South of Pico Art Talk at California African American Museum
Please join us to hear In Conversation: Kellie Jones, esteemed author, curator and associate professor at Columbia University, discussing and signing her new book, South of Pico, in conversation with CAAM deputy director and chief curator Naima J. Keith. The book examines how artists in the 1960s and 1970s in LA’s black communities created a vibrant, productive and engaged arts scene, and speaks to the dislocation of migration, the city’s urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility. This event is presented in conjunction with Art + Practice.
Note: This is a FREE ticketed event and you must RSVP through Eventbrite link at website.
Where: California African American Museum (CAAM)
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 401 W. 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://caamuseum.org/programs/current/in-conversation-kellie-jones-and-naima-j-keith
Luke Nichter at Nixon Library
Come to hear historian, White House tapes expert, and author Luke Nichter discuss and sign his book, Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World. This is the first study of transatlantic relations during the Nixon era, and shows a complex, turbulent time on both sides of the Atlantic in terms of political, economic and military relations. Nichter is an Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University, and co-author with Douglas Brinkley of the New York Times bestsellers, The Nixon Tapes.
RSVP at website link.
Where: Nixon Library
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., Yorba Linda, CA 91125
Website: http://nixonfoundation.org/event/nixon-and-europe-a-lecture-with-luke-nichter/
Unruly Creatures at Diesel Bookstore
Jon us to hear author Jennifer Caloyeras at her publication party discuss and sign Unruly Creatures, a collection of short stories rife with humor and pathos. Here alienated characters struggle to subvert, contain, control, and even escape their bodies. Dark humor and magical realism put in sharp relief the everyday trials of Americans, and asks, in what way are we more than the sum of our parts?
Caloyeras is also the author of Strays, and she is the author-in-residence at the Annenberg and teaches writing at UCLA Extension Writers Program.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Emerging Women Writers of Color at Annenberg Community Beach House
Join us for a reading and conversation with Chinyere Nwodim, Roxana Preciado and Shubha Venugopal, moderated by Writer-in-Residence Sakae Manning. These four local writers will cover sources of inspiration, developing voice, and the impact of identity, and will touch on the issues they have faced as women who have survived trauma from immigration, abuse and other situations.
Free advance tickets required, and are available at website link.
Where: Annenberg Community Beach House
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Hwy, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Kathleen Carr, with Nicelle Davis, at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Come to hear Kathleen Carr, in conversation with Nicelle Davis, reading and signing her novel Miraculum Monstrum, an epic hybrid about Tristia Vogel, a female artist who experiences physical transformation, beginning with the excrescence of apparent wings. Though she is possibly an anomalous mutation resulting from worldwide ecological upheaval, the bird/woman is co-opted by a religious cult that claims to have prophesied her experience, and she is written as the central figure of their spiritual text.
Kathleen Carr is the winner of the 2015 Clarissa Dalloway Book Prize.
Nicelle Davis has written four poetry collections and is the creator of The Poetry Circus and collaborator on the Nevermore Poetry Festival.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/kathline-carr
Gary Phillips and Friends at Eso Won Bookstore
Come to hear Gary Phillips, author of mystery and graphic novels (Peepland, Violent Spring, Warlord of Willow Ridge), discuss the anthology he curated, The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. He will be joined by contributors Eric Beetner/Danny Gardner (A Negro and an Ofay), Desiree Zamorano (Human Cargo), and Travis Richardson (Lost in Clover).
Where: Eso Won Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 4327 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.esowonbookstore.com/event/gary-phillips-and-friends-book-signing
Denise Kiernan at Vroman’s Bookstore
We are pleased to present author Denise Kiernan, to discuss her new book The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home. From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Girls of Atomic City comes this fascinating true story behind the magnificent Gilded Age mansion Biltmore—the largest grandest residence ever built in the United States. Orphaned at a young age, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser’s marriage to George Vanderbilt was one of the most watched events of the Gilded Age society. But she was not prepared to be mistress of Biltmore House, and this is the unique American story of how the largest house in America flourished, faltered and ultimately endured to this day.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Jorn Weisbrodt at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Jorn Weisbrodt discuss and sign his book Into the Culture Cave: Generator of Art and Community, Emotions and Ideas. The author tells the story of the Luminato Festival’s residency at the Hearn Generating Station, an enormous undertaking that rewrote the rules of cultural programming in Toronto and served as an example of how contemporary culture can engage with idle urban spaces, where all art forms are welcome.
