Poetry Party by Cadence Collective at Fox Coffee House
Come to hear the 2nd Monday Poetry Party hosted by Cadence Collective, and hosted by poets Murray Thomas & Sarah Thursday. This site features poets who have lived, gone to school, worked or regularly been a part of Long Beach, and it always begins with an Open Mic, followed by featured readers of the month.
Where: Fox Coffee House
Date: Monday the 13th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 437 W. Willow St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://www.meetup.com/CoffeeHouseWritersGroupLongBeach/events/zgjjllywpbrb/
Steven Ross at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Steven Ross discuss and sign Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America. This is the chilling, little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it. No American city was more important to the Nazis than Los Angeles, home to Hollywood’s greatest propaganda machine, and many of the nation’s largest military installations. Leon Lewis and his daring ring of spies infiltrated the Nazi and fascist groups to foil them.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Epic Failure #2 at Book Soup
Join us to hear author Joe Zieja discuss and sign his book, Epic Failure #2. This book is a sequel to Mechanical Failure, where a threat of a neighboring human-inhabited system force Captain Rogers to declare war and the 331st must stop the invasion of a strong and determined enemy with an untrained, untested, long-peaceful force.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/joe-zieja-discusses-and-signs-communication-failure-epic-failure-2
Stefan Bucher at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear Stephan Bucher discusses his book Letterheads: An Eccentric Alphabet. This book from the creator of the popular Daily Monster YouTube series is a revolutionary new vision for “characters” that brings the alphabet hilariously alive. This is a graphic design book inspired by the people of Los Angeles.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Monday the 13th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/stefan-bucher-reads-his-book-letterheads
Christopher Buckley at Pepperdine University
Please join the Creative Writing Program and the HuTE Division in welcoming poet Christopher Buckley for a reading of his work. Author of over twenty collections of poems, Buckley will read from his recent works, including Star Journal, Spanish Notebook, and The Far Republics. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Where: Payson Library, Surfboard Room, Pepperdine University
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 24255 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90263
Website: http://www.pepperdine.edu/events/
Ira Israel Publication Party at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us for a publication party to hear author Ira Israel discuss and sign his book How to Survive Your Childhood Now that You’re an Adult. The author offers a powerful, comprehensive, step-by-step path to recognizing the ways of being we created as children and transcending them with compassion and acceptance, to discover our true callings and cultivate the authentic love we deserve.
Where: Diesel Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Reading Identities Event at Annenberg Beach House
Please join us for the Reading Identities event with writer-in-residence Sakae Manning, to hear women writers read and discuss identity in their work,, their own self-identification, and experience translating their identity for a society that views race, gender, and sexual orientation as individual categories.
Panelists include: Desiree Zamorano and Thea Monyee. CSUN English and Africana Studies Professor Dr. Shubha Venugopal will moderate the reading and discussion. Additional participants will be announced.
The event is FREE but registration at the website is required.
Where: Annenberg Beach House
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.annenbergbeachhouse.com/activities/cultural-programs-events-and-tours.aspx
Jefferson Morley at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear Washington D.C. journalist and editor, Jefferson Morley, present and sign The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton. This book tells the dramatic story from Angleton’s friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Watergate scandal. Angleton wielded far more power than anyone realized, and he shared secrets with Soviet spy Kim Philby, launched mass surveillance in America, disregarded U.S. policy, and even may have committed perjury and obstructed the JFK assassination investigation.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/jefferson-morley
Astronaut Scott Kelly & Bill Nye, Offsite at Pasadena Presbyterian Church, with Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us for an evening with astronaut Scott Kelly, in conversation with science educator and author Bill Nye, discuss and sign Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery. The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Kelly has experienced many things that very few have, from his year aboard the ISS, and what sparked his amazing career, to the feeling of being unable to help when tragedy strikes at home, and the funny stories about his Russian counterparts on the ISS.
Note: There is a $39 fee for two, plus one book with fee/sales tax. See link at website.
