Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to once again host Laurel Ann Bogen and her UCLA Extension Writers' Program poetry students as they share their work on Tuesday, June 12th at 7pm.

Laurel Ann Bogen is the author of 10 books of poetry and short fiction, most recently, Washing a Language (Red Hen Press). Ms. Bogen served as literary curator at LACMA, director of the Arundel Poetry Series, is a founding member and performer of the poetry ensemble Nearly Fatal Women, and received two awards from the Academy of American Poets. She received the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award in Creative Writing, 2008.