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"content": "\u003cp>An attorney whose firm represents the largest single group of Northern California wildfire survivors in the PG&E bankruptcy is partially funded by some of the very Wall Street firms he’s been negotiating against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Antonio, Texas-based lawyer Mikal Watts, of the firm Watts Guerra LLP, told KQED he's known that his credit line included financing from private equity heavyweight \u003ca href=\"https://www.apollo.com/\">Apollo Global Management\u003c/a> and investment firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.centerbridge.com/\">Centerbridge Partners\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firms represent competing groups that have sat across the bargaining table from each other, while also negotiating against wildfire survivors in the PG&E bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PG&E wildfire cases are among the more recent mass tort cases Watts has mounted. That kind of complex litigation can take years and cost millions, which is where Centerbridge and Apollo came in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their financial dealings with Watts were unearthed by a fire survivor\u003ca href=\"https://restructuring.primeclerk.com/pge/Home-DownloadPDF?id1=MzYwNDQ5&id2=0\"> in a PG&E bankruptcy court filing this week.\u003c/a> It quotes Watts telling clients at a December town hall in Santa Rosa that he came to \"realize ... that part of my operational line of credit ... had been in effect cordoned off, some to Centerbridge, some to Apollo\" among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2019, Apollo and Centerbridge were competing against one another to strike a lucrative deal with Watts and other attorneys for wildfire survivors. The Watts group's client roster includes 16,000 of the estimated 70,000 PG&E fire survivors who have filed claims in the bankruptcy. Watts was heavily involved in negotiating the $13.5 billion compensation deal that lawyers for fire survivors brokered in early December, according to people involved in the case and Watts himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to disclose to my clients that backdrop, of who I met, and give them the full color of why I thought one deal was superior to the other,” Watts told KQED this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E fire victims have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11805766/pge-victims-weigh-rare-stock-funded-trust-amid-market-turmoil\">casting ballots on the bankruptcy deal\u003c/a> since April 1, with voting continuing through May 15. The plan requires support from two-thirds of survivors who vote. Watts says nearly 13,000 of his clients have voted \"yes\" so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company is aiming to exit bankruptcy by June 30 so it can tap \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760618/newsom-signs-wildfire-liability-bill-utility-customers-to-pay-10-5-billion-into-new-fund\">a state insurance fund\u003c/a> that would pay future fire survivors if the utility's equipment sparks future fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']Watts and others involved, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810831/wildfire-survivors-committee-urges-halt-to-voting-on-pge-settlement\">committee of survivors\u003c/a> in bankruptcy court, ultimately chose the deal presented by the group that included Centerbridge, which bought up PG&E stock as the price tanked after the 2018 Camp Fire. Centerbridge has also scooped up around $200 million in claims by insurance companies against PG&E, and is expected to reap a major financial windfall once the utility exits from Chapter 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apollo, which is a major owner of PG&E's debt, had offered a competing deal, which was rejected by lawyers for survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The line of credit was provided to Watts by St. Louis, Missouri-based investment firm Stifel. In the emerging area of litigation financing, brokers like Stifel act as a go-between for lawyers seeking to fund large cases and investors seeking part of the reward if a case ends in a payout. Stifel, Centerbridge and Apollo did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stifel has the right to make assignments on percentages of the deal,\" Watts told KQED in a phone interview this week. \"I have no right to know how they've assigned it. What I do know is I learned Centerbridge and Apollo had taken assignments on a percentage of my deal. Then, they introduced me to their respective corners in the equity versus debt fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts said Centerbridge's weight in the equity group of 1.6% of PG&E shares was overshadowed by Apollo's half a billion dollar holdings of PG&E bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that had entered my thinking, I would have gone with the bonds. They were bigger players,\" Watts said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.tess-taylor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tess Taylor\u003c/a> for a hike on a steep hill near her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of those perfect California days: warm; dappled sun; early spring flowers popping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything looked and smelled tangy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many smells to love here, like rosemary or Ponderosa pine needles in the sun,\" said Taylor, as we hiked up the steep gravely trail to the summit. \"All of these are very specific California smells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11813218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California poppies and a fire hydrant — among the many signs of natural and manmade activity on our hike. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But every few steps we saw signs of mankind’s interference with nature: chain link fences; \u003c/span>“No Trespassing” signs; the scarred remains of an old quarry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When people came to California and were settling it, they just kind of ripped this hillside open,\" Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aggressive contrast between California's beauty and its many natural and manmade hazards forms the backbone of Taylor’s poetry collection, \"Rift Zone,\" which is out this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wrote these poems before the coronavirus pandemic made life even more precarious for Californians. But the poet’s words speak powerfully to the present moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor — whose resume includes reviewing poetry for NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, winning national awards and appearing in The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other publications — grew up in the town of El Cerrito, just north of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813219\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813219\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poet