Wild Cards Kids Book Release Party at Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Join Hope and Wade King for a night of fun, food, and entertainment to celebrate the launch of their all-new book, Wild Card Kids and relive your child with carnival-inspired fun and games The celebration follows the first day of the Get Your Teach on Los Angeles conference, but you do not need to be a conference attendee to join the party..
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: Western Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, Plaza Pool Deck
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 6 pm – 10 pm
Address: 404 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/782294382220609
Rick Wilson & Running Against the Devil at Book Soup
Join us at Book Soup to hear Rick Wilson present and sign his book Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save Americans from Trump—and Democrats from Themselves.
The author blows the lid off Trump’s 2020 Republican war machine, showing the exact strategies and tactics they’ll use against the Democratic nominee…and how the Democrats can avoid the catastrophe waiting for them if they fall into his trap.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Monday Night Open Mic with Shy But Flyy at Roxnnne’s
Join us for the Monday Night Open Mic hosted by Shy But Flyy. This Open Mic welcomes people who share their unique perspective artistically, through comedy, dram, music, poetry, comedy and more: Fun!
This free event sets the stage for and precedes the Rox Jam that begins at 9:30 pm You are welcome to stay for this event as well. More information is available at website link.
Where: Roxanne’s
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 1115 E. Wardlow Rd., Long Beach, CA 90807
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/792736037725636/
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque
Join us for the Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Jessica Dolby. This seminar will focus on generating creativity and on exploring various topics related tow writing fiction, including narrative technique, language, and plot.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar
Dr. David Levy & Life Is a 4-Letter Word at The Last Bookstore
Please join Dr. David Levy for his book launch of Life Is a 4-Letter Word: Laughing and Learning Through 40 Life Lessons. This self-help book is wisdom-based, rather than instructional, and contains 40 essays on autobiographical, valuable life lessons.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: https://lastbookstore/#events
Green Poets Workshop with Greg Bell at Beyond Baroque
Bring a poem and 12 (+) copies and come, strike a spark. While we like to ‘learn the rules,’ we also like to break them. Workshop led by Greg Bell.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, Ca 90291
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/workshops.html
Maureen Johnson & The Hand on the Wall at Barnes and Noble, The Grove at Farmers Market
Join us at Barnes and Noble, The Grove to hear Maureen Johnson, in conversation with author and True Crime journalist Billy Jenson, present and sign her book The Hand on the Wall, the witty and pulse-pounding conclusion to the Truly Devious series, The Hand on the Wall.
In this book Steve Bell solves the mystery that has haunted Ellingham Academy for over 75 years. Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One is a victim of a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another one is dead by misadventure. And now, an incident in Burlington has claimed another life. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s triumph…
NOTE: This is a wrist band event so check website for details.
Where: Barnes and Noble, The Grove at Farmers Market
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 189 The Grove Drive, Suite K 30, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1325888404280909
Editor Andre Naffis-Sahely & The Heart of a Stranger at Book Soup
Editor Andre Anssif-Sahely will present and sign the anthology, The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature.
This anthology of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, takes the reader on journeys through six continents, and over 100 contributors drawn from 24 languages. This is a uniquely varied look at a theme both ancient and urgently contemporary.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Tobias Wolff: Some Favorite Writers at the Hammer Museum
Please join us for the Some Favorite Writers series to hear one of America’s preeminent writers, Tobias Wolff, who is the author of the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army, the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, and several short story collections. His work appears regularly in The Atlantic, New Yorker, and Harper’s.
Readings are followed by discussion with author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson, who organizes the series.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2020/some-favorite-writers-tobias-wolf
Thomas Cromwell: Getting Past the Myths at the Huntington Library & Museum
Author Sir Diamaid MacCulloch will present his biography of the notorious self-made statesman Thomas Cromwell in Thomas Cromwell: Getting Past the Myths.
NOTE: This event is sold out, so check the website for stand-by attendance information.
Where: Huntington Museum, Rothenberg Hall
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino, CA 91108
Website: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4449876
Neda Disney & Planting Wolves at The Last Bookstore
Neda Disney will present her debut novel, Planting Wolves. Kirkus Reviews calls it “a surreal and darkly funny set of tales of West Coast strangers,” and The Seattle Review dubbed it “a beautifully written masterpiece.”
