David Neiwert and Alt-America at Book Soup
We welcome author David Neiwert to present his new book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, the story of the remarkable resurgence of right-wing extremists in the United States. These extremists have been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s, and found fresh life after 9/11. Author and journalist Neiwert provides a deeply researched, authoritative report on the growth of fascism and far-right terrorism in this crucial book.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Joshua Clover Event at Otis College of Art and Design
Please join us for a Visiting Artist Lecture by poet, scholar and critic Joshua Clover, who is a professor at UC Davis specializing in 20th/21st century poetry and poetics, literature and social movements, political economy and histories of capitalism, crisis theory and cultures of finance, with an interest in environment, feminism, and critical race studies. He is also affiliated with the Mellon Research Initiative in Racial Capitalism.
Where: The Forum, Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 11 am – 12:15 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/calendar/visiting-artist-lecture-joshua-clover
Garrard Conley at the Athenaeum at Claremont Colleges
Please join us to hear memoirist and author Garrard Conley discuss and present his bestselling memoir, Boy Erased. The son of a Baptist preacher, Conley grew up gay in rural Arkansas, and his experience attending an “ex-gay” conversion therapy facility, followed by years of strained relationships with his family, led him to a unique and complicated understanding of the American South. Conley will share new insights he has developed into what it means to be Southern in the 21st century.
Garrard Conley was thrust onto the national stage as the public gained increasing awareness of conversion therapy facilities, and his book is currently being adapted as a film. He lectures widely on radical compassion, writing through trauma, and what it means to grow up gay in the South.
Please see website for parking details and directions.
Where: Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont College
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 385 E. Eighth St., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: http://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/events/2018-02-27
Michael Andreasen at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Michael Andreasen discuss and sign The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories, which explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild metamorphoses. These stories cut to the core of what it means to navigate family, faith, and longing, and are simultaneously daring and deeply familiar, unfolding in wildly inventive worlds that convey our yearning for connection and understanding.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/michael-andreasen-discusses-and-signs-sea-beast-takes-lover-stories
Elif Batuman & The Idiot at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear Elif Batuman discuss and sign her debut novel, The Idiot, a portrait of the artist as a young woman. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants arrives for her freshman year at Harvard, settles in, and almost by accident, begins corresponding with an older math student form Hungary. With each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.
Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010, and is the author of Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/the-idiot
PEN Presents X Artists’ Books Event at Hollywood Forever
Pen presents a stage reading and conversation with X Artists’ Books co-founders Alexandra Grant and Keanu Reeves, and playwright and artist Sylvan Oswald. The event will be followed by a book signing and reception.
X Artists’ Books is a small publisher of artist-centered books that create nontraditional entry points into narratives. Grant and Reeves will read from Grant’s The Artists’ Prison, with drawings by artist and poet Eve Wood. Oswald will read from his adults’ picture book High Winds, with images by Jessica Fleischman.
Where: The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Redondo Poets Reading & Open Mic at Coffee Cartel
Please join us to hear featured poet Jane Rosenberg LaForge read her work, and sign up for our Open Mic.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets/
Mystery Book Group & The Old Man at Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Join us for our Mystery Book Group discussion of Thomas Perry’s The Old Man. This group meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month, and we pair our discussions with tea and homemade scones.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 8:30 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave, Montrose, CA 91020
Website: http://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mystery-book-group-old-man-thomas-perry
Huck Finn Retelling at Glendale Central Library
Join us to hear author Tim DeRoche and illustrator Daniel Gonzalez discuss their retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Their book, The Ballad of Huck & Miguel, tells of two young men, Huck and Miguel, escaping dwn the concrete gash that is the L.A. River. Huck is running form his father and Miguel has been falsely accused of murder. They soon learn the true value of love and loyalty in a thrilling urban adventure, but this is also an inspired tribute to one of the most beloved novels ever written.
Please RSVP at website, and see details and free parking information.
