The next Village Poets presentation at Bolton Hall Museum will be on Sunday, Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m. when the featured poets will be Beth Ruscio and Karen Kevorkian.  

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. The Bolton Hall Museum is located at 10110 Commerce Ave. in Tujunga. Bolton Hall was built in 1913 and is a historical landmark. The stone building is unique as it holds in the cool air, which is so helpful on these hot afternoons. 

The reading starts at 4:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Free parking is available on the street and also at Elks Lodge at 10137 Commerce Ave. Please visit the Village Poets blog for more information about the features https://villagepoets.blogspot.com/.

Beth Ruscio, whose first paying job was detasseling corn, is the daughter of actors and is a published poet and award winning actor. She is part of a working class family of actors, writers,  artists and teachers. She is the author of Speaking Parts, winner of the Brick Road Poetry Prize, finalist honors for The Wilder Prize and for her chapbook Hollywood Cemetery Forever, finalist for The Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and the Two Sylvias Prize. Recent publications include her poems in these anthologies: Poetry Goes to the Movies, Women in a Golden State, Catching Fire, and forthcoming is A Picture Is Worth a Poet’s Words. Her essay, In Praise of Humble Ingredients, Exalted and poem Summer Calling were published in Outlaw Theatre.  She shares her life with gifted playwright Leon Martell and their very good dog Lolita.  

Karen Kevorkian was born in San Antonio and studied in Austin, Charlottesville and Salt Lake. She’s worked as a museum editor in San Francisco and a teacher of creative writing at the University of Virginia and UCLA. She’s won artist fellowships from the MacDowell Colon, and the Djerassi, Millay, Ucross and Wurlitzer foundations. For seven years she was on the board of trustees of the Beyond Baroque literary arts center. Her fifth book of poems The Body the Distance Traveled will be published next spring by University of New Mexico Press. Her other books of poems are Here in My Body It Feels Crowded, Quivira, Lizard Dream and White Stucco Black Wing. Her poems are recently published in New American Writing, Volt, Massachusetts Review and Four Way Review.