William Glassley and A Wilder Time at the Last Bookstore
Join us as William Glassley presents his new book, A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice, and learn about the mysteries and lessons embedded in wilderness above the Arctic Circle. This book recounts the experiences of the author and two Danish colleagues while conducting research in one of the world’s most extensive wilderness terrains. It gives new perspective on our place in Nature, the value of wilderness, and how climate change is affecting that landscape.
William Glassley is a geologist at UC Davis, and an emeritus researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of over seventy research articles and a textbook on geothermal energy. This is his first book for a general audience.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013 (main entrance around the corner on 5th St.)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events or https://www.facebook.com/events/143760606278876/
Luis Alfaro Event at Annenberg Beach House
Please join us for a conversation with playwright and Beach House Writer-in-Residence Luis Alfaro, who is working to adapt Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children to highlight the issues of homelessness in Los Angeles County. From deeply personal stories of street survival, to a rundown on the facts of homelessness in the city, join us to hear thoughts through an artistic lens and a scholar’s point of view.
Please RSVP at website for parking details and directions.
Where: Annenberg Beach House
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://annenbergbeachhouse.com/activities/cultural-programs-events-and-tours.aspx#beachculture
Michael Shermer at the Athenaeum at Claremont Colleges
The Athenaeum welcomes author Michael Shermer, who will present his newest book, Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality & Utopia, where he sets out to discover what drives humans’ belief in life after death, focusing on recent attempts (such as radical life extension to cryonic suspension to mind uploading) to achieve immortality along with utopian attempts to create heaven on earth.
Michael Shermer is founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and presidential fellow at Chapman University, among his many endeavors.
Please see website for parking details and directions.
Where: Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont College
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 385 E. Eighth St., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: http://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/events/2018-02-20
Victoria Price at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Victoria Price discuss and sign The Way of Being Lost: A Road Trip to My Truest Self, the story of how the author rebuilt her life by embracing a practice of joy, healing childhood wounds and reconnecting to the example set by her father Vincent, the famed actor.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Laurie Kilmartin at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear Laurie Kilmartin discuss and sign Dead People Suck: A Guide for Survivors of the Newly Departed, an honest, irreverent guide to coping with death, from the co-author of Sh*tty Mom. Death is not for the faint-of-heart and sometimes the best way to cope is with humor.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Morgan Jerkins at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear Morgan Jerkins discuss and sign her new book of essays, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female and Feminist in (White) America, her highly anticipated debut collection of linked personal essays. This book is a compelling meditation on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, racism, and what it means to exist as a black woman today.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/morgan-jerkins-discusses-her-new-book-essays-will-be-my
Redondo Poets Reading & Open Mic at Coffee Cartel
Join Redondo Poets for our weekly meeting, and to hear featured poet Kevin Patrick Sullivan. Please come early to sign up for our Open Mic.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets/
Siel Ju at University of La Verne
Join author Siel Ju as she reads from her award-winning debut collection Cake Time. This novel-in-stories was winner of the Red Hen Press Fiction Manuscript Award, and she is also the author of two poetry chapbooks. Her work also appears in ZYZZYVA, The Missouri Review (Poems of the Week), The Los Angeles Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Where: University of La Verne Chapel
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: 1944 Bonita Ave., La Verne, CA 91750
Website: http://lalitscene.entropymag.org/ or https://sites.laverne.edu/creative-writing/2017/06/27/feb-21-2018-siel-ju/
PEN Center USA & Edison Book Club at The Edison
PEN Center USA and The Edison invite you to our monthly Book Club to discuss Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong, hosted by Joselyn Takacs. This book is a quietly brilliant work on family, relationships, and adulthood, in startlingly beautiful language.
See website for details on this free event.
