Village Poets presents two poets in September. Lee Rossi, formerly of Los Angeles, will be returning to the Southland from northern California to read from his new book, Say Anything. Judy Kronenfeld’s new chapbook, Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements! was recently released by Bamboo Dart Press in June. In addition to the features, two segments of open mic will be available and refreshments will be served. Attendees are encouraged to bring their best poems for the open mic. The reading starts at 4:30 p.m. and continues until 6:30 p.m.

Lee Rossi describes himself as a “vertically integrated poetry conglomerate.” He writes poems and reviews, and has interviewed poets such as Robert Pinsky, Carolyn Forché, Edward Hirsch, D. Nurkse and many others. In addition to several Pushcart nominations, he is the winner of the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize and the Steve Kowit Prize. He has published five volumes of poetry, most recently, Say Anything from Plain View Press. Individual poems have appeared in The Southwest Review, Rattle, Spillway, The Chiron Review and The Southern Review and many other venues. His reviews and interviews can be found at Pedestal.org, Rain Taxi, Rhino Reviews and Poetry Flash. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a contributing editor to Poetry Flash.

Say Anything, his latest book, an Editor’s Choice at Publishers Weekly, wins this praise: “Readers seeking a spiritual, sophisticated collection will find depth, lightness, and surprising illumination in Rossi’s poetry ‘whose only motive is joy.’”

Judy Kronenfeld’s six full-length books of poetry include If Only There Were Stations of the Air (2024), Groaning and Singing (2022), Bird Flying through the Banquet (2017), and Shimmer (2012). Her third chapbook, Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements! is just out from Bamboo Dart Press. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Cider Press Review, DMQ Review, Gyroscope Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, New Ohio Review, Offcourse, One (Jacar Press), One Art, Rattle, Sheila-Na-Gig, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Verdad, and four dozen of them have appeared in anthologies. She is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and has also been nominated for Best of the Net.

Kronenfeld has also published criticism, including King Lear and the Naked Truth (Duke, 1998), short stories, and creative nonfiction. Apartness: A Memoir in Essays and Poems, will be released by Inlandia Books in early 2025. Kronenfeld is Lecturer Emerita, Creative Writing Department, UC Riverside.

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