Poetry Showcase featuring Menlo Park residents set for January 24

A Poetry Showcase, featuring Lee Rossi along with Menlo Park residents — husband and wife Charlotte Muse and Patrick Daly (pictured) — will take place on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 2:00 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Redwood City, 2124 Brewster, Redwood City.

Lee Rossi is the author of five books of poetry. He is hoping to publish yet another book, portions of which will be premiered at the Showcase.

Charlotte Muse has published six collections of poetry, most recently In Which I Forgive the River. She also edited the anthology At the Corner of Hope and Despair. She has taught poetry at San Francisco State, UC Berkeley Extension and at many other venues. She teaches and writes in Menlo Park.

Patrick Daly’s chapbook Playing with Fire won the Abby Niebauer Award and his work has received three nominations and an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize. His poem “Words” was a poem of the year in the New Statesman. Grief and Horses (Broadstone Press, 2021) is his first full-length collection.

Photo courtesy of Charlotte Muse