LAMBDA LIT FEST Los Angeles to be held at Various Locations, March 6-12, All Week (see below)
The First Annual LAMBDA Literary Festival, a celebration of contemporary voices honoring and expanding on the rich, diverse tradition of LGBTQ writers and letters in the Southland will be held from March 6-12, 2017. All events are FREE and open to the public! No reservations are required, but tickets for some events are available through Eventbrite via website.
Learn more at www.LambdaLitFest.org and below at each event’s individual listing.
Ana Castillo at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Join us for an evening reading with Ana Castillo, award-winning poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator, and independent scholar. Castillo was born and raised in Chicago, and her writings have been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations and publications. Among her best-selling titles: novels So Far from God, The Guardians, and Peel My Love Like an Onion; and poetry I Ask the Impossible.
The evening starts with a reception and closes with a book signing. The reading and Q&A starts at 7:15 pm.
Where: Tia Chucha’s Cultural & Bookstore
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 6:3o pm – 9 pm
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave., #A, Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: http://www.tiachucha.org/calendar_of_events
Ginger McKnight-Chavers at Book Soup
Join us to hear Ginger McKnight-Chavers discuss and sign In the Heart of Texas. After spicy, forty-something soap star Jo Randolph manages in twenty-four hours to burn all her bridges in Hollywood, along with her director/boyfriend’s beach house, she spends a crazy summer back in her West Texas hometown and it makes her question whether her life in the limelight is worth reclaiming.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/ginger-mcknight-chavers-discusses-and-signs-heart-texas
LAMBDA LIT FEST: YES FEMMES at Pieter Performance Space
Yes Femmes features writing and performance that explores the limits of the body, aims toward transformation, seeks plants and animals as models or collaborators, expresses saturated or hysterical emotion, and is campy, fannish, plagiaristic or regurgitative. This reading launches the Yes Femmes journal with a celebration of the multiplicity of femme identity and femme aesthetics in Los Angeles.
Featuring readers: Gina Ablekop, Amanda-Faye Jimenez, Wendy C. Ortiz, Elizabeth Hall, Antonia Crane, Jasmine Nyende, JD Scott, Martabel Wasserman.
Where: Pieter Performance Space
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 420 W. Avenue 33, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/yes-femmes/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Queer Bird Lit at Stories Bookstore LA
Join us to hear Community Curated Readings by Queer Bird Lit: Continuing Los Angeles’ Legacy of Queer Literature, featuring: Erin Judge, Martin Pousson, Christopher Zeischegg aka Danny Wylde, Catie Disabato.
Where: Stories Books & Cafe
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/queer-bird-lit-continuing-los-angeles-legacy-queer-literature/
Nicholas Obregon at Book Soup
Author Nicholas Obregon discusses and signs Blue Light Yokohama, a brilliantly layered, moody novel. Newly reinstated to the Homicide Division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don’t want him there and is assigned a reluctant partner. After the previous detective working the case killed himself, they are assigned to investigate the slaughter of an entire family, a brutal murder with no clear motive or killer.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/nicolas-obregon-discusses-and-signs-blue-light-yokohama
Matthew Desmond, with Steve Lopez at ALOUD
Join us to hear author Matthew Desmond, in conversation with LA Times correspondent Steve Lopez, discuss and sign Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. This book tells the story of eight families living on the edge, and bears witness to the human cost of America’s vast inequality and transforms our understanding of extreme poverty, and the devastating issues of economic exploitation.
Where: ALOUD Reading Series, Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/evicted-poverty-profit-american-city/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Professor in the Pub Reading at Black Cat
UCLA Chicana/o Studies Professor, author and poet Alicia Gaspar De Alba, talks queer bilingual poetics with two former students of hers—Claudia Rodriguez and Richard Villegas Jr., each and accomplished writer—who graduated UCLA in the late 1990s. March 8 is also International Women’s Day. This program is offered in partnership with Lambda Lit Fest 2017.