This evening Jorn Wiesbrodt will be in discussion with two artists, Rufus Wainright and Tim Hecker, who performed at the Hearn.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
The Butchering Art at the Last Bookstore
Please join us to hear author and historian Lindsey Fitzharris, discuss, read and sign The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine. The author reveals the shocking world of nineteenth century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. At a time when the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than the patients’ afflictions, a young melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister would solve the riddle and change the course of history.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
NoHo Lit Crawl at Various North Hollywood Locations
Please join the annual NoHo LitCrawl, which starts with an Opening Welcome at the Groundworks/Historic North Hollywood Train Station Plaza, 11275 Chandler Blvd. at 6 pm. and begins with a Poet Laureate Parade which leaves from that address at 6:30 pm.
There will be 40+ literary happenings in 35+ locations across the NoHo Arts District. All three rounds of literary events will take place simultaneously at multiple locations: Round 1: 7 pm – 7:45 pm; Round 2: 8 pm – 8:45 pm; and Round 3: 9 pm – 9:45 pm.
Round 1 includes readers from many MFA programs (Antioch, CSUN, UC Riverside), LARB, the Rumpus, and Sisters in Crime.
Round 2 includes readers from Angel City Review, Las Lunas Locas, Red Hen Press, Santa Monica Review, The World Stage and UCLA Wordcommandos.
Round 3 includes readers from Los Angeles Poet Society, Made in L.A., Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore, and Womwn Who Submit.
A Closing Speak-Easy Party will take place from 10 pm – Midnight at The Electric, 5156 Lankershim Blvd.
Check the website for details about events and readers offered at each location. Attendees are encouraged to use Metro since parking will be at a premium.
Where: Various Locations (see website)
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm – 10 pm
Address: Various Locations, North Hollywood, CA
Website: http://litcrawlla.org/events
DSTL Arts Fundraising Pizza Night at Shakey’s USA
Join us for a Pizza Party to help raise money for DSTL Arts. We will earn 25% of the menu price of any food purchase, from 6 pm to 9 pm. So bring your family and friends or order ahead for pick up dinner or snacks to help fund our writing programs in the community. Feel free to wear costumes if you like.
Where: Shakey’s Pizza
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2023 Cesar Chavez Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events
Leslie Klinger at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Leslie Klinger read and discuss The New Annotated Frankenstein which brilliantly accounts for the time between the 1818 and the 1831 versions of the text, and includes an introduction by Guillermo del Toro and an afterword by feminist scholar Anne K. Mellor. With over 200 illustrations and nearly 1000 annotations, the author illuminates every hidden dimension of the “first truly modern myth.”
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/leslie-klinger
Joe Ide at Eso Won Bookstore
In this hotly anticipated follow up to the smash hit IQ, author Joe Ide will discuss and sign Righteous (An IQ Novel), which PI Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death of his brother Marcus, and his quest will be fraught with treachery, menace, and startling twists—all leading to his own sinister Moriarity.