Tess Taylor released her poetry collection \"Rift Zone\" this month. \u003ccite>(Taylor Schreiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I moved into one of these little bungalows and went to the elementary school across the street,\" Taylor said. \"Everybody that we knew was a retired shipyard worker from the Richmond shipyards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left for college in the 1990s, and then settled for a while in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had grown up thinking, I'm done with El Cerrito,\" she said. \"I'm never coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after about 13 years, the Golden State did lure Taylor back. By that point, she'd gotten married and was pregnant with her first child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Suddenly, all I wanted was to be home in California near a lemon tree. That's what I dreamed of,\" Taylor said. \"And so we did that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sunny California lemons still smiled on the tree. But Taylor also saw life here had gotten a whole lot tougher, especially for those less fortunate than herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jammed on a freeway forever and ever,\" Taylor said. \"So much inequality. Watching people be unable to continue to make rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California Suites,\" a cluster of four poems in \"Rift Zone,\" speaks to the whiplash Taylor felt upon returning to her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>hurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said she wrote \"Rift Zone\" during what she saw as a decade of state and national upheaval — years marked by devastating wildfires, escalating gun violence, the persistent lack of a social safety net and the profound, disorienting feeling of insecurity that comes with all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg 426w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book jacket for \"Rift Zone,\" Tess Taylor's new poetry collection, published by Red Hen Press. \u003ccite>(Red Hen Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The feeling that we are living on a fault line, that we are living in a time when things feel like they're wrenching and twisting,\" Taylor said. \"And this is a Californian feeling. But it's also a world feeling, our national feeling of being on the brink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the top of the hill, the landscape unfolded before us: shipyards; an oil refinery; trains whistling through the suburbs; the waters of the San Francisco Bay; far off in the distance, a view of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took it all in, then set off on our way back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren’t for the coronavirus, Taylor would be on a book tour right now, traveling to appear at 45 events across three countries. When we recently reconnected over video chat, she told me these have all been canceled or postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a big sandcastle: 10 years of work and then just watching it go away from you in a way that you sort of can't control,\" she said. \"And in another way, it feels like, how dare I grieve this 10-year book of poetry when there are so many other things to grieve?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our conversation sent my thoughts back to the day of our hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we set off, we stood gazing up at a pair of enormous redwood trees in the poet’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing quite like measuring your life against a redwood tree,\" Taylor said. \"It really sort of puts everything in perspective, doesn't it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those redwoods figure prominently in \"Rift Zone.\" And in the ensuing weeks since Taylor showed them to me, their symbolism has grown even more, as in this extract from \"California Suites\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your new house \u003c/em>\u003cem>is younger\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>than your mother.\u003cbr>\nAt your bottle brush,\u003cbr>\nnative hummingbirds.\u003cbr>\nBehind them, two huge redwoods wait.\u003cbr>\nIn redwood years, these trees\u003cbr>\nare babies. They overlook\u003cbr>\nyour fragile real estate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the redwoods in her backyard are only around 80 years old. In 1,000 years, they’ll still be standing — barring chainsaws and blights. And the events of 2020 will be buried deep in their rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone,\" or to buy an ebook or paperback copy, click \u003ca href=\"https://aerbook.com/maker/productcard-5513837-1458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the four entire poems that make up \"California Suites,\" from Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CALIFORNIA SUITES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. Rainy Season\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season of mud, of swollen gullies,\u003cbr>\nstorms lashing off the Pacific, flinging\u003cbr>\nwet across our solstice months.\u003cbr>\nWe call this bitter damp the winter\u003cbr>\nbut it is different than rosy cheeks or blizzards\u003cbr>\nor catalogs of kids in reindeer sweaters:\u003cbr>\nOur winter turns the hillsides emerald.\u003cbr>\nSuburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\nhurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003cbr>\nNow ferns glisten, redwoods blacken.\u003cbr>\nNow cold buckeye seed & lemons come.\u003cbr>\nIn rain, streets grow riverine,\u003cbr>\nferrying our cargo to the ocean.\u003cbr>\nO cold spray & green reclaiming:\u003cbr>\nIn you, we are all tributaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>II. Sempervirens\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-California Redwood\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have no old cathedrals here\u003cbr>\nexcept for redwood groves\u003cbr>\nthat wait in parks\u003cbr>\nbehind brass plaques. Signs\u003cbr>\ndate the oldest to Columbus or\u003cbr>\nWilliam the Conqueror;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>new roads wind to suburbs\u003cbr>\nthat replace them. The plaques\u003cbr>\nare odd, as if we lack\u003cbr>\nanother way to hold in mind\u003cbr>\ntheir presences—\u003cbr>\neons\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>passed in widening,\u003cbr>\nhosting murrelets & owls.\u003cbr>\nThey carve the real estate\u003cbr>\nof centuries. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.tess-taylor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tess Taylor\u003c/a> for a hike on a steep hill near her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of those perfect California days: warm; dappled sun; early spring flowers popping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything looked and smelled tangy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many smells to love here, like rosemary or Ponderosa pine needles in the sun,\" said Taylor, as we hiked up the steep gravely trail to the summit. \"All of these are very specific California smells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11813218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California poppies and a fire hydrant — among the many signs of natural and manmade activity on our hike. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But every few steps we saw signs of mankind’s interference with nature: chain link fences; \u003c/span>“No Trespassing” signs; the scarred remains of an old quarry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When people came to California and were settling it, they just kind of ripped this hillside open,\" Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aggressive contrast between California's beauty and its many natural and manmade hazards forms the backbone of Taylor’s poetry collection, \"Rift Zone,\" which is out this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wrote these poems before the coronavirus pandemic made life even more precarious for Californians. But the poet’s words speak powerfully to the present moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor — whose resume includes reviewing poetry for NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, winning national awards and appearing in The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other publications — grew up in the town of El Cerrito, just north of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813219\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813219\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poet Tess Taylor released her poetry collection \"Rift Zone\" this month. \u003ccite>(Taylor Schreiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I moved into one of these little bungalows and went to the elementary school across the street,\" Taylor said. \"Everybody that we knew was a retired shipyard worker from the Richmond shipyards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left for college in the 1990s, and then settled for a while in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had grown up thinking, I'm done with El Cerrito,\" she said. \"I'm never coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after about 13 years, the Golden State did lure Taylor back. By that point, she'd gotten married and was pregnant with her first child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Suddenly, all I wanted was to be home in California near a lemon tree. That's what I dreamed of,\" Taylor said. \"And so we did that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sunny California lemons still smiled on the tree. But Taylor also saw life here had gotten a whole lot tougher, especially for those less fortunate than herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jammed on a freeway forever and ever,\" Taylor said. \"So much inequality. Watching people be unable to continue to make rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California Suites,\" a cluster of four poems in \"Rift Zone,\" speaks to the whiplash Taylor felt upon returning to her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>hurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said she wrote \"Rift Zone\" during what she saw as a decade of state and national upheaval — years marked by devastating wildfires, escalating gun violence, the persistent lack of a social safety net and the profound, disorienting feeling of insecurity that comes with all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg 426w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book jacket for \"Rift Zone,\" Tess Taylor's new poetry collection, published by Red Hen Press. \u003ccite>(Red Hen Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The feeling that we are living on a fault line, that we are living in a time when things feel like they're wrenching and twisting,\" Taylor said. \"And this is a Californian feeling. But it's also a world feeling, our national feeling of being on the brink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the top of the hill, the landscape unfolded before us: shipyards; an oil refinery; trains whistling through the suburbs; the waters of the San Francisco Bay; far off in the distance, a view of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took it all in, then set off on our way back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren’t for the coronavirus, Taylor would be on a book tour right now, traveling to appear at 45 events across three countries. When we recently reconnected over video chat, she told me these have all been canceled or postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a big sandcastle: 10 years of work and then just watching it go away from you in a way that you sort of can't control,\" she said. \"And in another way, it feels like, how dare I grieve this 10-year book of poetry when there are so many other things to grieve?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our conversation sent my thoughts back to the day of our hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we set off, we stood gazing up at a pair of enormous redwood trees in the poet’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing quite like measuring your life against a redwood tree,\" Taylor said. \"It really sort of puts everything in perspective, doesn't it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those redwoods figure prominently in \"Rift Zone.\" And in the ensuing weeks since Taylor showed them to me, their symbolism has grown even more, as in this extract from \"California Suites\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your new house \u003c/em>\u003cem>is younger\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>than your mother.\u003cbr>\nAt your bottle brush,\u003cbr>\nnative hummingbirds.\u003cbr>\nBehind them, two huge redwoods wait.\u003cbr>\nIn redwood years, these trees\u003cbr>\nare babies. They overlook\u003cbr>\nyour fragile real estate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the redwoods in her backyard are only around 80 years old. In 1,000 years, they’ll still be standing — barring chainsaws and blights. And the events of 2020 will be buried deep in their rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone,\" or to buy an ebook or paperback copy, click \u003ca href=\"https://aerbook.com/maker/productcard-5513837-1458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the four entire poems that make up \"California Suites,\" from Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CALIFORNIA SUITES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. 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"content": "\u003cp>They come once a week to haul away your trash, scoop up your recyclables and in many locations, pick up your compost. But as the coronavirus pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806988/sheltering-in-place-what-you-need-to-know\">statewide shelter-in-place orders\u003c/a> have shut down businesses and caused millions of layoffs, garbage collectors are worried about their ability to keep the trucks rolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://d12v9rtnomnebu.cloudfront.net/diveimages/2020.04.03_CA_SOLID_WASTE_AND_RECYCLING_INDUSTRY_LETTER-FINAL.