Where: The Edison
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: 108 W. 2nd St., #101, Los Angeles, CA 90012
T.C. Boyle at Glendale Central Library
The 2018 One Book/One Glendale selection for reading by the community is The Tortilla Curtain, by T.C. Boyle. Published in 1995, the author will join us and share his thoughts about the book, which consciously evokes the Steinbeck of The Grapes of Wrath, and opens with an epigraph from that novel: “They ain’t human. A human being wouldn’t live like they do. A human being couldn’t stand to be so dirty and miserable.”
In 1995 this was Boyle’s most controversial novel because it dealt with hot-button socio-political issues and strong prejudices. Now it is considered a modern classic, widely read in high schools and universities around the country.
Where: Glendale Central Library
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 222 East Harvard St., Glendale, CA 91205
Website: http://www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/30532/125?curm=2&cury=2018
Billy Gallagher at Pages Bookstore
Join us to hear author Billy Gallagher read and discuss How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story, the improbable and exhilarating story of the rise of Snapchat from a frat boy fantasy to a multi-million dollar internet unicorn that has drastically changed the way we communicate.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/billy-gallagher-author-event
Fiction Book Club & The Age of Dreaming at Workman Homestead
Join us for our Fiction Book Club meeting to discuss Hollywood in the Era of Silent Films, and specifically Nina Revoyr’s novel The Age of Dreaming. This event is FREE, but space is limited and advance registration is recommended. See website for more information.
Where: Workman Homestead
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 15415 E. Don Julian Rd., City of Industry, CA 91745
Website: http://homesteadmuseum.org/bookclub
Rakesh Satyal at Otis Visiting Writers Series
Join us to hear and meet author Rakesh Satyal, Senior Editor at Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. He held previous positions at Doubleday and Harper Collins. He also sat on the advisory board for the annual PEN World Voices Festival and taught in the publishing program at NYU. He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award winning novel Boy Blue, and most recently, No one Can Pronounce My Name.
Where: Otis College of Art and Design, The Forum, Goldsmith Campus
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/mfa-writing/visiting-writers-series
Francisco Cantu at ALOUD Reading Series, Central Library
Join us meet and hear award-winning writer and former agent for the U.S. Border Patrol, Francisco Cantu, in conversation with independent journalist Ruxandra Guidi, discuss and sign The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border. This book is haunted by the stories he experienced, both while working for the Border Patrol, and also as a civilian after he abandoned the Patrol and helped an immigrant friend return to Mexico to visit his dying mother.
NOTE: See website for stand-by seating guidelines and details.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/line-becomes-river-dispatches-border/
Danny Bell at the Last Bookstore
Join us meet and hear USA Today bestselling author Danny Bell discuss and sign the second book in his series, The Black Pages: Warning Call. This book follows Elana Black, a young woman with social anxiety and also an avid reader who happens to have the power to turn herself fictional. But she discovers that fiction is not what we think it is. And she always thought magic would make her life easier.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Body to Job at Skylight Bookstore
Join us meet and hear author Christopher Zeischegg (aka Danny Wylde) discuss and sign his graphic memoir, Body to Job. This is a collection of six years of his writing, which is now a memoir of his adult film career, and a life lived after, marked by post-porn dysphoria.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/christopher-zeischegg-discusses-his-book-body-job
Poet Tyson Amir at East Los Angeles College (ELAC)
Join us for a presentation and discussion with Tyson Amir, author of The Black Boy Poems, on the Topic: Discuss Experience Surviving America as a Black Man with Hip Hop Prose, and Original Analysis to Shape What Is Arguably the Most Revolutionary Statements in the 21st Century.
RSVP at website.
Where: F5-201, East Los Angeles College (ELAC)
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park, CA 91754
Website: http://tinyurl.com/socialjusticeplatica
Ayelet Waldman at Scripps College
When it comes to mental health and self-care, the literature is plentiful. That’s why Ayelet Waldman’s book, A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, is such a revelation. Her approach, taking miniscule doses of LSD to manage her mood disorder, is unorthodox, but her brand of wit and candor is invigorating. This is a deeply personal reflection by a former public defender and adjunct law professor. Medaya Ocher, managing editor of LARB, joins her for a conversation.
