The next Village Poets reading at Bolton Hall Museum will be on Sunday, July 26 at 4:30 p.m when Beth Paulson of Altadena and Nicholas Yingling will be featured. 

Hosted by Joe DeCenzo and Alice Pero, 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. 

The reading goes until 6:30 pm. Light refreshments will be served. 

Beth Paulson has been widely published in national literary journals, anthologies and online sites for the past two decades. A former writing teacher at California State University Los Angeles for over 20 years, Paulson has most recently taught poetry workshops and facilitated writing events in Ouray County, Colorado where she was named poet laureate in 2019. Since early 2025 Paulson has lived in Altadena. Her poems were nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2016 and for Best of the Net in 2011. Her poems have also been awarded prizes from Cloudbank, Eleventh Muse, Passager, Naugatuck River Review, Third Wednesday, Common Ground Review and Able Muse Review. Paulson has seven published poetry collections: The Truth About Thunder, The Company of Trees, Wild Raspberries, Canyon Notes, Immensity and Luminous, which won the National Press Women Book Prize in that year. Her newest book, Postcards from Altadena, was published in 2026. 

Nicholas Yingling is the author of The Fire Road, which was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Pleiades, Colorado Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. In 2023, Bellevue Literary Review adapted one of his poems – Reading the Body – for their interpretive dance series. 

He has been a finalist for the Fugue Poetry Prize, Berkshire Prize, Sunken Garden and Snowbound Chapbook Awards; a semifinalist for the Frost Place Chapbook Competition and the Chad Walsh Chapbook Series; and long listed for the Frontier Chapbook Contest. He received his MA in creative writing from UC Davis and lives in the Bay Area where he teaches ESL. 

Most days he can be found walking his one-eared pit bull Clementine.