Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Denise Hamilton, Alex Espinosa & Aimee Bender Present Speculative LA Fiction Anthology via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join editor Denise Hamilton and contributing authors Alex Espinosa & Aimee Bender to hear themdiscuss the new anthology Speculative Los Angeles.
This is the debut title in a new city-based anthology series featuring all-new stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes—each using distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad.
Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels and the editor of the anthologies Los Angeles Noir and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics. She is a former Los Angeles Times journalist and a proud LA native, and editor of Speculative Los Angeles.
Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico to parents from the state of Michoacan and raised in suburban Los Angeles. He is the author of two novels and his most recent book, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. He is the Tomas Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.
Aimee Bender is the author of six books, and has received many literary awards. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages, and her short fiction published in numerous journals. She lives in LA with her family and teaches creative writing at USC.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and for critique and discussion. Registration is required.
Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing form Mills College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Literatures at CSU Channel Islands. She also has published poetry and non-fiction, and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club & La illusion de los mamiferos via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club, hosted by Dan Lopez reads fiction in Spanish, and these selections are discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is La illusion de los mamiferos, by Julian Lopez. This is an aching story of two-part time lovers in Buenos Aires.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Rise & Shine Workshop: Winter 2021 / Series of Odes via Surprise the Line – Online Facebook Event
This is the 5th workshop in a series led by poet and author Nancy Lynee Woo, will meet Tuesday mornings, from January 19 through March 9 (8 weeks) and the focus will be writing odes. An ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object of thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath.
Like all Surprise the Line workshops you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. Attend one, any, or all sessions, but register at Eventbrite link.
Note: Register at Eventbrite for this FREE/ or donation and Zoom links, details.
Where: Surprise the Line – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 16th (through Mar 9th)
Time: 9 am – 11 am
Address: Surprise the Line Poetry Workshops – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/394208184980316
2021 UCR Writers Week Events: Presented in 3 Sessions Today via UC Riverside – Online Events
Join us this week for daily sessions/ events of the 44th Annual Writers Week Conference at UC Riverside, featuring renowned authors of the day alongside those at the start of their publishing careers. Tom Lutz is Writers Week director.
SESSION 1: 1:00 pm PST
Kelli Jo Ford is the debut author of Crooked Hallelujah, (Grove Atlantic, 2020), longlisted for both the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the 2021 Carnegie Melon Medal for Excellence in Fiction, among many other awards.
The author lives in Virginia with her family and teaches fiction at Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts Low Residency MFA,
Annette Saunooke Clapsadddle is the author of the debut novel, Even As We Breathe (University Press of Kentucky, 2020),which tells about a young man who tries to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina through a summer job at a luxurious Resort that has become the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families during World War II. Soon his refuge becomes a cage when one of the residents goes missing and he finds himself a suspect.
The author is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), and teaches English and Cherokee Studies at Swain County High School.
Alison C, Rollins is a librarian/ poet and the author of the debut collection Library of Small Catastrophies (Copper Canyon, 2019). This ambitious collection interrogates the body and nation as storehouses of countless tragedies and offers a lyric history of how we process loss.
The author currently works as the Lead Teaching and Learning Librarian for Colorado College, and serves as faculty for Pacific Northwest College of the Arts Low Residency MFA.
SESSION 2: 3:00 pm PST
Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the author of five books, including All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands (UNC Press, paperback, 2020). She is currently Associate Professor of Creative Nonfiction at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and has performed on five continents as a storyteller and featured author of the International Writing Program.
Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir The Distance Between Us (Atria, 2012) about her journey to the U.S. from Mexico as an undocumented child immigrant, and the much-anticipated sequel, A Dream Called Home (Atria, 2018), among others. Upcoming projects in 2021-22 include a novel set during the Mexican-American War, the young reader’s adaptation of Spare Parts, and an anthology by and about undocumented Americans called Somewhere We Are Human: An Anthology on Migration, Survival and New Beginnings.
Elizabeth Powell is the author of three books, including her new poetry collection Atomizer (LSU press, 2020), a novel, and an earlier book of poems, Willy Lohman’s Restless Daughter. She was born in NYC and has lived in Vermont since 1989.
SESSION 3: 6:30 pm PST
Karen Tei Yamashita, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Professor at UC Santa Cruz and Stephen Minot Lecture, is the author of Sansei & Sensibility: Stories (Coffee House Press, 2020). In this book the author transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance—familial, cultural, emotional, artistic—really means.