Where: Pasadena Presbyterian Church (tickets in advance)
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 585 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
CSULB MFA Reading Series #3 at Gatsby’s Bookstore
We are pleased to present the CSULB MFA Creative Writing Students Reading Series #3. Readers: TBA.
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St, Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/book-signings/2017/11/14/csulb-mfa-creative-writing-reading-series-3
Oaxaca’s Third Gender: Man, Woman, Muxe at ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL
Join us to hear authors Victor Cata, Maritza Sanchez, Bamby Salcedo, in conversation, moderated by Zachary Drucker.
Victor Cata holds a master’s degree in American Indian Linguistics and is the author of a bilingual book in Zapotec and Spanish. His stories have been made into plays and translated into Portugese.
Zachary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who has performed internationally and is an Emmy-nominated producer for the docu-series This Is Me, as well as a producer on Emmy-winning Transparent.
Martina Sanchez identifies as transgender, and as “muxe,” a Oaxacan, Mexican designation form the Zapotec Isthmus region of the state. She only felt comfortable “coming out of the closet” in Los Angeles, but has received recognition in her town for her work promoting tolerance of others regardless of sexual orientation.
Bamby Salcedo is the President and CEO of Translatin@ Coalition and a co-founder of the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multi-service space for transgender people in Los Angeles.
Bilingual program presented in Spanish/English with simultaneous interpretation by Antena Los Angeles. Join us for a post-program reception in the Library’s courtyard!
Check website for RSVP and stand-by seating guidelines.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/third-gender-man-woman-muxe/
David Rocklin at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us as David Rocklin discusses his new novel The Night Language, the story of a young man, Prince Alamayou of Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia), who is taken from his home and the Abyssinian war to the court of Queen Victoria—a world he knows nothing about. Inspired by true events, this is a unique novel of love, loss, and the consequences of repressive societies.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/david-rocklin-reads-his-new-novel-night-language
Jeanne McWilliams and Eden at the Last Bookstore
We are pleased to present author Jeanne McWilliams, and her new book Eden: A Novel. This book is about a matriarch who introduces the child she gave up for adoption fifty years prior to the family she has now. This is a masterfully woven family saga by a former Wall Street careerist turned creative writer, who is now on the board of directors and is an avid student at Grub Street, one of the nation’s preeminent creative writing centers.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Joe Hagan, with Susan Orlean, at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Joe Hagan, in conversation with Susan Orlean, discuss and sign, Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine. This is a romp through the hothouses of rock and roll, politics, media, and Hollywood, from the Summer of Love to the Internet age. This book is supplemented by a cache of documents and letters from Wenner’s personal archives.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Wonder Girls at Vroman’s Bookstore
Jon us to hear author Paola Gianturco & Alex Sangster discuss and sign Wonder Girls: Changing Our World. Gianturco and her twelve-year-old granddaughter documented the work of fifteen girl-led nonprofit groups in thirteen countries in Asia, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Oceana and found 102 activist girls, ages 10-18, who are changing the world: improving education, health, equality and the environment; stopping child marriage, domestic violence, trafficking and war. This book is a call to action to help these girls accomplish their important work.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Mahtem Shiferraw at Otis College of Art and Design
Please join us for the Visiting Writers Series to hear Mahtem Shifferaw discuss her work. She is a poet and visual artist who grew up in Ethiopia and Eritrea, an she has been widely published. She won the Stillman Prize for African poets for her collection Fushia, published by University of Nebraska Press. Her chapbook Behind Walls & Glass was published by Finishing Line Press.
Where: Otis College of Art and Design, Goldsmith Campus
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/mfa-writing/visiting-writers-series
Liska Jacobs, with David Ullin, at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear Liska Jacobs red from her debut novel, Catalina, with author David Ulin. This book is a magnetic, provocative debut chronicling one young woman’s downward spiral following the end of an affair. Jacobs brings you inside the mind of an angry, restless woman hell-bent on destruction, and shows California noir at its darkest.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/liska-jacobs-reads-her-debut-novel-catalina-david-ulin
Nadia Hunter Bey Book Release at The World Stage
Please join us to hear poet Nadia Hunter Bey read and sign The Restoration of Orange, her debut book of poetry, and be transformed to the color Orange (full of passion, happiness and peace). Come prepared to be restored to that better place.
