LA Times: LAX might not have a people mover, but it does have Brian who will write you a poem

"...She was about to board a flight to Nashville, where she would discuss AI regulation at a film festival for her job, when she stumbled upon Brian Sonia-Wallace, the poet laureate of Los Angeles, sitting at a 1940s-model Underwood typewriter writing custom poems for passing travelers. .... Sonia-Wallace describes the clacking of the typewriter as his siren song. He’s far from alone in his practice, as these types of analog, on-demand typewriter poetry sessions have become widespread in the last decade, championed by busking collectives and literary groups like the Poetry Society of New York and Ars Poetica. The inherent theater of it lures a crowd...."

(paywall, probably)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2026-11-03/los-angeles-poet-laureate-lax-airport-installation-brian-sonia-wallace

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