Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga invite poets and friends of poetry to its monthly reading held in-person on the fourth Sunday of the month – Jan 28 – at 4:30 p.m. at Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Ave in Tujunga. January features Judith Terzi and Karen Greenbaum-Maya.

Judith Terzi is the author of “Museum of Rearranged Objects,” as well as of six chapbooks, including “Casbah” and “If You Spot Your Brother Floating By” and “Ghazal for a Chambermaid.” “Now, Somehow” is her latest chapbook, a collection of poems about confronting a pandemic, cancer and other health-related urgencies. Her poems have been included in literary journals and anthologies such as the Atlanta Review, The Examined Life Journal, Lunch Ticket, The Main Street Rag and Solstice Literary Magazine where she was a finalist for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize. BBC/Radio 3 featured her poem “Ode to Malala Yousafzai” in an episode of Words and Music. She holds an M.A. in French language and literature and taught French for many years at Polytechnic School in Pasadena as well as English at California State University, Los Angeles, and in Algiers, Algeria.

Karen Greenbaum-Maya is a retired clinical psychologist, former German major and restaurant reviewer, and two-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her work has appeared in journals including Comstock Poetry Review, B O D Y, Rappahannock Poetry Review, CHEST and Spillway. Her collections include three chapbooks, “Burrowing Song,” “Eggs Satori, and, Kafka’s Cat” and “The Book of Knots and their Untying.” A collection of poems about her late husband’s illness and death from lung cancer in 2018, “The Beautiful Leaves,” was published in August 2023. She co-curates Fourth Saturdays, a poetry series in Claremont as well as Garden of Verses, an annual day-long reading of nature poems in Claremont California Botanic Garden.

Two segments of open mic will be available and refreshments will be served. Suggested donation $5 per person for the cost of refreshments and to donate to the Little Landers Society that manages the Bolton Hall Museum, a Los Angeles historical landmark built in 1913.

More information is available at: https://villagepoets.blogspot.com/.

Upcoming Village Poets Readings:

February 25   James Ragan & Amy Gerstler

March 24     Crystal Fire Anthology

April 28       Mandy Kahn & William Archila