Where: Glendale Central Library
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, CA 91205
Website: http://www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/32795/125
Amy Alcon at Pages Bookstore
Join us to hear author Amy Alcon discuss and sign her book, UnF*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence, a “science-help” book that knocks the self-help genre on its unscientific ass. Alcon has spent the last 20 years translating cutting-edge behavioral science into highly practical advice in her award-winning syndicated column, The Science Advice Goddess, and here she debunks widely-accepted but scientifically unsupported notions about self-esteem, shame, willpower, and more.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/amy-alkon-author-event
Will Boast at Book Soup
Join us meet and hear author Will Boast discuss and sign his spellbinding debut, Daphne. Elegantly written and profoundly moving, this book is a gripping and tender modern fairy fable that explores both self-determination and the perpetual fight between love and safety.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/will-boast-discusses-and-signs-daphne
Becoming Madeleine at Once Upon a Time Bookstore–Children’s Event
Join us for an evening with Madeleine L’Engle’s granddaughters, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Lena Roy, to discuss her book, A Wrinkle in Time, as well as their book, Becoming Madeleine, which is their biography of their grandmother. The authors will be in conversation with moderator Alyson Beecher, and the discussion will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave, Montrose, CA 91020
Writ Large Press & Freedom Writers at Civic Center Studios
Writ Large Press presents Freedom Writers, a reading in celebration of Black History Month, featuring:
F. Douglas Brown, an educator for over 20 years, is the author of ICON, forthcoming from Writ Large Press in 2018, and Zero to Three (University of Georgia 2014), winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize selected by Tracy K. Smith. He is co-founder and curator of un::fade::able – The Requiem for Sandra Bland, a quarterly reading series examining restorative justice through poetry as a means to address racism.
Dr. Ashaki Jackson, social psychologist, program evaluator and poet, has worked with youth moving through the juvenile justice system. Writ Large Press published her first chapbook, Surveillance in 2106, and her second chapbook, Language Lesson, was also published by MEIL in 2016. She is co-founder of Women Who Submit, which supports women submitting their works to top tier journals.
Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the Poet, is a poet, journalist, historian, tour guide and teacher. His most recent book is Poetics of Location (Writ Large Press), and his book I Am Alive in Los Angeles! has been added to the curriculum of over 60 universities and high schools.
Nathalie J. Graham, a Cave Canem fellow and assistant professor of African American Studies at Cal State Fullerton, is widely published, and her first full length collection, Begin with a Failed Body, won the 2016 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from University of Georgia Press.
Shonda Buchanan, poet, memoirist, fiction writer, and assistant professor at Hampton University, is the author of Who’s Afraid of Black Indians?, and editor of Voices from Leimert Park. She is widely sought for presentations, workshops and lectures which explore gender, ethnicity, family, heritage, landscape, environment and ancestry.
Joseph Rios, the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations, is a VONA alumnus and Macondo Fellow. In 2016 his debut poetry collection was selected by Claudia Rankine as a finalist for Omnidawn’s first book prize.
Monique Mitchell is the Education Coordinator for Get Lit. Since college she has worked as a content creator for the DTLA-based production company Contend.
Amanda Choo Quan, a Trinidadian/Jamaican poet and organizer based in L.A., is a graduate of CalArts MFA in Creative Writing Program, and earned the Brodber-Pollard Prize.
Plus: Street Life DJs.
Where: Civic Center Studios
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Address: 207 S. Broadway, Ste. 1, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1466836010110242/
Jeffrey Stewart and Carl Hancock Rux at the Hammer Museum
Join us for our Conversation series, to hear historian and UC Santa Barbara professor, Jeffrey Stewart read and sign his book, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, father of the Harlem Renaissance. Joining him in conversation will be poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and musician, Carl Hancok Rux. The authors will discuss black genius, cultural pluralism, and the legacy of Locke and his pioneering ideas.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2018/02/jeffrey-stewart-and-carl-hancock-rux/
Michael Andreasen at Otis Visiting Writers Series
Join us to hear author Michael Andreasen discuss and sign his short story collection, The Beast Takes a Lover, which is forthcoming from Dutton. His work has been described as a remarkable mixture of solemnity and humor. He is a senior lecturer at UC Irvine.
Where: The Forum, Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/mfa-writing/visiting-writers-series
Culprits Anthology at Skylight Bookstore
Join us meet and hear authors Gary Phillips, Richard Brewer, Brett Battles, Gar Anthony Haywood, Joe Clifford, and Jessica Kaye, with Angie Wang, discuss and sign their anthology, Culprits: The Heist Was Only the Beginning. In this collection we follow each culprit as they go their separate ways after the heist, and watch as this perfect score ends up a perfect nightmare. This book show that sometimes the end means things are just getting started.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
826LA’s Time Travel Mart at Mar Vista ArtWalk
A (Time) Traveling Carnival is coming to town!