Where: Eso Won Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 4327 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.esowonbookstore.com/event/joe-ide-book-signing
Kerry Mansfield at the Last Bookstore
Join us to welcome photographer and author Kerry Mansfield, who will discuss and sign Expired: A Photographic Homage to the Library Book, a new monograph that pays homage to the beauty and grace found in the collective and shared experience of our time: worn and well-read library books. “Expired” books are considered too damaged to be borrowed or read any longer, and they may be sent to be pulped and recycled, while others languish in storage or turn up in garage sales or on eBay.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Ed Asner & Ed Weinberger at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to welcome actor Ed Asner and Ed Weinberger, who will discuss and sign The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs, a new take on right-wingers who use the constitution as a justification for whatever terrible thing they want to do. It’s time to give them hell and explain that progressives can read too.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
South of Pico at the Hammer Museum
Please join us to hear McArthur winner and Columbia University professor Kellie Jones discuss and explore how the artists in Los Angeles’ black communities during the 1960s and 1970s created a vibrant, engaged, activist arts scene in the face of racism and social upheaval. In South of Pico, she builds on her work in her exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980. Joining her will be artist and founder of the Brockman Gallery Dale Davis, UCLA Professor of English Uri McMillan, and UC Irvine Professor of History and African American Studies Bridget Cooks.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/10/kellie-jones-south-of-pico/
John Freeman & Guests at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to welcome author John Freeman, who will discuss and sign Freeman’s: The Future of New Writing, with Hector Tobar and two authors from the new issue of Freeman’s, drawing on recommendations from book editors, critics, translators and authors form across the globe. These authors are shaping the literary conversation right now and will continue to have an impact for years to come.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Louise Sandhaus at Otis Visiting Writers Series
Please join us to hear graphic designer and educator Louise Sandhaus discuss her work and her recent book on California graphic design, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design 1936-1986, which received the Palm D’Argent for best art book at FILAF.
Where: Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/mfa-writing/visiting-writers-series
Nasty Woman #3: ConverAction at Scripps College
This ConverAction will be facilitated by Scripps professor and chair of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department Plya Chatterjee, and is the third in a three-part series. The first event featured Carina Chocano, and the second event featured Chocano in conversation with Nasty Woman Anthology editors Kate Harding, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, and Scripps’ Kimberly Drake.
Where: Hampton Room, Scripps College
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Address: 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA 91711
Deanne Stillman at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author Deanne Stillman, who will discuss and sign her new book, Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship Between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, at her publication party. This little known story covers their time in Cody’s Wild West Show in the 1880s, and their brief but important collaboration.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/deanne-stillman-discusses-and-signs-blood-brothers
Gwendolyn Womack at Pages Bookstore
Please join us to hear Gwendolyn Womack discuss and sign her new book, The Fortune Teller, a suspenseful tale of romance, fate and fortune, from the award-winning author of The Memory Painter. When an appraiser discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it tells the tale of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred. But now someone wants the manuscript, the key to the two thousand year old secret, and knows it is tied to her.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/gwendolyn-womack-author-event
Poetry with Isabel Quintero & Others at Rose Gallery
This poetry reading is titled, Poesia Y Sus Fotos: An Evening of Poetry in Conversation with the Phootgraphs of Graciela Iturbide, and features original works read by visiting poets: Isabel Quintero, Sara Borjas, Chance Castro, Sarah Rafael Garcia, Luivette Resto, and Joseph Rios.
Where: Rose Gallery
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm (readings begin at 7:30 pm)
Address: 2525 Michigan Ave., Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Hitler in Los Angeles, with Steven J. Ross, at ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL
Join us to hear historian and USC professor and author Steven J. Ross, in conversation with Editor-in-Chief of The Jewish Journal Rob Eshman, discuss the his new book, Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, which tells the story of little known attorney Leon Lewis and his ring of spies, whose covert operation infiltrated every Nazi and fascist group in the area to disrupt their plans and confront the rise of hate.
Check website for RSVP and stand-by seating guidelines.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/hitler-los-angeles-jews-foiled-nazi-plots-hollywood-america/
Julie Lythcott-Haims at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Julie Lythcott-Haims read and discuss her memoir, Real American: A Memoir. This book by the author of How to Raise an Adult, has written a different kind of book this time—a deeply personal, biting and affecting account of her life growing up as a biracial woman in America. Bringing a brisk, poetic sensibility to her prose, she stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of an African American father and a white British mother, she shows how “micro” aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person’s inner life with a thousand sharp cuts. This is a fearless and powerful book, to be read again and again.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/julie-lythcott-haims-discusses-her-memoir-real-american
Scott Thomas at Book Soup
This event features author Scott Thomas, who will discuss and sign his book, Kill Creek, the story of what happens when best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween night in one of the country’s most famous haunted houses. What begins as a simple publicity stunt soon becomes a fight for survival.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/scott-thomas-discusses-and-signs-kill-creek
Julie Lythcott-Haims at Eso Won Bookstore
Join us for a fearless debut memoir from author Julie Lythcott-Haims, Real American: A Memoir, which has been lauded by both Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson, and which pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America. Beautifully written, and bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, this book is a cri de coeur, and a clarion call to all of us to live more wisely, generously and fully.
