Lara Gulartehosts the popular, "Poetry of the Sierra Foothills," monthly readings. Her book of poetry, Kissing the Bee, was published by "The Bitter Oleander Press," in 2018, and she was nominated by "Bitter Oleander," to Best New Poets. Published in national and international journals and anthologies, her poetry depicting her Azorean heritage is included in the The Gávea-Brown Book of Portuguese-American Poetry, and in Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada. In 2017 Gularte traveled to Cuba with a delegation of American poets and presented her poetry at the Festival Internacional de Poesia de la Habana. She's a proud member of the esteemed, "Escritores Del Nuevo Sol," and "Círculo de poetas & writers." Gularte is a creative writing instructor for the California Arts-in-Corrections program at Folsom, and Mule Creek prisons.

Books by Lara Gularte:

Other poems on the web by Lara Gularte:
"After The Shape of The Earth Changed"

About The Bitter Oleander: