Moonday: A Monthly Westside Poetry Reading. Featuring poets Roger Aplon and Cathy Colman. Come early to sign up for open mic!

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Roger Aplon was born in Chicago, Illinois. Southeast side. Attended the University of Illinois-Urbana and the University of Chicago. Founded CHOICE Magazine with Aaron Siskind and John Logan. Completed Bachelor of Arts from Roosevelt University. Moved to San Francisco. Stiletto and By Dawn's Early Light at 120 Miles Per Hour published. Moved to San Diego. Published It's Mother's Day. Moved to Barcelona, Spain. Published Barcelona Diary. Returned to US. Widowed. Returned to Barcelona where in 2006/07 The Man With His Back To The Room Poems 2000-2005 and Intimacies Prose Poems & Stories were designed and published. 2007/08 saw the publication of three 'chapbooks:' After Goya- The, Disasters of War, Escapades and/ Improvisations. 2008 No longer living in Barcelona having returned to San Diego to teach and write. Most recently was awarded a two-month fellowship (summer 2009) to The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico.

Cathy Colman received her B.A. at San Francisco State Univeristy and her M.A. at San Francisco State University.  Her book Borrowed Dress won the 2001 Felix Pollak Prize for Poetry and made the The Los Angeles Times Best-seller List the first week of its release.  Her poetry has appeared in The Colorado Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Journal, Mudfish, The Southern Review,The Los Angeles Review, The Spoon River Review, Barnabe Mountain Review, Quarterly West, Pool, The Squaw Review, Rivendell, Contemporary 88, The GW Review, Hair-raising, The Tebot Bach Anthology, Chance of a Ghost Anthology (Putnam/Tarcher), Writers on Writing(Putnam), and elsewhere. She has won the Browning Award for Poetry and the Ascher Montandon Award for Poetry.  She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize six times and was a former reviewer for The New York Times Book Review.  She collaborated with composer Robert Johnson and their vocal piece honoring the fall of the Berlin Wall was presented at the Kennedy Center.  For eighteen years she has taught poetry and fiction at UCLA and privately.  She has been a guest lecturer and reader at University of Southern California, California College of Arts and Crafts, University of California at Riverside and was a featured reader at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art Poetry Series, The Getty Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.  She has also work as a journalist/reviewer for Artweek and Angeles Magazine. Her new book, Beauty's Tattoo (Tebot Bach) was published in October, 2009.