Poetry Open Mic at Westwood Library, LAPL
Come to share your masterpiece, or just to listen and enjoy!
Bring your recent work. Bring your favorite work. Bring work by someone else you really like. Then, take away inspiration for new work!
Hosted by Wyatt Underwood
Where: Westwood Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-2
Armistead Maupin at Book Soup
Please join us and the City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Reads Program to hear Armistead Maupin discuss and sign his memoir, Logical Family: A Memoir. The author of the Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to groundbreaking writer and gay rights pioneer.
Note: Since this is a ticketed event, held at the West Hollywood Library, please check website for details.
Where: West Hollywood Library- City Council Chambers
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Austin Merrill and Everyday Africa at Eso Won Bookstore
Author Austin Merrill will discuss and sign Everyday Africa: 30 Photographers Re-Picturing a Continent, which combats the clichés that depict Africa as a place of only poverty, disease and war. This book showcases the photos of ordinary life that find beauty in stories rarely seen, shifting perception from sensationalized extremes to a more textured, familiar reality. Photos run alongside sections of Instagram commentary inspired by the images. This book underscores the continent’s increased connectivity in a globalized world.
Where: Eso Won Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 4327 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.esowonbookstore.com/event/austin-merrill-book-signing
Masha Gessen, with David Ulin, at Vroman’s Bookstore
We are pleased to present Masha Gesson, in conversation with David Ulin, to discuss her new book The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Putin’s bestselling biographer reveals how. In the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Gessen is expert in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times, and she follows the lives of four people born at what was considered to be the dawn of democracy there, to chart their paths against the machinations of the regime to bring about a seemingly unstoppable mafia state.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Brit Bennett, with The Mothers, at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome Brit Bennett, to discuss her paperback release of her book The Mothers. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, this mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love and ambition. After a rebellious seventeen-year-old beauty mourns her mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance will have an impact far beyond their youth.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/brit-bennett-the-mothers
An American Genocide at ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL
During the Gold Rush period in California, the Native American population plunged from about 150,000 to 30,000, much of the decline due to state-sponsored slaughter. Addressing the aftermath of colonization and historical trauma, author and UCLA historian Benjamin Madley, with Greg Sarris, the Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria in northern California, will discuss Madley’s book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873.
Check website for RSVP and stand-by seating guidelines.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/american-genocide-california-indians-colonization-cultural-revival/
Ned Colletti at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome former Dodgers General Manager and current senior advisor for the Dodgers, Ned Colletti, in conversation with the Los Angeles Times’ Houston Mitchell, to discuss and sign The Big Chair. This book is a great read and offers some insights into the inner-workings of a consistently playoff-bound franchise, prone to slipping at the last possible second.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/ned-colletti
Kwei Quartey at Eso Won Bookstore
Please join us to welcome Kwei Quartey, to discuss and sign his latest Darko Dawson mystery, Death by His Grace. Accra Ghana: Katherine Yeboah’s marriage to Solomon Vanderpuye is all the talk of Accra high society. But when it becomes apparent the Katherine is infertile, Solomon’s extended family accuses her of being a witch, hounding her until the relationship sours and Solomon orders her out of the house. Alone on her last night there, Katherine is murdered by an intruder, and Chief Inspector Darko Dawson is called in. Darko must confront the pivotal role religion plays in Ghana, while wrestling old demons during the investigation.
Where: Eso Won Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 4327 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.esowonbookstore.com/event/kwei-quartey-book-signing
Wendall Thomas, with Lost Luggage, at the Last Bookstore
We are pleased to present the first LA reading of Wendall Thomas’s debut novel Lost Luggage, and her research into the world of endangered animal smuggling and how she was able to turn a “dead” script into a publishing deal. Lost Luggage went from an unproduced screenplay to a two book deal, and the author teaches in the Graduate Film School at UCLA, lectures internationally on screenwriting, and has worked widely in the entertainment business.
Please arrive early, since seating is limited.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Louise Standhaus at Otis College of Art and Design
Join us for the Otis Visiting Writers Series to hear Louise Standhaus read and discuss her work. She is a graphic designer and educator, previously Director of Graphic Design at Cal Arts, where she is currently faculty. Her recent book, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic design 1936-1986 has received laudatory reviews and the Palm d’Argent for best art book at FILAF.
