Bilingual Poetry Writing Workshop at Baldwin Hills Library
Check out this FREE Poesia/Poetry Bilingual Poetry Workshop, offered by DSTL Arts.
You will learn how to use your five senses to paint a picture using only words, and you’ll leave with a poem ready to recite. This workshop will be presented in English and in Spanish, and participants are encouraged to write in their preferred language.
Where: Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 12:30 – 2 pm
Address: 2906 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Website: Facebook Page
Kelly Grey Carlisle at Book Soup
Join us to hear Kelly Grey Carlisle discuss and sign her book, We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir. This book is about a mother’s murder, her daughter’s redemption, and the complicated past that bound them both. Kelly always knew her family was different. She knew most children did not live with their grandparents, and their grandparents did not own porn stores. Her classmates did not live on a boat in the marina surrounded by drug addicts and johns, fearing the dysfunction surrounding them. To dig a way out, she goes back to the twenty-five year old cold case that concerns the murder of the mother she never knew. Then she learns how to break free without severing the strings that anchored her.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/kelly-grey-carlisle-discusses-and-signs-we-are-all-shipwrecks-memoir
Adam O’Riordan at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Adam O’Riordan discuss and sign The Burning Ground: Stories. Moving from remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach, this collection of eight stories is populated by men haunted by their past and by their dreams, set against the canvas of California, where beauty and bleakness go hand in hand. This insightful work portrays diverse male lives contending with the potential of the West Coast.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/adam-o’riordan-discusses-and-signs-burning-ground-stories
Robert Wright at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Come to hear Robert Wright read and answer questions regarding Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. Wright seeks to demonstrate how Buddhism’s diagnosis of the human condition is fundamentally correct, and his book is both informative and rewarding. As an author of four books on science, and an expert on evolutionary psychology, he offers a personal exploration of how natural selection has inclined us toward delusion and unhappiness—and how we can find happiness through meditation and philosophy.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/robert-wright
Max Gladstone, with Matt Wallace, at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear Max Gladstone, with Matt Wallace, discuss and sign Ruin of Angels: A Novel of the Craft Sequence. He will discuss this sixth novel in the series, the economics of magic, and what the Washington Post calls “the best kind of urban fantasy.”
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
90x90LA: Drunken Masters
Join us to hear three writers read/perform short excerpts from a work-in-progress in front of a panel of three published writers in the field who provide on-the-spot feedback—all while plied with drink or the PG indulgence of their choosing. An entertaining (sometimes riotous) reading!
Curated by WLP, Janine Lim & Jeff Rogers
Where: Wolf & Crane Bar
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 366 E. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/drunken-masters-m-918-8pm/
Carina Chocano at Scripps College
Join us to hear “Nasty Women: A Tuesday Conversation with Carina Chocano.” In the spirit of Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, and Susan Sontag, Carina Chocano’s, You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages, examines the dramatic and often damaging ways that pop culture influences female identity. Join us for the first in a three-part conversation.
Where: Scripps College, Hampton Room
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 12:15 pm
Address: 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA 91711
Junot Diaz, with Jade Chang, at Scripps College
Join us to hear Junot Diaz in Conversation, with Jade Chang. Although his fiction is probing and funny, it’s also situated at the center of first-generation experience. Junot Diaz, Dominican-Republican-born and New Jersey-bred, has a knack for capturing the messy, maudlin, and majestic dramas of finding one’s way in a brand new world. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao will be in conversation with Jade Chang, author of The Wangs vs. the World, and they will reflect on, among other things, the ways that literature and politics intersect.
