The Italian Party & Christina Lynch at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us as Christina Lynch presents and signs The Italian Party. One of the Wall Street Journal’s “Six Books to Read This Winter,” this is a delicious and sharply funny page-turner about “innocent” Americans abroad in 1950s Siena. This novel is half-glamorous fun, half an examination of America’s role in the world, and a smart pleasure.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/christina-lynch-discusses-and-signs-italian-party
An American Marriage & Tayari Jones at Book Soup
Please join us to welcome Tayari Jones to discuss and sign An American Marriage: A Novel. This is a stirring love story and a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. Two newlyweds who seem the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South first are ripped apart when the husband is sentenced to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Later, when his conviction is overturned, they must reckon with the past while moving into an unknown future of hope and pain.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/tayari-jones-discusses-and-signs-american-marriage
Digital Learning Authors at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us as Zoe Corwin & Robin Kramer, in conversation with Peter Taylor, discuss their book, Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity. For the past 15 years, Zoe Corwin and Bill Tierney have collaborated on research that examines pathways to college for low-income and minoritized youth. Most recently they’ve looked at how to best use technology in expanding the impact of services for educational equity.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/zoe-corwin
LiveTalksLA presents: An Evening with Richard Powers
LiveTalksLA presents a series of literary events (and podcasts) to meet and hear cultural and business leaders present and discuss their work. Today, author Richard Powers discusses his novel, The Overstory. The author of twelve novels, most recently Orfeo, he delivers a seeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of –and paean to—the natural world. This book unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables, and compels us to see the conflict on our planet between humans and nonhumans, the unfolding catastrophe of the trees.
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: Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre, New Roads School
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://livetalksla.org/events/richard-powers/
Poetry Authors at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to welcome poet Maurya Simon, who will present her new book The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems, 1980-2016. The illustrations in this volume include paintings by the author’s late mother, Baila Goldenthal. Simon is the author of nine previous, acclaimed volumes of poetry and is Professor Emerita in Creative Writing and Professor of the Graduate Division at UC Riverside.
Maurya Simon will also be reading some poems from Cairn, by Peggy Shumaker, who was previously scheduled to appear with her tonight, and whose work gives voice to landscapes and people of Alaska and Arizona.
Where: Deisel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Red Hen Press Readings at Annenberg Beach House
Red Hen Press presents readings by four writers:
Chelsey Clammer is the author of BodyHome and winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Manuscript Award for her essay collection, Circadian. She is Essays Editor for The Nervous Breakdown and teaches creative writing online with WOW! Women On Writing.
Sarah Manguso is the author of 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, The Two Kinds of Decay, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, Siste Viator, and The Captain Lands in Paradise.
Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry and a new hybrid collection of poetry and prose, Beginner’s Guide to a Head-on Collision. He is serially publishing The Life and Times of American Crow, a “college novel in 11 chapbooks.”
Ellen Rachlin has published two collections of poems, Until Crazy Captures Me and Permeable Divide, and is also author of two chapbooks, Waiting for Here and Captive to Residue.
Music by Joanna Wallfish, who has released four critically acclaimed albums since 2011, and tours her music around the globe.
FREE, but RSVP at website link.
Where: Annenberg Beach House
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica, CA 90402
The Best We Could Do and Thi Bui at Manhattan Beach Library
Please join us to hear Thi Bui, discuss and sign The Best We Could Do, a memoir portraying her family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to California. This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is about their daring escape form South Vietnam in the 1970s, and their difficulties in building new lives. This book is the 2018 Beach Cities Read/Book to Action selection, a project implemented in libraries throughout the state.
RSVP at event website.
