Scott Ferry and Daniel McGinn will read from their new book of dialogue poems, “Fill Me With Birds” (Meat for Tea Press 2024) on Sunday, June 23 at 4:30 p.m. at Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga. 

Scott Ferry helps veterans heal as an RN in the Seattle area. Ferry’s eighth book of poetry, “Each Imaginary Arrow” is now available from Impspired Press. His book of prose poems “Sapphires on the Graves” is upcoming from Glass Lyre Press in spring 2024. Besides his collaboration with Daniel McGinnon on “Fill Me with Birds,” he has also published “Midnight Glossolalia” (Meat for Tea Press) with Lillian Nećakov and Lauren Scharhag. Ferry is also an accomplished photographer. More of his poetry can be found at ferrypoetry.com.

Daniel McGinn’s work has appeared in Meat For Tea, Silver Birch Press, The MacGuffin, Nerve Cowboy, Spillway, Misfit, and Anti-Heroin Chic along with numerous other magazines and anthologies. His chapbook “Drowning the Boy” won the James Tate Poetry Prize for 2021 and was published by SurVision in Dublin Ireland. “Fill Me With Birds,” a free verse conversation written with Scott Ferry, was published by Meat For Tea in February 2024. He has been married to the poet and painter Lori McGinn for 47 years, and he received an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts at the age of 61.

Two segments of open mic will be available on June 23 and refreshments will be served. Suggested donation is $5 per person for the cost of refreshments and to donate to the Little Landers Society that manages the Bolton Hall Museum, 10110 Commerce Ave. in Tujunga. Bolton Hall is a stone building that is a Los Angeles Historical Landmark built in 1913. Extra parking at the Elks Lodge across the street (10137 Commerce Ave.).