Jerry Garcia is a poet, photographer and filmmaker from Los Angeles, California. He was chosen to participate in the Newer Poets XI Series at the L.A. Central Library by the L.A. Poetry Festival.Jerry's poetry and photography have been published in a range of journals and anthologies including: Chiron Review, Askew, Palabra Magazine, KCET's Departures: Poetry L.A. Style, poeticdiversity, The Night Goes On All Night: Noir Inspired Poems and Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. His chapbook Hitchhiking With the Guilty is available at www.gratefulnotdead.com along with poems, photographs and broadsides.