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Launch and Poetry Reading – Law of the Letter
Friday, June 6 – Launch of the 2023 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize winner LAW OF THE LETTER by Elizabeth Galoozis at the Pop-Hop, 5002 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042. Elizabeth will be joined by poets Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo and Lisa Eve Cheby for readings and all-around poetic delight. Books will be available for sale and signing. 7:00-9:00 PM. FREE.
Elizabeth Galoozis’s poems have appeared in Air/Light, Pidgeonholes, RHINO, Witness, Sinister Wisdom, and elsewhere. She has been nominated once for Best of the Net (by Witness) and twice for a Pushcart Prize (by The Indianapolis Review and Sundog Lit). Elizabeth was selected by Claire Wahmanholm for AWP’s Writer to Writer Program in 2022. She serves as a reader for The Maine Review and Abandon Journal, and on the workshops committee for Women Who Submit.
Elizabeth has also published widely in the library field. She co-edited two books for the Association of College and Research Libraries, most recently Thriving as a Mid-Career Librarian: Identity, Advocacy, and Pathways (with Brandon K. West), and her scholarly work has appeared in The Library Quarterly, College & Research Libraries, and Reference Services Review. Elizabeth lives in southern California with her wife Michelle, cat Stella, and an abundance of fruit trees. Elizabeth can be found on Instagram and X (Twitter) at @thisamericanliz, and at her website https://elizabethgaloozis.wordpress.com/.
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and author of Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites (Mouthfeel Press) and Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications). A former Steinbeck Fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, Bermejo’s poetry and essays can be found at Acentos Review, Huizache, LA Review of Books, The Offing, [Pank],Santa Fe Writers Project, and other journals. She teaches poetry and creative writing with Antioch University, MFA and UCLA Extension and is the director of Women Who Submit.
Lisa Eve Cheby, poet, librarian, school library advocate, and daughter of Hungarian immigrants, has three chapbooks with Strikethrough Press. She was writer in Residence at SAFTA’s Firefly Farms and Dorland Mountain Arts.
Lisa’s poems and essays are found in journals such as Exposition Review and anthologies such as Coiled Serpent. She has an MFA from Antioch University and an MLIS from San Jose State University. She is a proud member of Women Who Submit. http://lisacheby.wordpress.com
