Poetry. This book is an acceptance and celebration of life in the city of Los Angeles, a difficult, hard to navigate and sometimes unlovely place, which has, nevertheless, provided a creative force in the life of the author that is constant and that has sustained her. The book chronicles her life as she writes and works. She "reminds us to give thanks daily for the fragile miracles of the back porch, the arroyo, the tree-lined sidewalk, the coastal fog. This is a chronicle of the poetry that awaits us mere footsteps from the front door, fifteen minutes north of Downtown gridlock, or inches from our fingertips. Her simple prayers evoke the wild abundance of flora, fauna, vistas and weather we would miss had she not been alongside to point them out to us"--Amelie Frank.

Author City: Pasadena, CA USA

PHOEBE MACADAMS is the author of Strange Grace (Cahuenga Press, 2007), Livelihood (Cahuenga Press, 2003), Ordinary Snake Dance (Cahuenga Press, 1994), Sunday (Tombouctou Press, 1983), and Ever (Rose Valley Press, 1985). She was a founding member of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. For two years, she ran the Gasoline Alley reading series on Melrose Avenue with the poet, Bill Mohr. She has lived in the poetry communities of Bolinas, California and Boulder, Colorado. She currently lives in Pasadena with her husband, Ron Ozuna, and teaches English at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights.