British born poet Victoria Crosby hosts and produces the radio show “Oasis” which airs three times a week on WHPC 90.3fm.  Ms Crosby was host and producer of the weekly, two hour, live Classical Music Show on WCWP 88.1fm until the station format changed to all jazz in the Spring of 1999. In addition to classical music the show featured Victoria’s spiritual and uplifting poetry, and special guests. She also hosted and produced a half hour interview show on WCWP, Art Sounds, which featured guest musicians, actors and authors.   Ms Crosby has won prizes for her spiritual and humorous poetry, which can be seen and heard on radio and television, in magazines, newspapers and anthologies. Ms Crosby wrote a weekly satirical commentary on the news in rhyme, Per-Verse, for the now defunct Long Island Voice. Her work appears regularly in the local papers including a monthly column, Poetic Moments, in The Boulevard, a supplement to the Anton Newspapers which  is reached by eighteen Long Island, New York communities.


Appointed as the Poet Laureate of the City of Glen Cove, she was commissioned to write and read special poems for the inauguration ceremonies in 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 of Mayor Thomas Suozzi of Glen Cove, and for other official city occasions.
Victoria Crosby’s poetry has been commissioned for many charitable organizations, including The American Red Cross, The Nassau County Museum of Art, The Institute for Community Development, The Youth Board, The Animal Lover’s League, and in commercial advertising, including full page New York Times ads for The Americana at Manhasset. Ms Crosby has presented her poem “The Red Cross is There” to American Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole, and her spiritual poems to The Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, during his visit to New York.


Victoria Crosby is a popular featured reader at bookstores and coffee houses. Her collection of work ranges from female empowering, motivational, social and political satire, to her collection, “The Book of Elvis; His Life in Rhyme”, from which she read excerpts at the Inter-Media Arts Center in Huntington NY, and at other Long Island locations, during the annual Elvis Birthday Tributes each January, and in Memphis Tennessee, at The Center For Southern Folklore, The Java Cabana and First Church of Elvis Impersonators, on the 20 anniversary of his death in August 1997, and January 1998 for birthday tributes. The Elvis Tribute Show, a one-hour radio special, written and produced by Ms Crosby, tells his life story with music and poetry. It first aired on WHPC, and WCWP in January and August of 1998 and 1999. WHPC continues to air the tribute shows each year on the anniversaries in August  and January. Ms Crosby’s Elvis Birthday Tributes were heard on WHPC 90.3fm,  B103 103.1fm, WGBB 1240am, WLUX 540am, WLNG 92.1fm, WCNJ 89.3fm and 91.9fm.

 

In addition Ms Crosby has worked as a nursery school teacher, taught piano and violin lessons, run a summer camp program, directed a mentoring program, and presently is Managing Director of the Morgan Park Summer Music Festival in Glen Cove, and a publicist for several charity organizations.