lolanation's profile

I’m originally from Venice Beach, California and have recently moved to Kansas City, Missouri.  My love for reading and writing has led me on various ventures through out life.  As a teenager I was the editor of the poetry/art section of my high school paper and held poetry readings through out Los Angeles in the 1990’s.  As young adult I continued to write and co-edited a small zine with graffiti art and poetry as the main threshold for work.  I have taken classes under Allen Ginsberg and Tom Robbins, it was my pleasure at the time to make Tom Robbins laugh during a class with a quippy one-liner.  Over the course of my career I have enjoyed a fruitful marketing career, even as a director for a high profile investment firm formed by the …

I’m originally from Venice Beach, California and have recently moved to Kansas City, Missouri.  My love for reading and writing has led me on various ventures through out life.  As a teenager I was the editor of the poetry/art section of my high school paper and held poetry readings through out Los Angeles in the 1990’s.  As young adult I continued to write and co-edited a small zine with graffiti art and poetry as the main threshold for work.  I have taken classes under Allen Ginsberg and Tom Robbins, it was my pleasure at the time to make Tom Robbins laugh during a class with a quippy one-liner.  Over the course of my career I have enjoyed a fruitful marketing career, even as a director for a high profile investment firm formed by the former Secretary of HUD.  I presently co-chair on a board of directors for Write the Future (WTF) a non-profit organization dedicated to the craft of writing by helping others network and hone their skills.  In other words, keeping the writers on their meds.  I also co-host the WTF radio show on blogtalkradio.com which will be resuming schedule in January of 2009 with my new co-host Jason Ryberg sharing commentary and poetry with local poets to state Laureates.  Please feel free to visit my myspace page www.myspace.com/lola_nation.  I enjoy spending my free time writing poetry and short stories and I find myself forever working on a novel entitled “All the Men I Slept with Volume I” as well as a musical adapted from Shel Silverstein lyrics.  My favorite authors and inspirations can be found on www.gooodreads.com.  Thank you for reading this and any of my work.  Your feedback is appreciated.