Jessica Wilson on http://www.KillRadio.org
Jessica Wilson guests and celebrates her new book of poetry, “Serious Longing,” published by Swan World Press from Paris, France. In studio are special guests: Patricia Kanozai, Editor-in-Chief of Swan World Press, and Los Angeles Blues sensation, Sayed Sabrina.
Where: Full Spectrum, a literary variety show
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 10 pm
Address: Listen and call in at (213) 252-0998, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: http://www.killradio.org or http://www.pw.org/calendar
Speakeasy/ Open Mic Night
It’s the first Monday of the month, and we’ve got our open mic night happening! Starts at 8 pm. Sign up at 7:45. Come early to get a good spot in line.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Monday, the 5th
Time: 7:45-10:45 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Ground Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/events/speakeasy-open-mic-night-2/
David Davis at Diesel Books
Join us on to welcome David Davis to discuss and sign his new biography, “Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku,” the iconic Hawaiian swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist and waterman. Standing proudly on his traditional wooden longboard, he spread surfing from Australia to the Hollywood crowd in California to New Jersey. No American athlete has influenced two sports as profoundly as Kahanamoku did, and yet he remains an enigmatic and underappreciated figure: a dark-skinned Pacific Islander who encountered and overcame racism and ignorance long before the likes of Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson.
David Davis’ work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, Orange Coast Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, LA Weekly, The Forward, SB Nation, Deadspin, The Classical, Los Angeles Review of Books, Only A Game, and LA Observed. He lives in the Glassell Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles.
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/brentwood-david-davis-discusses-and-signs-waterman
CSULB MFA Reading Series #2
Second in the reading series featuring recent MFA students from CSULB. Readers TBA. Come out and support the next generation of writers!
Where: Gatsby’s Books
Date: Tuesday the 6th – Wednesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://www.gatsbybooks.com/events/
David Ulin at Skylight Books
In “Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles” (University of California Press), David Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, “Sidewalking” is many things: a discussion of Los Angeles as urban space, a history of the city’s built environment, a meditation on the author’s relationship to the city, and a rumination on the art of urban walking. Exploring Los Angeles through the soles of his feet, Ulin gets at the experience of its street life, drawing from urban theory, pop culture, and literature. For readers interested in the culture of Los Angeles, this book offers a pointed look beneath the surface in order to see, and engage with, the city on its own terms.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Jessica Wilson “Serious Longing” Release
Jessica Wilson “Serious Longing” Release Party @Book Show. Book Show is honored to host the release party reading for the publication of Jessica Wilson’s first book of poetry, “Serious Longing.” “With Serious Longing, Jessica’s elegant vocabulary embodies metaphors, her imaginitive visuals are exquisitely vivid and will transport you to the core of her emotion.”–Juan Cardenas. “Deep and whole poetry about origins, ancestors, childhood with real efficient poetic words… Sometimes amazing… Sometimes funny… Always relevant. Jessica will take us with Jim Morrison in a rabid hole…” –Patrice Kanozsai “Serious Longing” is published by Swan World Press out of Paris, France.
Where: Bookshow Books
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 5503 N Figueroa St, LA CA 90042
Website: http://bookshowla.com/event/jessica-wilson-serious-longing-release/
Angela Flournoy at Otis College
Angela Flournoy’s first novel “The Turner House” was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for The New Republic, The Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. Flournoy has taught at the University of Iowa and Trinity Washington University. She lives in Los Angeles.
Where: Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 7:30- 10 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/calendar/graduate-writing-angela-flournoy
Chris Morris on Los Lobos
Chris Morris discusses and signs “Los Lobos: Dream in Blue,” the first book on this unique band, tracing the entire arc of the band s career. Music journalist Chris Morris draws on new interviews with Los Lobos members and their principal collaborators, as well as his own reporting since the early 1980s, to recount the evolution of Los Lobos s music.
Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of La Bamba became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement to the band s new fans was actually a way station in a long musical journey that began in East Los Angeles in 1973 and is still going strong. Across four decades, Los Lobos (Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, and Steve Berlin) have ranged through virtually the entire breadth of American vernacular music, from rockabilly to primal punk rock, R&B to country and folk, Mexican “son jarocho” to Tex-Mex “conjunto” and Latin American “cumbia.” Their “sui generis” sound has sold millions of albums and won acclaim from fans and critics alike, including three Grammy Awards.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 7:15 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/chris-morris-discusses-and-signs-los-lobos-dream-blue
Brenda Shaughnessy @ CalArts
Poet Brenda Shaugnessy will read from and discuss her work as part of CalArts’ MFA Writing Program’s 2015 “Writing Now Reading Series.”