Allison Benis White is the author of the poetry collection The Wendys (Four Way Books, 2020), and writes about five women named Wendy as a way into the complex grief that lingers after the death of a sixth Wendy, the author’s long-absent mother. The author is an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at UC Riverside.
Nalo Hopkinson is an award-winning fiction author who also makes art, and is the author of House of Whispers Vol #; Watching the Watchers (2020).She is an instructor and teacher at UC Riverside, and focuses on the literatures of the fantastic such as science fiction, fantasy and magical realism.
NOTE: Details available at website. Register for these free events online.
Where: UC Riverside – Online Events
Date: Tuesday the 16th (1pm, 3 pm, & 6:30 pm)
Time: 1 pm; 3 pm; 6:30 pm sessions
Address: Online Event
Website: https://writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule/
Life Stories Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Come share something that happened to you, or just listen and enjoy. The stories can be funny, sad, or simply slice-of-life.
To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/life-stories-open-mic-0
Sylvain Neuvel, with James Rollins, & A History of What Comes Next: A Take Them to the Stars Novel via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Sylvain Neuvel, in conversation with author James Rollins, to discuss his new book, A History of What Comes Next: A Take Them to the Stars Novel.
Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, the author weaves a first contact sci-fi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir, by blending a fast-moving, darkly satirical look at 1940s rocketry with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence. It’s told through the eyes of women who make progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online event
Katherine Seligman, with Hilary Jordan, & At the Edge of the Haight via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Katherine Seligman, in conversation with Judge Hilary Jordan, to hear them discuss her novel, At the Edge of the Haight.
This story is set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing San Francisco, trying to embrace a booming tech economy while struggling to maintain a culture of tolerance. and follows the lives of those who depend on makeshift homes and communities. When Maddy Donaldo, homeless at twenty, unwittingly witnesses the murder of a young homeless boy and is seen by the perpetrator, her relatively stable life in a family of sorts in Golden Gate Park is upended. She must decide if she wants to stay lost or be found.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/katherine-seligman
Jason Loo & Chip Zdarsky, with Paul F. Tompkins, & Afterlife Accounts via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join authors Jason Loo & Chip Zdarsky, in conversation with Paul F. Tompkins, discuss their new comic, Afterlife, the 2020 Eisner Award Winner for Best Digital Series.
Ride share driver Janice Chen has enough to deal with, from annoying passengers to overbearing parents. But then she picks up a pair of mysterious passengers who are pursued by otherworldly forces.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Marisa Reichardt, with Jeff ‘Garvin, & A Shot at Normal via Pages Bookstore – Online YA Event
Join YA author Marisa Reichardt, in conversation with YA author Jeff Garvin, to hear them discuss her novel, A Shot at Normal.
This novel follows the author’s debut, UNDERWATER, and her second novel, AFTERSHOCKS, and is gathering raise as a timely addition to a post-Covid world. It’s a powerful novel about justice, agency, family, and taking your shot, even when it seems impossible.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore Live – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6:30 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/marisa-reichardt-conversation-jeff-garvin
Dan Frey, with Aneesh Chaganty, & The Future Is Yours via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Dan Frey, in conversation with author Aneesh Cahganty, to hear them discuss his book, The Future Is Yours.
Told through emails, texts, transcripts, and blog posts, this bleeding-edge tech thriller chronicles the costs of innovation and asks how far you’d go to protect the ones you love–even from themselves.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore Live – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 7 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/dan-frey
Afrofuturism Book Club & Dawn via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
Afrofuturism Book Club, hosted by Tyree BoydPates, reads new fiction from a vast forward-looking movement with solid roots in the past, and these selections are discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is Dawn (first in the Xenogenesis trilogy),by Octavia Butler. In this story Lilith wakes up on an alien ship faced with an opportunity to save humanity…by losing it forever..
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic at Greenway Court Theatre Is Now Virtual – Online
DPL events at the Greenway Court Theatre are postponed until further notice.
But some events are offered via livestream, so check the calendar for information on events offered via the wonderly app link.
We have an open mic every Tuesday night except for the third Tuesday, when we have a poetry slam. There is a sign-up procedure and a three-minute time limit per performer. The event is open to all ages.
