Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga will feature LA poet Nancy Murphy, and Seattle poet Peter Ludwin on the fourth Sunday of March, March 22 at 4:30 p.m. at Bolton Hall Museum. There will also be an open mic and poets are invited to participate in the open reading segment of the event. Bolton Hall Museum is located at 10110 Commerce Ave. in Tujunga. Bolton Hall is a Los Angeles historical landmark built in 1913. The reading is from 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Free parking is available on the street and also at the Elks Lodge at 10137 Commerce Ave.

Nancy Murphy is a Los Angeles-based poet and author of the poetry chapbook, “The Space Carved by the Sharpness of Your Absence” (Gyroscope Press, December 2022). The poems in this book were described by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Robert Olen Butler as “Pitch perfect and brave in their wisdom.” She was a winner in the Aurora Poetry contest in winter 2020. Previous poetry publications include SWWIM, Sheila-Na-Gig, glassworks, The Ekphrastic Review, The Baltimore Review, Anacapa Review, Jackdaw Review, and others. Her reviews of other’s poetry books have appeared in Cultural Daily and other publications. A long-time volunteer with WriteGirl LA, Murphy has mentored teens through writing workshops and in the juvenile detention system. More at www.nancymurphywriter.com.

Peter Ludwin is the award-winning author of four books of poetry. His newest collection, An Altar of Tides, focused mainly on his native northwest, won the 2024 Trail to Table Editors’ Award in Poetry from Trail to Table Press. His previous book, Gone to Gold Mountain, which addressed the little-known massacre of over 30 Chinese gold miners in Hells Canyon in 1887, was nominated for an American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation. In addition to receiving a 2007 Literary Fellowship from Artist Trust, he won the 2016 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award from The Comstock Review for his poem “Wolf Concerto,” judged by Marge Piercy, and the W.D. Snodgrass Award for Endeavor and Excellence in Poetry from the San Miguel Poetry Week in Mexico. Most recently, his poem “Terezin Concentration Camp, Bohemia” won the California State Poetry Society’s “Place” themed contest for August 2025.  

An adventurer who has traveled from the Amazon to Morocco to Tibet, poems from which appear in his second book, Rumors of Fallible Gods, he is particularly focused on history/social justice, physical and spiritual aspects of the natural world and different cultures.  

He lives in Kent, Washington. Find him at www.peterludwin.com.