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
True Crime Tuesdays Book Club & Burned at The Last Bookstore
James T. Bartlett will host True Crime Tuesday Book Club and discuss Edward Humes’ book, Burned: The Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t. In this book the author dismantles a 28-year-old miscarriage of justice in the Jo Ann Parks arson case, involving circumstantial evidence and bogus forensics.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Second Draft Writing Workshop at Art Share LA
Join us for the Second Draft Writing Workshop, which is FREE. Bring your writing, your acting, and your pacing to this new cold reading series every Tuesday at Art Share LA.
Mingle is at 7:30 pm
Casting is at 8 pm
Readings are at 8:30 pm
Where: Art Share LA
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 8:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 801 E. 4th Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/432347013823672
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic at Greenway Court Theatre
About: All you have to do is put your name on the sign-up list. The first half sign-ups occur before the doors open, and sign-ups for the second half do not guarantee entry, so stay in line! Keep in line that each half has its own sign-up list so check details at website or at event. Sorry, you can only perform at one half per night, and 12-15 people are typically called up for each half’s open mic, depending on whether there is a feature that night. There is a time limit of three minutes at the mic to do your poem, as we try to accommodate as many people as possible. So please, arrive early!
Where: The Greenway Court Theater
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 9 pm – 12 pm
Address: 544 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: http://dapoetrylounge.com/visiting-dpl/slam/
Viva Poets! Workshop with Estella Ramirez at Beyond Baroque
This is a supportive poetry critique circle. We favor meaningful discussion over directives. Bring 10 copies of you prom to workshop. Led by rotating facilitators.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 11 am
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, Ca 90291
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/workshops.html
Rachel Kushner & The Mars Room at Diane Leslie’s Book Club at Diesel Bookstore
Join us to hear author Rachel Kushner discuss her book, The Mars Room, with Diane Leslie’s Book Club at Diesel Bookstore,.
It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new, dark reality, where thousands of women must hustle for bare essentials needed to survive.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check for details at the website link.
Where: Diesel Bookstore.
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, Ca 90402
Writer Wednesday & Open Mic with Iris De Anda at East Los Angeles Library
The L.A. Poet Society hosts Writer Wednesday Open Mic, held every 4th Wednesday of the month. Today’s featured artist is musician and poet Iris De Anda, author of Codeswitch: Fires from Mi Corazon.
Where: East Los Angeles County Library
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 4837 E. 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1341568849349597/
Adam Silvera & Infinity Son at Barnes and Noble, The Grove at Farmers Market
Join us at Barnes and Noble, The Grove to hear Adam Silvera present and sign his book Infinity Son.
This is an adventure about two brothers caught up in a magical war generations in the making. Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers—a vigilante group sworn to rid the world of spectors. Walker and other celestials are born with powers, but spectors take them.
Where: Barnes and Noble, The Grove at Farmers Market
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 189 The Grove Drive, Suite K 30, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062108571-0
Josh Kun & Susan Phillips & Chaz Bojorquez at ALOUD Event at Institute of Contemporary Art
Join the ALOUD reading series to welcome author Josh Kun, author Susan Phillips, and graffiti icon Chaz Bojorquez, who will talk about their work and the politics of future marking to come in our city.
This conversation is in conjunction with The Autograph Book of L.A exhibition on view at the LA Central Library First Floor Galleries through January 19th. Author Josh Kun reads Los Angeles past and present through a collection of signatures, and Susan Phillips is the author of the new book, The City Beneath, which chronicles a century of Los Angeles graffiti.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm (doors open); 7:30 (program begins)
Address: 1717 E. 7th St., Los Angeles, CA 90021
Website: https://www.theicala.org/en/events/219-roll-calls-the-city-is-an-autograph-book
Alvaro Enrigue at Otis Visiting Writers Series at Otis College of Art and Design
Alvaro Enrigue is an award-winning author of six novels, three books of short stories, and one book of essays. His novel Sudden Death is his first translated into English and was awarded the Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction, and has been translated into many languages.
Enrigue has taught at NYU, Princeton, the University of Maryland, and Columbia University.