Where: Online event
Date: Tuesday the16th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar
2021 UCR Writers Week Events: Presented in 3 Sessions Today via UC Riverside – Online Events
Join us this week for daily sessions/ events of the 44th Annual Writers Week Conference at UC Riverside, featuring renowned authors of the day alongside those at the start of their publishing careers. Tom Lutz is Writers Week director.
SESSION 1: 1:00 pm PST
Michael Torres is the author of the astonishing debut collection An Incomplete List of Names, (Beacon Press, 2020), which looks back on a community of Mexican American boys as they grapple with assimilation versus the impulse to create a world of their own. His description of his childhood is both idyllic and nightmarish, sometimes veering between two extremes, sometimes a surreal combination of both.
The author was born and brought up in Pomona, CA, where he spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist. Currently he teaches in the MFA program at Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
Shin Yu Pai is the author of ten books of poetry, including Enso (Entre Rios Books, 2020) and her work has appeared throughout the U.S., Japan, China, Taiwan, the U.K., and Canada., Enso is a hybrid book and digital experience, blending personal essays reflecting on the development of poetics with a guidebook for moving poetry into the community.
The author has taught creative writing at many institutions, and currently serves as Assistant Director of the MFA in Writing and Publishing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also curates the Lyric Word poetry series for Town Hall Seattle.
Steve Erickson is an author and Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.
Conversations with Steve Erickson (University Press of Mississippi, 2021) is available for pre-order from the Literary Conversation Series, edited by Matthew Luter & Mike Miley.
SESSION 2: 3:00 pm PST
Kazim Ali is a writer and author of seven books of poetry, six books of nonfiction, and five books of fiction, including the forthcoming nonfiction book, Northern Light (Milkweed Editions, 2021) about his search for one of his childhood communities and discovery of the Pimicikamak community instead, displaced by the Jenipeg waterways and Nelson River dam, He explores questions of land and power—and in remembering a lost connection to this place, finally finds a home he might belong to.
The author is a queer Muslim writer who was born in the U.K. and has lived transnationally and written in multiple genres. He is currently a Professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. He also has a new book of poetry, a volume of three long poems, entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra.
Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including the Pulitzer Prize winning A Thousand Acres, and has written several works of nonfiction as well, plus a horse series for young adults. She is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside and part of the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau.
The author’s most recent books are. for middle grade readers is Taking the Reins (An Ellen & Ned Book) and for young readers is Perestroika In Paris (Knopf for Young Readers, 2020).
LeAnne Howe is the author most recently of three books, including: the monograph Savage Conversations (Coffee House Press, 2019), Famine Pots, The Choctaw-Irish Gist Exchange 1847-Present (MSU Press, 2020), co-authored with Padraig Kirwan, Goldsmiths of London, and coeditor with Joy Harjo and Jennifer Elise Forester of When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through, a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). She is the Edison Distinguished Professor in American Literature at the University of Georgia, and connects literature, Indigenous knowledge, Native histories, and expressive cultures in her work.
SESSION 3: 6:30 pm PST
Camille T, Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), and authored Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (Norton, 2018). She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. She is Poetry Editor of Orion Magazine, a member of Blue Flower Arts, and is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.
Carolyn Dunn is a poet, playwright and musician, and the author of three plays: The Frybread Queen, Soledad, and Three Sisters (No Passport Press’ Dreaming The Americas Series, 2021).The author is a Professor in the College of Arts and Letter at California State University, Los Angles.
NOTE: Details available at website. Register for these free events online.
Where: UC Riverside – Online Events
Date: Wednesday the 17th (1pm, 3 pm, & 6:30 pm)
Time: 1 pm; 3 pm; 6:30 pm sessions
Address: Online Event
Website: https://writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule/
Book Club Discussion & Becoming via Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Virtual Event
Join the Granada Hills Branch Library Book Club via Zoom to discuss the memoir Becoming, by Michelle Obama.
NOTE: Please email grnhls@lapl.org to receive meeting invitation link for this event.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-discussion
Middle Grade Book Club & Unplugged via Pages Bookstore – Online YA Event
Join the Middle Grade Book Club this month to read and discuss Unplugged, by Gordon Korman, the story of a group of kids forced to “unplug” at a wellness camp—where instead they find intrigue, adventure, and a whole lot of chaos.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore Live – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-virtual-meeting-8
Ethan Hawke Launch & A Bright Ray of Darkness via Dynasty Typewriter – IN-PERSON Event
Live at Dynasty Typewriter: Ethan Hawke discusses his new novel, A Bright Day of Darkness.