Where: Garrison Theatre, Scripps College Performing Arts Center
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 241 E. 10th St., Claremont, CA 91711
Deborah Santana & Anthology at Eso Won Bookstore
Join us for a presentation of All the Women in My Family Sing, an anthology documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the 21st century. It is a vital collection of prose and poetry edited by Deborah Santana, America Ferrera, and Natalie Baszile. Their mission is to empower underrepresented voices and to impact the world of publishing in America.
Where: Eso Won Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 4327 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.esowonbookstore.com/event/deborah-santana-booksigning
Videocracy at Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood
Join us to welcome Kevin Allocca to discuss and sign his book, Videocracy: How YouTube Is Changing the World…with Double Rainbows, Singing Foxes, and Other Trends We Can’t Stop Watching. This is an illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet video’s massive impact on our world. Allocca is Head of Culture and Trends at YouTube, where he has spent more than seven years tracking and explaining trending phenomena, and is one of the world’s leading experts on viral video.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/kevin-allocca-discusses-and-signs-videocracy
Blood of a Thousand Stars at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us meet and hear Rhoda Belleza, with Romina Russell, discuss and sign Blood of a Thousand Stars, which is a futuristic fantasy of what happens when war tears the galaxy apart, power tests the limits of family, and violence gives way to freedom, in this exhilarating sequel to Empress of a Thousand Skies.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Florida Anthology at Book Soup
Join us as editor Shane Hinton, with contributors Nathan Deuel & Kevin Moffet discuss and sign We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida: New Stories from a Sinking Peninsula, an anthology of new stories and essays that challenges a star-studded line up of current and former Floridians to write about the state through a literary lens, though not without the requisite weirdness.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069
Katie Hurley at Pages Bookstore–Kids/parenting Event
Join us to hear and meet author Katie Hurley, a local licensed child and adolescent psychotherapist, parenting expert, and writer, and founder of “Girls Can!” empowerment groups for girls between ages 5-11. She discusses her new book No More Mean Girls and is also the author of The Happy Kid Handbook.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Ave, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/katie-hurley-author-event
Waking Lions Author at UCLA’s Fowler Museum
Join UCLA’s Y&S Nazarian Center for Israeli Studies to hear and meet author Ayelet Gunder-Goshen who will discuss her recent work, Waking Lions, the winner of the 2017 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize and one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2017. In this book an Israeli doctor hits an Eritrean refugee and leaves him for dead on the side of the road. The next day, the refugee’s wife comes knocking on his door. This psychological thriller, set in the Negev desert, explores the clash between privileged doctor and the unseen migrant in which the desert is not only geography, but also a mental state of mind.
Where: UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 7:15 pm
Address: 10367 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (see meeting room location above)
Website: http://www.international.ucla.edu/israel/event/12954
Brendan Constantine, Natalie J. Graham & Fernando D. Castro at Open Door Poetry Reading, Battery Books
Join us for the Open Door Poetry Reading for a presentation and book signing by poets Brendan Constantine (Dementia My Darling), Natalie J. Graham (Begin with a Failed Body), and Fernando D. Castro (Fernando’s Café, The Nightlife of Saints, and Redeemable Air Mileage). All of these featured readers/poets are experienced teachers of creative writing and deeply involved in the literary community.
Where: Battery Books Pasadena
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 26 South Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/403537210091272/
Walter Mosley at Eso Won Bookstore
We are pleased to host a presentation and book signing by acclaimed author Walter Mosley of his new book, Down the River unto the Sea. Joe King Oliver was one of NYPD’s finest investigators, until dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, where he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island. Then, a decade later he is a private detective forced to take on his own case, when he hears from a woman who was paid to frame him for the crime.