Where: The Forum, Goldsmith Campus, Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Wednesday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/mfa-writing/visiting-writers-series
WNBA/LA Celebrates at Skylight Bookstore
Join us as WNBA/LA celebrates National Reading Group Month, and enjoy an evening with a panel discussion by authors Siel Ju (Cake Time), Abbi Waxman (The Garden of Small Beginnings), and Gabrielle Zevin (Young Jane Young).
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Nasty Women Event #2 at Scripps College
Join us for our second of three presentations: Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in the Age of Trump. The editors of the Nasty Women anthology, Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding, along with Carina Chocano, visit and talk with Scripps Writing Program Director and Associate Professor Kimberly Drake, and believe putting pen to paper is one of the most important ways to mobilize.
Where: Hampton Room, Scripps College
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: 1030 Columbus Ave., Claremont, CA 91711
Celebration (last day of escrow) at Eastside Café
Join us for a celebration and potluck gathering to share our love and gratitude to our community for the Gofundme campaign and Compas program, and our 2nd extension to allow a last push to raise funds and start to pay the mortgage on our space. Please bring a potluck meal, and stay for DJ music and networking.
Where: Eastside Café
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: 5469 Huntington Dr. N., Los Angeles, CA 90032
SHOUT! Open Mic at Half Off Books (new location & time)
Join us as we welcome the League of Vampric Bards to our Open Mic, which is moving to the second Thursday of each month at our NEW location in Fullerton.
Where: Half Off Books
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 141 W. Wilshire Ave., Fullerton, CA 92832
Ben Loory, with J. Ryan Stradal, at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Ben Loory, with J. Ryan Stradal, read and discuss his new and innovative collection of stories, Tales of Falling and Flying, from the author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day. This second book allows us to enter worlds of whimsical fantasy, deep empathy, and playful humor, in stories that eschew literary realism, and demonstrate surprising perspectives.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Jim St. Germain at Eso Won Bookstore
Join us to hear Jim St. Germain read and discuss his memoir, A Stone of Hope, written in the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy. This searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth comes from a young black man who himself was a lost cause—until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose. Passionate, eloquent, and timely, and illustrated with photos throughout, this book offers an inspiring challenge for every American.
Where: Eso Won Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 4327 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.esowonbookstore.com/event/jim-st-germain-booksigning-0
Something Righteous Reading at South Central Healin Artz
Join us for poetry and music at the Something Righteous This Way Comes reading, and to hear our featured poets: The Hood Profet, Nikolai Garcia, Viva Padilla, Mapache, Samuel Temblador, Luis Antonio Pichardo, and Donna Liseth.
One Minute Open Mic at the start! If you’d like to read at this event, message Viva Padilla ASAP.
South Central Vegans will be feeding the poets.
Where: South Central Healin Artz Space
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 7 pm – 11 pm
Address: 5139 South Main St., South Central Los Angeles, CA 90008
Yesika Salgado, with Corozon, at Art Share LA
Join us to hear author Yesika Salgado, with NOT A CULT, celebrate the release of her new collection, Corozon.
Where: Art Share LA
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 8801 E. 4th Place, Los Angeles, CA 91101
Website: http://artsharela.org/events/
Thom Anderson, with Tosh Berman, at Skylight Books
Join us to hear author Thom Anderson, with Tosh Berman, discuss and sign his new book of essays, Slow Writing. Here Anderson reflects on the avant-garde, Hollywood feature films, and contemporary cinema. The city of Los Angeles and its relationship to film is a recurrent theme, and these writings span a period of five decades.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/thom-andersen-discusses-his-book-essays-slow-writing-tosh-berman
A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment at Pages Bookstore
Join author Barbara A. Radnofsky, to hear her discuss and sign A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment. This is a non-partisan guide to a precise understanding of the rules and history of impeachment. That history includes a detailed chronology of the nineteen instances of impeachment that have taken place, and it is a fascinating read about a unique aspect of our democracy.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Friday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/barbara-radnofsky-author-event .