Where: Otis College of Art and Design, The Forum, Goldsmith Campus
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.otis.edu/mfa-writing/visiting-writers-series
Anansi Writers Workshop & Melanie & Oshea Luja at The World Stage
The Anansi Writers Workshop was founded in 1990 by Kamau Daáood, Akilah Oliver, Nafis Nabawi and Anthony Lyons. In 1993, Michael Datcher initiated the development of a three-part format for the workshop. Their tradition of a community workshop began in the late 1960s at the Watts Writers’ Workshop, where World Stage co-founder Kamau Daáood started his writing career. The Anansi Writers Workshop is coordinated by V. Kali and Conney Williams.
Melanie & Oshea Luja (also, artistically known as Queen Socks & Food for Thought), are holistic practitioners, authors, and award-winning poets. On stage their ebb and flow introduces an energy that marries Word and Soul, to Beauty and Love, adorning your thoughts with the manifestation of pure possibility.
Where: World Stage Press
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 7:30 pm– 10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.theworldstage or https://www.facebook.com/events/475863089778367/
Alexandria Espinoza at The Ugly Mug
Alexandria Espinoza will present her work at The Ugly Mug, presented by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry. She is a first generation Chicana feminist poet based in Los Angeles. She began writing in 2014 and completed the CLI poetry program at USC. In 2017 she competed in the Size if Up amateur womyn’s poetry slam and published her first book of poetry, Adventure of the Unicorn.
NOTE: $3 cover charge, cash only.
Where: The Ugly Mug
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1296591287214131/?active_tab=about
Paint N’ Poets Readings & Open Mic at The Angel Bar
Join us for a showing of live painting by Ali Oksner and an Open Mic, plus our features:
Destiny Nash N/A
Claire Aguilar is a programmer and independent consultant and strategist, and second generation Filipina American and VP of Board of Women Who Make Movies.
Becca Khalil is an Egyptian American actor, poet, and sometimes model.
Ingrid Calderon-Collins is a poet/photographer and is the author of Ablution and In This Body.
NOTE: RSVP through Eventbrite for drink/food discount ticket. See details at website.
Where: The Angel Bar
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm – 12 am
Address: 149 n. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1083535625331329
Finance & Fiction Conference at California Institute of the Arts
This two-day scholarly conference will examine how finance is represented in fiction, as well as the fictionality of finance.
NOTE: This event requires RSVP, so check website for details and full schedule.
Where: Langley Hall, California Institute of the Arts
Date: Thursday the 23rd starting at 3:30 pm & Friday the 24th starting at 9 am
Time: 5 pm Thursday – 6:30 pm Friday
Address: 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Website: https://https://calarts.edu/about/news-and-events/events-calendar/event-details/finance-and-fiction
Peter Dreier & Mijin Cha & We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism – American Style at Vroman’s Bookstore
Authors Peter Dreier & Mijin Cha will present and sign their book, We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism – American Style.
It’s a strange day when conservative columnist David Brooks writes that “the American left is on the cusp of a great victory,” since among Americans under age 30, 43 percent now have a favorable view of socialism, while only 32 percent have a favorable view of capitalism. Not since the Great Depression have so many Americans expressed openness to a socialist alternative. Tis book offers a roadmap to making this alternative a reality, and will find a wide audience hungry for change.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www. https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/peter-dreier-and-mijin-cha-discuss-and-sign-we-own-future-democratic-socialism-american-style
Adrian Maher & Uninvited: Confessions of a Party Crasher at Book Soup
Author Adrian Maher will present and sign his book, Uninvited: Confessions of a Party Crasher. In this book the author chronicles the unique subterranean culture of journalists and others who seek access to exclusive societies form which they have been banned, and the stories and struggles that emerge from these activities.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Deborah Eckerling & Your Goal Guide at Pages Bookstore
Local author Deborah Eckerling will present and sign her book, Your Goal guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning and Achieving Your Goals.
Start your year off right by following author Deborah Eckerling’s simplified process, one she calls the D*E*B* Method for getting your life and goals on track.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/author-debra-eckerling-visits-january-23
Surprise the Line Writing Workshop & Nancy Lynee Woo at Whittier First Friends Church
Author Nancy Lynee Woo will lead a new Surprise the Line Writing Workshop on Poetic Forms. This is week 3 of an 8-week generative workshop is open to all experience levels, and tickets are available at Eventbrite.com.
