Moonday in the Village will feature poets Gloria Vando and Anika Paris on August 12 at The Little Theater, 12420 Santa Monica Blvd., in West Los Angeles. There is convenient street parking. Please note this location is for the month of August only. Open reading sign-up starts 6:30 p.m., followed by the reading at 7:30 p.m.
Vando is publisher of Helicon Nine Editions, a 35-year-old small press, which received the Governor’s Arts Award (Kansas). Her book “Shadows & Supposes” won the Poetry Society of America’s Di Castagnola Award and Latino Literary Hall of Fame’s Best Poetry Book of the Year. The author of a number of books and magazine entries, her work has been adapted for the stage and presented at Lincoln Center and Off-Broadway, and is on the 2007 Grammy-nominated “Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006.”
Paris is a double platinum award winning singer/songwriter with songs in major motion pictures and television. She is the only female composer for Warner Brothers “Telepictures.” She teaches songwriting and performance at Musicians Institute in Hollywood. As a poet, she has appeared in numerous journals and most recently with Scapegoat Press in the three-generation anthology “Woven Voices” alongside her mother and grandmother, nominated for the 2013 International Latin Book Awards.
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