Doors open at 7:45 pm. Book reading starts at 8:30 pm.
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 7:45 – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events
Denice Frohman at Santa Monica College
Finding Your Voice with Denice Frohman presents the award-winning poet, writer, performer, educator and speaker—whose works center around the nuances of identity, disrupts ideas of power, and seeks to celebrate the parts of ourselves deemed unworthy. Frohman will perform a variety of her poetic works, spotlight the intersectionality of race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and the “in-betweeness” in us all.
Where: SMC, Room HSS 165
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 11:15 am – 12:35 pm
Address: 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Marisela Norte at the Hammer Museum
Join us for a unique gallery talk and a Radical Women Walk-through with writer and artist Marisela Norte, as she discusses specific works from the Radical Women exhibit that inspire and provoke her.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/11/radical-women-walk-through-marisela-norte/
Adam Braver, with David Ulin, at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Adam Braver discuss and sign his book, The Disappeared, with author/editor David Ulin. This is a novel of two strangers swept up in the aftermath of two politicalized acts of violence: a woman whose husband is missing in a San Bernardino-type attack, and a man who believes his sister was an unidentified victim of the ’93 World Trade Center bombing. with nuance and momentum, Braver portrays their post-trauma experience in the face of relentless public feedback.
Where: Diesel Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/adam-braver-conversation-david-ulin-discussing-disappeared
Bill McKibbin at Book Soup
Join us to hear Bill McKibbin read and discuss his book, Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance, a book that’s also the beginning of a movement. This debut novel follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide their state might be better off as its own republic, to secede from the U.S. and operate under a free local economy. This is McKibbin’s fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement, and it’s witty, biting, and terrifyingly timely.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/bill-mckibbin-discusses-and-signs-radio-free-vermont-fable-resistance
Susan Burton at Santa Monica Main Library
Please join us to hear author and community hero Susan Burton discuss and sign her book, Becoming Mrs. Burton. This is an story of the long journey the author took from losing her five-year old son to a reckless driver, to self-medication and recovery, to founding her own organization, A New Way of Life, to support women facing similar struggles.
Where: Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium, Santa Monica Library
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=25279
Janet Fitch at ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL
Join us to hear acclaimed author Janet Fitch, in conversation with LARB Executive Editor Boris Dralyuk, discuss and sign her new novel, The Revolution of Marina M.: A Novel of the Russian Revolution. This is a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution and the coming-of-age of a young woman of privilege during an epic time.
Check website for RSVP and stand-by seating guidelines.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/technicians-sacred-indigenous-poetry-americas/
How to Get Published, with Natashia Deon, Online
Please join us online for our monthly women’s networking series, After 6: Career Conversations. This month we are discussing How to Get Published (What They Don’t Tell You), with our special guest author, Natashia Deon, who is a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically acclaimed novel Grace.
Where: The Memo – Online
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 8 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event. See website for details.
CSULB Open Mic at Cal State University Long Beach
Please join us on the third Thursday of every month for the CSULB Poetry Open Mic, with featured readers.
Where: Sunset Lounge in the USU at CSULB, near the on-campus police station
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840
Website: http://www.localendar.com/public/CadenceCollective
Drunken Masters at The Escondite (Hideout)
Join Writ Large Press for their new monthly event at the Escondite, this month on Drunken Masters: Food Writing. Three writers will read/perform short excerpts from a work-in-progress in front of a panel of three established writers who provide 0n-the-spot feedback. The only catch is that these master writers have been plied with drink or PG indulgence of their choosing. A laid-back, entertaining (and sometimes riotous) reading!
Featuring masters:
Steph Cha is the author of Dead Soon Enough and Beware, Beware, and is food writer and critic for the LA Times.
Esther Tseng is food and cocktail writer for the LA Times, and Eater.
Nguyen Tran is from Starry Kitchen.
