Spotlight Poet Kenneth Rexroth
A life-long iconoclast, Rexroth railed against the dominance of the east-coast "literary establishment." While he refused to consider himself a Beat poet,
his influence as champion of anti-establishment literature paved the way for others to write poems of passionate political engagement.
Spotlight Audio Assault by Edna St. Vincent Millay
read by Dorianne Laux
Spotlight Essay Picasso's Portrait of Gertrude
Stein
"In 1905, Picasso asked her to sit for a portrait, and the results were dark, brooding, and strange. Picasso famously said, 'Everybody says that she
doesn't look like it, but that does not make any difference. She will...'"
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