Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA
Red Hen Press Reading Series with Gary Dop, Steve Langan, Ramón Garcia, & Elena Karina Byrne and moderator Hélène Cardona. Gary Dop’s first collection of poems “Father, Child, Water” was published by Red Hen Press in the spring of 2015. Ramón Garcia is the author of “Other Countries” and “Ricardo Valverde” and is a professor at California State University, Northridge and lives in Los Angeles. Elena Karina Byrne is a ten-time Pushcart Prize nominee whose books include “The Flammable Bird” and “Masque” and organizes readings for The West Hollywood Book Fair. Note: RSVP
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 6:30 pm, arrive at 6:15 pm to retain reservation
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Hwy, Santa Monica , CA 90402
Website: beachhouse.smgov.net
Rush Hour Reading
In Celebration of National Poetry Month, Luis Rodriguez, Robin Coste Lewis, Eloise Klein Healy, and our own Managing Editor Kate Gale will be part of Rush Hour Reading. You won’t want to miss what is sure to be a spectacular evening!
Where: Union Station
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 800 N. Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: www.redhen.org
Armenia at Barnes and Noble at The Grove
Eric Bogosian presents “Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide.” Note: This is a wristbanded event and will be available beginning at 9:00 am on April 28 with purchase of Operation Nemesis. Eric Bogosian will personalize books with first names. Photography is permitted from the signing line only. No photos during discussion or signing table, please.
Where: Barnes and Noble
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: The Grove (3rd and Fairfax), Fairfax District, L.A., CA
Website: http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/86465
Flight School Open Mic at Industry Cafe
Come enjoy a night of wordsmithing, whether it is your’s or someone else’s, to close our National Poety Month. Hosted by Osmith/Kimiko & The Flight School Band. Features are: Mike “The Poet” Sonksen and Jaha Zainabu. Note: $5 Tuition
Where: Industry Cafe
Date: Tuesday the 28th
Time: 9 pm – 12 pm
Address: 6039 Washington Blvd., Culver City 90232
Website: https://www.facebook.com/flightschoolopenmic.officialprofile?fref=photohttp://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/86465
Jacqueline Suskin discusses her book “Go Ahead & Like It,” an artistic, smart, self-help book with Mandy Kahn. Jacqueline Suskin is best known through her work with Poem Store, a public performance project in which she composes custom verses on a manual typewriter in exchange for donations. Mandy Kahn is author of the poetry collection “Math, Heaven, Time.”
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Wednesday the 29th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N Vermont Ave., Los Feliz, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/
Writing Our Future
Alound’s second annual gathering unites students from five Southland graduate writing programs—CalArts, Otis College, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and USC—to share recent work and tune our ears to the future of language. What are the ideas, forms, questions, syntaxes, images, and narratives of our immediate future? Who better as our compass in the wilds of the now than emerging writers?
Where: Central Library, Los Angeles Public Library–Mark Taper Auditorium
Date: Thursday the 30th
Time: 7:15 pm
Address: 630 w. 5th St., Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Website: http://www.lfla.org/event-detail/1124/Writing-Our-Future
Cal Arts: MFA Reading
Come join Calarts’ MFA Writing Class of 2015 at the Last Bookstore for their last reading of the year! Sarah Leslie, Paul Christian, Stephanie Taglianetti and Lauren Artiles will read excerpts from their forthcoming theses, hybrid works of poetry, fiction, and literary screenplay. There will be food and drinks provided, and a reception/celebration to follow! If you like surreal imagism, family pathos, scary stories and Keanu Reeves, or if you were also once a baby, this is your literary event of the season. Copies of the 2015 class anthology, Ephemera, will be available for purchase as well; all proceeds go towards the Calarts Community Arts Partnership writing program, which works with high schoolers across the LA area.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 8 pm -10 pm
Address: 453 S Spring St., Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/events/cal-arts-mfa-readings-2/
Manson’s Noise Parlour
This month, our quarterly youth program features the talents of: Charlie Hickey, Maya Hernandez and Julian Corbett. The evening is hosted by singer-songwriter, Mason Summit, whose CD Loud Music & Soft Drinks was nominated for a L.A. Music Critic Award in 2014. Regular Admission $10, Students & Seniors $6, Members Free.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 8 pm -10 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Black Clock Issue 20 Book Launch
Celebrate issue 20 of Cal Arts’ nationally renown lit mag “Black Clock,” hosted by Bruce Bauman. Readings by: Tom Carson, Steve Erickson Lynell George, Grace Krilanovich, Jonathan Lethem, Matthew Spektor, and David L. Ulin.
Where: Mandrake
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 4 pm –7 pm
Address: 2692 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034
Website: http://blackclock.org/events/2015/black-clock-20-launch/
Fourth Sundays
Fourth Sundays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a poetry reading featuring Jenny Factor and Frank Montesonti. The reading is free and open to the public. Light snacks are provided and poets will have copies of their books to purchase. Jenny Factor’s poems have been featured in numerous anthologies, including “The Best American Erotic Poems” (2008), “Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry” (2003) among others. She lives in San Marino, California. Frank Montesonti is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, “Blight, Blight, Blight”, “Ray of Hope.” Long Time resident of Indiana he now lives in Los Angeles and is the lead faculty of the MFA program at National University.
Where: Claremont Public Library
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 208 Harvard AveClaremont, CA 91711
Website: http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/86465
Brunch with Margret McMullan and Pam Houston and Their Stories
With the help of partners at Microsoft, WordTheatre will host brunch and stories with Margaret McMullan and Pam Houston. Guests will be treated to complimentary valet parking and a catered brunch by Schaffer’s Genuine Foods with a mimosa bar, coffee and tea. Performances will be followed by a Q&A with the author and book signings of purchased books courtesy of Small World Books.
Where: The Microsolft Lounge
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 11:30 am – 3 pm
Address: 901 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Suite A, Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://wordtheatre.com/event/brunch-with-margaret-mcmullan-pam-houston/
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