Poetically Speaking

Eaton Canyon Night (January 7th, 2025)

Tradition and the individual talent.

May 22, 2025
Small white flowers on a skinny green stem before a green background of plants.
Poetically Speaking

Fire Chasers

A poet envisions recovery.

May 13, 2025
A small meditation bell, two ceramic bulls, an oblong stone, and a ceramic pot rest on top of a bookshelf.
Poetically Speaking

Souvenirs

Objects of memory.

May 8, 2025
Mixed race man and S Asian woman
Arts & Lit

Two Poets, Many Voices

Altadena Co-Poets Laureate bring grace and gravitas to Litfest in the Dena.

April 29, 2025
Sunlight streams through a small oak tree.
Poetically Speaking

Crown of the Valley

Pasadena revisited.

March 22, 2025
flames burn a building with rocks in the foreground
Poetically Speaking

Wind and Fire

A hell of a night.

March 16, 2025
A green one-story building beneath a blue and cloudy sky.
Arts & Lit

The Poetry Gathering at Washington Park

Pasadena seniors gather to read and discuss.

March 14, 2025
A tree leans over a leaf-strewn hiking path.
Poetically Speaking

Eaton Canyon Seasons

Sheryl Turner takes a walk.

February 25, 2025
Trees and bushes in a sandy wash.
Poetically Speaking

Mi Desierto

Finding the desert within.

February 18, 2025
A cat sleeps on an asphalt driveway where some sawdust gathers.
Poetically Speaking

Pasadena Dawn

Victoria Thomas betwixt and between.

February 11, 2025
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With This Ring

Sullivan Love-Alchemy

Love is sweet in the third act for the Sullivans.

February 11, 2025
Two tea mugs, one white, one blue, rest on a blue counter before a wall of colorful tiles.
Poetically Speaking

A Cup of Tea?

Please take a sip.

February 3, 2025
A close up of a desert field
Poetically Speaking

Spreading Basin

Let it soak in.

January 27, 2025
At night beneath the moon a couple walks down a sidewalk.
Poetically Speaking

Evening Walk (Sonnet for John)

Leah Sullivan’s poetic perambulation.

January 15, 2025
On a wooden table top rests a notebook open to a blank page; a pen rests across the blank page.
Poetically Speaking

Pasadena Poetry Wanted

Versifying the City One Poem at a Time.

November 24, 2024
In a square pond with cement borders, a sculpture of a kneeling woman serves as a fountain. There are trees in the background and desert and then mountains in the far background.
Poetically Speaking

Mood Poem

Poets can get moody.

October 19, 2024
parrots flying
Poetically Speaking

The Parrot Feral Queen

Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s imagination takes flight with Pasadena’s parrots.

October 5, 2024
Hart Crane standing in front of a building
Poetically Speaking

Hart Crane in Altadena (November 1927-March 1928)

Our Poet Laureate memorializes Hart Crane's sojourn in Altadena.

August 22, 2024
Brendan Constantine looking at the camera
Arts & Lit

Brendan and the Brain

Brendan Constantine discusses the curious connection between aphasia and poetry.

May 7, 2024
A bird perched on a tree branch
Talking Points

Poetry, Eaton Canyon and Climate Change

Local News Pasadena invited poet Robert Savino Oventile to talk about his

August 13, 2023

 

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Obits

Michael Madsen that is standing in the snow

My Father, Michael Madsen

Local News Pasadena correspondent Calvin Madsen remembers his famous father.

Poetically Speaking

A coyote stands on an urban front lawn.

AFTERBURN

Victoria Thomas, from Pasadena to Crete and back again.

With This Ring

Man and woman with WTC twin towers in background

Bard and Muse: A Love Story

Devastation has not destroyed the love of the Ash family.


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