Writing and Publishing Workshops will be led by Hiram and Charisse Sims of the Community Literature Initiative (CLI), followed by a special “recorded live” segment of Poets Café (KPFK 90.7FM) and a featured poetry presentation of The Coiled Serpent anthology (Tia Chucha Press).

Participating presses include: Beyond Baroque, The World Stage Press, Tia Chucha Press, Spectrum Publishing, Lummox Press, What Books Press, Green Tara Press, Magra Books, Rose of Sharon Press, Prospect Park Books, LITAS-HART Publishing, Addicted to War Press, Angel City Press, UCLA, Community Literature Initiative, Los Angeles Poetry Society, Doppler Books, Poets&Writers, Los Angeles Review of Books, Culver City Historical Society, Mayme Clayton Library and Museum, Culver City Crossroads, Caza de Poesia, AVEditor, Vagabond … and more.

This day long literary event free and open to the public is sponsored by Beyond Baroque, the Culver City Arts Foundation and the Wende Museum of the Cold War.