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> sent to Gov. 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So we're risking ourselves every day,” Banks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Banks, who has worked at Recology for 20 years and is a Teamsters shop steward, said the job of processing nearly 650 tons of recyclables daily is important for both public health and sanitation and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're out here making sure that the city of San Francisco, everything, is going as normal, even in this crisis right now,” she said. “We play a big role in the economy and in the atmosphere and the Earth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, recyclers around the state say the need for recyclables hasn’t gone away with coronavirus: Recycled paper is needed for things like toilet paper and cardboard shipping boxes — both of which have been in high demand as people shelter in place and do more online shopping.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Large Drop in Supply of Recyclables\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11812523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Conveyor belts speed along, laden with recyclables mixed together with TV cables, bed sheets, and syringes, to name a few of the items that don’t belong, at Recology's processing facility in San Francisco on April 9, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conveyor belts speed along, laden with recyclables mixed together with TV cables, bed sheets and syringes, to name a few of the items that don’t belong, at Recology's processing facility in San Francisco on April 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While recycling operations are still going strong at Recology, that’s not the case everywhere. Many buy-back centers — where anyone can redeem bottles and cans for cash — have been shut down around the state because they are high-touch and high-interaction points, said Rich Costa, director of procurement and sustainability for major plastics recycler CarbonLite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CarbonLite processes recycled plastic in Riverside and sells it to bottle manufacturers, including PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Niagara Bottling, and typically handles 8-9 million pounds of #1 plastic (or PET) bottles per month from buy-back centers, Costa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That supply has dropped by 60% since California's shelter-in-place order began, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most counties are continuing curbside recycling programs, a few counties in Southern California are collecting, \u003ca href=\"https://d12v9rtnomnebu.cloudfront.net/diveimages/COVID-19_Recycling_Suspensions_New.pdf\">but not processing\u003c/a> the recyclables, according to industry publication \u003ca href=\"https://www.wastedive.com/news/coronavirus-us-waste-recycling-disruption-tracker/574324/\">Waste Dive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many recyclables are likely ending up in landfills, Costa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're gonna lose all those recyclables forever,” he said. “That's the last thing we want to have happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If CarbonLite and other recyclers can’t provide enough clean, recycled plastic, bottle manufacturers will only have less incentive to keep using recycled plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Costa’s plea to California residents? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Ayanna Banks prepared for her shift as a sorter. She donned a hard hat and a face mask and layered on three sets of protective gloves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even under normal circumstances, the work has its hazards — conveyor belts speed along, laden with recyclables mixed together with TV cables, bed sheets and syringes, to name a few of the items that don’t belong. Everywhere there are heavy machines, some with lightning-fast robotic arms, booming and humming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Banks says, going to work adds the additional risk of being exposed to the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The virus, we don't know what it's on — cardboard or metal or anything. So we're risking ourselves every day,” Banks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Banks, who has worked at Recology for 20 years and is a Teamsters shop steward, said the job of processing nearly 650 tons of recyclables daily is important for both public health and sanitation and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're out here making sure that the city of San Francisco, everything, is going as normal, even in this crisis right now,” she said. “We play a big role in the economy and in the atmosphere and the Earth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, recyclers around the state say the need for recyclables hasn’t gone away with coronavirus: Recycled paper is needed for things like toilet paper and cardboard shipping boxes — both of which have been in high demand as people shelter in place and do more online shopping.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Large Drop in Supply of Recyclables\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11812523\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Conveyor belts speed along, laden with recyclables mixed together with TV cables, bed sheets, and syringes, to name a few of the items that don’t belong, at Recology's processing facility in San Francisco on April 9, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42696_004_KQED_SanFrancisco_Recology_04092020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conveyor belts speed along, laden with recyclables mixed together with TV cables, bed sheets and syringes, to name a few of the items that don’t belong, at Recology's processing facility in San Francisco on April 9, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While recycling operations are still going strong at Recology, that’s not the case everywhere. Many buy-back centers — where anyone can redeem bottles and cans for cash — have been shut down around the state because they are high-touch and high-interaction points, said Rich Costa, director of procurement and sustainability for major plastics recycler CarbonLite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CarbonLite processes recycled plastic in Riverside and sells it to bottle manufacturers, including PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Niagara Bottling, and typically handles 8-9 million pounds of #1 plastic (or PET) bottles per month from buy-back centers, Costa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That supply has dropped by 60% since California's shelter-in-place order began, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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