Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Bette Howland Memoir: A Literary Voice Re-Discovered via American Jewish University – Virtual Event
Join Rabbi Dr. Gail Labovitz, editor Brigid Hughes, and Howland’s son, Jacob, for an inspiring discussion of Bette Howland’s 1974 memoir, W-3.
This is a memoir that recalls suffering without sentimentality or sensationalism. Bette Howland was a 37-year-old single mother of two when she published this memoir of a suicide attempt and time spent in a psychiatric hospital. In the span of a decade she wrote two celebrated books of short fiction, was awarded a MacArthur “genius grant,” which was followed by a prolonged silence, and never published a book again. Long before her death in 2017, she’d slipped into obscurity.
She appears now to be part of a wave of rediscovered female writers enjoying posthumous revivals. But her case is more complicated. This is not a story of mere neglect, but of a writer’s collusion with invisibility, with a lifelong ambivalence toward selfhood and its burdens. She isn’t interested in redemption or instruction, but in something more elusive. The successes, including the grant, proved paralyzing for this writer, because she had achieved her aim—free from her own personality, her particular history, and ready to reclaim it, although it could never be of much interest to her again.
NOTE: Details at event link
Where: AJU – Online Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 2 pm – 2:45 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://facebook.com/events/412626333379214
Lift Every Voice: An Exploration of African American Poetry through Painting via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Virtual Event
Spend an evening with visual artist Charisse Duncan as she shows you the basics of painting with watercolor. Charisse will recite poetry form the anthology Lift Every Voice: Celebrating 250 Years of African American Poetry, and then paint a watercolor piece inspired by one of these poems. She also will show you how to create your own piece.
NOTE: Details and a list of recommended supplies available at event link.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL– Online Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Claudio Lomnitz, with Graciela Montaldo & Nuestra America via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author Claudio Lomnitz, in conversation with Graciela Montaldo, to hear themdiscuss his book, Nueastra America: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation.
This book draws on letters, historical documents, and journals across half a dozen languages, and oral interviews with his family, for Lomnitz to rigorously document his grandparents’ fight for Jewish emancipation in Eastern Europe as they faced down horrific anti-Semitism: their forced emigration to Peru. subsequent engagement with the Peruvian cultural and political movements of the 1920s, their participation on the anti-fascist struggle in Colombia during World War II, their emigration to Israel in 1949, and their eventual return to South America in the late 1950s.
He uncovers the murder of his great grandfather in the early days of the Nazis, and creates a vivid portrait of his family’s strength, heartbreaks, hardships, and endless migrations. This is a personal excavation as well as a vibrant historical analysis, and reflects on the endless perseverance required to accomplish so much and the collected trauma underneath.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Yesika Salgado: To the Bloom Writing Workshop via Awful Good Writers– Virtual Event
To The Bloom: The Stores Housed Within Our Worlds is a 4-weekgenerative writing workshop led by poet Yesika Salgado. She uses love as a writing device to view our worlds and the stories housed within them. Together we will examine our favorite songs, meals, and memories alongside traditional writing tools. Participants will use imagery, metaphors, and personification to map out the quickest ways to our hearts, to our bloom.
Yesika Salgado is the author of the bestsellers Corazon, Tesoro, and Hermosa, published with Not a Cult.
NOTE: Details and registration at event link.
Where: Awful Good Writers– Online Event
Date: Monday the 22nd (& Mar 1, Mar 8, Mar 15)
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1055473664954846
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 22nd
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Rise & Shine Workshop: Winter 2021 / Series of Odes via Surprise the Line – Online Facebook Event
This is the 6th 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 23rd (through Mar 9th)
Time: 9 am – 11 am
Address: Surprise the Line Poetry Workshops – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/113665750550049
Gordon Korman & Unplugged via Pages Bookstore – Online Middle-Grade Event
Join us to hear author Gordon Korman share his new middle-grade book, Unplugged, about a group of crafty kids at a wellness camp where no electronics are permitted, who are secretly raising a baby alligator they dub Needles for his prickly teeth. This is an uproarious novel full of clever kids with brave and daring personalities.
The author has been writing middle grade stories since he himself was in middle school.
NOTE: Details available at website. Register and buy the book at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/gordon-korman-unplugged
Scripps Presents: Elizabeth Kolbert & The Nature of the Future via Skylight Books – Online Event
Pulitzer Prize winning author for The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert, returns in conversation with Kate Aranoff (Overheated), to discuss her new book, The Nature of the Future. This book returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? She writes about the work of some of the scientists who are trying to preserve and strengthen what we hope to preserve and sustain.