Where: Eso Won Bookstore
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 4327 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.esowonbookstore.com/event/walter-mosley-booksigning
Richard Risemberg at Book Show LA
Please join us to hear crime fiction author Richard Risemberg read from his new book Family Ties. Joining him will be authors: Ashley Erwin, Renee Asher Pickup, and Scotch Rutherford.
Where: Book Show LA
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 5503 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://bookshowla.com/events/
Andre Aciman & Call Me By Your Name at West Hollywood Library
Join us for the WeHo Reads book discussion of Call Me By Your Name, and hear author Andre Aciman discuss and sign his book following the talk. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction, this is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parent’s Cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.
RSVP at website for this free event.
Where: West Hollywood Public Library, Community Room
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
New Play Festival at Occidental College
Join us for the 20th anniversary of our New Play Festival, which pairs student playwrights and actors with professional guest directors and performers. Through this program, students experience a unique process unlike other college writing programs for the theatre.
Tonight’s presentation is Blue Sky State, by Arianna Nord.
Check at website for details on this free event.
Where: Keck Theatre
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 1600 Campus Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.oxy.edu/events/new-play-festival-2018
Swan World Press Poets Reading at Tia Chucha’a Open Mic
Join us for a celebration of Swan World Press Poets, and hear our features: Ingrid Calderon, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Timothy J. Morris, Christopher Sotelo, and Jessica M. Wilson.
Plus there will be an Open Mic for all who come to listen and enjoy!
Event hosted by: Juan Cardenas of the Los Angeles Poet Society.
Where: Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 8 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave., Unit A, Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/145625976123544/
Voices From Leimert Park Redux Anthology at Stories Books & Cafe
THE RwirGiHtTe READ Book Series invites you to join us to hear featured poets from Voices From Leimert Park Redux Anthology, from Tsehai Publishers, Harriet Tubman Press, and hosted by: Editor Shonda Buchanan, Derek Brown, Imani Tolliver, October Blu, Regina Higgins.
Where: Stories Books & Cafe
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/diane-leslies-book-group-author-discusses-wonder-valley
Say It Loud for Black History Month at Benjamin Franklin Library
It’s Black History Month and we’re celebrating the rich history and culture of Black and Afro-Latino communities. Join us!
There will be special guest speakers and an Open Mic from 1 pm-2 pm. Folks are invited to read a personal work related to Black History or an excerpt from some pre-selected books by Black and Afro-Latino authors.
Where: Benjamin Franklin Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: 2200 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/say-it-loud
Daphne and Her Discontents at Gatsby’s Bookstore
Join us for a Poetry Reading – Book Launch Party for Daphne and Her Discontents, and hear the poets perform their work, including: Jane Rosenberg LaForge, Chella Courington, Ashley Perez, and Robbie Nester.
This is a significant volume of poems exploring self through the classic myths, transferring to poetry the power to transform. By giving the family saga this form, the poet subverts a classic tale of women’s powerlessness to one of witness. (Cover image by Leslie Allyn.)
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/artists/#/new-gallery/
NASTY WOMEN Poets Reading at Beyond Baroque
We invite you to join us for a reading and signing by Nasty Women Poets to celebrate the release of their Anthology of the same name, edited by Grace Bower & Julie Kane. We will be featuring readings by: Andi Boyd, Helene Cardona, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Shirley Geoklin Lim, Ronna Magy, Lisa Mecham, Melinda Palacio, and Lynne Thompson.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2071388379543103
New Play Festival Continues at Occidental College
Join us for the 20th anniversary of our New Play Festival, which pairs student playwrights and actors with professional guest directors and performers. Through this program, students experience a unique process unlike other college writing programs for the theatre.
This afternoon’s presentation is Out of the Woods, by Kylie Brakeman.
Check at website for details on this free event.
