Beth Ruscio

Beth Ruscio comes from actors, artists and vaudevillians, has tried her hand at all and as a professional actress, has appeared on many stages and screens. As a poet, she’s a frequent feature appearing most recently at The Secret City in L.A. (reading this poem), Library Girl, The Third Area and Beyond Baroque. Her work’s been most recently published in Malpais Review, Spillway, In Posse Review, Poetry Flash, and speechlessthemagazine. Her poems won second place as well as runner- up in Beyond Baroque’s Best Poem Contest last year and this year, her manuscript, Raucous Spell Of Light, was twice selected as a semi-finalist: for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, as well as for The Perugia Press Prize. She was previously a recipient of The Patricia Bibby scholarship to Idyllwild Summer Poetry, and in 2007, The Los Angeles Poetry Festival named her a Newer Poet. She is the co-author of the play 1961 Eldorado, with husband Leon Martell, to whom she dedicates this poem.