Czechoslovakian Radomir Vojtech Luza inherited his love of the arts and politics from his father, a professor and member of the Resistance during WWII, his grandfather, Vojtech Luza, an army general and Resistance leader, murdered by the Nazis in 1944, and his artist mother. His parents escaped Communism in 1948. In the last three years, Luza has published five books, including “The Café Latte Tapes,” “The Last Collection,” and “The Fourth Nut House in September,” and recorded four spoken word CD’s. He has published twenty poetry collections. His poems have been published in The Lummox Magazine, Men In The Company of Women Anthology (EAP Press), Nerve Cowboy, Askew, New Laurel Review, Poetic Diversity, Boston Globe, Seldom Nocturne, Eintouist, Sahara, Poesy, Writers of the Desert Sage, Pegasus, The Aurorean, Poetry Motel, Poet Magazine, An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind (9/11 Anthology) (Regent Press), Poet’s Attic, Black and White, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Sage Trail, Phantom Seed, Bicycle Review, Spare Change, RogueScholars.com, LucidMoonPoetry.com, ZZZZzyne, CyBerUs and forthcoming in Private Poetry Line. In December of 2012, his poem “The Second John Paul” from the “Meditations On Divine Names” anthology was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In February of 2013 he was named the Poet Laureate of North Hollywood.