Where: Manhattan Beach Library (with Pages Bookstore)
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1320 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/thi-bui-author-event
Julia Whelan & My Oxford Year at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Julia Whelan discuss and sign her debut novel: My Oxford Year. In this unforgettable story about a determined young woman eager to make her mark on the world through a political career, falls in love along the way with an unexpected man, and faces a series of choices she never envisioned.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/eventjulia-whelan-discusses-and-signs-my-oxford-year /
Daditude with Chris Erskine at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear journalist and author Chris Erskine discuss and sign, Daditude: The Joys & Absurdities of Modern Fatherhood. This is a collection of the author’s witty and wise essays and columns published in the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere, with an updated commentary, and a promise they won’t be too snarky.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Voice Lessons for Parents with Wendy Mogul at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Wendy Mogul discuss and sign, Voice Lessons for Parents: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Listen. This book offers guidance for communicating with children across the expanse of childhood and adolescence and explains the most effective ways to talk about your child with a wide range of influencers—a comprehensive roadmap for more enjoyable relationships.
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/wendy-mogel-424
Victorian Book Club at the Last Bookstore
Please join us for our Victorian Literary Book Club, led by Walter Nelson, and discuss our selection: author Anne Bronte’s Agnes Grey. This more serious sister wrote prose compared favorably with Jane Austin’s, with exceptional subtlety and wit.
NOTE: This is a ticket event, and the book comes with your ticket which can be purchased at the website.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Alice McDermott, with Mona Simpson, at the Hammer
Please join us for our program, Some favorite Writers, featuring author Alice McDermott, in conversation with Mona Simpson, who will read and discuss The Ninth Hour. She is the author of seven prior novels, and this book may be read as a Greek tragedy, a Faulknerian or gothic tale, or an Irish novel with sentences that “burn on the page.”
Mona Simpson, author and UCLA professor, organizes this series, and a reception will follow the event.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2018/04/some-favorite-writers-alice-mcdermott/
Robert Hass & Adam Zagajewski at ALOUD Reading Series
Please join us to hear acclaimed poets Robert Hass and Adam Zagajewski, in conversation with author and UCR Chair of Creative Writing Andrew Winer, reading and discussing: Should We Now Praise the Mutilated World: Poetry from California to Krakow.
Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate and long-time translator of Czeslaw Milosc, speaks to us of love and loss, and his most recent essay collection, A Little Book on Form, which illuminates the impulses that underlie great poetry.
Adam Zagajewski negotiates the earthbound and ethereal in poems as arresting as they are luminous, as witty as they are serious. His recent memoir, Slight Exaggeration, is a wry and philosophical defense of mystery.
Andrew Winer will serve as interlocutor as these two masters of language explore poetry’s enduring inclination to marvel.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 630 west 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/praise-mutilated-world-poetry-california-krakow/
Poetry Open Mic at Redondo Poets
Please join us for a reading by a poet Natalie J. Graham, a Ph.D, poet and hip hop scholar interested in the intersections of race, gender, class and geography. She is an associate professor at Cal State Fullerton. Also, share your own poetry in our weekly Open Mic.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 180 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets
PEN America & Edison Book Club Event at The Edison
Please join us for our April book Club to discuss Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong, and hosted by Chiwan Choi. This collection of poetry is a must-read and re-read, and a heartbreaking, lyrical look at humanity.
Chiwan Choi is the author of three collections of poetry, and a partner at Writ Large Press, a Los Angeles based indie press focused on using literary arts to resist, disrupt, and transgress.
Members of the Book Club receive a 15% discount on the title at The Last Bookstore. FREE and open to all. See website link for details.
Where: The Edison
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 108 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1638353876258718/
Poetry Night at Book Soup
Please join us for Poetry Night at Book Soup! We present a night of Unhealthy Poetry hosted by employees Sarah Nivala and Molly Ash, to celebrate National Poetry Month and featuring readings from both booksellers and emerging local poets.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/poetry-night-book-soup
Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory and Dr. Andrew Budson at Manhattan Beach Library
Please join us to hear Dr. Andrew Budson, discuss and sign Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory, a guide to understanding the difference between normal aging and Alzheimer’s Disease, and how individuals can select the best medications, diets and exercise regimes, in seven simple steps.
RSVP at event website.