Each week, participants will explore a different type of poetic form, or structure, to aid in paying attention to word choices, auditory rhythms, pacing on the page, and the strength of our images.
NOTE: See website for details, costs and schedule for this ticketed event.
Where: Whittier First Friends Church
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 13205 Philadelphia St., Whittier, CA 90601
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2612470208975158/
Poets Jazz House Open Mic at Irie Vibes Art Space
About: A Spoken Word and Music Lounge where spilling your heart is art and searching your soul is mandatory to get in the door. They are a beatnik Tea House where there’s snapping instead of clapping. The atmosphere is lax but it Sssizzles. They invite you to come touch, be touched, hear the answer and heed the call. They’re just a cozy little house where everyone feels at home.
Where: Irie Vibes Art Space
When: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Address: 6563 N. Normandie Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90044
Website: Poets Jazz House
Lizzie O’Shea & Future Histories at The Last Bookstore
An activist and lawyer from Melbourne, Australia, Lizzie O’Shea will discuss her recent book, Future Histories. This book is currently short-listed for the 2020 Wheeler Centre’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. She will discuss what moments form our past might help guide a path for a more democratic future in how we understand technology’s role in our lives.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Caroline Zancan & We Wish Your Luck at Skylight Bookstore
Join author Claire Zancan, in conversation with author Aja Gabel (The Ensemble), to hear her discuss and sign her new novel, We Wish You Luck.
This exhilarating novel about a group of students who take revenge on a wunderkind professor after she destroys one of their own—is a story of collective drive to create, sabotage, and ultimately, to love. The age old tropes of love, death, and revenge come to life as semesters unfold, competition and envy are sparked, and friendship, passion, and creativity challenge life and death.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/caroline-zancan-reads-her-new-novel-we-wish-you-luck-aja-gabel
Sato Moughalian & Feast of the Ashes at Abril Bookstore
Author Sato Moughalian will present and sign her book, Feast of the Ashes: The Life and art of David Ohannessian. In this book the author and journalist tells the story of the renowned ceramicist who founded the art of Armenian pottery in Jerusalem.
Where: Abril Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 415 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA 90206
Website: https://www.abribooks.com/news/feast-of-ashes-event/
Los Angeles Press & Dis + Placement Readings at Beyond Baroque
Celebrate the release of Volume four of the Los Angeles Press with an evening of readings, live performances, and featuring: Thea Matthews, Niah Jeffra, Daniel Benyovsky, Jennie Gaborno, Emily Jay, Malado Francine Baldwin, Samantha Norris, Sally Stevens, Larissa Nickel, Jason Lipeles, Meg Flores, Alonna Shaw, Gabrielle Brant Freeman, and the poetry of Jeremias Leonel Estrada, written while in detention at the Theo Lacy Maximum Security Facility in Anaheim (written by Brian Sonia Wallace). A special reading by members of Project 1521 opens the show.
NOTE: Check website for advance tickets and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Anna Broome Room Event at Art Share Los Angeles
The Anna Broome Room is a monthly free-to-the-public variety art show with performances from poets, artists, and musicians from around Los Angeles.
Where: Art Share Los Angeles
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: 801 E. 4th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: https://www.artsharela.org/event/anna-broome-room-2020-01-23/
Michael Koppy & Words and Music Into the Future at Book Soup
Author Michael Koppy will discuss and sign his book, Words and Music Into the Future: A Songwriting Treatise and Maniifesto.
Literary critism, songwriting analysis, and cultural commentary, this book is an uncompromising examination of the current status of popular songs, and songwriting of the English speaking world.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Steven Pressfield & 36 Righteous Men at Vroman’s Bookstore
Author Steven Pressfield will present and sign his book, 36 Righteous Men.
When James Manning and Covina “Dewey” Duwai are called in to investigate a string of murders, their investigations take them from the headquarters of the Russian mafia in Brighton Beach to a sweltering maze of shops in Little Hong Kong, with scant leads on the killer. But when Manning and Dewey apprehend a woman–a disgraced but brilliant rabbinical scholar–fleeing one of the crime scenes, they’re brought face-to-face with the shocking truth: the Jewish legend of the hidden Righteous Men, the 36 who protect the world from destruction, is no legend at all. They are real, and they are being murdered.
