SCOTT
WANNBERG
who passed away Aug. 19, 2011, was a much loved Los Angeles poet, and one of the most prolific. Words flowed from him, absent of guile, rife with heart, metaphor (often having to do with great movies), and comedy. He was a fixture at one of the last independent bookstores in L.A., Dutton's in Brentwood, for over twenty years. He was my friend since high school, and contributed poems to this website gratis. My tribute to Scott here. The L.A. Times obituary here. More here. ---Rip Rense (sketch by Michael Paul.)

K. RENSE is in the tradition of classic poetic language both ornate and simple. He has an abiding love of nature,  endless wit (and wits' end.) The status of his long-in-the-works novel, "Rushes," in which a man sets out to determine if he was once a fish, is unknown. (drawings by Rip Rense.)