Where: Eso Won Bookstore
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 4327 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.esowonbookstore.com/event/julie-lythcott-haims-booksigning
David Abel & Mark Wallace at Poetic Research Bureau
Join us for readings from our features tonight:
David Abel is the author of Float, Black Valentine, and many other works, and is featured in Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War.
Mark Wallace is a writer of poetry, fiction, short essays and hybrid genres, and is the author of Haze: Essays, Poems, Prose, Felonies of Illusion. He has authored more than ten books and chapbooks of poetry. He teaches at Cal State San Marcos.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.poeticresearch.com
Vermin on the Mount Readings at Book Show
Join us for a spooky night of irreverent readings, with host Jim Ruland.
Keith Rossen, author of the novels The Mercy of the Tide (2017, Meerkat Press) and Smoke City (2018, Meerkat Press) with be featured, along with readings from:
Laura Lee Bahr (Long-Form Religious Porn, Haunt, Fantasma).
Rebecca Gonzales (Slow Work to the Rhythm of Cicadas, Beauty and the Basketcase).
Ben Loory (Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for the Nighttime and Some for the Day).
Alma Rosa Rivera
Lol Tolhurst (Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys).
Where: Book Show
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 5503 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://meerkatpress.com/event/keith-rosson-vermin-on-the-mount-la/
2nd Annual SoCal Poetry Fest at Mt. San Antonio College
The SoCalPoFest is an annual poetry festival that relocates each year to a different southern California community. The festival’s “theme” will change from year to year. For 2017 the event will feature themed readings and workshops, and our commitment to diversity extends across cultural lines and schools of poetic thought. The event has also been extended to two full days of activities and readings.
Some of Saturday’s highlights include:
Spoken Word Workshop with Alyesha Wise, 10 am – 12 pm;
Arroyo Seco Press readers, 12 pm;
Moon Tide Press Anthology & readers, 12:30 pm;
USC’s featured writers, Mark Irwin and Doug Manuel, 2 pm;
CSU Long Beach writers, David Hernandez and Evan Williams, 2:30 pm;
Writ Large Press writers, 3 pm;
Red Hen Press writers, 3:30 pm;
Writers Beyond L.A., 5 pm – 6:30 pm;
Out-of-Towners Reading, 7 pm – 8 pm.
See full schedules and free tickets by Eventbrite link at website.
Where: Mt. San Antonio College
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 10 am – 8 pm
Address: 1100 N. Grand Ave., Walnut, CA 91789
Website: https://www.facebook.com/scpoetryfest/
Draw the Line at Vroman’s Bookstore–Children’s Event
Join us to hear Kathryn Otoshi present and sign Draw the Line, a powerful picture book about forgiveness, from the author of the bestselling book One. When two boys draw their own lines and realize they can connect them together—magic happens!
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/kathryn-otoshi-presents-and-signs-draw-line
After the Fall at Vroman’s Bookstore–Children’s Event
Join us to hear Dan Santat present and sign After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again), an inspiring epilog to a beloved nursery rhyme, from a Caldecott Medalist and New York Times bestselling author-illustrator. Now terrified of heights after his fall, will Humpty Dumpty summon the courage to face his fear?
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Poetry Slam #3 at Children’s Book World–Children’s Event
Join us for our Haunted Halloween Poetry Party Jam! We are looking for funny, scary, and witchy word lovers, ages 7-14, to recite their original creepy crawly chants for an audience of grateful ghouls and ghosts. Each poet will get three minutes to perform, there will be prizes, and our judges will be authors:
Hope Anita Smith, two-time Coretta Scott King winning poet, and Chris Harris, who has been called the 21st century Shel Silverstein. Both will be signing their new books.
See website for details on how to enter the contest/slam.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 10580 ½ West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/Calendar/calendar.htm#harris
Saturday Afternoon Poetry at Santa Catalina Library
Join us for our Print and Internet Publishing Workshop led by Librecht Baker.