Join us for the free, family-friendly grand reopening of 826LA’s Mar Vista Time Travel Mart during the Mar Vista ArtWalk in March 1st. We’re time traveling to our brand new Victorian era shop filled with books and writing essentials galore, an updated poetry phone booth, and portals to the past!
All proceeds from the 826LA Time Travel Mart benefit 826LA, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students between the ages of 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.
Where: Mar Vista ArtWalk
Date: Thursday the 1st
Time: 6 pm -9 pm
Address: 12515 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066
Website: http://www.facebook.com/evetns/368951086906739/
Sibling Memoir at Book Soup
Join us to hear Stephanie Wittles Wachs, with Kulap Vilaysack, discuss and sign her memoir, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss. The author’s younger brother, Harris, a star in the comedy world for his roles on shows like Parks and Recreation, died of a heroin overdose, and this beautiful, unsentimental, and surprisingly funny memoir alternates between her brother’s struggle with addiction, and the first year of his death. This is a portrait of comedic genius and an exploration of love between siblings.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Jerald Podair and Dodgers Story at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Jerald Podair present his book, City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles, in conversation with Peter O’Malley and Darryl Holter. In a vivid narrative the author tells how L.A. was convulsed between 1957 and 1962 over whether, where, and how to build Dodger Stadium, and the competing civic versions that clashed over the matter.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/jerald-podair
Rosanna Warren at the Hammer Museum
Join us at our Poetry Reading Series to meet and hear Rosanna Warren discuss and read her work. She is the author most recently of Ghost in a Red Hat, Departure, a translation of Euripides’s Suppliant Women, and a book of criticism, and there will be a book signing following the event.
Readings are organized and hosted by poet, critic, and UCLA professor of English emeritus Stephen Yenser.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Thursday the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2018/03/poetry-rosanna-warren/
A Mic and Dim Lights & Sunday Jump at dA Center for the Arts
Join us A Mic and Dim Lights as we welcome the community organizers and co-founders of Sunday Jump: STEADY.
Doors open at 8 pm. Parking available on side street.
Where: dA Center for the Arts
Date: Thursday the 1st
Time: 8 pm
Address: 252 Main St., Suite #D, Pomona, CA 91766
LiveTalksLA presents: Andrew Friedman & Ruth Reichl at Cross Campus – Santa Monica
LiveTalksLA presents a series of literary events (and podcasts) to meet and hear cultural and business leaders present and discuss their work. Tonight, Andrew Friedman and Ruth Reichl discuss his upcoming book, Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession. He has chronicled the lives of some of the best American chefs, and writes about them on his blog Toqueland, and interviews them on his Heritage Radio Network podcast. She has been writing about food since 1972, most memorably at The Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Gourmet Magazine, but also by writing four memoirs and a novel.
NOTE: LiveTalksLA readings are ticketed events. Tickets may be purchased at various prices, with or without a book purchase, and details are available at website link.
Where: Cross Campus – Santa Monica
Date: Thursday the 1st
Time: 8 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 929 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://livetalksla.org/events/andrew-friedman/
Neverspeak Poets at First Fridays for Women’s Month
Please join us as Shyla Ada hosts and presents a night of poetry at First Fridays with Neverspeak poets Aman Batra and Danielle Mitchell, with special guests and an Open Mic.