Where: Keck Theatre
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 1600 Campus Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.oxy.edu/events/new-play-festival-2018
Harvey Cohen at Book Soup
We invite you to join us to hear Harvey G. Cohen discuss and sign Who’s in the Money?: The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s New Deal. While Harry and Jack Warner were advocates and fundraisers for FDR’s New Deal legislation, they attempted to reverse his policies within their studio and industry. This book details the bitter and little known struggle to create a NRA code of practice for the motion picture industry.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
UC Irvine MFA Students at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear authors from the UC Irvine MFA Reading Series, showcasing the work of first and second year fiction and poetry students to an audience of their peers and the greater community of Southern California. Featuring work by: poet Lauren Swift, and fiction writers Sarah Beth Ryther, Gareth Seigel, and Sunny Nagra.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/uc-irvine-mfa-reading-series-0
London Rock at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Alec Byrne discuss his new book of photography, London Rock: The Unseen Archive, which reveals never-before-seen images from Byrne’s archive documenting an unprecedented time in music history, when London was the center of a cultural revolution.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/alec-byrne-discusses-his-new-book-photography-london-rock
New Play Festival Continues at Occidental College
Join us for the 20th anniversary of our New Play Festival, which pairs student playwrights and actors with professional guest directors and performers. Through this program, students experience a unique process unlike other college writing programs for the theatre.
This evening’s two presentations are: Tom Flackford’s Death Party, by Richard H. Via and Tragedy + Time, by Greg Feiner.
Check at website for details on this free event.
Where: Keck Theatre
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1600 Campus Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.oxy.edu/events/new-play-festival-2018
Black Resistance in the Time of Trump at the Last Bookstore
Please join us to celebrate Black History Month with an incredible line-up of L.A. writers speaking on Black Resistance in the Time of Trump, including: Shonda Buchanan, Rachel Harper, Dana Johnson, Lia Langworthy, Michelle Maltais, Jonathan Tipton Meyers, Chris Terry, Rebecca Walker and more, as they rise up to injustice through their words.
This event is presented by: Angels Flight-Literary West, and their ongoing Wall of Resistance issue.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
From Our Heart to Yours Reading at Poetic Research Bureau
We invite you to join us for From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice, and to hear Rob Halpern, Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Robbie Dewhurst, and Amanda Davidson.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.poeticresearch.com/
Red Hen Press at Boston Court Theatre, Pasadena
Join us for Water and the Future, featuring a reading by poet Tess Taylor, currently the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered, and most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. Taylor’s chapbook The Misremembered World was selected by Evan Boland and published by the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Forage House, was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award.
Where: Boston Court Performing Arts Center
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: http://www.redhen.org/events/
Peter J. Harris Conversation & Reading at Beyond Baroque
Please join us to welcome poet and author Peter J. Harris, to read and discuss his American Book Award winner, The Black Man of Happiness Project, which crystalizes some 40 years as a poet, essayist, publisher, broadcaster, educator and more, exploring the lives of black men.
Journalist Rex Weiner continues his author interview series, I Read Your Book and…, with a conversation with Peter J. Harris that includes work from Voices From Leimert Park Redux and other works.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
826LA Presents Kids’ Poetry Menagerie at the Hammer Museum–Children’s Event
Please join us for a kids’ workshop to combine concrete poetry with 3D paper models to create unique animals and a zoo like no other. Led by Mary Peterson, award-winning author and illustrator of the children’s books: Snail Has His Lunch, Dig In!, Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch, and the forthcoming Twinkle, Twinkle Little Car. Event recommended for children of ages 8-14.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2018/02/826lahammer-3d-concrete-poetry-menagerie/
Nebraska Girl Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
Please join us for our monthly Nebraska Girl Open Reading, hosted by Wyatt Underwood. Sign-ups start at 1:45 pm.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
La Palabra Poetry & Open Mic at Avenue 50 Studio
Please join us for our monthly Poetry Reading & Open Mic, and welcome our features: B.A. Williams, Chenel King, Regis Peeples, and a special guest High School poet to share their work, with an open mic to follow the reading!