Joining forces with the rabbinical scholar and a renowned anthropologist, Manning and Dewey set off on a perilous quest from New York to Gehenna in Israel to confront a murderer who won’t stop until he’s killed every one.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/steven-pressfield-discusses-and-signs-36-righteous-men-0
Colleen Hoover & Regretting You at The Last Bookstore
New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover will discuss her novel, Regretting You. This book is a poignant novel about family, first love, grief, and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Melissa Matthewson & Tracing the Desire Line at Skylight Bookstore
Author Melissa Matthewson will discuss and sign her book, Tracing the Desire Line.
This book follows a writer’s journey of opening her marriage with her husband. The story—told through short memoirs, essays, lists, letters, and hybrid prose poems—is an intimate inquiry into one woman’s search for autonomy with detours into meditations on: music, motherhood, religion, love, and wildness.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/melissa-matthewson-reads-tracing-desire-line
6th Anniversary Celebration at Alivio Readings & Open Mic
Join us to celebrate the 6th Anniversary of Alivio Open Mic! The Open Mic is conducted on a fist come, first serve basis. Local vendors and art will be included at this event held at a private home in Southeast Los Angeles, cultivating community.
Featured artists include:
Jose Richard Aviles
Destruct
Your Royal Roots
Where: Alivio Open Mic
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 6328 Orchard Ave., Bell, CA 90201
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/578925849338777
Isabel Brazon & Spanish Music Fun at Children’s Book World – Kids Event
Musician Isabel Brazon, the creator of Baila Baila Spanish Music for Kids, will present an interactive and dynamic program for children, ages 3-7.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 10:30 am – 11 am
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/event/isabel-brazon-spanish-music-fun
Generative Writing Workshop with Holaday Mason at Beyond Baroque
Poet Holaday Mason will lead a generative workshop, Gathering Imagery from the Internal Well, designed to help writers of all ages travel to their internal emotional wells to retrieve imagery from subconscious aspects of the mind and heart to produce raw material from which they will be able to mine work. Mason is the author of five collections, and is also a portrait and fine art photographer.
NOTE: Check website for tickets and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 11 am – 3 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Saturday Morning Prose & Poetry at Beyond Baroque
Join us for Saturday Morning Prose & Poetry, with Annette Robinson, to participate in a writing workshop for publication. Bring 5 copies of a poem to share.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 11 am
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar
Getting Unstuck Writing Workshop with Swan Hundley at Vroman’s Bookstore
Swan Hundley will lead a writing workshop titled “Getting Unstuck,” and through discussions and readings will give you the tools to improve your relationship to your practice. Designed for writers of all ages, you will be better equipped to move through the tough moments with ease.
Swan Huntly is the author of The Goddesses (2017) and We Could Be Beautiful (2016). Her writings have appeared on Salon, The Rumpus, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore Meeting Room (off-site)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 709 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-ed-getting-unstuck-swan-huntley-0
Poetry of Robert Burns Reading by Joe Prami at Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Actor and performer Joe Prami will read “Tam O’Shanter” in its entirety, along with other poems by Burns on the occasion of Robert Burns’ 261st birthday.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tam-o-shnterreading
Akemi Johnson & Night in the American Village at JANM
Author Akemi Johnson will read and sign her book, Night in the American Village, about the complex relationship between the women living near U.S. military bases in Okinawa, and the servicemen stationed there.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: Japanese American National Museum
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 369 E, 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://janm.org/events/books/
Celebrating Long Beach with Mike “The Poet” Sonksen at Billie Jean King Main Library, LBPL
Celebrate Long Beach and Southern California history and geography with poet, educator, and Long Beach native Mike Sonksen as he reads his work at The Main Long Beach Library
Where: Billie Jean King Main Library, Miller Special Collections Room. LBPL
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 200 W. Broadway (near Pacific), Long Beach, CA 90802
Website: http://www.longbeach.gov/library-calendar-day?cid=35298&filterdate=
Mehnaz Sahibzada at Last Saturday Poetry Open Mic at Encino-Tarzana Branch Library, LAPL
Join the Encino-Tarzana Last Saturday of the Month Poetry Open Mic, when the featured artist is Mehanz Sahibzada, who will read her work at the Library, and there will be an Open Mic too.