Where: The Black Cat Gastropub
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3909 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/professor-in-the-pub/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: An Evening with Bryan Fuller at West Hollywood Library
As part of the Lambda Lit Fest: Bryan Fuller serves as executive producer on Starz’s American Gods, based on Neil Gaiman’s classic novel. Fuller got his start on Star Trek, created Wonderfalls for Fox and wrote for the SciFi Channel, NBC’s Heroes, and ABC’s Pushing Daisies, etc.
This conversation is moderated by Dave White, co-host of Linoleum Knife podcast and author of Exile in Guyville, and Alonso Dualde, Film Reviews Editor for The Wrap and senior programmer at Outfest, and the author of two books.
Where: Council Chambers, West Hollywood Library
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/evening-bryan-fuller/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Romantic Comedy at Stories Bookstore LA
Curator Erin Judge will present and talk about Romantic Comedy, a monthly stand-up show she co-hosts with Jenny Chalikian. This Lambda Lit Fest edition features comedians and writers Caitlin Gill, Catie Disabato, Janine Brito, Solomon Georgio, and Sabrina Jalees.
Where: Stories Bookstore & Cafe
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/romantic-comedy/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Giving Tongue Poets at Boston Court, Pasadena
As part of Lambda Lit Fest, Giving Tongue: A Celebration of Lesbian/Queer Poets features a multi-cultural and multi-generational line-up of lesbian and queer-identified poets—Rocio Carlos, Olga Garcia Echerverria, Eloise Klein Healy, Traci Kato-Kirayama, Damnyo Lee, Jo Paradigm Roberts and Terry Wolverton—reflecting diverse styles and content. A reception and book signing will follow the readings.
Where: Boston Court Performing Arts Center
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 701 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/giving-tongue-celebration-lesbianqueer-poets/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Paul Lisicky at Otis College of Art and Design
Paul Lisicky, will read new work as part of the Otis Graduate Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Series, and Lambda Lit Fest. Lisicky’s books include the memoirs The Narrow Door and Famous Builder, the prose collection Unbuilt Projects, and the novels The Burning House and Lawnboy. He teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden and in fall 2018 will be a visiting professor at UT Austin.
Where: The Forum, Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Asian American LGBTQ Experience at Chinese American Museum
Celebrating the Asian American LGBTQ+ Experience brings together a multi-generational line-up of queer –identified poets, writers, and actors in historic downtown Los Angeles at the Chinese American Museum, whose current exhibit Roots: Asian American Movements in Los Angeles highlights various intersectionality of different civil rights movements in the 60’s to the 80’s. Featured artists include Celeste Chan, Karen Yin, Marcus Tran, Eric Wat, Janice Lee, Jenapher Jun-Yi Zheng, Michelle Lin, CB Lee, Kate Goka.
Where: Chinese American Museum
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 425 N. Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/celebrating-asian-american-lgbtq-experience/
Gish Jen at Chevalier’s Bookstore
In her fascinating and richly researched non-fiction treatise, The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap, acclaimed novelist Gish Jen mines our cultural differences for the insights they afford into self-perception and contrasts individualism with interdependence as a central clue to what makes our contemporary society tick.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://chevaliersbooks.com
Margaret Dunlap at Book Soup
Margaret Dunlap discusses and signs Bookburners, the critically acclaimed urban fantasy about a secret team of agents that hunts down dangerous books containing deadly magic, previously released serially online by Serial Box, now available in print for the first time! Magic is real and hungry. It’s trapped in ancient tests and artifacts, and only a few who discover it survive to fight back. So only the bookburners stand between humanity and the magical apocalypse!
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/margaret-dunlap-discusses-and-signs-bookburners
Randy Hillier at Pages Bookstore
Randy Winston Hillier works as a psychotherapist in her own practice. In 1987 she met Helen Palmer, who was offering an introductory lecture on the Enneagram, a system that outlined how attention was specifically organized, and through keen observation one could learn how to shift one’s attention at will. Hillier realized that as a therapist she could teach people the Enneagram system, and they could discover how their internal operating system worked. Over time one could develop a capacity for self-observation, and the inner life would become so much more accessible for self-healing purposes.
