Village Poets presents Kathleen Travers and rg cantalupo on Sunday, July 28 at 4:30 p.m. at Bolton Hall Museum. In addition to the featured poets, two segments of open mic will be available and refreshments will be served. The Bolton Hall Museum is at 10110 Commerce Ave. in Tujunga.

Kathleen Travers was crowned the first poet laureate of the Foothills on May 19 at the historic McGroarty Arts Center. A fourth generation Angeleno, Travers has lived in her 100-year-old historic home in Sunland (which she restored) for more than 20 years. With graduate degrees in art history, Victorian studies and professional writing, she has been the recipient of fellowships to the Prague Writers’ Festival and for post-graduate study at Cambridge University. Formerly a high school and university educator, she is a historic restoration expert, specializing in architectural ceramic. A preservation advocate, Travers authored the successful Historic-Cultural Monument applications for the Hills of Peace Cemetery and Cross of San Ysidro. She served as docent at Bolton Hall for 10 years where she co-curated the Foothill Moderns exhibit and lectured on local artist Margaret Morrish. She has read her poetry at venues as diverse as Maddingley Hall, Cambridge, England, and Gasoline Alley, the L.A. Times Festival of Books and the Iguana Café. She served on the board of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival in its glory years and was a founding director of the Poetry Society of America in Los Angeles in the time of The Act of the Poet at Chateau Marmont.

rg cantalupo is a poet, playwright, filmmaker, novelist and director. His work has been published widely in literary journals in the United States, England and Australia. He graduated from UC Santa Cruz where he studied under such luminaries as George Hitchcock, editor of Kayak, Gregory Bateson, and Norman O. Brown, and received his MFA in poetry and non-fiction from Vermont College of the Fine Arts. His books of poetry include “The Endurance: Journey To Worlds End” (a lyric novel), and “Private Entries, You Don’t Know Me” (a five book young adult series), “The Light Where Shadows End,” “The Shadows In Which We Rise” (memoirs), “Surviving Covid” and a number of others. He is the founder and artistic director of Stages in Santa Monica, a performing arts center. He served in the 25^th infantry division as an RTO, radio operator, for an infantry company from 1968-69 and received three Purple Heart awards and a Bronze Star with a Combat V for valor under fire.