Poet-Bro­ker Ed Rosen­thal has been at the epi­cen­ter of a decades-long revi­tal­iza­tion effort of Down­town Los Ange­les. The Wall Street Jour­nal, L.A. Times, Urban Land, var­i­ous Cal­i­for­nia jour­nals, and The Sier­ra Club have pub­lished his poet­ry, which he per­forms pub­licly. NPR, Los Ange­les Mag­a­zine, The Jew­ish Jour­nal, and Bear Grylls, among oth­ers, have cov­ered his shock­ing ordeal in the desert.