Mary E TorregrossaMary Torregrossa's poems appear in Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems, in Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, and forthcoming in Voices From Leimert Park Redux, an anthology of "observers and keepers of culture" from the famous Word Stage in Los Angeles. Individual poems are part of the Poems of Arrival Project, an art installation by ShinPei Takeda at the New Americans Museum in San Diego and in Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera's Poems for Unity project, as well as Lament For The Dead, a project honoring victims of gun violence. Mary is a winner of the Arroyo Arts Collective Poetry In The Windows community event and named Newer Poet of Los Angeles XIV by Suzanne Lummis and the prestigious Los Angles Poetry Festival. Read More Read Less