Village Poets will celebrate the warmth and beauty of spring with a presentation of original poetry by Elsa Frausto and Sean McGrath on Sunday, April 27 at 4:30 p.m. at Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga. There will also be an open mic, so attendees are encouraged to bring their best poems to participate. The Bolton Hall Museum is located at 10110 Commerce Ave. in Tujunga and is a Los Angeles Historical Landmark built in 1913. The reading starts at 4:30 p.m. and continues until 6:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Parking is available across the street at the Elks Lodge at 10137 Commerce Ave.

Elsa S. Frausto, the eighth poet laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has lived in the foothills with her family for over 20 years. Her work has appeared in a number of local and international publications including Porte des Poetes, Speechless – the Magazine, Poet at Work, Badlands, the anthology Meditations on Divine Names and many anthologies by Poets on Site. She was the coordinator and host for Camelback Readings held at the Sunland-Tujunga Library. Frauso was a member of the Chuparosa Writers and volunteers at the Friends of the Library Bookstore and at the Noise Within Theater in Pasadena and is poetry editor and translator for the Spanish language literary magazine la-luciernaga.com. In 2017, she published Sunland Park Poems, co-written with Alice Pero (Shabda Press, 2017).

Sean McGrath is a poet, writer and teacher who has resided in the northeast and the southwest of the United States. He has published three poetry collections – Untitled Baby Project (2023), From a Balcony in Palos Verdes (2022), and Oculus (2016) – and is working on his fourth, Untitled Baby Project 2.0. His poetry has appeared with the California State Poetry Society and Awakenings Review. He received a B.A. in English from Brown University in 2011. 

McGrath has been teaching literature and writing classes at Chadwick School in Palos Verdes for the past eight years and currently resides in Torrance with his wife, their two young sons, three dogs and cat.