Mike "the PoeT" Sonksen - Poetry.LA Interview

[@manjufrodo]

Wonderful interview -- Mike is an L.A. treasure. Thank you both!

[@makeyourownfun6373]

Fantastic interview. Mike is the best!

[@MsDemimondaine]

This is great -- as well as a longtime supporter of regional poets, Mike Sonksen has a reservoir of knowledge (or should I say he IS a reservoir of knowledge) about Los Angeles history. I'll share this over to my two FB groups. Over there, people need to know more about this.

[@thomashewlett3166]

That poem at the end was so powerful! "I remember your flamethrower cocktail of kindness"

[@Californiansurfer]

❤❤2012 to 2020 I worked in Jeffersonville indiana, Mishawaka indiana, elkhart Indiana Shepardvill Kentucky and waxahachie texas. I remember arriving in Louisville Kentucky airport and the taxi driver told me , out here you are a black man. Wow, the company we bought , I was the illegal but had to break stereo types.. I felt like gong back to Downey California 1980. I found used book stores and my library was Waffle House 4am to 8am everyday. I leaned so much and found the reason for American attitude towards Mexicano .. Great book. 2023. Teaching white Supremacy by Donald yacovan They stopped teaching white supremacy in public schools 1776-19655 due to Martin Luther king and Malcom x. I am home now Downey California I surf on weekends at HB pier then visit friends and talk books and evening go to East Los Angeles Cruising with my 1969 Impala. Surf in morning and low ridding.. Downey California 😅. Surfer Frank. Downey library used book section. 6pm to 8pm.. say, hello some time..