Where: Scripps Presents & Skylight – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 5 pm (PST)
Address: Scripps & Skylight – Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/scripps-presents-elizabeth-kolbert-conversation
Book Chats Event & Before He Sees Her via City of Azusa – Hoopla Online Event
Join us for this month’s Book Chat where we’ll be reading a thriller titled Before He Sees Her, by author Michael Kardos.
Log on to Hoopla with your Azusa City Library Card to read or listen to this story, then email jagnew@azusa.gov to get the Zoom link for our book discussion.
Where: City of Azusa – Hoopla Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: City of Azusa – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/968243893579558
Expressions Open Mic Poetry Reading Series via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for the Expressions LA Poetry Reading Series via Zoom. Join us for featured poetry readings and an open poetry mic, offered every second and fourth Tuesday at 6pm.
Please email Emily atr eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Live at Dynasty Typewriter: Patricia Lockwood & Catherine Cohen via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join authors Patricia Lockwood and Catherine Cohen, discuss their new books, No One Is Talking About This and God I Feel Modern Tonight.
Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the endless scroll and a profound, modern meditation on love, language, and human connection.
Catherine Cohen’s God I Feel Modern Tonight is about a self-obsessed millennial on the prowl who will say all the outrageous things we think but never say out loud.
NOTE: See site for tickets & event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-dynasty-typewriter-patricia-lockwood-catherine-cohen
True Crime Book Club & The Night Stalker via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
The True Crime Book Club, hosted by James T. Bartlett, discusses a variety of books which explore our dark side, and these selections are discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is The Life and Times of Richard Ramirez, The Night Stalker,by Philip Carlo. This is the definitive account of serial murderer Richard Ramirez..
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
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 the 23rd
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar
Writers Bloc Presents: Philippe Sands & The Ratline via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author Philippe Sands, in conversation with Rebecca Mead (My Life in Middlemarch), discuss his new book, The Ratline: The Exalted Life of and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive.
London-based international attorney Philippe Sands, who specializes in human rights law, braids this profoundly personal connection to the infinite evil of the Nazi regime in WWII with an investigation into one of the more heinous figures in the Reich: Baron Otto Von Wachter. (The Ratline refers to the escape route favored by Nazi war criminals from Europe to safe havens in Argentina). The author’s book is personal as his family was all but destroyed by the Nazis, many under Wachter’s aegis. Here he investigates who murdered Wachter in his secret hideout in post-war Rome, and discloses many stunning revelations about Wachter’s family.
NOTE: See site for tickets & event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore & Writers Bloc – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 12 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Panel Discussion: The Future of Black Lit via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Virtual Event
Join the Women’s National Book Association – LA Chapter for a panel discussion titile Beyond the diversity Question: The Future of Black Lit, hosted by Angela Shante, our new Diversity Chair, and featuring special guests: Piper Hughley, J. Elle, Tyrah Majors, Markette Shepp, and KayInn Bayron. How do we make space for stories that do more than explain Black culture to a white reading audience? An how will the world of literature benefit from a more intersectional reality?
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Women’s National Book Association – LA Chapter – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: WNBA – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3947557545296451
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: Lecture & Discussion by Carol Zaleski via UCLA & UCSB Thomistic Institute – Online Virtual Event
Join the Thomistic Institute of UCLA & UCSB and Smith College professor Carol Zaleski to discuss C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien, two writers and artists destined to live through two world wars and the social upheavals of the twentieth century, and together forged works of imagination, beauty, reason and hope out of that trauma. Perhaps their stories have the power to reorient us as we cope with the pandemic and the bitter conflict of today.
Where: UCLA – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: UCLA – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/761206611175611
Nicole LaPorte & Jeff Selingo & Guilty Admissions & Who Gets In via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join authors Nicole LaPorte & Jeff Selingo, to hear them discuss their respective books: Guilty Admissions: the Bribes, Favors, and Phonies Behind the College Cheating Scandal and Who Gets in and Why.
Nicle LaPorte’s Guilty Admissions: the Bribes, Favors, and Phonies Behind the College Cheating Scandal weaves together the story of an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer, and how he prayed on wealthy families and their insecure parents who will do anything to get their kids into name brand colleges to maintain their status.
Jeff Salinogo’s Who Gets In and Why dispels entrenched notions and presents a more complicated truth, that decisions are made on a variety of factors, often made split second, and students must honestly assess their strengths and choose the best college match.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/nicole-laporte-and-jeff-selingo
Tod Goldberg, with Mark Haskell Smith, & The Low Desert: Gangster Stories via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author Tod Goldberg, in conversation with author Mark Haskell Smith, discuss his new book, The Low Desert: Gangster Stories.
