Poetry Reading: A Shared Condition

About the participants:

Jeanette Clough holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago and worked as an art librarian at the Getty Research Institute. She edited for Solo, A Journal of Poetry, reviewed for Poetry International, and was Artist in Residence at Joshua Tree National Park. Her fourth poetry collection, Fire Roulette, features lyrical and narrative poems of personal risk.

Paul Lieber’s third collection, Slow Return, was just published by What Books Press. Three times nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Paul produced and hosted “Why Poetry” on Pacifica radio. He taught Poetry at LMU and facilitated the poetry workshop at Beyond Baroque. He currently teaches acting at AMDA.

Nightfall Marginalia (What Books Press), a 2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Poetry, is Sarah Maclay’s fifth collection. Her fourth chapbook, The H.D. Sequence—A Concordance (Walton Well Press), was released in 2024. She offers periodic workshops at Beyond Baroque and is the producer/host of Poetry.LA’s “The Poetry of Night.”

Holaday Mason is the author of six full-length collections & two chapbooks. Currently the poetry editor of the online fine art zine Furious Pure. Multiple Pushcart nominee, publications include Hotel Amerkia, Poetry International, Spillway, Solo, The River Styx among others. Holaday is also a fine art photographer. www.holadaymason.com

Jim Natal is the author of the forthcoming collection Everything Changes Everything, the new chapbook Étude in the Form of a Crow, and five previous full-length poetry books including Spare Room: Haibun Variations and Memory and Rain. A multi-year Pushcart Prize nominee, hIs work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies.

Mariano Zaro is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Decoding Sparrows (What Books Press, Los Angeles) and Padre Tierra (Olifante, Zaragoza, Spain). His poems and short stories have been published in anthologies and literary journals in Spain, Mexico, and the United States. His translations include Buda en llamas by Tony Barnstone and Cómo escribir una canción de amor by Sholeh Wolpé. He is a professor of Spanish at Rio Hondo Community College in Whittier. www.marianozaro.com

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