National Poetry Month will be in full swing when the Village Poets welcome feature poets Lois P. Jones and Susan Rogers at Bolton Hall on Sunday, April 26 at 4:30 p.m.  There will also be an open mic and poets are invited to participate in the open reading segment of the event. The Bolton Hall Museum is located at 10110 Commerce Ave. in Tujunga. The reading starts at 4:30 p.m. and goes until 6:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Free parking is available on the street and also at Elks Lodge at 10137 Commerce Ave. Check out the Village Poets blog to find out more about the poets at https://villagepoets.blogspot.com/

Lois P. Jones is an award-winning poet and editor whose work spans poetry film, radio and print. Since 2007, she has served as the poetry editor for the Kyoto Journal. For nearly 20 years, she hosted Poets Café on KPFK Pacifica Radio, featuring conversations with celebrated voices like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Julian Sands. Her debut collection, Night Ladder, was listed for several awards. Some honors include the Bristol Poetry Prize and the 2023 Alpine Poetry Fellowship. Her work has appeared in many journals including Academy of American Poets – Poem A Day, Poetry Wales, Plume, Image, RHINO and others. Jones continues to bridge text, sound and image across global disciplines. In April 2026, she will launch The Title Drop, a new podcast exploring the role of the title poem within a literary collection. She believes poetry exists to render the ineffable and find beauty in life’s stark contrasts, providing a spiritual and sensual guide to being in the world.

Susan Rogers considers poetry a vehicle for positive energy. She is a practitioner of Sukyo Mahikari, a spiritual practice promoting positivity. Her poetry is included in numerous publications including The Best Poems of San Diego, Kyoto Journal, Tiferet and Saint Julian’s Press. She was nominated for a Pushcart in 2013 and 2017 and was one of four international judges for the 8th Rabindranath Tagore Award. She was interviewed for KPFK’s Poets Café by Lois P. Jones. https://www.loispjones.com/susan-rogers. In 2023 she participated in the conference Sustainability and Spirituality in Assisi, Italy where she read her poem during the invocation and presented on the healing power of poetry.