Reading at Glendale Library

Glendale City Library presents Carolyn Howard-Johnson in a free seminar and poetry reading where she will introduce two new poet voices, Sona Ovasapyan and Christine Alexanians.

Poetry: Don't Let It Molder in a Drawer, Publish It! will be open to the public on Saturday, April 21, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Glendale Central Library Auditorium at 222 E. Harvard St. in Glendale.

This event will be led by Howard-Johnson, author of Tracings, a chapbook of poetry (Finishing Line Press) and Cherished Pulse, an e-chapbook of unconventional love poetry. She is also the author four other award-winning books including The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't and The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success.

Howard-Johnson, an instructor for UCLA Extension Writers' Program, will also read from her works and introduce two emerging Glendale poets from the Chevy Chase Library Critique group, Sona Ovasapyan and Christine Alexanians. Ovasapyan graduated with an associate's degree from Pasadena City College, served as an intern with the Pasadena Weekly and has studied writing in Prague, Czech Republic. She will read from her first published work. Alexanians has a bachelor's in journalism from Tehran. A Glendale resident, she has lived in California since 1980. She has a creative nonfiction project, The Suspended Garden, in the publishing process. She will read her prose poem "92 Years of Silence."

Handouts will be available. Refreshments will be served. Poetry and other books will be for sale at the event and in the library's bookstore.

Three-hour validated parking is available in the Good Guys parking structure across from the library at Harvard and Maryland.

Learn more about the library at www.glendalepubliclibrary.org or call 548-2030 with questions about the event.