This event is co-hosted by Wyatt Underwood.
Where: Tarzana-Encino Branch Library. LAPL
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 2 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 18231 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, CA 91356
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/225573661795791
Susan Straight & In the Country of Women at Irvine Ranch Water District
Sisters in Crime, Orange County hosts author Susan Straight, who will present her memoir, In the Company of Women, to our Readers Forum. She will talk about how slices of life find their way into the writer’s fiction, and about how her life has found its way into all of her work.
Where: Irvine Ranch Water District
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 15660 Sand Canyon Ave., Irvine., CA 92618
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/502803163921650
Carolyn Sloan & Welcome to Jazz at Children’s Book World – Kids/Family Event
Musician and author Carolyn Sloan, will present her new children’s book, Welcome to Jazz: A Swing Along Celebration of America’s Music, and perform along with The Big lucky jazz band. Kids are welcome to participate, and this event is for all ages, 4- 104.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 2:30 am
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Ingrid Newkirk & Animalkind at Book Soup
Author Ingrid Newkirk will discuss and sign her book Animalkind: Remarkable Stories About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion.
This guide to the astounding lives of animals will give new tools to humans to avoid using or abusing them as we once did. This is a fascinating study of why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and how to put this understanding into action.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Nicolette Polek & Imaginary Museums Launch at Hauser & Wirth
Author Nicolette Polek will launch and discuss her new book, Imaginary Museums, in conversation with Kathryn Scanlon.
Where: Hauser & Wirth
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 917 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: https://www.allevents.inmobile/amp-event.php?event-id=200018815838722
Saturday Afternoon Poetry at Santa Catalina Branch Library, Pasadena
Please join us for Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by Hazel Clayton Harrison + Spectrum Special Edition: Eroticity publishing reading.
Events curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Branch Library, Pasadena (Back Room)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Say the Word Reading Series Hosts 5 Poets at Venice Branch Library
Say the Word reading series hosts Dawna Kemper & Sandy Yang welcome five poets who showcase the depth and breadth of L.A.’s literary talents.
John Balma is a veteran TV and stage actor, performer, and teacher.
Allison Deegan is a screenwriter, fiction writer, and associate director of WriteGirl.
Ashaki M. Jackson is a poet and educator, and author of Language Lesson, among others.
Laura Warrell is a writer, journalist, and author of The Poet and the Murderer.
Lori White is a fiction writer of stories and teaches English at Pierce College.
Where: Venice Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: 501 S. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/833808050403664
Ian Brennan & Silenced by Sound at Skylight Bookstore
Author Ian Brennen, in conversation with Tunde Adebimpe, discusses his new book of music criticism, Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth.
The author delves into his personal story to address the inequity of distribution in the arts and demonstrates that there are millions of talented people in the world more gifted than the superstars for whom billions of dollars are spent to promote the delusion that they have been blessed with unique genius.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Trudie Stobel Book Discussion at The Armory Center for the Arts
Author and Holocaust survivor Trudie Stobel and author Jody Savin will discusses Savin’s forthcoming book Stitched to Sewn: The Life-Saving Art of Trudie Sobel.
This event and related activities commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz death camp liberation by Soviet forces.
Where: Armory Center for the Arts
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/496918437629900
Adam Arenson & Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentry Commercial Architecture in California at Hennessey + Ingalls Bookstore
Author Adam Arenson will discuss and sign his book Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California.
The earliest documented graffiti bubble letters appear not in 1970s New York, but in 1920s Los Angeles. Negative letter forms first carved at the turn of the century are still spray painted on walls today. This lavishly illustrated book tells stories of small moments that collectively build into broad statements about power, memory, landscape, and history itself.
Where: Hennessey + Ingalls
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 300 S. Santa Fe Ave., Suite M, Los Angeles, CA 90012
San Gabriel Valley Poets Present liz gonzalez & Open Mic at The dA Center for the Arts
Author and educator liz gonzalez will read and sign her book Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds.
There will also be an Open Mic, and the theme for the night is LOVE (although you’re free to deviate). Bring your fiction, poetry, and literary arts.
