FEATURED PERFORMERS
Nink Poise is a young, Vietnamese-American, Rattle-published poet and short story writer living in San Diego. After her father's political execution in Vietnam, she was raised as a boy to carry on the family name. But she escaped with her mother by boat, spending her childhood in refugee camps in Hong Kong and the Philippines. Themes of her work focus on finding a home in the face of catastrophe, rituals of silence and forgiveness, and the pleasures of the imagination. She was a PEN Emerging Voices finalist and the 2018 Wrightwood Literary Festival Poetry Slam champion.
Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga Pamela Shea (villagepoets.com) began writing at 5 and uses poetry to chronicle life and as a means of catharsis. Combining poetry and photography, she's inspired by family, nature, triumph, and strife. An impressive record of community service, formerly working in the medical field, and currently teaching fitness have kept her active. She enjoys “taking poetry to the people” in the community and the L.A. Public Library. Her work has been featured by the California Contemporary Ballet, which choreographed one of her poems. She has been published in the Altadena Poetry Review and the California State Poetry Society’s California Quarterly.
Naturalist Christopher Nyerges (christophernyerges.com) has a passion for poetry, wild foods, self-reliant living, and survival. He teaches local wild food outings with over 33,000 students having passed through his classes over the decades. Former editor of Wilderness Way, he is an outdoor columnist for Pasadena Weekly, and the author of more than 20 books like Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants, How to Survive Anywhere, Foraging California and Foraging North America. He runs the School of Self-Reliance and teaches survival skills to city-dwellers at Pasadena City College.
Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga Pamela Shea (villagepoets.com) began writing at 5 and uses poetry to chronicle life and as a means of catharsis. Combining poetry and photography, she's inspired by family, nature, triumph, and strife. An impressive record of community service, formerly working in the medical field, and currently teaching fitness have kept her active. She enjoys “taking poetry to the people” in the community and the L.A. Public Library. Her work has been featured by the California Contemporary Ballet, which choreographed one of her poems. She has been published in the Altadena Poetry Review and the California State Poetry Society’s California Quarterly.
Naturalist Christopher Nyerges (christophernyerges.com) has a passion for poetry, wild foods, self-reliant living, and survival. He teaches local wild food outings with over 33,000 students having passed through his classes over the decades. Former editor of Wilderness Way, he is an outdoor columnist for Pasadena Weekly, and the author of more than 20 books like Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants, How to Survive Anywhere, Foraging California and Foraging North America. He runs the School of Self-Reliance and teaches survival skills to city-dwellers at Pasadena City College.
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