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What's on your summer reading list? There is still time to pick up a few more books. Select from Zócalo's Summer Reading List: zps.la/4ebANgV

Hitting the road this summer? Read poet Derek Mong's essay on how his "bottomed-out belief" in the road trip was restored—at least temporarily. zps.la/45NaF9V

"Yaya Braids My Hair Before I Wake" by Angelique Zobitz is our latest in poetry. Read it here and listen to a special recording of Zobitz reading the poem: zps.la/4lmwt11

Medusa, the “Godmother of West Coast Hip-Hop,” joins us at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles next Saturday, July 19, for “Can Hip-Hop Be the Soundtrack for Change?”—a pre-concert conversation with Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles 🌴 and sponsored by Atom Tickets. zps.la/hiphop

What's July poetry curator Simone Muench's writing process like? Find out in our green room interview with her. Read it here: zps.la/4eu6eD7

It's possible for L.A. to rebuild—and prevent fires and carbon emissions, writes architectural researcher and designer Jia Yi Gu. zps.la/3TANb0o

Architect John K. Chan offers a "micro mixed-use" vision for how Altadena can rebuild after the Eaton fire.zps.la/4leFBog

Zócalo publishes new poetry every Friday. Read our latest poem: "Yaya Braids My Hair Before I Wake" by Angelique Zobitz. zps.la/4lmwt11

Medusa, the “Godmother of West Coast Hip-Hop,” joins us at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles **this Saturday, July 19** for “Can Hip-Hop Be the Soundtrack for Change?”—a pre-concert conversation with Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles 🌴 and sponsored by Atom Tickets. zps.la/hiphop

Is "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI" on your summer reading list? See why journalist Josh Chin thinks it should be, and read other recommendations from our friends and contributors. zps.la/4ebANg

Eclectic but curated. Smart without snark. Ideas journalism with a head and heart. Sign up for the Zócalo newsletter to get our latest essays, poems, and updates on our (always) free events.zps.la/newsletter

Six months after the L.A. fires, Zócalo is thinking about how we are rebuilding. Architectural researcher Jia Yi Gu considers her field's role in the ongoing ecological crisis, and how we can build better. zps.la/3TANb0o

ATTN: Kamala Harris Don’t run for governor in 2016, or president in 2028. California needs you to protect our state from federal attacks, writes columnist Joe Mathews. Read his invitation to the former VP. bit.ly/40jftjJ

"Against the backdrop of ongoing ecological emergency, Los Angeles is rebuilding after January’s fires. But the city is doing so the same way it has for the past century," writes architectural researcher Jia Yi Gu. How can we do better? zps.la/3TANb0o

"Yaya Braids My Hair Before I Wake" by Angelique Zobitz is a poem about a lot of things at once: loss and memory, bodies and ghosts. Read it here: zps.la/4lmwt11

Medusa, the “Godmother of West Coast Hip-Hop,” joins us at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 19 for “Can Hip-Hop Be the Soundtrack for Change?”—a pre-concert conversation with Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles 🌴 and sponsored by Atom Tickets. zps.la/hiphop

Did you know Zócalo is on Soundcloud? Listen to our programs wherever and whenever you want, and give us a follow. soundcloud.com/zocalopublicsq…

Meet Simone Muench, Zócalo's poetry curator for July. She is a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly, poetry editor for JackLeg Press, and founder of the Hungry Brain Sunday Reading Series (Sunday Reading Series) in Chicago. zps.la/4eu6eD7

Do we need a California Autonomy Authority? Joe Mathews believes the state needs a new agency to fight back against the threats from the federal government. And he’s got the perfect candidate to head it up. bit.ly/40jftjJ