Send your submissions to DMastSub@gmail.com. Deadline is Monday morning, 11/13/17 at 8 am.
Where: The Escondite
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 410 Boyd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1743352545971269/
John Cho and Viet Thanh Nguyen at USC
Please join us for a timely conversation on race, representation, and the arts between actor John Cho (Better Luck Tomorrow, American Pie, Harold & Kumar, Star Trek, Columbus) and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer). Exploring their overlapping interests in film, literature and Asian American representation, they hope to illuminate the opportunities and pitfalls of a career in the arts.
Admission is free, but RSVP required at website link.
Where: Bovard Auditorium, USC
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3351 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Website: http://visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/listing.php?event_id=965829
Tara Beth Leach at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Tar Beth Leach discuss and sign her book, Emboldened: A Vision for Empowering Women in Ministry. This book is meant to inspire women to seek full roles in ministry and leadership, and to inspire men to embolden the women in their midst to do so.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Jenna Fisher at Book Soup
Join us to hear Jenna Fisher discuss and sign her book, The Actor’s Life: A Survival Guide, the story of her Hollywood journey form a 22-year-old with a theatre degree to completing her years on the iconic series The Office. The decade in between was one of frustration, struggle, rejection and doubt.
See website for attendance guidelines.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/jenna-fischer-discusses-and-signs-actor’s-life-survival-guide
Poetry y Pan Open Mic at Café Con Libros in Pomona
Please join us for a community Open Mic at Café Con Libros in Pomona, co-hosted by Irene Sanchez and Matt Sedillo.
“Poetry, like bread, is for everyone.”—Roque Dalton.
Where: Café Con Libros
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 280 West 2nd St., Pomona, CA 91766
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/128218907876635/
Danny Katch at the Last Bookstore
Please join us to hear Danny Katch discuss his new book, Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People. Come join us for this book launch by the author of Socialism…Seriously, and Socialist Worker columnist.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Mark Bray at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear Mark Bray present and sign his book, ANTIFA: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. This is the first, transnational historical account of the movement, based on the author’s 15 years organizing with these groups, and is a field guide to those opposed to racism, xenophobia, and oppression.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/mark-bray-discusses-his-book-antifa-anti-fascist-handbook
The Current at Poetic Research Bureau
Please join us to hear writers/contributors in The Current, with writers: Lusterlit, Deenah Vollmer, Ginger Buswell, Dame Darcy, Jennifer Croft, Lobalam, Sheila McMullin, Alana Amram, Justin Feinstein, DANyDANy.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://www.poeticresearch.com/
Erin Rodini and Gillian Wegener at Beyond Baroque
Please join us to hear Sixteen Rivers Press poets, Erin Rodini & Gillian Wegener read from their new collections, Body, In Good Light and Haphazard, respectively.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd, Venice CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Luis Rodriguez Walk of Fame Event at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us for Vroman’s Walk of Fame Dedication Ceremony honoring novelist, journalist, critic and columnist, and 2014-2016 Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez as our next honoree to immortalize his handprints and signature in our Author Hall of Fame! We will celebrate all of his important contributions to literature, poetry and to L.A. and the community.
Following the dedication, please stay for a reception and a special conversation between Luis Rodriguez and journalist and essayist Lynell George as they discuss his life and career.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 12 pm – 3 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Snapshots of South Central Book Release at Cielo Galleries
Join Cielo Galleries and DSTL Arts to celebrate the beauty and culture of South LA as we host our 2nd book release from our Artist Residency Workshops! This new book collects the photography and creative writing of our Snapshots of South Central Teaching Artist Team and workshop participants. This free event is open to the public and will feature a reading and pop-up photo exhibit of the work produced at both the Vernon Branch Library and the Junipero Serra Branch Library.
This event is free and family friendly. Snacks and light refreshments provided.
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://facebook.com/events/171873003395568/
Poetry Reading at Gatsby’s Bookstore
Please join us for a poetry reading to hear Patricia Chernin, Todd Fox, and Gerald Lochlin, plus an Open Mic—so Bring Your Best!
