Veteran Larry Richardson started writing poetry in high school and as of October 2010 he published the second edition of  "Songs of Lala - the Poet" Richardson shared, "I love poetry and will use it to inspire people and bring them closer to God." He writes under the penname of LAVAN ROBINSON in honor of his mother, Mary Robinson. m 

I met LaVan in a writer's group and when I mentioned I would like to have some poets read for a Meetup, he volunteered. Much of what LaVan writes is prose poetry and his talent with this is, well, you listen and you will likely be feeling the feels as much as myself and the many others who have been speechless after LaVan's words are dropped. He goes from a love poems to love of life poems to poems about the state of world from his perspective. 

LaVan will be reading from his book as well as some other poems he has written since. 

Link for Songs of LALA https://amzn.to/2GzgxKR