Where: The dA Center for the Arts
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 252 S. Main St., Suite D, Pomona, CA 91766
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1499297540227012
Poetry Reading Event at Poetic Research Bureau
Two poets will join us to read, discuss and sign their work:
Suzanne Stein is a poet and co-author of Tout va Bien (2012) and was founding editor and editor-in-chief of Open Spaces, SFMOMA’s art and language platform and publication. She now resides in San Diego.
Claudia La Rocco is a poet and author of The Best and Most Useless Dress and the novel petit cadeau. She is an editor and art critic and became editor-in-chief of Open Spaces in 2106.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.poeticresearchbureau.com or https://www.facebook.com/events/1008798866157333
Towards a Total Poetry Event at Beyond Baroque
This is a release party for the latest LP from Sean McCann’s Recital label, a collection with L.A. luminary Paul Vangelisti. The event will be featuring multimedia and sound poetry performances from Vangelisti and others.
NOTE: Members FREE.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org.calendar
826LA Workshop for Kids: Fortnite v. Fortnite at the Hammer Museum
Game Designer and documentary film editor Mike Jorgensen will lead a writing workshop for kids ages 8-14: Fortnite v Fortnite: How to Build Words and Conquer Worlds.
What does the videogame Fortnite have in common with Shakespeare? Both can teach us how words and phrases are created and popularized. Use language to invent fabulous treasures, describe fortifications, and plan daring heists.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
At Sea 20 Poetry Reading Event at Poetic Research Bureau
@SEA returns in 2020 with its 20th episode of film, talks, reading and performance. The keyword for this installment is DOMINION, exploring themes of territory and control. Participants include:
Mina Kim Fitzpatrick is a documentary director, editor and cinematographer. She currently teaches at CalArts.
Juan Pablo Gonzalez is a Mexican filmmaker, and currently teaches at Cal Arts. his work is primarily set in rural Mexico, in the town of Alto, and he is concerned with drug violence and the intersection between urban and country life.
Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley, and now lives in the Mojave Desert. He is author of Shadowlands a work of non-fiction about the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016, and four books of poetry. He is on the faculty of Cal Arts.
Roy Scranton is the author of I (Heart) Oklahoma (2019), among other books. He co-edited What Future (Unnamed Press, 2017) and Fire and Forget (Da Capo, 2013).
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.poeticresearchbureau.com or https://www.facebook.com/events/515318972674699
Nebraska Girl Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
The Nebraska Girl Open Reading is led by Wyatt Underwood and sign-ups begin at 1:45 pm.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd, Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org.calendar
La Palabra Reading Series Event at Avenue 50 Studios
Join us for the La Palabra Reading Series & Open Mic, hosted by Angelina Saenz and featuring:
Sarah Thursday is a teacher, Long Beach poet, Cadence Collective editor, and founder of Sadie Girl Press. She has published several chapbooks and a full length collection titled All the Tiny Anchors.
Alana de Hinojosa is a poet and writer pursuing cultural studies in histories of migration, displacement, and erasure, and considering how various voices, texts, and materials cross form, genre, and language.
Billy Burgos is a poet and writer, graphic designer and artist, and the author of Eulogy to an Unknown Tree: Poems.
Cynthia Guardardo is the author of the collection Endeavor, and she wants you to know she will only be reading poems about El Salvador.
Where: Avenue 50 Studios
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2562915483997946/
Fourth Sundays Poetry Hosts Lucia Galloway & Patty Seyburn at Claremont Helen Renwick Library
This year it’s not Writers Resist, but Writers Attack! The finest literary voices in Southern California will feature together to inspire political action and social change. Readers include:
Lucia Galloway is the author of poetry collections some Words for Meanwhile (2019) and Venus and Other Losses (2010), as well as two chapbooks. She is currently one of the hosts of Fourth Sundays Poetry Series at the Claremont Library.
Patty Seyburn has published five collections of poems, most recently Threshold Delivery (Finishing Line Press, 2019). She is a professor at CSU Long Beach.