Where: Expo Arts Center
Date: Friday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 4321 Atlantic Ave., Lon Beach, CA 90807
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2067803363464652/?active_tab=about
Celebrity Interviews with George Wayne at Book Soup
Please join us as George Wayne presents and signs his book, Anyone Who’s Anyone: The Astonishing Celebrity Interviews, 1987 – 2017. For more than 20 years the author has redefined the art of conversation with his “GW Q&A” column, which was one of Vanity Fair’s most intriguing features. Beautifully designed with illustrations, this book is an oral history of recent celebrity culture.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Eloquent Rage at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear and meet author Brittney Cooper, in conversation with Morgan Parker, as she discusses and signs her book Eloquent Rage; A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpowers. The author’s searing honesty, intimacy and humor illuminate and celebrate the power of the rage of Black. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Cooper shows us that it is this rage that fuels both Beyonce’s girl power anthems and Michelle Obama’s iconic status. But here, homegirls also emerge as heroes, and the author further argues that feminism, friendship, and faith in one’s own superpowers are all that’s needed to turn things right-side-up again.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Elizabeth Flock at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear journalist and author Elizabeth Flock, discuss and sign her nonfiction book, The Heart Is a Shifting Sea. This book is a look the pervasive influence of Western culture on the lives of all ethnicities, classes and religions in the 21st century. The author spent nearly a decade immersed in the lives of three middle-class couples at different stages in their relationships, since moving to Mumbai in 2008, and presents a nuanced and intimate meditation on marriage, love and change that reads like a novel.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/elizabeth-flock-discusses-her-nonfiction-book-heart-shifting-sea
Noches de Canto y Poesia at Tia Chucha’s Bookstore
Please join us for our Noches de Canoto y Poesia event offered every 1st 3rd, and 5th Friday evening of the month, and hosted by Juan Cardenas. This is a time dedicated to music, poetry and song from the community, expressing their art in Spanish or with a Latin influence. All are welcome!
Noches Bohemias presents this evening: Joaquin Lopez, Fernando Fernandez, Jose Manuel, Rodriguez Walteros.
Where: Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Date: Friday the 2nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave., Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: http://www.tiachucha.org/programming
Four Poets & Open Mic at Rapp Saloon
Please join us for the Rapp Saloon Reading Series, with host Cynthia Alessandra Briano, and enjoy an evening of readings featuring:
Rachel Kann, TEDx poet and modern-day mystic, has been featured on NPR and is the 2017 Outstanding Instructor of the Year at UCLA’s Extension Writers Program. Her latest poetry collection, A Prayer on behalf of the Broken Heart, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Her short story collection, 10 for Everything, was published by Orange Ocean Press.
Marsha de la O, whose book of poetry, Black Hope, won the New Issues press Poetry Prize and a Small Press Editor’s Choice Award, is also the winner of the dA Poetry Award and the Ventura Poetry Festival Contest. She was raised in L.A. and now lives in Ventura, where she is co-editor for the literary journal Askew. She is currently working on a novel.
Wyatt Underwood, a 73-year old poet, is also host of several Open Mic poetry readings throughout the Los Angeles area, including events at Beyond Baroque and the Encino and Westwood Libraries. His books include: Fixes for No Problems, Haiku Foryu, Love in Interesting Times, and Under the Influence. He was a Harley rider, worked in the unmanned exploration of space, and was a programmer and data base/systems administrator, among other past endeavors.
Leo Xia is a poet musician and spoken word artist, and can be found performing his works My God, and Aflame, in posts on YouTube.
Where: Rapp Saloon
Date: Friday the 2nd
Time: 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Address: 1436 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2521329684820190/
Alfie the Turtle at Vroman’s Bookstore–Kids Event
Join us to hear Thyra Heder present and sign Alfie: (The Turtle That Disappeared). Nia lives Alfie, her pet turtle. But he’s not very soft, he doesn’t do tricks, and he’s pretty quiet. Sometimes she even forgets he’s there! But when he disappears, the story switches to Alfie’s side of things. This is a warm and funny ode to friendship.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 3rd
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/thyra-heder-presents-and-signs-alfie-turtle-disappeared
Gatsby’s Book Club & Potluck at Gatsby’s Bookstore
Please join for Gatsby’s 1st Saturday Book Club, to discuss To The Stars Through Difficulties, by Romalyn Tilghman. Please bring food/drinks inspired by the book and stick around to meet the author.
New members welcome!
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 3rd
Time: 1 pm
Address: 5535 Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/artists/#/gatsby-book-club/
Khadija Anderson Workshop at Santa Catalina Library
Please join us for Saturday Afternoon Poetry, for an Emerging Urban Poets Writing Workshop led by author Khadija Anderson. She is the host of Allies and Poets for Resistance Open Mic at Sidewalk Café in Pasadena.
