Sesshu

Sesshu Foster celebrates Amy Uyematsu, a pioneering and politically active Japanese American poet, who died Friday at 75 — and never stopped fighting or writing.

Sesshu Foster emerged from a difficult L.A. childhood to become a leading poet.

The 14 most essential L.A. poems or poetry collections, including those by Wanda Coleman, Robin Coste Lewis, Sesshu Foster, Bukowski, Brecht and more.

Based on 95 responses, here are the 14 most essential L.A. poems or poetry collections, including verse from Wanda Coleman, Robin Coste Lewis, Sesshu Foster, Charles Bukowski, Bertolt Brecht and more.

Plascencia, Michael Jaime-Becerra, James Ellroy and more recently Carribean Fragoza have made it the center of what Sesshu Foster calls the “underwritten eastern San Gabriel Valley.”