Poets of “In the Black / In the Red,” on The Show – Ep785

Featuring Performance Guests, Poets from, “In the Black / In the Red,” Anika Paris, Florence Weinberger, and Lee Rossi; and Interview Guest, Grammy Nominated Poet, Award-Winning Author, and Founding Publisher / Editor of Helicon Nine, Gloria Vando, on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 785

Interview Guest: GLORIA VANDO; and Performance Guests: ANIKA PARIS, FLORENCE WEINBERGER, and LEE ROSSI

ANIKA PARIS, FLORENCE WEINBERGER, and LEE ROSSI

ANIKA PARIS

Anika Paris is an award-winning singer/songwriter for theater, television and film. Her poems have appeared in Poetic Voices without Borders II, The Mom Egg, Extreme, Ghost Anthology, Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City Writers and is a co-author of the book Woven Voices: Three Generations of
Puertorriquena Poets Look at Their American Lives (Scapegoat Press) which was nominated for the International Latin Poetry Award. Most recently, her poetry has been chosen to be on NASA’s Codex Polaris rocket mission to the moon in Nov 2024! Anika’s written two music educational books (Hal Leonard) and teaches at UCLA and the Grammy.

More about Anika Paris at: www.anikaparis.com

FLORENCE WEINBERGER

Florence Weinberger is the author of six published collections of poetry, most recently These Days of Simple Mooring, winner of the Blue Light Book Award.

Six times nominated for a Pushcart, her poetry has appeared in literary magazines, including Nimrod, Poetry East, Rattle, Baltimore Review, Calyx, The River Styx, December, North American Review, The Los Angeles Review, Shenandoah and numerous anthologies.

More about Florence Weinberger at: www.facebook.com/florence.weinberger.234753

LEE ROSSI

Lee Rossi is a winner of the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize. He is the author of five poetry books Say Anything (Plain view Press) Darwin’s Garden (Moon Tide Press, 2019), Wheelchair Samurai (Plainview Press, 2011), Ghost Diary (Terrapin Press, 2003) and Beyond Rescue (Bombshelter Press, 1992.

Individual poems have appeared in The Southwest Review, Rattle, Spillway, The Chiron Review,
The Southern Review and many other venues. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a Contributing Editor to Poetry Flash.

More about Lee Rossi at:  www.LeeRossiSez.com.