Beverly Lafontaine

East Pasadena Poets, Sunday, May 7 at 5:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum

Beverly Lafontaine is a Los Angeles-born poet and playwright.  She has enjoyed four productions of her plays in the Los Angeles area and has had her poetry published in various poetry journals and anthologies, including online journals Poets Reading the News and MORIA as well as print journals Spillway, Beyond the Lyric Moment, Blue Satellite, and So Luminous the Wildflowers. Four of her poems appear in Waves, an  anthology of women poets published by the AROHO Foundation. Her cross-genre projects include six of her poems incorporated into Walk a Mile in My Shoes, a sculptural art project erected by the City of Los Angeles in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, and Scenes from Sarajevo in which she collaborated with composer Tom Flaherty to produce a prize-winning chamber music piece for voice, cello, and viola.