On Sunday, March 23 Village Poets welcome two poets from outside of Los Angeles: Tresha Faye Haefner from the East Coast and Thomas A. Thomas from the Pacific Northwest. The reading will take place at at 4:30 p.m. at Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga. There will also be an open mic, so the audience is encouraged to bring their best poems to participate.  

The Bolton Hall Museum is located at 10110 Commerce Ave. in Tujunga. Bolton Hall is a Los Angeles historical landmark built in 1913. The reading goes till 6:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.Please visit https://villagepoets.blogspot.com for more information.

Tresha Faye Haefner’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in several journals and magazines, most notably Blood Lotus, Blue Mesa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Five South, Hunger Mountain, Mid-America Review, Pirene’s Fountain, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Radar, Rattle, TinderBox and Up the Staircase Quarterly. Her work has garnered several accolades including the 2011 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize, and a 2012, 2020 and 2021 nomination for a Pushcart. Her first manuscript, “Pleasures of the Bear,” was a finalist for prizes from both Moon City Press and Glass Lyre Press. It was published by Pine Row Press under the title “When the Moon Had Antlers” in 2023. She can be found at thepoetrysalonstack.substack.com.

Thomas A. Thomas, poet & photographer, was born in Illinois, but has lived in the Pacific Northwest for more than 43 years. His newest poetry collection was published on June 1, 2024. 

My Heart Is Not Asleep from MoonPath Press is a sort of memoir in poems, the journey of falling on love with, then finding resilience while losing his beloved to early onset Alzheimer’s through the slow course of many years. His poetry, photographs and videos appear online and in print, most recently in MacQueen’s Quinterly and Verse Daily, as well as in the July ’24 Tupelo 30/30 Project. His work is also found in Gyroscope Review, Cirque Journal, Blue Heron Review, Vox Populi, The Banyan Review & FemAsia Magazine.com, as well as in anthologies in English and Serbian and in translation to Spanish, Serbian, and Bengali. https://linktr.ee/thomasathomas