This book is the blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes— an utterly transfixing book about art and love, fame and heartbreak, from the acclaimed actor/writer/director.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Dynasty Typewriter – IN-PERSON event and Livestream event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Sarah Gailey, with Gillian Flynn, & The Echo Wife via Skylight Bookstore – Crowdcast Live Event
Author Sarah Gailey, in discussion with Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) will discuss her new novel, The Echo Wife.
This book is a psychological thriller about renowned scientist Evelyn Caldwell, an expert in genetic replicas and cloning, who discovers her husband Nathan has been having an affair –with Evelyn’s own genetically cloned replica. After a confrontation leaves Nathan bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast before thye end up sharing a jail cell.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online vent (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Tracy Dobmeier & Wendy Katzman & Girls with Bright Futures via Pages Bookstore – Online Author Talk Event
Join authors Tracy Dobmeier & Wendy Katzman, to discuss their novel Girls with Bright Futures, the story of mothers with power, money, and status who would cross the line for their child to attend the college of their choice.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore Live – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/girls-bright-futures
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop via The World Stage – Online Event
Join this weekly community workshop founded in 1990, and following a three-part format, by joining in via Zoom every Wednesday night at 7:30 pm.
In its 30th year, the Anansi Writers Workshop is a whop and open mic performance featuring L.A.’s freshest, most inspiring voices speaking their truth in poetry and prose.
Suggested: $5.00 Donation via PayPal: The World Stage Gallery. Check website for Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule due to holidays. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/AnansiVirtual Workshop/
Feminist Book Club & Crooked Hallelujah via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
The Feminist Book Club, hosted by Julia Callahan, reads an intersectional variety of feminist lit—fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, etc, and these selections are discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is Crooked Hallelujah,by Kelli Jo Ford. In this story, from Cherokee Nation to Texas, mothers and daughters overcome broken family histories.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque’s longest running free poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Facilitators are rotated quarterly, and the current facilitator is Beth Ruscio.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and infromation.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading & Theresa Davis via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Zoom Online
Theresa Davis was born into a family of writers and entertainers, and was drawn to the arts. A classroom teacher for many years, she currently teaches poetry to youth and adults in the Atlanta area, and formed the spoken word performance group MoDaSo with her mother and brother.
She has published seven collections of poetry, including Rock Star Poet, Head Games, and Simon Says. As a solo performer she has poetry slams and featured at events in Atlanta and throughout the southeast.
You can join in at the Zoom event via link provided, and sign up to read via Google Sheets at site.
NOTE: See site for further details on this free event.
Where: Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 17th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/twoidiotspeddlingpoetry/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/833373447519797
2021 UCR Writers Week Events: Presented in 4 Sessions Today via UC Riverside – Online Events
Join us this week for daily sessions/ events of the 44th Annual Writers Week Conference at UC Riverside, featuring renowned authors of the day alongside those at the start of their publishing careers. Tom Lutz is Writers Week director.
SESSION 1: 12:00 pm PST ***MFA Reading***
Current MFA graduate students at UC Riverside will be reading their work.(see schedule for detailed bios).
SESSION 2: 1:30 pm PST
Kamala Puligandla is the author of the novel ZIGZAGS, (Not a Cult, 2020), a tender story about community as family, and a love letter to a city and a season. It has been called “a nod to the persistence of queer joy,” in Sarah Sophia Yanni’s review.
The author is Communications and Marketing Director at Women’s Center for Creative Work.
Melissa Valentine is the author of the debut memoir, The Names of All the Flowers (Feminist Press at CUNY, 2020) and is currently executive editor at Calisto Media in New York.
The author grew up with her brother in 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a Black southern mother, and the family is torn apart when her brother is murdered as a result of gun violence.
Tommy Pico is a poet, podcaster, and TV writer, and is Poetry Editor at Catapult Magazine. He is a writer for the FX show Reservation Dogs, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub.
Feed is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and award-winning fourth book in the Teebs tetralogy, and asks what’s the difference between being alone and being lonely?
SESSION 3: 3:30 pm PST
Laila Lalami is a prize winning writer and author of acclaimed books, most recently Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America (Knopf, 2020) which contains sixteen faceted essays thematically connected, all asking the question—who belongs? This is an elegantly written, poignant meditation on the effects of exclusion and suspicion and what embracing citizenship might mean.