Where: Manhattan Beach Library (with Pages Bookstore)
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1320 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/dr-andrew-budson-author-event
Alex S. Vitale at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear Alex S. Vitale discuss his nonfiction book, The End of Policing, presented by Critical Resistance Los Angeles. This book attempts to spark public discussion by revealing the tainted origins of modern policing as a tool of social control, which is inconsistent with social empowerment, social justice, and even public safety. The author shows how law enforcement has come to exacerbate the very problems it is supposed to solve.
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Charmaine Craig at the Otis Visiting Writers Series
The Otis College MFA Visiting Writers Series welcomes author and educator Charmaine Craig, whose most recent novel, Miss Burma, was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Her first novel, The Good Men, was a national bestseller and translated into six languages. Craig is a Burma Activist and descended from significant figures in Burma’s modern history.
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 4500 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/mfa-writing/visiting-writers-series
Michael Nava at Cal State Northridge
Please join us to hear Michael Nava read and discuss his work. He is the author of an acclaimed series of novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios, which have won six Lambda Literary Awards. His 2016 novel Lay Your Sleeping Head, earned him his tenth Lambda nomination, and his novella Street People, published in 2017, earned his eleventh nomination.
Where: Sierra Hall 386, CSUN
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 9:30 am – 10:45 am
Address: 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330
Website: http://csun.edu/humanities/chicana-chicano-studies/events/michael-nava-reads-and-discusses-his-work
UnLearning History Event with Matt Sedillo at Cal State Dominguez Hills
Please join us to hear revolutionary poet Matt Sedillo, who will perform his work, and to hear discussion and conversations about precarious academic labor and the experiences of non-tenure track faculty. Sedillo is the author of For What I Might Do Tomorrow.
Where: LIB 1940, CSUDH campus
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 12 pm – 2 pm
Address: 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson, CA 90747
Website: N/A
Black Writers Event with CLI & Hiram Sims at USC
Please join us at this rescheduled event to hear Professor Hiram Sims and members of Community Literature Initiative at USC discuss Black Writers that Changed the World. Books from many of the authors profiled will be available.
Where: SGM 124, USC campus
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 4:30 pm – 6 pm
Address: USC Campus Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1563775530407407/
Elgin Baylor, with Alan Eisenstock, at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to welcome Elgin Baylor and Alan Eisenstock to sign Hang Time: My Life in Basketball. This is a memoir of an epic all-star career in the NBA, during which he transformed the sport from a horizontal game to a vertical one, and discusses his fights against racism as a player and as a manager.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/elgin-baylor-and-alan-eisenstock-sign-hang-time
Emily Fernandez Book Launch Event at Book Show LA
Please join us at the book release and reading for Emily Fernandez and her collection of poems, Procession of Martyrs. Also featuring: Georgia Tell, Camilla Marquette, and other students from her PCC Poetry Writing Workshops.
Author Devi S. Laskar praises these poems for holding “a haunting beauty, much like an old cemetery at sunset. The language and imagery the poet often employs make up a “veil of stars.’”
Where: Book Show LA
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 5503 Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2026081904318052/
Say My Name with Allegra Huston at Book Soup
Allegra Huston will join us to discuss and sign her novel Say My Name. After years of a miserable marriage, Eve finds a chance to leap into a new world with the son of an old school friend. Although her happiness depends on forging a new life, who will she have become?
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/allegra-huston-discusses-and-signs-say-my-name
Viet Thanh Nguyen & The Displaced at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear author Viet Thanh Nguyen, in conversation with contributors Meron Hadero and co-editor Jamison Stolz, discuss and sign The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. This is an anthology of essays from 17 prominent refugee writers from around the world who explore and illuminate their experiences. A timely collection, this is also an indictment of the international community closing its doors to refugees and a powerful look at what it takes to be forced to leave home and find a place of asylum.