Hosted and curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Pasadena
Date: Saturday the 3rd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
I’ll Never Change My Name at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author Valentin Chmerkovskiy, the beloved Dancing with the Stars ballroom dancer, who shares his life experiences, from the Ukraine to his life as an immigrant growing up in the U.S. in his book, I’ll Never Change My Name: An Immigrant’s American Dream from Ukraine to the USA to Dancing with the Stars. Though he admits he still sometimes feels like an outsider, Val expresses his enduring gratitude to America and pays homage to his adopted nation and to his opportunities. Compulsively readable, the book includes many photos and a forward by his brother Maks.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 3rd
Time: 3 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Wallace Shawn at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear actor and author Wallace Shawn, present his probing, honest, and self-critical take on civilization and its discontents in his essay collection, Night Thoughts. This book is about presenting what he is guided by and the people he respects, as he ponders the essential questions facing all of us. It is a very personal response to the world’s injustice.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/wallace-shawn-reads-his-essay-collection-night-thoughts
Angel’s Flight Literary West at the Last Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Cari Lynn present and discuss her book, Becoming Mrs. Burton, and author Christine Pelisek read and discuss her book, Grim Sleeper, The Lost Women of South Central. Lynn’s book is an uplifting account of redemption following incarceration, and Pelisek’s book follows the long investigation and search for a serial killer of poor black women in Los Angeles.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Gillian Conley & Martha Ronk at Poetic Research Bureau
Please join us to hear our featured poets present and discuss their work:
Gillian Conley is the author of seven poetry collections, the most recent of which is Peace (Omnidawn Publishing 2014) and the translator of Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux (City Lights, 2014).
Martha Ronk is the author of several poetry collections, including Ocular Proof (Omnidawn 2016), and is the author of two chapbooks, a collection of stories and in ironic memoir. She is currently a professor of English at Occidental College.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Saturday the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.poeticresearch.com
Spell Cast Open Mic Expressions at Krst Unity Center
Please join host Queen Goddess Tasha Auset, to hear featured artist Ms. Theresa Cartwrigtht AKA Queen T Of The I.E.!!!
Rules for readers: Open Mic readers allowed 2 pieces or up to 5 minutes; Features allowed 6 pieces or 20 minutes. See website for details.
$5 admission.
Where: Krst Unity Center of African Spiritual Science
(At the corner of Western & 78th Pl.; enter through parking lot and proceed to two-story bldg. on right)
Date: Saturday the 3rd
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 7825 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90047
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/154131741958799/
826LA Advice Bot Event for Kids at the Hammer Museum–Kids Event
Please join 826LA @Hammer for an event for kids aged 8-14, led by Anna Williams. The Advice Bot Repair Shop is led by an expert pizza eater and promises lots of fun. Children under 12 are welcome to visit with their adult companions.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Sunday the 4th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2018/03/826lahammer-advice-bot-repair-shop/
Steve Deeble Thriller at Gatsby’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Steve Deeble discuss and sign his mystery & thriller, Persistance of Vision. On Memorial Day, 1929, Detective Daniel Moretti reaches the end of the road. His past is catching up with him as he investigates the case of his career, which takes him from the desert to the sea, throughout the southland, as he crosses paths with the Hollywood elite and the people and cops who keep showing up dead. This is a taut noir thriller.
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 4th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/artists/#/persistence-of-vision-/
Kevin Griffin & Buddhism at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Kevin Griffin discuss and sign One Breath at a Time: Buddhism in Twelve Steps. Merging Buddhist mindfulness practices with the Twelve Step Program, this updated edition of the bestselling recovery guide One Breath at a Time, will inspire and enlighten you to a better healthier life.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 4th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
First Sunday Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
Join us for our First Sunday Open Reading Series with our monthly Open Mic, hosted by Steve Goldman. Sign-ups start at 4:45 pm.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 4th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Welcome to Sisterhood Reading at Sunday Jump
Join us for our return with a Welcome to Sisterhood Open Mic, in honor of Women’s History Month. We are featuring singer/songwriter Ashley Nguyen, DJ Oak-E, guest hosts Jaynese Poole and Janelle Paule, and more TBA.
Join us for our first show in 2018. Our Sunday Jump shirts will be available for $15 each. See website for guidelines, but open mic performers are limited to 4 minutes. MAX.
Where: Pilipino Workers Center in the Pabelonia Sisters Community Room (1st floor)
Date: Sunday the 4th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 153 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Los Angeles Literature 