Where: Claremont Helen Renwick Library
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 208 N. Harvard Ave. N., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/
Jorie Graham Poetry Reading at the Hammer Museum
Acclaimed poet Jorie Graham has authored numerous collections, one of which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2020/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/440223830197655
Ransom Riggs & The Conference of Birds at Barnes and Noble, The Grove
Author Ransom Riggs celebrates the release of The Conference of the Birds, the ultimate Miss Peregrine event, with games, activities and prizes.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: Barnes and Nobel, The Grove
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 189 The Grove Drive, Suite K 30, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/535869413662539
Chris Dennis & Here Is Wat You Do: Stories at Book Soup
Author Chris Dennis, in conversation with Katya Apekina, will discuss and sign his book Here Is What Your Do: Stories.
This book is a far-reaching collection linked by sorrow and latent hope, each one drilling to its characters’ dark emotional centers, in musically robust prose, with an unfailing eye for human drives and frailties.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
CAAM Reads! Book Club & The Water Dancer at CAAM
CAAM Reads! Book Club will read and discuss the debut novel, The Water Dancer, by acclaimed essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates. The book is read in conjunction with the exhibition “Timothy Washington: Citizen/Ship.”
NOTE: Check website for details, and to RSVP.
Where: California African American Museum (CAAM)
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 3 am – 4:30 pm
Address: 600 State Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90007
Website: http://caamuseum.org/programs/ or http://www.facebook.com/events/1120472074956137
Rocky Lang & Barbara Hall & Letters from Hollywood at CAAM
Authors Rocky Lang & Barbara Hall present their book Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking.
This book reproduces scores of entertaining and insightful pieces of correspondence form some of the most talented film industry names of all time. They are taken from the silent era to the golden age, up through pre-mail days of the 1970s.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 3 am – 4:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Kelly Grace Thomas & Boat Burned Release Party at Beyond Baroque
Join us for the release party for the debut collection, Boat Burned, (Yes Yes Books, 2020), by Kelly Grace Thomas.
When you “burn your boat” there’s no going back. Moving forward is the only choice. This book examines the metaphor of femininity as boat, and addresses the lies women are fed and feed themselves. Join the author for a night of poetry, wine, and celebration, and boat burning.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html or http://www.facebok.com/events/1183671355355013/
Local Author Day: Ross Victory, Molly Brandenburg & Neda Disney at Vroman’s Bookstore
Ross Victory is the author of Views from the Cockpit: The Journey of a Son, a memoir born of pain and father-son memories of airplane watching which transforms into a turbulent family drama.
Molly Brandenburg is the author of Letters from Bud, a first-hand account of the harrowing World War II flight navigator and bombardier John “Bud” Brandenburg, in his letters home from the conflict in 1944-45.
Neda Disney is the author of Planting Wolves, about a writer in a purgatory bar, an art collecting housewife who time-travels, a movie production assistant afflicted with stigmata, a sex addict, and more.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Village Poets Present Jackie Chou & Joyce Futa & Open Mic at Bolton Hall Museum
Join Village Poets as they present two poets associated with the Tanka and Haiku groups in Southern California, and welcome two Open Mic segments.
Jackie Chou is a local poet of Haiku, whose work has appeared most recently in Lummox 8, Spectrum 20, and in “haiku potpourri: your words recycled in my poems.”
Joyce Futa is the author of Lit Window: A Book of Haibun and Tanka Prose.
Where: Bolton Hall Museum
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: 10116 Commerce Ave., Los Angeles, CA 91042
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/624606844974318
BUSted: Reading Event at Stories Books & Cafe
BUSted: True stories about getting around L.A. without driving is an event told by people who don’t drive!
Featured storytellers include:
Ashton Cynthia Clark, Christopher Dertien, Tracy Escobedo, Max Mielecki, Oscar Sagastume, Mitchell Lamar.
Where: Stories Books & Cafe
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 5 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/227370195962199
Beatnik Café: Poetry Night & Open Mic at Hey Hey
Beatnik Café presents anther night of hearing truth from lesser heard perspectives. See website for schedule and open mic guidelines. Featured poets include:
Ann Yale, reading her work.
Nicelle Davis, founder of the annual Poetry Circus eevent, reading her work.
Where: Hey Hey
Date: Sunday the 2th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 1555 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/450248835925820
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club at The Last Bookstore
Kathryn McGee hosts the Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club, when members will read and discuss Leigh Bardugo’s book, Ninth House.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 9:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90013
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