Some proceeds of this book will be donated to IFC.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Poet Is In Readings at Union Station
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Metro Art Presents: The Poet Is In, an interactive poetry exchange inspired by a program originally conceived by poet Marie Howe in New York. Twelve Los Angeles poets will collaborate with station visitors to create personalized poems, including: William Archila, Lory Bedikian, Laurel Ann Bogen, Elena Karina Byrne, Jessica Ceballos y Campbell, Brendan Constantine, Nicelle Davis, Kim Dower, liz Gonzalez, Steve Peterson, Lynne Thompson, and Cecilia Woloch.
Poetry sessions will be accompanied by Colburn School students performing classical music.
See website for parking/directions.
Where: Union Station North Patio
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: 800 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.facebook.com/UnionStationLA/photos/gm.871934862993250/1900360556687738/?type=3&theater
Poetry Celebration Readings at LocaL
In celebration of National Poetry Month, LocaL and Get Lit present an Open Mic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (after Maya Angelou), a Poetry Celebration.
FREE and open to the public.
Where: LocaL
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 5 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1950 E. 103rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90002
Website: http://www.getlit.org/events/open-mic/
Jennifer Natalya Fink & Bhopal Dance at Book Soup
Please join us to hear author Jennifer Natalya fink, in conversation with Sikivu Hutchinson, discuss her new book, Bhopal Dance. This is an imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal’s disaster—and perhaps our own. On the night of December 2, 1984, an explosion at an American factory in Bhopal, India released untold amounts of gas on uncounted numbers of people, a human and environmental disaster that once dominated the headlines, but is now barely remembered. This is an epic and epochal tale of such a tremendous horror and its buried consequences.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Phil Goldberg & Life of Yogananda at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us as author Phil Goldberg discusses and signs The Life of Yogananda: The Story of the Yogi Who Became the First Modern Guru. Paramahansa Yogananda, considered by many to be the father of modern yoga, has a compelling life story and his 1946 memoir, Autobiography of a Yogi, has a durability similar to his teachings. This book goes beyond that memoir and attempts to transform as well as inform.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
TDSB at the Fox Coffee House in Long Beach
Please join us for The Definitive Soap Box Open Mic (TDSB) event, featuring Simply Kat (aka Kat Magill). Sign-ups begin at 6:30 pm.
Hosted by Antonio PazOne Appling.
Where: Fox Coffee House
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 437 W. Willow St., Long Beach, CA 90806
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/193161477866695/
Robert Gordon & Memphis Rent Party at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear writer and documentary filmmaker Robert Gordon discuss his collection of essays, Memphis Rent Party: the blues, Rock & Soul in Music’s Hometown. Here he taps into the lesser known characters of Memphis who have inspired and influenced popular music form the 1970s to the present. He finds inspiration in life’s bleakness, art in the shadows of society, and revels in the individualism of these music legends.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/robert-gordon-discusses-his-collection-essays-memphis-rent-party
John Freeman & Amy Gerstler at Beyond Baroque
Please join us to hear poets and writers John Freeman and Amy Gerstler read and discuss their work.
John Freeman is editor of Freeman’s, “the illustrious new journal” (vogue.com) and a former editor of Granta and past President of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Amy Gerstler’s poetry deals with themes of redemption, suffering, and survival. She is author of over a dozen poetry collections, two works of fiction, and various articles, reviews and collaborations with visual artists
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Irene Sanchez & Others at Alivio Open Mic
Please join us for another monthly offering of Alivio Open Mic, featuring: Figgy Baby, Irene Sanchez, Vivian Moon, Hommis Gandra, with artwork by Carina Ramirz.
See website link for details on this free and welcoming event.
Where: Alivio Open Mic
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 6328 Orchard Ave., Bell, CA 90201
Website: http://facebook.com/events/202245370554182/
Poetry Contest Winners at Beyond Baroque
Please join us to hear Poetry Contest winners read from their winning entries at this FREE event.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 27th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Ave., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Independent Bookstore Day Events on Saturday, April 28!
Check your favorite Independent Bookstore for details!