Where: Scripps College, Garrison Theater
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 231 E. 10th St., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: http://www.scrippscollege.edu/events/calendar/junot-diaz-in-conversation
Ryan Gattis at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Ryan Gattis read from and sign his new book, Safe, a gritty, fast-paced thriller which hurtles readers toward a shocking conclusion that asks the toughest question of all: how far would you go to protect the ones you love? Join us to learn about the latest book from the author of All Involved.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/ryan-gattis-discusses-and-signs-safe
Deborah Blum, with Michael Wolfe, at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Deborah Blum, in conversation with Michael Wolfe, author of The Hadj: An American’s Pilgrimage to Mecca, read from and sign her new book, Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead. The two authors will be extrapolating on history and storytelling and where they intersect, along with Mead’s contribution to altering the way Americans perceive sexuality.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/deborah-blum-michael-wolfe
Pat Thomas on Jerry Rubin at Book Soup
Join us to hear author Pat Thomas, in conversation with Mimi Leonard, read from and sign, Did It! From Yippie to Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, an American Revolutionary. The first ever biography of the co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Viet Nam War radical, Chicago 8 defendant, New Age/Self-Help proponent, and social networking pioneer, this book also explores the misunderstood relationship between Rubin and his partner-in-crime Abbie Hoffman, with controversial insights into their Yippie vs. Yuppie debates.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Eleanor Henderson, with Edan Lepucki, at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear author Eleanor Henderson, with Edan Lepucki, read from and sign her new book, The Twelve-Mile Straight, which follows her bestselling debut, Ten Thousand Saints. Here Henderson presents a story inspired by those she heard about in the small town in South Georgia her father grew up in, and combines the emotional acuity of her earlier work with a fresh take on big, important themes, such as race, inequality and family, that is startlingly timely and relevant.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Michael C. Ford & Open Mic at Coffee Cartel, Redondo Beach
Join Redondo Beach Poets to share the work of featured poet, Michael C. Ford, and share the Open Mic or listen to the words of others.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets
90x90LA: Franz Fanon Reading Circle Night 2
Join us in our reading circle as we continue the conversation, reading and exploring together the first chapter of Franz Fanon’s incomparable The Wretched of the Earth.
Led by Peter Woods
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/frantz-fanon-reading-circle-tu-919-8pm/
PEN Center USA & The Edison Book Club at The Edison
Join us for our September Book Club to discuss The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz.
Event is hosted by Hayanna Kim.
Where: The Edison
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 108 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Poetas Potion at The Main Museum
In conjunction with Beta Main’s current exhibition, Star Montana: I Dream of Los Angeles, join us for an evening of poetry and zines that celebrate Los Angeles’s Chicana community.
Alma Rosa, founder of Frijolera Press, brings together local poets for a night of bilingual readings, featuring:
Alma Rosa, Yesika Salgado, Missy Fuego, Cynthia Guardado, and Xitlalic Guijosa-Osuna.
Music provided by the Vinyl Frontier Crew, spinning cumbia and funk. Zines and chapbooks from participating artists will be available for purchase.
FREE event and open to the public.
Where: The Main Museum
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 114 W. 4th St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Luiz J. Rodriguez at the Otis Visiting Writers Series
Join us at our Visiting Writers Series, for a conversation and reading with L.A.’s former Poet Laureate, from 2014-2016, Luiz J. Rodriguez. He has written fourteen books of poetry, children’s literature, fiction and nonfiction since his first book, Poems Across the Pavement, which won a 2015 Paterson Award for Literary Achievement. His memoir is Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., and he is also founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and co-owner of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley. His press has recently published two anthologies, Coiled Serpent and The Wandering Song.
Where: Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.otis.edu/calendar/visiting-writers-series-luis-j-rodriguez
Agustus Rose, with Tom Bissell, at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Agustus Rose, who will present and discuss his novel, The Readymade Thief, with Tom Bissell. This is an impressive novel that is also improbable, and pits an irrepressible and gritty young heroine against a sinister group of fanatics. It contains urban exploration, secret societies, Home Alone movies, and transmits them into something else altogether.
Agustus Rose is a novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Bolinas, and grew up in San Francisco, but now lives in Chicago with his wife, novelist Naomi Mun and their son, and teaches fiction writing at the University of Chicago.
Tom Bissell is the author most recently of the novel, Apostle: Travel Among the Tombs of the Twelve. He authored eight previous books and writes frequently for Harper’s Magazine and the New Yorker.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 7:30 am
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Wyatt Underwood & Jaha Zainabu at The World Stage
Join us for our first double Book Release to hear Jaha Zainabu and Wyatt Underwood, hosted by World Stage Press. Each author wrote poems every day for an entire year, and each book contains 365 poems in one book. Each book is titled A Poem a Day Series, one dated 2013 and the other 2015. Readings start at 8:30 pm.
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
90X90LA: Wellness Writing at Aratani Theatre Stage
Celebrate!
Investigate!
Resist!
Hosted by traci akemi kato-kiriyama and Jessica Ceballos Campbell, join us to hear and participate in a themed workshop. We will start with a brief conversation on our writing process and artistic and social practice. We will then facilitate writing exercises throughout the evening, with a brief period of sharing for participants at the end of the night.
Where: Aratani Theatre, JACCC
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 7:45 pm
Address: 224 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/wellness-writing-wednesday-w-920-745pm/
Seth Fishman at Manhattan Beach Library
Join us to hear local children’s author Seth Fishman present and sign A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars. How many trees are there in the world? How many cities, or people? The world is filled with big, enormous, gigantic, incredible numbers. Look around you. How big is your imagination?
RSVPs are appreciated. Use the link at the pages bookstore site below.
Where: Manhattan Beach Library
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 4 pm
Address: 1320 Highland Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/seth-fishman-author-event
Poetry Reading at Pasadena Museum of California Art
As part of our Free Third Thursday Evening Program, 5 pm – 8 pm, gather together for a showcase of some of our most talented Latino writers, presented by Red Hen Press.
Veronica Reyes is a Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los angeles who scripts poetry for the people and gives voice to her communities. Her work has been widely published , she is a proud member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop, and her first book Chopper! Chopper! Poetry from Bordered Lives has won numerous prizes.
William Archilla is the author of The Art of Exile, which won an International Latino Book Award in 2010 and was featured in Poets & Writers’ Fifth annual Debut Poets Roundup. His second book, The Gravedigger’s Archaeology, won the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize.
Bias Falconer is the author of The Foundling Wheel, A Question of Gravity and Light, and The Perfect Hour. He is also co-poetry of The Los Angeles Review.
Luis J. Rodriguez is the Poet Laureate Emeritus of Los Angeles, 2014-2016, and has written fourteen books of poetry, children’s literature, fiction and nonfiction since his first book, Poems Across the Pavement, which won a 2015 Paterson Award for Literary Achievement. His memoir is Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. He is also founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and co-owner of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley.
Where: Pasadena Museum of California Art
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 490 East Union St., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://pmcaonline.org/programs/free-third-thursday-evening-sept21/
Stephen Hinshaw at Pages Bookstore
Join us to hear author Stephen Hinshaw, Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Francisco, present and sign Another Kind of Madness: A Journey Through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness. Hinshaw explores the burden of living in a family “loaded” with mental illness, and debunks the stigma behind it. Through a poignant and moving family narrative, and the history of his father’s ups and downs and subsequent diagnosis, he presents a passionate call to arms on the importance of destigmatizing mental illness.
RSVPs are appreciated. Use the link at the pages bookstore site below.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/stephen-hinshaw-author-event
Reshma Saujani at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear Reshma Saujani discuss and sign Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World, which is part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and John Legend. Bursting with dynamic artwork, down-to-earth explanations of coding principles, and real-life stories of those women and girls who work at places like Pixar and NASA, this animated book has something to connect with every girl.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Robin Sloan at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear author Robin Sloan, read from and sign his new novel, Sourdough. From the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Lois, a software engineer at General Dexterity, a company with world-changing ambitions, who finds herself inheriting a culture for sourdough bread which opens up her world.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/robin-sloan-reads-his-new-novel-sourdough
90X90LA: Through a Glass Darkly at TBA
Celebrate!
Investigate!
Resist!
Curated by Kate Maruyama, join us to hear and participate in a conversation & workshop, Through a Glass Darkly: Speculative, Horror and Science Fiction as Resistance, featuring: Tananarive Due, Michael Gonzales, and Gina Ruiz.
Where: TBA
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 8 pm
Address: TBA
Website: http://90x90la.com/wellness-writing-wednesday-w-920-745pm/
ARTravenous Poetry Reading at Canal Club
Please join us for ARTravenous, a celebration of life, art, culture, fashion, poetry, and music. Published poets Art Currim, Brenda G Jackson, and James Berkowitz will read and perform five to ten minute sets. Be there at 6 pm and stick around for Awesome Giveaway Time at 9:45 pm.
Where: Canal Club
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 9 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 025 Pacific Ave., Venice, CA 90291
Soman Chainani at Children’s Book World–Children’s Event
Please join us to hear Soman Chainani read from his School for Good & Evil book series, book #4, Quests for Glory, in which we join the students as they begin a new era in the Endless Woods—The Camelot Years—where they move beyond the school into the biggest and boldest adventures of their lives. (Ages 9-13)
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 10580 ½ West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/Calendar/calendar.htm
Marie Lu at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear Marie Lu read from her book Warcross, in which Warcross is not just a game, it’s a way of life. Lu conjures an immersive exhilarating world where choosing who to trust is the biggest gamble of all.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/marie-lu-discusses-and-signs-warcross
The Improv: An Oral History at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Budd Friedman & Tripp Whetsell discuss and sign The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up, which tells the story of how a thirty-year old Friedman, in 1963, quit his corporate job and opened the first venue to present live stand-up in a continuous format.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/marie-lu-discusses-and-signs-warcross
In(ter)dependencia Reading at the Blu Elefant Café
Please join us to hear our featured poets:
Katina Oliva Alvarado is an academic, poet and painter from El Salvador, raised in Los Angeles, who has taught for five years at UCLA in the Chicana/o Studies Department and designed classes on Central Americans from the U.S. diasporas.
Iris De Anda is a Guanaca Tapatia poet who hosts The Writers Underground Open Mic at Eastside Café every third Thursday of the month. She is the author of CodeSwitch: Fires from Mi Corazon.
Mario Escobar is a poet from El Salvador.
Cynthia Guardado is a Salvadoran-American poet and professor of English at Fullerton College. Her debut collection of poetry, Endeavor, was published by World Stage Press in 2017 and received the Pellicer-Frost Binational Poetry Prize.
GusTavo Guerra Vasquez was born in Guatemala and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of eight. He is a multi-disciplinary artist, and performs and tours with spoken-word groups promoting equity and justice.
Rossana Perez was born in El Salvador, immigrated to the U.S. in 1983. A former political prisoner, she is a poet, educator, and activist. Her book Flight to Freedom, The Story of a Central American Refugee in California was published in 2007 by APP.
Carolina Rivera Escamilla is an educator, writer, actor and filmmaker. Born in El Salvador, she went into exile in the 1980s. She is a Fellow in the PEN West USA Emerging Voices Program, and her work has been widely published and used in curriculum in several universities.
harold terezon is an educator and poet from Pacoima, CA, whose work has appeared in numerous journals. He is the author of the prize winning collection Hunting for Izotes, inspired by his family’s immigrant experience.
Where: Blu Elefant Café
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2024 W. Washington Blvd.(cross street Harvard), Los Angeles, CA 90018
Clara Parks at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear author Clara Parks, read from and sign her book, A Stash of One’s Own: Knitters on Loving, Living With, and Letting Go of Yarn. This is an addictive anthology that celebrates yarn specifically, and the knitter’s reputation for acquiring it and storing it in what is lovingly called “stash.”
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/clara-parkes-discusses-her-book-stash-ones-own
90X90LA: Prisoner Book Drive at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Join us for a Prisoner book Drive at Cielo. Details TBA.
Curated by Skira Martinez
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/prisoner-book-drive-f-922-8pm/
Bruce Willard at Beyond Baroque
Join us to hear Bruce Willard read from Violent Blues, which US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera describes as “a rare gift, a magic wave of poems that will move with you forever.”
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Hector the Collector at Vroman’s Bookstore–Children’s Events
Join us to hear children’s author Emily Beeny, present and sign Hector the Collector, a charming and evocative story that celebrates the joy of collecting and how collections can grow into the most breathtaking museums in the world.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 695 E. Colrado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/emily-beeny-presents-and-signs-hector-collector
Andrea J. Loney at Children’s Book World–Children’s Event
Join us to welcome Andre J. Loney to discuss and sign her engrossing new book, Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee! There will be a book signing, snacks, music, and a photo station for taking pictures with family and friends. This is the story of a groundbreaking artist whose work spanned more than eighty years, tackled an important era in Harlem, and captured the beauty and pride of its people
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 2:30 pm
Address: 10580 ½ West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/Calendar/calendar.htm
Illustrated Books at Gallery Nucleus
Join us for a series of illustrated book presentations: Matt Meyers & author Drew Daywalt (BB-8 On the Run) and Eren Unten (I Am a Hero Now), and the opening for Painting the Town, a group show of cityscapes from L.A. and cities around the world.
Where: Gallery Nucleus
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 3 pm – 9 pm
Address: 210 East Main St., Alhambra, CA 91801
Website: http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/exhibitions?id=upcoming
Publishing Workshop with Jeffrey Martin at Santa Catalina Library
Please join us for Saturday Afternoon Poetry, and a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by Jeffrey Martin, author most recently of Just Sayin’.
Curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Where: Santa Catalina Library
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91004
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
HITCHED Reading Series at Book Show
Join us for HITCHED, a quarterly reading series that features writer couplings as a way of celebrating the relationships we build as writers that are integral to our success and the successes of those around us.
This reading will be guest hosted by Tisha Reichie (fiction editor at Border Senses) and will feature Las Lunas Locas writers:
Devi S. Laskari is a poet and her newest poetry chapbook is Anastasia Maps, forthcoming in 2017.
Karineh Mahdessian is a social worker, poet and writer, and curator of the La Palabra Reading Series.
Emily Fernandez lives in El Sereno and teaches English at the college level. Her poems have been published in numerous literary journals.
Teresa Mei Chuc is the author of two collections Red Thread and Keeper of the Winds. Her new chapbook is How One Loses Notes and Sounds.
Deborah P. Kolodji is a poet who has won acclaim for her haikus and beautiful writing about nature.
This event is curated by Xochitl-Julisa Bermeo, author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge.
Where: Book Show
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 5503 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://bookshowla.com/event/hitched-reading-series/
Karl Geary at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Karl Geary read from his new novel Montpelier Parade, a devastating debut novel about desire, grief, ambition, art, and the choices we must make alone. A series of intoxicating encounters between Sonny and Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time. But why does her past seem as unknowable as her future?
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/karl-geary-reads-his-new-novel-montpelier-parade
Rick Hamlin at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Rick Hamlin discuss and sign Pray for Me: Finding Faith in a Crisis, a story of one man’s spiritual odyssey to learn how to pray in a new way as healing slowly came and a medical crisis became a spiritual opportunity.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 5 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/rick-hamlin-discusses-and-signs-pray-me-finding-faith-crisis
90X90LA: LA Homegirlz at Cielo Galleries/Studios
Join us for a reunion of the Cantaluz, Healing Cantos, the LA homegirls, poets Amy Uyematsu, Pam Ward, and Gloria Alvarez.
Where: Cielo Galleries/ Studios
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/la-homegirlzcantaluz-healing-cantos-sa-923-7pm/
Latinx and Native Voices at San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival
Join us to hear great poetry and fiction from Allyson Jeffredo, Michaelsun Knapp, Isabel Quintero and Daniel Ruiz.
Bring your own work for the Open Mic at the start of the program! Arrive early to reserve your reading slot.
Where: The dA Center for the Arts
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 252 S. Main St., Suite #D, Pomona, CA 91766
Nicole Krauss at the Skirball Cultural Center
Join us to hear National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Nicole Krauss, in conversation with Rabbi David Wolpe, read from Forest Dark, which is her fourth novel. In this book Krauss masterfully entwines two disparate narratives about two unrelated characters seeking answers in the Israeli desert. With its innovative structure and deeply affecting prose, the novel showcases her always remarkable fiction.
FREE event and free on-site parking.
Where: Skirball Cultural Center
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
Website: http://skirball.org/programs/words-and-ideas/nicole-krauss-forest-dark
La Palabra Reading Series & Release Party at Avenue 50
Please join us for our monthly reading series to hear Vickie Vertiz and Vanessa Angelica Villarreal celebrate their book releases: Vickie Vertiz will present and sign Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut, and Vanessa Angelica Villarreal will present and sign Beast Meridian.
Please also participate in our Open Mic opportunity too!
Curated and hosted by Karineh Mahdessian
Where: Avenue 50 Studios
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042
90X90LA: A Reading at the Bronson Caves
Join us for a 90x90LA and Griffith Park storytelling Series presentation of a reading at the Bronson caves, featuring five amazing storytellers:
Allison Connor is an interdisciplinary writer of poetry, prose and hybrid pieces, and the author of Third Visions.
Lynell George is a former Los Angeles Times columnist who writes fo the USC Dornsife College of Arts, Letters and Sciences.
Siel Ju is the author of Cake Time, and teaches at Santa Monica College.
Daniel Jose Ruiz is an educator and writer from L.A., a professor of English at LACC, and the author of Coconut Verse.
Oscar Sagastume is a spoken word poet and storyteller.
Where: Bat Cave, Bronson Canyon, Los Angeles, CA
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 3 pm – 7 pm
Address: Bronson Cave, Griffith Park, 4730 Crystal Springs Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://90x90la.com/a-reading-at-the-bronson-caves-su-924-5pm/
Local Writers at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear local authors Brian Peyton Joyner (The Wisdom of Stones), Cass Grafton & Ada Bright (The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austin), and Roger J. Couture (Surfing with Snakes & Dragons, and Other Tales of Suburbia).
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Red Hen Press at Book Soup
Please join West Hollywood’s Poet Laureate, Kim Dower, as she hosts an afternoon of readings, featuring: acclaimed poet and actress Helena Cardona, University of Nebraska MFA instructor and Red Hen poet Teri Youmans Grimm, and bestselling author Pope Brock, who’s newest book Another Fine Mess: Life on Tomorrow’s Moon will make its LA premiere.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Los Angeles Literature 