The author is Contributing Editor of The Nation, and is a tenured Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside
Mike Davis is the author of more than 20 books, and co-author most recently of Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties (Verso, 2020). His best known work might be Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, and his interests span urban studies, the built environment, economic history, and social movements.
Davis is currently Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside and Contributing Editor of The Nation.
SESSION 4: 6:30 pm PST
John Jennings is an award-winning comics creator and most recently he has adapted After the Rain by author Nnedi Okaraforand illustrator David Brame for Abrams Comic Arts (Megascope, 2021).Jennings is a Professor in Media & Cultural Studies at UC Riverside.
Millicent Borges Accardi is a Portuguese American poet and the author of three books, including Only More So (Salmon Poetry, 2018), a collection of lyric poems.
Joseph Cassara is the author of the critically acclaimed, prize winning debut novel The House of Impossible Beauties (Ecco Harper Collins, 2018). He is currently an assistant professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Fresno State University.
NOTE: Details available at website. Register for these free events online.
Where: UC Riverside – Online Events
Date: Thursday the 18th (12 pm, 1:30 pm, 3:30 pm, & 6:30 pm)
Time: 12 pm; 1:30; 3:30 pm; 6:30 pm sessions
Address: Online Event
Website: https://writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule/
Book Discussion Group & The Age of Innocence via Beverly Hills Public Library – Online Event
Join the Beverly Hills Library Book Discussion Group online at Zoom for a discussion of The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton. It’s a Pulitzer Prize winning novel and it’s the 100th anniversary of its launch.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: BHPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1342963976067605
Randa Jarrar Book Release & Love Is An Ex-Country via LibroMobile – Online IG Event
As a collaborative virtual book release and performance, author Randa Jarrar will present and read from her new book Love Is An Ex-Country (Catapult, 20210) live from the balcony of her apartment while LibroMobile videographer Carla Zarate professionally recoerds and features the reading performance live to LibroMobile’s IG.
Randa Jarrar is the author of the memoir Love Is An Ex-Country, the novel A Map of Home, and the collection of stories Him, Me, and Muhammad Ali. She is also a performer who recently appeared in Hulu’s RAMY, and she has received an American Book Award, among many others, She is a professor of creative writing, and Executive Director of RAWI, a literary non-profit that serves Arab American writers. She lives in Los Angeles.
NOTE: See site for details of this free event.
Where: LibroMobile Presents – Online IG event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/512688256371205/
Rosa Brooks & Tangled Up in Blue via ALOUD Reading Series – Online Event
The ALOUD Reading Series presents author Rosa Brooks, in conversation with Christy Lopez, to discuss her book, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City.
Rosa Brooks was in her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University when she decided to become a cop. She served as a reserve police officer between 2016 – 2020 with the Washington D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, in order to better understand the usually closed world of policing. Her new book, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City, chronicles her experiences inside the “blue wall of silence,” and illuminates the complexities of a broken system beyond the headlines. She takes ALOUD audiences through a tour of duty to find a better way to protect our society.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL Central Library – Online event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lfla.org/event/tangled-up-in-blue-policing-the-american-city/ OR https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tangled-up-in-blue-policing-the-american-city-tickets-136917236139
Julia Kaye, with Shena Wolf, & My Life in Transition via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Julia Kaye, in conversation with Shena Wolf, for a discussion of her book, My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection
This book tells what happens beyond the early days of transition, after the hormones have done their thing, and illustrates six months of Julia’s life as an out trans woman—about how to be trnas and simply exist in society.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Rucker Moses & Theo Gangi, with moderator Zeno Robinson, & Kingston and the Magician’s Lost and Found via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join authors Rucker Moses & Theo Gangi, with moderator Zeno Robinson, to hear them discuss their book, Kingston and the Magician’s Lost and Found.
Magic has almost disappeared in Brooklyn, but one tenacious young magician is determined to bring it back in this exciting middle grade mystery.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/rucker-moses-theo-gangi
Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters is a program presented in honor of Black History Month/ Join us as poet James Jones explores how poetry has helped knit together the African American community of Los Angeles during its most difficult times. Jones and collaborators will read and discuss poetry from the Watts riots to the present, and then audience members will have the chance to write and share their own poetry about the present moment.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
True Crime Book Club & The Night Stalker via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
True Crime Book Club, hosted by James T. Bartlett, reads a variety of literature exploring our dark side, and these selections are discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker,by Philip Carlo. This book is the definitive account of serial murderer Richard Ramirez, who terrorized the Los Angeles area and killed at least 14 people and raped and tortured at least two dozen more during the spring and summer of 1985.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading & Open Mic #32 via Nomadic Press – Zoom Online Event
This Latinx poetry reading series & Open Mic is entering its 3rd year, and is offered every 3rd Thursday of the month, and is curated by Josiahluis Aldereete. This month’s features are poets Angel Dominguez and Sara Borjas
Angel Dominguez is a Latinx poet and artist of Yucatec Maya descent, born in Hollywood and raised in Van Nuys, CA. They’re the author of ROSESUNDERWATER (The Operating System, 2015) and Black Lavender Milk Timeless, (Infinite Light 2015), and the forthcoming book, DESGRACIADO (the collected letters) (Nightboat Books, 2022).