RSVPs are appreciated.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/randy-hillier-author-event
LAMBDA LIT FEST: MUTHA Magazine at Poetic Research Bureau
MUTHA UP at Lambda Lit Fest with stories of modern queer parenthood from MUTHA Magazine. Join us to hear presenters Elizabeth Early, Jillian Lauren, Carla Sameth, Wendy C. Ortiz, and cartoonist Tyler Cohen.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Gay Theater at West Hollywood Library
Please join us for a lively discussion of Gay Theater Its history and Its Future, an opportunity to gain a perspective on our cultural history with some people who helped create it, plus thoughts aobut its direction from those working today. Featuring: Victor Bumbalo (coordinator), Michael Kearns, Robert Patrick, Tom Jacobson, Mary Casey, Odalys Nanin, Donald Jolly.
Where: Community Room, West Hollywood Library
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/gay-theater-history-future/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Rise Up and Shout at Studio C Artists
Join us to hear Rise Up and Shout: Letters from Young Gay Men, a compilation of dreams, struggles and expressions by gay men ages 16-90, reaching out to each other over a period of almost 10 years. All writers pen letters to the late Malcom Boyd, elder to this project.
Where: Studio C Artists
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 6448 California Route 2, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/letters-intimate-conversation-gay-generations/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: We are Chicanx at Avenue 50 Studio
We are Chicanx: A Brown-Queer Revolution will be an evening highlighting some of the vibrant, powerful voices at the forefront of Chicanx: a new, radical, decolonized, inclusive identity forged on the streets of LA for LGBTQ and non-binary familia. Q&A will follow. Curated by 2016 Lambda Finalist, Meliza Banales aka Missy Fuego.
Where: Avenue 50 Studio
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/chicanx-brown-queer-revolution/
Dan Chaon at Skylight Bookstore
Dan Chaon will present and sign his novel Ill Will, where the author explores two sensational unsolved crimes—one in the past, another in the present—both linked up by one man’s memory and self-deception. Chaon is fascinated by urban legends and conspiracy theories, and you will be intrigued and entertained by this novel.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/dan-chaon-reads-his-novel-ill-will
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Australia’s LGBTQ Writers Streamed Online
Join us to hear Yen Erikson, Ellen Van Neerven, Julie Kalceff, Lucy Watson, Tom Cho in conversation on the question of whether there are limitations to writing queer stories into pre-existing media forms.
Where: Visit Noted Festival or Muse websites
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: See Noted Festival or Muse Winebar sites via details at site.
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/australian-panel-streamed-online-lambda-litfest-audience/
The Far Shore at Book Soup
Paul T. Scheuring discusses and signs The Far Shore, a story that follows Lily, who embarks on a global odyssey to uncover an incredible story of a stricken, shell-shocked soldier who left the battlefield and went to the ends of the earth to answer the age-old questions of mankind: Why do we suffer? Is there a God? Is there a way out?
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/paul-t-scheuring-discusses-and-signs-far-shore
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Sister Spit: The Next Generation at West Hollywood Library
Sister Spit: The Next Generation is a spectacular evening of readings, performance, and music on the issues of feminism, race, size, class, identity, technology, gender and sexuality. The event features: Jerry Lee Abrams, Denise Benavides, Cathy de al Cruz, Celeste Chan, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Maya Songbird, Virgie Tovar.