Event hosted by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Where: Santa Catalina Library
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
LUMMOX Poetry Anthology #6 at Beyond Baroque
Join us for the annual publication reading of the Lummox Poetry Anthology (#6). Some of the 156 poets in this issue will be reading their poems, including your host RD Armstrong.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Dia De Los Muertos Celebration at Grand Park
Join us for our Dia De Los Muertos: Noche De Ofrenda, evoking memories of the past and passed, while Angelenos connect with traditions across borders and states, which begins a week-long exhibition of Altars + Art in Grand Park. In partnership with Self-Help Graphics & art there will be traditional dance and prayer led by members of the local indigenous community, as well as Los Angeles-based poets and musicians.
Where: Grand Park’s Performance Lawn (between Grand and Hill)
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 200 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://grandparkla.org/event/noche-de-ofrenda/?instance_id=97847
SoCal Poetry Fest at Mt. San Antonio College
The SoCalPoFest is an annual poetry festival that relocates each year to a different southern California community. The festival’s “theme” will change from year to year. For 2017 the event will feature themed readings and workshops, and our commitment to diversity extends across cultural lines and schools of poetic thought. The event has also been extended to two full days of activities and readings.
Some of Sunday’s highlights include:
Spoken Word Workshop with John Brantingham, 10 am – 12 pm;
Spotlighting SoCal Poetry Publishers, and readers, 12 pm – 1 pm;
SoCal Poets of Resistance & readers, 2 pm – 3:30 pm;
SoCal Spoken Word artists, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm;
Chapman University writers, Victoria Chang and Mark Hausman, 4:30 pm;
UC Irvine writers, Amy Gerstler and Inez Tang, 5 pm;
Poetry of Presence writers, 6 pm – 7 pm.
See full schedules and free tickets by Eventbrite link at website.
Where: Mt. San Antonio College
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 10 am – 8 pm
Address: 1100 N. Grand Ave., Walnut, CA 91789
Website: https://www.facebook.com/scpoetryfest/
Nebraska Girls Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
Join us to for our monthly Open Mic hosted by Wyatt Underwood. Sign-ups begin at 1:30 pm.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
PJ Manney at Diesel Bookstore
Join us for a publication party with author PJ Manney, who will discuss and sign her new sci-fi novel, (ID)entity, a continuation of her thought-provoking series with the sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated (R)evolution. In the two years since Major Tom revealed his digital existence and spread his freedom manifesto, he has been revered as a god and vilified as a demon. In the midst of this chaos he must regain his own humanity to save a species he no longer identifies with, and which seems determined to destroy itself.
Where: Diesel Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/publication-party-pj-manney-discusses-and-signs-identity
Calder Biography at Hauser & Wirth
Please join us for a conversation and book signing between Calder Foundation President Alexander S.C. Rower and author Jed Perl on Calder: The Conquest of Time. The Early Years: 1898-1940. This is the first biography of America’s greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder. They will discuss how Calder became, and remains, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal.
The event is free but RSVP at link at website.
Where: Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 901 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Local Authors Day at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us for our Local Authors Day to hear authors:
Rev. Jesus Garcia, DSS, presents and signs The Love of a Master, which is a candid memoir of the author and his spiritual master John-Roger, founder of the worldwide Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.
Luz Avila Kyncl, presents and signs Liberate Yourself: Your Past Is Not Your Prison, about breaking the chain of bad habits, trauma, suffering and dysfunction in one’s life.
R, Rachel Gauna, presents and signs The Thinking Log, a story about love, trust and betrayal.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Kathleen Carr & Gabriel Jesiolowski at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Kathleen Carr discuss and sign her book Miraculum Monstrum, and Gabriel Jesiolowski discuss and sign his book As Burning Leaves. Carr’s book is a hybrid narrative about fictitious female artist Tristia Vogel, who experiences a radical physical transformation, beginning with the excrescence of apparent wings, and what happens when she is co-opted by a religious cult. Gabriel will be reading from As Burning Leaves and from an in-progress hybrid work Entry for Exits, a book of interlocking prose poems with a floating essay.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
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