Poet Runner

Saturday  willl be interviewing  Poet Rick Lupert  and runner Tom Everson

Rick Lupert has been involved with poetry in Los Angeles since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2017 Ted Slade Award, and the 2014 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center Distinguished Service Award, a 3 time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and a Best of the Net nominee. He served as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets for 2 years, and created Poetry Super Highway. Rick hosted the weekly Cobalt Cafe reading for almost 21 years which has lived on as a weekly Zoom series since early 2020. His spoken word album "Rick Lupert Live and Dead" featured 25 studio and live tracks. He’s authored 25 collections of poetry, including “The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express,” “Hunka Hunka Howdee!” and “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion” (Ain’t Got No Press) and edited the anthologies “A Poet’s Siddur”, “Ekphrastia Gone Wild”, “A Poet’s Haggadah” and the noir anthology “The Night Goes on All Night. He also writes and draws (with Brendan Constantine) the daily web comic “Cat and Banana” and writes a Jewish poetry column for JewishJournal.com. He has been lucky enough to read his poetry all over the world.

Tom Everson is the founder of Keep Kids Alive Drive 25, a traffic safety education non-profit that works with communities throughout the U.S. to help create safe roadway-roadside environments for the benefit of pedestrians, cyclists, children at play, and motorists. He also does direct work in support of families who have experienced the death of a loved one due to a traffic related incident. He is a runner - 45 years to date, who has completed 14 Pikes Peak Ascent trails races. He is an author who has written and published spiritual development resources for adolescents and families.