The Lairdbalor at Book Soup
Join us to hear Kathleen Kaufman, discuss and sign The Lairdbalor, a story for anyone who lives with anxiety and fear and has ever wondered “what if?.” It is a story of a child not meant for children and a darkly imaginative meditation on life, death, fear, and the nature of reality.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/kathleen-kaufman-discusses-and-signs-lairdbalor
Voices from Leimert Park Redux at The Vision Theatre
Come together to celebrate the first book launch from TSEHAI’s imprint, the Harriet Tubman Press: Voices from Leimert Park Redux: A Los Angeles Poetry Anthology. This is TSEHAI’s 20th anniversary and its 10th anniversary with LMU. The event will feature spoken word performances from the poets of the anthology, live music, food and refreshments, a pop-up bookshop, and several special guests.
Where: The Vision Theatre (Front Terrace), Leimert Park Plaza
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: 3341 West 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA 90008
Indie Author Day 2017 at Central Library, LAPL
Attention local authors! Join us for a full day of informative programs and a great opportunity to network with other local writers. Our theme this year is Finding Your Community, and the schedule includes:
11:15 – Hex Comics Panel
1 pm – Made in LA Indie Author Co-Op panel, moderated by Christina Rice
2:15 – Susan Barnardo and Courtney Fletcher discuss their experience with indie publishing
3:30 – Move to second-floor Rotunda for book signing and selling
Where: Central Library, Meeting Room B
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 11 am – 4 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/indie-author-day-2017
Open Mic Performance at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Attention all poets, writers and bards: join us for an entertaining Open Mic session with readings and recitations.
RSVP please. If you would like to participate in the presentations, you must register prior to the event. Contact Sonja at the Eagle Rock Library.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Address: 5027 Caspar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/open-mic
Indie Author Day at Pico Branch Library, SMPL
Join us for Indie Author Day: How to Become a Self-Published Author, and learn from five different self-published authors how to produce a book according to professional book publishing standards, self-publishing, and how to sell it yourself.
See website for ALL of the Indie Author Day events and details.
Where: Pico Branch Library, SMPL
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Address: 2201 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=24862
Indie Author Day Small Press Panel at Main Library, SMPL
Join us for Indie Author Day: Small Press Panel, and hear from Gregory Henry of Rare Bird Lit and Olivia Taylor-Smith of Unnamed Press, discuss the ins and outs of publishing with LA’s flourishing small press market. They discuss pitching, editing and marketing, and the benefits of working with a small press.
Where: Main Library, Multipurpose Room, 2nd Floor, SMPL
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=25117
Indie Author Day: Author Amin Sadeghpour at Main Library, SMPL
Join us for Indie Author Day and to hear from Santa Monica resident and author Amin Sadeghpour, who will share his inspiring story of overcoming visual and developmental challenges to pursue his dream of becoming a published author. He will read and discuss the process of writing his first and second novels. A book sale and signing follows the reading.
Where: Main Library, Multipurpose Room, 2nd Floor, SMPL
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=25116
Indie Author Day: Poet Ramon Garcia at Montana Branch Library, SMPL
Join us for Indie Author Day and to hear from poet Ramon Garcia, who will read from his books and discuss the process of getting published by an independent press. A book sale and signing follows the reading.
Where: Montana Branch Library, SMPL
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 1704 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90403
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=25115
Indie Author Day: Write Away Authors at Fairview Branch Library, SMPL
Join us for Indie Author Day and to hear from our very own Write Away authors group, which will offer a live reading showcase of the best work they’ve written in their support workshop. Find out how you can join their regular sessions as well.
Where: Fairview Branch Library, SMPL
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 3 pm – 5:15 pm
Address: 2101 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=24821
Poetry Workshop at Santa Catalina Library
Join us for Saturday Afternoon Poetry, and a Deep Poetry Critique Workshop led by G.T. Foster. Bring 15 copies of your poem-in-progress.
