Photo coverage of the Second National Poets for Poetry rally at the state capitol in Sacramento. Editor Larry Jackson organized the June 16 California gathering assisted by Harold Johnson in conjunction with the New York Poets for Poetry Rally coordinated by Margaret Leong and John Bashain.

Staff writer Anne Richards quotes Larry Jackson in the Sacramento Union June 22, 1979, article "Literary Renaissance" that publishing poetry has not turned a profit.

Guest columnist Jane Fonda comments on the California state senators who published (paid by Republican senator Paul Carpenter and friends) a one-page newspaper ad in The Sacramento Bee calling her a McCarthyite. Fonda was nominated to serve on the California Arts Council.