La Palabra is curated and hosted by Angelina Saenz
Where: Avenue 50 Studio
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 9o042
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/353464391800263/
George Hammons & William Archila at Claremont Library
Please join us for Fourth Sundays Poetry Reading, and welcome our features: George Hammons and William Archila. As always, our events are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase.
Where: Claremont Public Library
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 208 Harvard Ave., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: http://www.facebook.com/fourthsundayspoetry
The Table Presents: Writing of Exploration at the Hollywood Hotel
Please join us for The Table reading event, Writing of Exploration, hosted by Michael Lemberger, Rachel Warecki, and Ashley Perez. Reading their work and then discussing this topic will be guests: Meg Howrey, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Yi Shun Lai, Philip Barragan, Liz Ziemska.
The authors’ books will be available for purchase and there will be a cash bar. Join us!
Where: The Hollywood Hotel
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90029
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/153486098775881/
Jamie Cat Callan at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Jamie Cat Callan read and sign her book, Parisian Charm School. This book explores how to master the arts of charm and living well that the French have been following for years.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood, lower courtyard
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/jamie-cat-callan-discusses-and-signs-parisian-charm-school
YA Author Panel Event at Flintridge Bookstore (YA/teen event)
Join us for a Valentine’s Day event, with Cat Jordan (Eight Days on Planet Earth) moderating a conversation on “Romance, Love & Lust in YA Lit,” with: Brandy Colbert (Little Lion), Lauren Miller (All Things New), and Iva-Marie Palmer (Romeo & Juliet & Jim).
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada-Flintridge, CA 91011
Jim Florentine at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Jim Florentine discuss and sign his book, Everybody is Awful (Except You!), in which the popular comedian and TV host has a solution for everyone who feels like smashing their smart phones to bits. Acting as a de facto therapist, he diagnoses awful behavior, shames awful people, and offers comic and satiric takes on how to reclaim our lives.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/jim-florentine-discusses-and-signs-everybody-awful-except-you
Local Authors Day at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome local authors: Chiqeeta Jameson (Don’t Sell. Let Tem Buy: Master the Sales Conversation and Guide Your Customers to a Successful Outcome…Every Time); Colette Barris (Claretta Street); and Belinda Busteed Burum (Finding Love After 40: Real Stories about Real Love in the Prime of Life (and a Little Beyond)).
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Haiku Anthology at Village Poets Reading Event
Please join the Village Poets monthly reading to hear authors and co-editors Sarah P. Kolodji and William Scott Galasso present their Haiku Anthology, Eclipse Moon. The reading will include two Open Mic segments and refreshments provided. A $3 collection from attendees will cover the cost of the venue.
Where: Bolton Hall Museum
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: 10110 Commerce Ave., Tujunga, CA 91042
Website: http://villagepoets.blogspot.com/
Kim Purcell at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Kim Purcell read and discuss her new novel, This Is Not a Love Letter. This book is both an intimate and immediate love story examining race, loss, and mental health in small town America. This is a nuanced, thought-provoking, and brutally honest YA novel about what happens to those left behind when the ties that bind finally break.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/kim-purcell-reads-her-new-ya-novel-not-love-letter
New Play Festival Continues at Occidental College
Join us for the 20th anniversary of our New Play Festival, which pairs student playwrights and actors with professional guest directors and performers. Through this program, students experience a unique process unlike other college writing programs for the theatre.
This afternoon’s presentation is: Play Pretend, by Eliana Sternin.
Check at website for details on this free event.
Where: Keck Theatre
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1600 Campus Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.oxy.edu/events/new-play-festival-2018
New Play Festival Continues at Occidental College
Join us for the 20th anniversary of our New Play Festival, which pairs student playwrights and actors with professional guest directors and performers. In this program, students experience a unique process unlike other college writing programs for the theatre.
This evening’s presentation is our 20th Anniversary Celebration: 20 Tiny Plays by 20 Big Alums.
Check at website for details on this free event.
Where: Keck Theatre
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 1600 Campus Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
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