| Tuesday, July 12, 7 PM Poet, activist, journalist Lewis MacAdams is the author of a dozen books and tapes of poetry, and his poems have appeared in many anthologies over the last twenty-five years. As a journalist, in the early 80’s, he was the American correspondent for the popular French magazine Actuel. From 1980 to 1982, he was the editor of WET, “the Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond,” a Los-Angeles-based, internationally-circulated bi-monthly of the avant-garde. Since the mid-80’s he has been a contributing editor of the L.A. Weekly. He writes regularly on culture and ecology for Rolling Stone, the L.A. Weekly, Men’s Journal, L.A. Times, and Los Angeles Magazine. His book, Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop and the American Avant Garde was published in 2001. He is currently writing a biography of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, which will be published in 2006. In 1985, he founded Friends of The Los Angeles River, a “40 year art work” to bring the Los Angeles River back to life. In the years since, FoLAR has become the River’s most important and influential advocate. Two of its current major goals are to create a Los Angeles River Conservancy to oversee restoration of the river, and a River Watch program to improve the River’s water quality and target polluters. In 1991, MacAdams received the San Fernando Valley Audubon Society’s annual Conservation Award. A new collection of poems, The River: Books One, Two & Three, (to be published by Blue Press in June of 2005) takes the Los Angeles River as its metaphor, weaving the story and song of the poet, activist and journalist as these three roles form the confluence which is the man. |