Brenda Shaughnessy’s forthcoming collection of poems is So Much Synth(Copper Canyon Press, 2016.) Her other books are Our Andromeda, a New York Times’ 100 Notable Book and a finalist for the Griffin International Prize, Human Dark with Sugar (James Laughlin Award recipient and finalist for the NBCC Award) and Interior with Sudden Joy. Her poems appeared in Best American Poetry, Harpers, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, T magazine, The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Poetry, and elsewhere. She was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 2013 and is Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
Where: Cal Arts
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Butler Building #424700 McBean ParkwayValencia, CA 91355
Website: https://writing.calarts.edu/writing-now-reading-series-and-seminar or http://lalitscene.entropymag.org/
Open Mic Night at Tia Chucha
Tia Chucha’s Open Mic is a welcoming, creative sanctuary where people are encouraged to share their thoughts, feelings and talents through various styles of expression. This can be a poem, story, song, joke, freestyle, or just something they feel the need to express. Everyone is welcome to be themselves. It’s FREE. Participants sign up on arrival. Donations are accepted.
Hosted by Jeffery Martin.
Where: Tia Chucha
Time: 8 pm
Date: Friday the 9th
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave. Unit A, Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: http://www.tiachucha.org/calendarevents/
UC Riverside MFA Students
UC Riverside’s MFA in creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts presents “Juncture,” a reading of past and current MFA students’ work. Featuring: David Campos, Deb Durham, Andy Holt, Ruth Nolan, Nicloe Olweean, and Alex Ratanapratum.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/uc-riverside-mfa-students-read-their-work-3
Mark Lipman and “The Border Crossed Us”
The world launch of: T
“The Border Crossed Us” by Mark Lipman (an anthology to end apartheid) bringing together poets from around the world on the combined theme of Immigration and Palestinian Justice.
Open reading and refreshments will follow.
Where: Tia Chucha
Time: 2- 5:30 pm
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave., Unit A , Sylmar, California 91342
Website: http://www.vagabondbooks.net
Stephanie Ford with Melissa Broder
Stephanie Ford presents her new collection of poetry “All Pilgrim” with Melissa Broder. “All Pilgrim” charts our vanishing into the modern landscape, mapping both the terror and the ecstatic vision of belonging to the world. Tuned to the intermingling of peril, banality, and beauty, each poem could be thought of as a way station: a site not for reverence or relief, but for seeing and pondering the dilemmas in which we find ourselves living.
Stephanie Ford’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Tin House, Harvard Review, Fence, and many other journals. Originally from Boulder, Colorado, she is a long-time resident of Los Angeles, where she currently teaches poetry with Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
Melissa Broder is the author of four collections of poems, appearing in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Guernica, Fence, The Missouri Review, Denver Quarterly, et al. Her first book of essays, So Sad Today, will be out in March 2016 from Grand Central. She lives in Venice, CA.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Uptown Word Reading Series
Uptown Word presents: Jerry Garcia, Irene Suico Soriano, and Thomas R. Thomas.
Jerry Garcia is a poet, photographer, and filmmaker from Los Angeles, California who is too old to have been named after The Grateful Dead guitar hero. His poetry has been seen in Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, among others, and his chapbook Hitchhiking with the Guilty. Jerry is a past-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets and former president of Beyond Baroque’s Board of Trustees. www.gratefulnotdead.com
Irene Suico Soriano is a Filipina American poet, independent literary and film/video curator, and Shelter/Animal Rights advocate. Her poetry has appeared in the LA Times, Flippin’: Filipinos on America, Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina, among others. Disorient Journalzine published her first collection of poetry, SAFEHOUSES. Irene lives in Silverlake with three rescued dogs, Cadi, Papoo & Maxon and is finishing a poetry manuscript entitled, “Employees In Primate Labs Keep Quitting.”
Thomas R. Thomas publishes the small press Arroyo Seco Press. Publications include Carnival, Pipe Dream, Bank Heavy Press, Chiron Review, Electric Windmill, Marco Polo, andSilver Birch Press. His books are Scorpio (Carnival), and Five Lines (World Parade Books).the art of invisibility is coming Fall 2015. His website is www.thomasrthomas.org
WANTED for the OPEN MIC: Aspiring Creative Writers and Songwriters/Singers! Two pieces or Four-minutes, including introductions, whichever comes first. Come early to sign-up
Where: Ricardo’s Nursery
Date: Sunday, the 11th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 6850 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90805
Website: http://www.uptownword.lizgonzalez.com
Bluebird Reading Series
October reading series and open mic features: Beverly M. Collins, Marsha De LA O, Phil Taggart, and Phoebe Macadams.
Where: Avenue 50 Studio
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 2-4 pm
Address: 131 North Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042
Website: http://www.avenue50studio.org/upcoming-events-3
Soapbox Open Reading
This is your home. Bring your words. The mic is yours. Sign ups begin at 1:45 PM. There is a five minute limit. Hosted by JESSICA WILSON. FREE, but donations are always welcome.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday, the 11th
Time: 2- 4 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice CA 90291
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