Ed Rosenthal

"POET-BROKER" Ed Rosenthal has saved many Art Deco-era structures and businesses in Downtown Los Angeles, including the Eastern Columbia Building and Clifton's Cafeteria. Rosenthal's socially-oriented poetry has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, and Urban Land, the national magazine of the Urban Land Institute. He is known for his poetry performances, high school poetry contests, and his environmental poetry, which is found on Sierra Club sites and in California poetry journals. As a survivor of a desert ordeal. Rosenthal has been featured in "Fight to Survive", on The Outdoor Channel, Bear Grylls' "Escape from Hell" series, the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, several presentations on The Weather Channel, LA Magazine, and "The Story" on National Public Radio. He lives in Culver City with his wife, Nicole. See Ed's website and blog at poetbroker.com