Sara Borjas is a Xicanx pocha and a Fresno poet, Her debut collection of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff was published by Noemi Press in 2019, and was a recipient of a 2020 American Book Award. She teaches innovative undergraduates at UC Riverside in Southern California and stays rooted in Fresno.
Where: Zoom online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/112879873959652
Sabor y Cultura: fos_thursdays Open Mic– Instagram Event
Please enjoy the Sabor y Cultura Open Mic on Instagram Live on Thursdays at 8pm PST.
This is an Instagram online event.
NOTE: Sign-ups open on Wednesday at 3 pm.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
Story Time Live Video with a Gallery Interpreter via Natural History Museum of L.A. County – Facebook Online Kids Event
Please enjoy a family event from the L.A. County Natural History, which hosts a Gallery Interpreter reading event for the little ones, to share a brand new story in a live reading of favorite books, every Friday morning!
This is a Facebook online event.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2264614583662695
2021 UCR Writers Week Events: Presented in 3 Sessions Today via UC Riverside – Online Events
Join us this week for daily sessions/ events of the 44th Annual Writers Week Conference at UC Riverside, featuring renowned authors of the day alongside those at the start of their publishing careers. Tom Lutz is Writers Week director.
SESSION 1: 1:00 pm PST
WRITERS RESIST READING
Hosted by graduate students from the Creative writing and Writing for the Performing Arts MFA program, this biannual event brings together UCR undergraduates, graduate students, faculty writers, alumni, and community members to read works of resistance as part of the Writers Resist movement across the nation.
Please join us as we resist attacks on principals of freedom and justice in our community.
SESSION 2: 3:00 pm PST
Craig Santos Perez is an editor, essayist and poet, and is an indigenous Chamoru (Chamorro) from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam). He is a professor in the English Department at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he teaches creative writing, eco-poetry, and Pacific literature.
Dr. Perez is the author of two spoken word poetry albums, Undercurrent (2011) and Crosscurrent (2017), and five books of poetry, most recently Habitat Threshold (2020). His work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. He is the co-founder of Ala Press and co-editor of five anthologies of Pacific literature and eco-literature.
Brandy Nallani McDougall is an editor, critical essayist, and poet, and is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair of American Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her interests are Indigenous Literatures and Critical Theory, American imperialism in the Pacific, and Indigenous Rights/Sovereignty Movements.
Dr. McDougall is the author of Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2018) and the postcolonial poetry collection The Salt Wind: Ka Makani Pa’akai (Kuleana ‘Oiwi Press, 2008).
SESSION 3: 6:30 pm PST
UCR Lifetime Achievement Awards: Poets Laureates:
Rite Dove is a UCR Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995), Poet Laureate of the Virginia Commonwealth, and Special Bicentennial Consultant, 1999-2000. She is the author of Collected Poems: 1974-2004 (W.W. Norton, 2016), The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Penguin, 2011), and received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1987. She holds the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives with her husband, the writer Fred Viebahn.
Joy Harjo is a UCR Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, U.S. Poet Laureate (serving her second term currently), and an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. The author of nine books of poetry, including An American Sunrise, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior: A Call for Love and Justice, as well as When the Light of the World Was Subdued (Norton, 2020). Her many honors include Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation. She holds a Tulsa Artist Fellowship and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Juan Felipe Herrera is a UCR Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, served two terms as the 21st U.S. Poet Laureate, California Poet Laureate (2012-2015), and Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside. He is the author of 30 books of poetry, novels for young adults, and collections for children, and the recipient of numerous literary awards. Recent books include Every Day We Get more Illegal (City Lights, 2020), 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border (City Lights, 2007). He lives in Fresno, CA.
NOTE: Details available at website. Register for these free events online.
