Join us for our annual Library Lummis Day Poetry Event. We have an excellent slate of poets lined up
to share their work & thoughts this year. But first, details about the
event itself... it will take place via Zoom on April 16 at 3:00 pm. Email ayosco@lapl.org
for the program link. For information on
Lummis Day Festival of Northeast Los Angeles 2022--Sunday, April 24--visit
lummisday.org.
Now about those poets… You will hear from:
Laurel Ann Bogen is the author of 11 books of poetry and short fiction, the most recent of which is Psychosis in the Produce Department: New and Selected Poems, from Red Hen Press. A native of Los Angeles, she was an instructor of poetry and performance at the Writer’s Program at UCLA Extension from 1990 - 2021 where she also received an Outstanding Instructor of the Year Award. Well-known for her lively readings and a founding member of the acclaimed poetry performance troupe, Nearly Fatal Women, Bogen has read/performed in venues as diverse as Cornell University, The Savannah College of Art and Design, The Knitting Factory (NYC). Her work has appeared in over 100 literary magazines and anthologies.
Jack Grapes teaches writing based on his two books Method Writing and
Advanced Method Writing. His poetry books are also available on Amazon: The
Naked Eye: New & Selected Poems; All the Sad Angels; Poems
So Far So Far So Good So Far To Go; Any Style; and Wide
Road to the Edge of the World. His forthcoming book of poetry is titled
Exit Music. Also forthcoming this year will be two non-fiction
books: How To Read Like a Writer and Yes I Said Yes I
Will Yes, a study of James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Jack
also wrote and starred in Circle of Will, a metaphysical comedy
about the "lost years" of William Shakespeare, which ran
for several years and won theater critic awards for Best Actor and Best Comedy.
Elisabeth Adwin Edwards shifted her focus to poetry after a successful 20-year career as a regional theater actor. Her poems have appeared in The Tampa Review, Rust + Moth, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The American Journal of Poetry, A-Minor Magazine, and elsewhere; her prose has been published in Hobart, CutBank, On The Seawall, and other journals. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. A native of Massachusetts, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and teen daughter in an apartment filled with books.
Angela Peñaredondo is a queer nonbinary Filipinx interdisciplinary writer, artist and educator. They are author of Maroon (Jamii Publications), All Things Lose Thousands of Times (Inlandia Institute, winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize). Their work has appeared in Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day Series, Southern Humanities Review, Black Warrior Review and elsewhere. They live in unceded Kivh territory and work as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, San Bernardino. Their next book, A Nature to Be but Never Apprehended is forthcoming on Noemi Press (2023).
