Amelie Frank
Poet, publisher, and Pushcart nominee Amélie Frank has authored five poetry collections and one spoken word CD. Her work has appeared in Art/Life, Lummox, Covid, Isolation & Hope: Artists Respond to the Pandemic, So Luminous the Wildflowers, Poeticdiversity, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, Levure Litérraire, Poetry Superhighway, Cultural Weekly, Wide Awake, 1001 Knights, Al-Khemia Poetrica, Don't Blame The Ugly Mug, Blue Arc West, Spectrum, Edgar Allan Poet, A Month of Sundays, Pacific Coast Poetry Series, Truck, Spectrum, 51%, fts, Dance of the Iguana, Scream When You Burn, Beat Not Beat, and Voices From Leimert Park Redux, Dear Bela, Beyond Baroque, and more. She has featured in such reading events as Poetry in Motion, BackStory, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts, the NoHo Literary Crawl, Library Girl, Inspiration House, The Frank O'Hara Reading at MOMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and even Hooters Café. Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center and the cities of Venice and Los Angeles have honored her for her activism and leadership in the Southern California poetry community. She is a third-generation native of Los Angeles.