Where: UC Riverside – Online Events
Date: Friday the 19th (1pm & 3 pm)
Time: 1 pm, 3 pm, & 6:30 pm sessions
Address: Online Event
Website: https://writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule/
1521 Event via UCLA: Making the World While Breaking the World via UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies – Online Event
Professor Stefania Tutino (History and Italian) and Dr. Devin Fitzgerald (Curator of Rare Books and History of Printing) present a program on 1521: Making the World While Breaking the World, which includes panels on various topics and publications.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: UCLA – Online event
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/161988722025746
Hidden Heroes Historic Places Book Launch via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event
BEST Friends of LAPL, publisher of Hidden Heroes, is hosting a book launch. This book showcases the ongoing work form the Octavia Lab staff. Guests include family members/partners for the book.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/hidden-heroes-historic-places-book-launch
Michael Koryta, with Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch series), & Never Far Away via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join bestselling author Michael Koryta, in conversation with bestselling author Michael Connelly, to hear them discuss his book, Neven Far Away.
New York Times Bestselling “master” of American thriller writing Michael Koryta returns with an electrifying new novel about a mother seeking to reconnect with her children after a terrible trial tears their family apart. This is a thrilling collision between old sins and new dreams, where a broken family is tested against all odds.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/michael-koryta
Witte Lectures: Author P.J. O’Rourke & A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land via Newport Beach Public Library – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a conversation with bestselling author, leading political satirist, and op-ed contributor to the Washington Post , P.J. O’Rourke, who combines the skill of an investigative performer with the comedian’s sense of the absurd, to discuss his latest book, A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land. He is the author of twenty books, and never fails to both entertain and inform. He is known as a hard-bitten conservative, but unabashedly bashes all political persuasions.
NOTE: Details, costs, registration and event link available at website. Purchase a signed copy of the book through Laguna Beach Books at site link.
Where: NBPL Foundation – Online Event
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 6:15 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/330912008169029
Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Poetry Open Mic with Elena Secota – Virtual Event
The Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Open Mic events have been curated by Elena Secota, and are offered virtually recently. This month’s event features poet Lois P. Jones, with musical guests Dan Navarro and Love Me in the Dark, plus Surprise Guests.
NOTE: See website link for details. Zoom details will be sent when you RSVP.
Where: Third Fridays Rapp Saloon (online)
Date: Friday the 19th
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/therappsaloonpoetryreading/
Get Lit Saturday Class via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Teen Event
Join the Get Lit Saturday Class, a weekly poetry workshop that is free and open to all teens!
Learn writing techniques, performance training, and confidence-building every Saturday morning, via Zoom. This is a FREE writing technique, performance training and confidence building workshop for poets of all experience levels, ages 13-19.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 9 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785710461844/
Creative Writing Workshop via LAwritersgroup.com – Online Event
Get words on the page and meet other writers in this online creative writing workshop.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929508015822/
Graphic Novel Book Club & March: Book One via Bel Canto Books Meet-Up – Online Event
Love graphic novels and memoirs? Join us to explore the artistry and narrative power of these eye-catching books.
This month’s book selection is March: Book One, by John Lewis, et al, a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in his personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.meetup.com/Bel-Canto-Books-Book-Lovers-Meetup-Group/events/275986687/
Vroman’s Live: Special Storytime with Jen Adams & I Am a Kindness Hero via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Kids Event
Join a special storytime with author Jen Aadams to hear her present and discuss her book, I Am a Kindness Hero (I Am a Warrior Goddess).
Follow the adventures of a young boy as he practices kindness throughout his day, form rescuing a puppy to standing up to bullies to helping his younger sister tie her shoe. This book celebrates gentleness and vulnerability in boys, and shows that true strength and leadership come from treating those around you with love and respect.
NOTE: Details and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 11 am
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/jen-addams
LGBTQIA Book Club via Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us via Zoom online for a lively discussion of our selection, The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst. All are welcome.
NOTE: Email silver@lapl.org for Zoom meeting link..
Where: Silver Lake Branch Library – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/lgbtqia-book-club-7
Social Justice Book Club via Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore – Online Event
Join the Social Justice Book Club to read and discuss the book, Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles, by Scripps/Claremont College professor and educator and Quetzal recording artist Martha Gonzalez.
