Lamplight Poetry Reading Series Says Farewell
The following letter was posted to Lamplight’s Facebook page:
Dear poets and friends,
It is not without a sense of heaviness that we wish to announce that April 22nd, 2018 is the last session of the Lamplight Poetry Reading series. We have had the tremendous pleasure of servicing the Los Angeles poetry community for nearly 4 years and we both believe that it is now time for us to move on to newer horizons and projects for ourselves.
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