Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga welcomes the New Year with Los Angeles poets Jeanette Clough and Mariano Zaro on Sunday, Jan 25 at 4:30 p.m. at Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Ave. in Tujunga. There will also be an open mic and poets are invited to participate in the open reading segment of the event. 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 the Elks Lodge at 10137 Commerce Ave. Guests can park behind the building and then walk a short distance to Bolton Hall Museum.

“Fire Roulette” is Jeanette Clough’s fifth poetry collection. An earlier book, “Flourish,” was a finalist in the Otis College of Art and Design and the Eastern Washington University book competitions. Other publications include “Island” from Red Hen Press and two artist books, “Stone” and “Rx.” Her poetry received awards from the Los Angeles Poetry Festival Fin de Millennium, Ruskin Art Club and Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry competitions, a commendation in “Aesthetica Creative Works” in England, and Pushcart nominations. Clough edited for “Solo, A Journal Poetry,” “Foreshock, An Anthology of Poems from the Midnight Special” and reviewed for “Poetry International.” Her work is widely published in journals and anthologies.

Mariano Zaro is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently “The Weight of Sound,” “Decoding Sparrows” and “Padre Tierra.” The English version of “Padre Tierra,” translated by Blas Falconer, is forthcoming in Artepoética Press (NYC). Zaro’s poems have been included in the anthologies “Monster Verse,” “Poetry Goes to the Movies,” “The Coiled Serpent,” “We Are Here,” “Village Poets Anthology” and in several magazines in Mexico, Spain and the United States. With the Venice Collective he has published two poetry volumes: “Angle of Reflection” and “A Shared Condition.” Zaro’s short stories have appeared in Roanoke Review, Portland Review, Pinyon, Baltimore Review and Louisville Review. He is the winner 2018 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing short fiction prize. For more than 10 years Zaro conducted a video interview series with noted Los Angeles poets for Poetry LA, a non-profit video production group dedicated to promoting Southern California’s poetry scene. Since 2016 Zaro has collaborated with Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, first as a member of the board of trustees and now as part of the Publication Committee.

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