Where: Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/TiaChuchasCentroCultural/posts/3794857987242078
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Featured Poets & Open Mic via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a reading by featured poets: James Coats, Lisbeth Coiman & Toni L. Mosley, plus an Open Reading.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Submit It Like You Mean It Seminar/Workshop via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
Ready to submit your work, but don’t know where to start? This submission seminar offers the information you need to submit your poems for publication with professionalism and pride. Already familiar with the process, but now you want to refine your skills? We will address every detail of submissions planning, from writing for publication to creating your own submissions tracker.
This 3-week seminar will be held on Saturdays. February 20, February 27, & March 6, 2021.
NOTE: See site for costs, registration, and event details.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online event
Date: Saturday the 20th (and February 27 & March 6)
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/138608264752443
OR https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/2021/submit-it-spring
LARB Hosts 2021 UCR Writers Week Fundraising Event for UCR Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees / Three Poet Laureates
Join us as 2021 LA Review of Books (LARB) and UCR Department of Creative Writing host a post-festival ticketed celebration with Lifetime Achievement Honorees Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, and Juan Felipe Rivera. Tom Lutz is Writers Week director and founder of LARB.
Rite Dove is a UCR Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995), Poet Laureate of the Virginia Commonwealth, and Special Bicentennial Consultant, 1999-2000. She is the author of Collected Poems: 1974-2004 (W.W. Norton, 2016), The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Penguin, 2011), and received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1987. She holds the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives with her husband, the writer Fred Viebahn.
Joy Harjo is a UCR Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, U.S. Poet Laureate (serving her second term currently), and an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. The author of nine books of poetry, including An American Sunrise, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior: A Call for Love and Justice, as well as When the Light of the World Was Subdued (Norton, 2020). Her many honors include Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation. She holds a Tulsa Artist Fellowship and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Juan Felipe Herrera is a UCR Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, served two terms as the 21st U.S. Poet Laureate, California Poet Laureate (2012-2015), and Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at UC Riverside. He is the author of 30 books of poetry, novels for young adults, and collections for children, and the recipient of numerous literary awards. Recent books include Every Day We Get more Illegal (City Lights, 2020) and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border (City Lights, 2007). He lives in Fresno, CA.
NOTE: Details and costs available at website. Register for this ticketed event online.
Where: UC Riverside & LARB– Online Events
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule/
LiveTalks LA: An Evening with Sarah J. Maas & A Court of Silver Flames – Online Event
Sarah J. Maas, in conversation withan interviewer TBA, will discuss her new novel, A Court of Silver Flames.
Sarah J. Maas is the internationally bestselling author of The Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, and Crescent City Series. Her books have sold more than 13 million copies, and are published in 37 languages. This most recent book in the series continues with the journey of Feyre’s fiery sister, Nesta ,who, with Cassian, must battel monsters form within and without as they search for acceptance and healing together.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online event
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 5 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/422222448796473
Virtual Happy Hour with Author Lily King via Newport Beach Public Library (NBPL) – Online Event
Join NBPL for a Virtual Happy Hour with bestselling and award-winning author Lily King, who is the author of five award-winning novels. Her most recent novel, Writers & Lovers was published in March 2020, and her 2014 novel Euphoria won the Kirkus Award. We will talk about her work and the discussion will be followed by a Q&A.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: NBPL – Online event
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 5 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/713326715997906
Virtual Conversation with Ai Weiwei via Skirball Cultural Center – Online Event
In this rare speaking engagement hear from celebrated visual artist, filmmaker and writer, and political activist Ai Weiwei as he explores his vast body of work in the context of social justice. Imprisoned by Chinese authorities in 2011 without cause, Ai has dedicated his life and career to speaking out against human rights violations around the globe. In a virtual conversation with Skirball curator Yael Lipschuts, he discusses how he views the interconnectivity of human suffering as stemming from cultural and economic systems that value profit over human life. But he reminds us that we must hope and work for better.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skirball Cultural Center – Online event
Date: Sunday the 21st
Time: 11 am – 12 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/400035724549365
Sunday Writing Workshop with Erin Elizabeth Smith via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
Learn craft while creating new work in an exciting collaborative setting!
Sunday Series offers a new workshop on the 3rd Sunday of every month from 1pm- 3pm PST. There are class discussions, opportunities to share new work, and ask questions, and people of all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome.
This one-time seminar/ workshop will be led by Erin Elizabeth Smith.
NOTE: See site for costs, registration, and event details.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online event
Date: Sunday the 21st
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/2021/erin-elizabeth-smith
Los Angeles Literature 