NEWER POETS READING XVI (July 2011)
The Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
presented L.A.'s prestigious and wildly popular annual reading for local
poets—a feature of The Los Angeles Public Library's ALOUD series. Six poets
perform their best ten minutes.
Poets selected by The Los Angeles Poetry Festival:
Lory Bedikian's manuscript The Book of Lamenting received the
Philip Levine Prize in Poetry from CSU-Fresno.
Mehnaz Turner was a 2009 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow in Poetry.
Sherman Pearl's work has appeared in over 50 literary magazines.
Poets selected by Beyond Baroque:
Cassandra Love was a 2008 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow in Poetry.
A. Razor belongs to the collective The Hollywood Institute of
Poetics.
Anthony Seidman is the author of Where Thirsts Intersect (The
Bitter Oleander Press) and Cosmic Weather (White Print, Inc.).
ALOUD: Newer Poets at the Central Library (June 2010)
World Arts Olympus: Readings on the Queen Mary (June 2010)
The Big Read: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecology of Poetry (October 2009)