Moonday will host a father/daughter poetry reading featuring Mel and Stefi Weisburd at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, July 13, at Village Books on Swarthmore. The event will contrast Mel’s 1950s perspective of Los Angeles with Stefi’s present-day sensibility. Mel, a Brentwood resident, co-founded Coastlines literary magazine in the ’50s. He is the author of ‘A Life of Windows & Mirrors, Selected Poems,’ and the recently published chapbook about his late wife (and Stefi’s mother), ‘The Gloria Poems: A Short Memoir of a 50-Year Marriage.’ Stefi, a Palisades High graduate, has degrees in physics from UC Berkeley and Stanford. She is the author of ‘The Wind-Up Gods,’ which won the St. Lawrence Book Award, and ‘Barefoot: Poems for Naked Feet,’ a collection for children. She received a Discovery Prize from The Nation, was a scholar at Bread Loaf, and was awarded a writing residency by the Lannan Foundation. She currently lives in Albuquerque with her husband and two children.
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