BETH RUSCIO comes from actors, writers and vaudevillians, considers herself all three. She was named one of six Newer Poets of L.A. last year by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, won the Patricia Bibby Scholarship to Idyllwild Summer Poetry in 2006, is published in the "Poetry Goes To The Movies" issue of Speechless with her poem "Strangled Eventually," along with her essay and tribute to her Dad, "On Acting and the Art of Boxing," and has read her poems at the Taper Library, the RedCat Theater, Beyond Baroque, the Cobalt Café, Horse of Another Color, and Pacific Resident Theatre.. Reception at 7:00 pm. First twelve poets to sign up will read at Open Mic beginning at 7:30 Hot food and soft drink … Continue reading Third Thursday Night Poetry presents Beth Ruscio – April 18, 2013