Where: Council Chambers, West Hollywood Library
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/sister-spit-next-generation/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: House of Godzilla at Poetic Research Bureau
Celebrate debut poetry collections form Chen Chen, Kazumi Chin, Michelle Lin, Shelley Wong, with a reading and interactive arts workshop. Build a house that disrupts containment and binaries, that shapes identity and language—a house that exists in being built, not one we belong to, but work toward.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/house-godzilla-rare-birds-possibilities/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Mysteries with a Mission at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear a one-on-one conversation between six-time Lammy winner Michael Nava and Lambda Lit Fest Steering Committee Member Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Topics include creating a queer detective who also happens to be Chicano, revising a novel after 30 years, writing a mystery with a mission, writing sex scenes, navigating social and familial homophobia, and advice to new writers.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/mysteries-mission-queer-platica-michael-nava/
Anna Journey, with David Ulin, at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Anna Journey read from her collection of essays, An Arrangement of Skin, with David Ulin. These essays swerve artfully among topics, the author’s reflections on our shifting selves, the many skins we inhabit in our life. This is a first collection from an author of the highest order.
Anna Journey is the author of three poetry collections, and is an assistant professor of English at USC.
David Ulin is the author of several on-fiction books, and recently the novel Ear to the Ground. He is the former book editor and critic of the Los Angeles Times.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Inside the Writer’s Studio at Beyond Baroque
Patricia Nell Warren authored the first contemporary gay novel to be on the New York Times Bestseller’s List. Felice Picano wrote several of the classic gay American novels. Join Eric Andrews-Katz as he asks these two literary giants about their careers, writing process, influences, and their places in history.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/inside-writers-studio/
Lambda LitFest: Morning Plenary at Barnsdall Art Park
This panel discussion brings together esteemed members of the LGBTQ community to examine the challenges of inclusivity today and find new opportunities in publishing and literary space, and how they address artistic practices. Moderator Cheryl Klein hosts Luis Alfaro, Zachary Drucker, Sarah Schulman, Justin Torres, and Rebeca Walker.
Where: Barnsdall Gallery Theatre at Barnsdall Art Park
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 11 am – 12:15 pm
Address: 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/lambda-litfest-morning-plenary/
Grand Park Book Fest at Grand Park’ Olive Court
In collaboration with the City of Los Angeles’ Big Read honoring the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the annual Grand Park Book Fest offers free hands-on activities, including; creating your own pieces of poetic genius with PUBLISH! by Writ Large Press, constructing hand-made books using dried plant specimens, a photo booth, free writing advice with traci kato-kiriyama, 826LA’s never-ending story, a create your own L.A. poem activity with Mike “the poet” Sonksen, readings by Get Lit Players and Ren Hen Press authors, and pop-up bookshops. Check out the full list of events at the link below.
All events are FREE!
Where: Grand Park’s Olive Court
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 12 pm – 5 pm
Address: 200 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://grandparkla.org/event/downtown-bookfest/?instance_id=93682
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Quitessentially Queer L.A. at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
Discussion panel brings together more esteemed members of the LGBTQ community to examine the challenges of inclusivity today.
Moderator Alex Espinoza hosts Ryka Aoki, Bernard Cooper, D’Lo, Wendy C. Ortiz, Claudia Rodriguez, and Terry Wolverton.
Where: Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Barnsdall Art Park
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/quintessentially-queer-la/
Poetry Workshop at Santa Catalina Library
Our Deep Poetry Critique Workshop led by G.T. Foster will be held this week at Saturday Afternoon Poetry. Bring 15 copies of your poem-in-progress.
Curated by: Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Pasadena
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Queer Characters Panel at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
Join us to hear Noel Alumit moderate a panel discussion on Queer Characters in Novels, Screenplays & Everything in Beween, and hosting: Lucy Bledsoe, MariNaomi, Michael Nave, Our Lady J and Peter Paige.
Where: Barnsdall gallery Theatre, Barnsdall Art Park
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/queer-characters-novels-screenplays-everything/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Queer Truth Panel at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
Susie Bright moderates a panel on Queer Truth: Nonfiction & Journalism in a Post-Truth World and hosts Tre’vell Anderson, Diane Anderson-Minshall, Melissa Chadburn, Alberto B. Mendoza and Robin Podolsky. Topics explored will include defining the line between the personal and the political, exploring the impact of a Trump administration on the media landscape, and how cultural critics choose what to write about.