Curated and hosted by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Where: Santa Catalina Branch Library, Pasadena Public Library
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Kwei Quartey at Vroman’s Bookstore
Kwei Quartey, the author of the Darko Dawson series, will discuss and sign his new book Death by His Grace. Accra, Ghana is the setting for the marriage of Katherine Yeboah’s marriage to Solomon Vanderpuye, which is the talk of high society there. But it is learned Katherine is infertile, Solomon’s family accuses her of being a witch, and she is cast out of their house. When Katherine is brutally murdered, Chief Inspector Darko Dawson is motivated to find the killer fast. But to expose the truth he must confront the pivotal role religion plays in Ghana—and wrestle with his own old demons.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91011
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/kwei-quartey-discusses-and-signs-death-his-grace
Geoff Nicholson, with Dinah Lenney, at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Geoff Nicholson, with Dinah Lenney, discuss his novel The Miranda, the tale of a newly divorced and unemployed man who decides to walk a circular path in his overgrown backyard, twenty-five miles a day for a thousand days, to be able to move on with his life. But curious neighbors keep interrupting him, and he begins to use his problem-solving skills in new ways. But no matter how quickly he walks, the past is catching up to him, and he must prepare himself and others for the worst.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/geoff-nicholson-reads-his-novel-miranda-dinah-lenney
Kes Trestor at Chevalier’s Bookstore–Teen Event
Join us to hear Los Angeles author Kes Trestor, discuss her debut YA novel, A Dangerous Year, about seventeen-year-old Riley Collins who has grown up in some of the world’s most dangerous cities, but whose life did not prepare her for life at an elite Connecticut boarding school.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/kes-trester
An Evening with a Holocaust Survivor at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear holocaust survivor Mary Bauer discuss her teenage crisis when she and her mother were deported from Hungary and imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp. We will discuss Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, and share Mrs. Baur’s story of strength and survival.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Maggie Stiefvater at Glendale Library–Teen Event
Join us to hear author Maggie Stiefvater discuss and read from her new YA book, All the Crooked Saints, and answer questions from the audience. A book signing will follow the event.
Everyone wants a miracle, and everyone fears what it takes to get one! This is a stand-alone book, but the author also wrote the Raven Cycle and the Shiver series, and this book will be published by Scholastic on October 10, 2017.
Where: Central Library, Glendale Public Library
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, CA 91205
Website: http://www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/29201/125
Gillian Conoley & Martha Ronk at Poetic Research Bureau
Join us to hear Gillian Conoley and Martha Ronk discuss and read from their work.
Gillian Conoley is the author of seven collections of poetry, and she has been widely anthologized. Her work is haunted by narrative and is inventive and exploratory She has taught at several universities and won several Pushcart Prizes.
Martha Ronk is the author of several collections of poetry, including Ocular Proof (2016), and has written short stories and an ironic memoir. She is currently Professor of English at Occidental College.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.poeticresearch.com/
Andrea Wulf at the Huntington Museum
Join us to hear Andrea Wulf discuss and read from her book, The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World. This book reveals the influence and connections formed between Alexander Von Humboldt’s travels, explorations and studies of the natural world and the political leaders and environmental scientists of his time, from Darwin to Jefferson and beyond. Today’s talk will focus specifically on his explorations of Latin America.
Where: Huntington Museum
Date: Sunday the 15th
Time: 2:30 pm
Address: 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, CA 91108
Website: http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/calendar.aspx?id=24344
Thomas Moore at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Thomas Moore discuss and sign Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy. The renowned author of Care of the Soul now reveals a fresh, optimistic and rewarding path toward aging, one that need not be feared, but rather be embraced and cherished. He argues for a new vision of aging, as a dramatic series of initiations, rather than a diminishing experience, and teaches readers how to feel fulfilled as they get older.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 15th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Moonday Poetry Reading at Flintridge Bookstore
Join us for our monthly Moonday Poetry Reading, featuring:
Judy Kronenfeld is a poet, writer, scholar and retired teacher of Creative Writing at UC Riverside. Her poems pay particular attention to the domestic sides of life, and celebrate our families and memories.
Phil Taggert is a poet and writer, co-founder of Askew literary journal, and lives in Ventura with his wife, poet Marsha de la O.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 15th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., CA 91011
Website: http://www.flintridgebooks.com/in-store/
What Press Books at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear writers Kate Haake (Assumptions We Might Make About the World), Chuck Rosenthal (You Can Fly:A Sequel to the Peter Pan Tales, Never Let Me Go), and Gail Wronsky (Dying for Beauty, Poems for Infidels), as they read from their works.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 15th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Voice in the Well Reading at Beyond Baroque
Join us for the Public Works Improvisational Theatre evening of lively programming to celebrate the most talented writers, storytellers, poets, musicians and comics. Hosted by Eric Vollmer.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 15th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
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