Patricia Chernin has published her work in over 100 publications. She has taught at CSULB and currently coordinates the Humanities M.A. (HUX) program at CSU Dominguez Hills, where she also served as Chair of Women’s Studies and Writing Lab Director.
Todd Fox is a teacher and writer, and a product of CSULB’s MFA program (1999). Beyond poetry he is making steady progress on Gerald Lochlin’s biography.
Gerald Lochlin is Professor Emeritus, CSULB, Senior Poetry Editor for Chiron Review, and founded The Endowment for Student Writing Competition at CSULB. He is widely published.
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/book-signings/
Misfit City at Skylight Bookstore–Young Adult
Join us to hear authors Kiwi Smith, Kurt Lustgarten and Naomi Franquiz discuss Misfit City, a kind of Goonies for girls, and a perfect combination of art, hilarious dialogue, filled with adventure and friendship. When a pack of teens discover a centuries’ old pirate map drawn by someone named Black Mary, they find out there might be some real adventure in their town after all!
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
UC Irvine MFA Reading Series at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear the students of UC Irvine’s MFA in Creative Writing Program read their work. Featured writers In fiction and poetry include: Miles Parnegg, Hannah Dow, Ross Green, Joel Wood.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Crossing the Border with Danial Olivas at Avenue 50 Studio
Join us to celebrate the publication launch of Crossing the Border, by Daniel A. Olivas. From award-winning fiction writer and book critic Daniel Olivas, comes his first collection of poetry. These narrative poems delve deeply into the many ways we cross borders of race, culture, language, religion and privilege. With humor and pathos the author draws from his own life and from the stories of others to serve as a witness to the great variety of experiences that make us human.
Where: Avenue 50 Studio
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 151 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1733237663388069/
Ambika Talwar: My Greece at Beyond Baroque
Join us for My Greece: Mirrors & Metamorphoses, Talwar’s spiritual travelogue, which raises questions about human purpose/destiny in layered narratives. An ecstatic poet bridging worlds, Talwar has authored Creative Resonance Poetry—Elegant Play, Elegant Change and 4 Stars & 25 Roses (for her father).
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Because I Was a Girl Panel at Book Soup
Inspired by The New York Times piece that went viral, BECAUSE I WAS A GIRL brings together true stories of perseverance, struggle and joy from eminent women of all ages. Please join New York Times bestselling authors Melissa de la Cruz (Alex & Eliza), Margaret Stohl (Royce Rolls), Victoria Aveyard (King’s Cage), Tina Hay (Founder/CEO of Napkin France), and inspiring businesswoman and banker Jill Lorie, for an inspiring panel on what it takes to break the glass ceiling.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/because-i-was-girl-panel
Nancy Daley at Flintridge Bookstore
Join us to hear Nancy Daley present and discuss her book, Live in Your Happy Place: A Simple Guide to Happiness. There will be a book signing for this self-help book, with an appearance by a children’s choir.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada-Flintridge, CA 91011
Website: http://www.flintridgebooks.com/instore-events/2017/11/19/nancy-daley-live-in-your-happy-place
What Books Press & Goldline Press at Beyond Baroque
Please join us as we welcome new books by authors Forrest Roth, Chuck Rosenthal, Kate Haake, and Gail Wronsky.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 900291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
LA Stories & Classical Jam at The San Fernando in Glendale
Please join us as Classical Revolution LA joins Helix Collective’s LA Stories to bring together poets, writers, composers and musicians to celebrate the beauty and diversity of LA in a music and storytelling show. Donations appreciated.
Participants include: composer Jamie Thierman (on letters from LAPL archives), composer Reena Esmail (on Farsi poet Nadia Anjuman), composer Eugene Micofsky (on the story by John Grady), composers Phil Popham and Mark Carlson (on poets Wanda Coleman and Larry Colker), and composer Dale Trumbore.
Where: The San Fernando
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5230 San Fernando Rd., Glendale, CA 91203
Website: http://classicalrevolutionla.org/
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