Where: Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Barnsdall Art Park
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/queer-truth-nonfiction-journalism-post-truth-world/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: UnCabaret at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
Lambda Lit Fest presents UnCabaret, moderated by Beth Lapides, and featuring Julie Goldman, Marga Gomez, Ian Harvie, Alec Mapa and Justin Sayre.
Where: Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Barnsdall Art Park
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 8 pm (doors open at 7:30)
Address: 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/lambda-litfest-presents-uncabaret/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: The Catchment Workshop at USC Libraries
With ritualistic and oral traditions guided by Black American and West African ceremony, we will engage in writing prompts that encourage written expression, reflection on healing, and sharing work. Curated by Taijhet Nyobi and librecht baker.
Where: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 909 Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/the-catchment/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Guerrillareads Video Walk in Hollywood
Writers at all levels are invites to participate in our Video Walk. We will meet in Silver Lake, at the bookstore. Bring a short piece of writing and we will explore the neighborhood while shooting videos of each participant reading their work.
Where: A Different Light Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 11 am
Address: 4014 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/guerrillareads-lambda-litfest-video-walk/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: of Self [Re/De] Construction at Avenue 50
In homage to Pilipinx trans, femme artist Mark Aguhar, Poetics of Self [RE/De] Construction: Litanies to My Brown Heavenly Body, queer writers of color will explore how our very bodies become litanies, invocations of our existence and “sites for imagining alternative realities.” Featuring: Angela Penaredondo, Melissa Sipin, Belinda Bellinger, Michelle Lin, Margaret Rhee, Chen Chen, Muriel Leng, Ching-In Chen, Vickie Vertiz, Kazumi Chin, Vanessa Angelica Villarreal.
Where: Avenue 50 Studio
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/poetics-self-rede-construction-litanies-brown-heavenly-body/
Soap Box Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
Join us for our popular monthly open reading offered on the second Sunday of each month. Sign-ups begin at 1:45 pm. Five minute limit is given to each reader.
Hosted by Jessica Wilson Cardenas.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Queer Male Poets at Book Soup
Join us for No Cure for Madness: Queer Male Poets on Death, God and Desire, featuring Kazim Ali, Blas Falconer, Miguel Murphy. We present three queer men of color whose work transgresses mainstream and heteronormative norms of both body and spirit.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/no-cure-madness-queer-male-poets-death-god-desire/
LAMBDA LIT FEST: Indie Voices form Indie Presses at Skylight Books
Join us to hear Los Angeles-based authors Alex Espinoza, Dan Lopez, Wendy C. Oritz, and Martin Pousson discuss the ways they found homes for their unique voices and the independent literary communities that champion them, from publishers to bookstores and publications, in Los Angeles and beyond.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/indie-voices-indie-presses/
Tertulia Literary Salon at Akbar
Join us for Five Minute Escapes, to hear six queer writers from Tertulia, L.A.’s cool and diverse literary salon, share “escape” readings from their work about confronting and conquering life’s prisons. Featuring: Armando Munoz, Louis Bucchold III, Kevin Mangold, Jeff Darter, Jeff Golomb, Ron Gutierrez, Jared Fortunato, Constanze Frei, Brian Sonia-Wallace.
LAMBDA LIT FEST: This event will be followed by the Lambda Lit Fest Closing Party at Akbar at 7 pm.
Where: Akbar
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 4356 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029
Website: http://lambdalitfest.org/events/tertulia-literary-salon/
Rattle Magazine Poetry Reading at Flintridge Bookstore
Our Rattle Magazine Poetry Reading presents authors Kien Lam and Emily Ransell.
Kien Lam lives in Los Angeles and writes about League of Legends e-sports. He received his MFA from Indiana University and his work has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Indiana Review, Hobart, and elsewhere.
Emily Ransdell lives in Camas, Washington, and her work has appeared in numerous journals. She was runner-up in Prime Number’s single-poem contest and will be featured in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry column later this year.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada, CA 91001
Website: http://www.rattle.com/readings/
Chen Chen Reading at Beyond Baroque
In When I Grow Up, his ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. This collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one’s own path in life.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
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