Special Offers & Authors at Once Upon a Time Bookstore–Kids Event
Please join us to take advantage of a number of sales and giveaways, plus treats, goodies and prizes. A special Storytime event is scheduled for 11 am and free select audiobooks from our partners at Libro.fm.
More events are being added, so check the website.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 1o am – 8 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: http://w.shoponceuponatime.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2018
Children’s Author at Children’s Book World–Kids Event
Please join us to hear Heather Alexander present her two new nonfiction books, Life on Earth: Ocean and Life on Earth: Space. Other books in this series are also available. These books are for children ages 4-8.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 10580 ½ West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/author-events/#curato
Art Talk at Charles White Elementary School (LACMA off-site event)
Please join us to hear writers Rocio Carlos, Sesshu Foster & Stephanie Guerrero give a reading of their works responding to the exhibition, “A Universal History of Infamy: Those of This America.”
FREE and open to the public. This event is presented with LACMA. Charles White Elementary School is open every Saturday from 1pm – 4pm. Enter the gallery at the corner of Park View and Wilshire Blvd.
Where: Charles White Elementary School
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: 2401 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90189
Website: http://www.lacma.org/event/universal-history-infamy
Poetry Slam 5 at Children’s Book World–Kids Event
Please join us for our Poetry Slam, where schools compete for Top Poet & Author Visit. We will select two Poet Laureate winners, judged on poem content and performance, and our judges are authors Hope Anita Smith & Chris Harris. This event is for children ages 7-14.
See website for details.
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/author-events/
San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival at Santa Catalina Library
Join us for Day 4 of the Festival at Saturday Afternoon Poetry for The Big Slam Performance Contest, hosted by Khadija Anderson & Marvin Louis Dorsey. Plus the cheap-to-enter SPECTRUM 2018 Poetry Contest winner will be announced.
See website for details.
Curated 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/
Exposition Review Launch & Orbit at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day as well as the launch of Exposition Review’s Volume III issue, Orbit. Readers, editors, contributors and guests TBA.
See website for details of all events today.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-featuring-exposition-review
UC Irvine MFA Reading Event at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome UC Irvine MFA Fellows to read and share their work with the wider community. Today’s readers are: Justine Yan, Dillon Sefie, Kailey Dorfman and Rebecca Sacks.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/uci-mfa
Tongue & Groove Event at The Hotel Café
Join PEN America and Tongue and Groove to celebrate the 2018 Emerging Voices Fellows with a night of readings and drinks, with musical guest Elephants with Guns. Featuring:
Jubi Arriola-Headley
Ron Dowell
Natalie Mislang Mann
Angela M. Sanchez
Francisco Uribe
Where: The Hotel Café
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 1623 N. Cahuenga Blvd., #1/2 N., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/417622662013471/
17th Anniversary Celebration Event at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Please join us to celebrate our 17th Anniversary, and the 25th anniversary of Always Running, by Luis J. Rodriguez., with an author signing from 7 pm – 8 pm. There will also be: Hearts and Minds Mercadito, music, children’s activities and food!
Where: Tia Chucha’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 6 pm – 10 pm
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave., Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: http://www.tiachucha.org/calendar_of_events?page=2
Debut Poets Reading at Other Books
Celebrate Poetry Month with these debut poets!
Erika Ayon is the author of the poetry collection Orange Lady, and is currently a teacher in the San Fernando Valley.
Tina Burkhalter is a poet and the author of This Is Me.
Julayne Lee is the author of Not My White Savior, a provocative and furious book about race, culture, identity and what it means to be an inter-country adoptee in America.
Irene Sulco Soriano is the author of Primates from an Archipelago – Poems.
Books will be available for purchase.
Where: Other Books
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 2006 E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/924412257720580/
Tall Men Poetry Reading & Open Mic at Gatsby’s Bookstore
Please join us for the Tall Men Poetry Reading & Open Mic, featuring John Brantingham, Curtis Hayes, and YOU!
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day and National Poetry Month at Gatsby Books! Sign up for our Poetry Open Mic!
