Radomir Vojtech Luza
     Radomir Vojtech Luza was born in Vienna, Austria in 1963.  He owes his love of art and politics to his Czech parents, Radomir Sr. and Libuse Podhraska Luza.  The former was a resistance fighter against the Nazis in WWII, and the latter at 15 the youngest actress ever accepted into the Czech National Dramatic Conservatory where she loved studying and acting the works of William Shakespeare and the Greeks until Adolf Hitler closed the doors in 1943.

     Luza is the Poet Laureate of North Hollywood, a Pushcart Prize Nominee and the author of 26 books, including his latest, the 404-page EROS OF ANGELS, a collection of poetry and prose. The President of the North Hollywood West Neighborhood Council has had his poetry published in nearly 80 literary journals, magazines, anthologies and websites such as the front cover of Papyrus, KYSO Flash, Askew, Cultural Weekly, Spectrum II and III, Lummox I-IV., the Boston Globe, Spare Change and roguescholars.com.  The SAG/AFTRA/AEA  actor has featured his verse across the country over 100 times.  The veteran stand-up comedian has also organized and hosted over a dozen readings in cities such as New York City, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., Jersey City, NJ and Los Angeles.  The Tulane University graduate currently co-organizes and co-hosts UNBUCKLED: No Ho POETRY with Mary Anneeta Mann on the first Saturday of each month at T.U. Studios in North Hollywood.


Book not Nook

Give me pages
Not cages

Paper
Not plastic vapor

Then not now
Present wrapped in past

I yearn for dog ears
Ink stains
Pencil grains

Words moving slowly
Like rain
Not illogically like bloody stain

At behest of
Some executive device
Lost even on mice

I opt for touching
The cover with both hands
Like Catholic priest the bible at mass

Not on command like
Lowly soldier in tangled grass




© 2016 Radomir Vojtech Luza
Radomir Luza was the Featured Poet who read his poetry at the October 2016 Second Sunday Poetry Series