Ralph La Rosa

About The Author

His youth inspired by a Danforth Leadership Award, Ralph La Rosa later earned Ford Foundation Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Fulbright Lectureship to the Soviet Union. He was educated at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor and the University of Wisconsin—Madison. A teaching career included appointments at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, UCLA, Tbilisi State University in the Soviet Georgian Republic (the first extensive appointment granted outside of Moscow), and Northwestern University—Evanston. After his assignment to the USSR, he was also invited to lecture in Budapest and Munich but was unable to accept the positions. In recent years, he taught at several colleges and universities in California.

Ralph’s publications include critical prose on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in American Literature, Critical Essays on Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. Myerson and Burkholder), Sewanee Review, Wisconsin Monographs, and elsewhere. His work for film includes two scripts on Sam Rodia’s Towers in Watts, California: one sold to KCET Los Angeles and another sponsored by the California Council for the Humanities and aired by KCET. For Norman Cousins, Ralph also co-coordinated with Robert Rees Chinese/American Writers conferences held at UCLA and Beijing University.

Ralph resides in Los Angeles where he now focuses on poetry and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has appeared in print and online journals, among them: Aethlon, Amsterdam Quarterly, Asses of Parnassus, Autumn Sky, The Chimaera, Dappled Things, Eckphrastic Review, First Things, The Flea, Folly, 14 by 14, Italian Americana, Light Quarterly, Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Lyric, New Verse News, Pivot, Raintown Review, The Raven Chronicles, SCR, Snakeskin, Soundzine, Umbrella, Voices in Italian Americana, Yale Anglers’ Journal, Sonnet Stanzas (White Violet), and Ghost Trees (Kelsay Books).