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/events-2/#/new-gallery-1/
2018 Classic Poetry Slam at the Ace Hotel
Please join us for the 2018 Classic Poetry Slam hosted by Get Lit-Words Ignite and The Theatre at the Ace Hotel, featuring thousands of poems and hundreds of poets, plus a performance by Sonia Sanchez.
Judges include: Robin Coste Lewis, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Buddy Wakefield, Mary Lambert, and Danez Smith.
For details, tickets and other info, see website.
Where: The Theatre at the Ace Hotel
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 929 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/202000127263926/ or https://getlit.org/events/classic-slam/
Jonathan Ames Book Event at the Last Bookstore
Please join us as The Bushwick Book Club presents a musical response to You Were Never Really Here, featuring a brief reading by the author and performances by Brooklyn artists Susan Hwang, Jessie Kilguss, Charlie Nieland, and Don Rauf, plus local songwriters and visual artists.
NOTE: This is a ticked event so see website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
City of Inmates Book Event at the Autry Museum
Please join us for the Caughey Foundation Lecture by author Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA, to discuss City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965. This is a historical look at how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world’s leading incarcerator, driven by histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion and black disappearance. It is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how communities have always fought back. It is a story that is far from over.
NOTE: This is a FREE, but ticked event, so see website for details.
Where: The Autry Museum
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://theautry.org/events/lectures-and-workshops/caughey-foundation-lecture-city-inmates
Bruce Eric Kaplan & Someone Farted at Diesel (Kids event)
Please join us to welcome Bruce Eric Kaplan, to read and sign his children’s book, Someone Farted. Two words throw a family car trip into utter (and smelly) chaos in this hilarious story of denial about the Krupke family during their weekend drive to the grocery store.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/bruce-eric-kaplan-reads-and-signs-someone-farted
Sarah Thursday Chapbook Release Party at Vienta y Agua Coffee House
Please join to celebrate the chapbook release of Seventeen Poems Not About a Lover, by Sarah Thursday. This event is hosted by Arroyo Seco Press and Sarah Thursday and all are welcome.
Where: Vienta y Agua Coffee House
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 4700 #. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90814
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/135112643996750/
Poets at Work at Skylight Bookstore
Please join to celebrate National Poetry Month with the readings of poets from Poets at Work, who will discuss “Fearless Forms,” the formal structures that shape them.
Joining us will be:
Yvonne M. Estrada is the author of the chapbook, My Name on Top of Yours.
Dylan Cameron Gailey was born and raised in Echo Park, where he fed the ducks daily.
Anthony Giambra has published online, and his forthcoming chapbook is titiled Wannabe.
Eric Howard’s recent book, Taliban Beach Party, addresses Los Angeles history through blank and rhymed verse.
Brett Hofer is a poet visual artist and 2012 recipient of the Asvoff Paris best acting prize.
Ann Pibel is a librarian who writes poetry.
Paula Rudnick has a career as a TV producer.
Helen Yeoman has published in YAayLA magazine and in the anthology, Like a Girl.
Terry Wolverton is the author of 11 books of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, most recently, Ruin Porn.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
A.J. Finn & The Woman in the Window at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join to welcome author A.J. Finn, who will read and sign his debut novel, The Woman in the Window. The author has written for numerous publications, but his novel is a bright and sophisticated tale of psychological suspense and a New York Times bestseller.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/aj-finn
S.C.U.M.: The Valerie Solanas Story at Beyond Baroque
Join us for a play by Peter Carlaftes, S.C.U.M.: The Valerie Solanas Story, which concerns the June 3 1968 shooting of famed pop artist Andy Warhol by poet and radical feminist Valerie Solanas, author of the infamous S.C.U.M. manifesto.
Special Admission
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club at the Last Bookstore
Join us for our Horror Book Club, where in April we will read and discuss Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. The club is moderated by horror author Kathryn E. McGee, and your ticket includes a copy of the book. See website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 8:45 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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