Ellie Askew (AskewLit.com), Slim FitzGerald (WanderRhyme.com), Seven Dhar, Mariely Ramos
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| @nadamarquez (marielyramos.com) |
MARIELY RAMOS (
marielyramos.com) writes from the heart and is sitting in for happy Slim FitzGerald -- who is doing her level best to enjoy the last bit of spring -- this month. Her passionate interest in poetry to help bring attention to the plight of children, homeless individuals and family, and making a difference make her the perfect addition to our pro-active panel of co-hosts. Will Radomir bring the comedy? Will Slim drop in? Will our collection of emerging urban poets visit to explore new dimensions in spoken word, slam, lyrical, and break-the-mold performance? Mariely hopes so. Come welcome our new Team Askew partner.
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| Quincy R. Lehr (The Raintown Review) |
QUINCY R. LEHR’s poetry and criticism have been published in numerous venues in North America, Europe, and Australia, including
The Dark Horse,
The Village Voice,
New Walk,
The Moth,
The Stinging Fly, and
Measure. His most recent books are
The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar (2015) and
Heimat (2014). For many years, he was co-host of New York City’s Carmine Street Metrics reading series. He is the editor of
The Raintown Review.
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| Cindy Rinne (photo: George
Hammons) |
CINDY RINNE creates art and writes in San Bernardino. She is Poet in Residence for the Neutra Institute Museum and Gallery in Silver Lake. A Pushcart nominee. She gathers world stories and brings myth to life in contemporary context. She is the author of seven books:
Mapless with Nikia Chaney (Cholla Needles Press),
Moon of Many Petals (Cholla Needles Press),
Listen to the Codex (Yak Press),
Breathe In Daisy, Breathe Out Stones (FutureCycle Press), and others. She is a founding member of PoetrIE, a literary community and a finalist for the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in:
Anti-Herion Chic, Unpsychology Magazine, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, MORIA, The Halcyone Literary Review, several anthologies, and others (
fiberverse.com).
STAND UP COMEDY (and poetry)
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| Radomir Vojtech Luza (IMDB.com) |
RADOMIR VOJTECH LUZA was born in
Vienna, Austria, to renowned Czech parents. He graduated from Tulane
University and a Jesuit high school in New Orleans. He is poet laureate of North Hollywood and the
former president of the North Hollywood West Neighborhood Council and board member of the No Ho Neighborhood Council, Los Angeles. He was the 1997 Middletown Township (Bucks County, Pennsylvania) auditor candidate and is a Pushcart nominee,
the author of 30 books (26 collections of poetry), the latest being Sidewalks and Street Corners (Christian Faith Publishing, 2018). He has made seven spoken word CDs set to music and is an Irwin
Award-winning poet for “most creative book of poetry” (Book
Publicists of Southern California) for Eros of Angels (2016), a
400-page magnum opus, and a Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award
recipient, who received honorable mention from the Writer's Digest at the 2018 Highland Park Poetry Challenge, where he was the Winter Muses Poetry Gallery selection. His
poetry placed second in the 2019 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival chapbook contest, and he has been published in over 90 anthologies,
literary journals, websites, blogs, newspapers, magazines, and other
media such as Journal of Modern Poetry, Lummox, Nerve Cowboy, Spare
Change, Boston Globe, Pegasus, Writers of The Desert Sage, Poetic
Diversity, Cultural Weekly, KYSO Flash, Bicycle Review, New Laurel
Review, Los Angeles Daily News, Askew, Papyrus (cover), Spectrum,
Altadena Poetry Review, roguescholars.com.
Most surprisingly he is a veteran stand-up
comedian who has featured his poetry across the country as well as working as a SAG/AFTRA/AEA Union actor, who has performed in many plays, films, and TV shows. He is a theatre,
film, and book critic and longtime freelance writer. He has hosted,
organized, and curated over a dozen poetry readings throughout the
country in New York City, Jersey City, Hoboken, Ft. Walton Beach, and Los Angeles. He is currently the primary host of UNBUCKLED: No Ho Poetry at the theater at
T.U. Studios in North Hollywood with Mary Anneeta Mann. Starting in February of this year he and Patricia Murphy began co-organizing and co-hosting the monthly Salient Sunday Poetry Reading Series at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts
Center in Venice. But perhaps his greatest claim to fame is a national
Levi's 501 Jeans commercial shot in New Orleans in 1988.
He also edits and publishes the literary magazine, Voices in the Library.