In this extraordinary collection of contemporary crime writing set in the Gangsterland universe, Tod Goldberg reveals how the line between good and evil is often a mirage in these witty, brutal, and fast-paced stories. He sets them in the unique landscape of Southern California’s Inland Empire, and these spare slices of literary noir are truly masterful.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Mystery & Thriller Book Club & Becoming via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Virtual Event
Join the Studio City Branch Library Book Club via Zoom on the last Wednesday of the month, where this month we will discuss The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton.
NOTE: Please email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org to receive meeting invitation link for this event.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-9
LA Times Book Club & Charlotte McConaghy & Migrationss via LA Times & Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Charlotte McConaghy, in conversation with Rosanna Xia, to discuss her book, Migrations, a debut novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world’s disappearing last birds, and her own final chance for redemption.
Propelled by an unreliable narrator as fierce and fragile as the terns she is following, this book is a beautiful ode to the wild places and creatures now threatened. But at its heart it is about the lengths we will go to, to the very edges of the world, for the people we love.
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/la-times-book-club-charlotte-mcconaghy
Bel Canto Books February Meet-Up & The Midnight Library via Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Join the Bel Canto Bookstore Meet-Up when we read and discuss The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig in an online event.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Bel Canto
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.meetup.com/Get-Lit-A-Los-Angeles-Book-Club-Meetup/events/275951498/
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 24th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/AnansiVirtual Workshop/
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 information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Story Salon: I Knew I Would Remember This Night via Story Salon – Zoom Online
Listen to stories from veteran storytellers that will make you laugh, cry, and celebrate each individual. Hosted by Beverly Mickins, the creator of Story Salon, this month’s theme is “I Knew I Would Remember This Night.”
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/914004089370610
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading & Charlotte O’Brien via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Zoom Online
Charlotte O’Brien had her first poem published in a girly teen magazine at the age of ten, and has been studying and writing ever since. She is a former co-host for Feminist Magazine on KPFK and performer and staff writer for LitRave. She has been featured at many events throughout Southern California, including the LA Times Festival of Books.
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 24th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1317099552023375
Elliott Kalan Virtual Performance Event & Shark and Hippo via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join author Elliott Kalan, author of Shark and Hippo, who will use tongue-twisting wordplay and escalating absurdity in a funny farce that will surprise and delight readers, from comedy writer Kalan and acclaimed illustrator Andrea Tsurumi.
NOTE: See site for further details and information.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids event (Eventbrite)
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/elliott-kalan-virtual-event
Poetics of Inquiry with Tjawangwa Dema via USC Visions and Voices – Online Event
Join a reading and conversation with poet Tjawangwa Dema, as she reads from her prize-winning collections The Careless Seamstress and Mandible, and performs spoken word pieces from throughout her career reflecting on life in Botswana, The United States, and England.
By foregrounding inquiry as a poetic practice, Dema invests the mundane with philosophy and ordinary beings with beauty, while exploring eco-poetry, gender, race, disobedience, labor, mythology, and empathy.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1122447284849172/
Lift Every Voice & Douglas Kearney via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Poets often compose poems that respond to other poems. Doulas Kearney will share writing from the Lift Every Voice anthology that has inspired poetic response over time and distance.
Poet Douglas Kearney has published six collections, including the prize-winning Buck Studies (2016). He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and lives in St. Paul with his family.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/lift-every-voice-when-poems-call-and-poems-respond
Cover to Cover Book Club & The Giver of Stars via Mid-Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Cover to Cover Book Club to discuss this month’s selection: The Giver of Stars, by Jojo Moyes. This book is a sweeping story of female friendship in rural Kentucky, inspired by a real group of librarians who between 1935 and 1943 delivered books to those in the most remote regions.
Please send an email to npholana@lapl.org for Zoom log-in information.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/cover-cover-book-club-0
2021 Jean Burden Poetry Reading & Claudia Rankine Just Us via Cal State Los Angeles – Online Zoom Event
The Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and CSULA Arts & Letters, in cooperation with The Salt Eaters Bookshop, hosts an evening with Claudia Rankine, our special guest for the 2021 Jean Burden Poetry Reading.
Claudia Rankine is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, Just Us: An American Conversation (2020), as well as the acclaimed Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), three plays, numerous video collaborations, and several edited anthologies. Her work defies literary genre and social injustice alike, and offers a fearless and profound analysis of racial realities of contemporary American life.
NOTE: See site for details of this free event.
Where: Cal State Los Angeles – Online Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/368769247788559/
Catie Disabato, with Eden Lepucki, & U Up?, via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Catie Disabato, in conversation with Eden Lepucki for a discussion of her new book, U Up?
This novel olds a mirror to the ways the phantom selves we create online permeate our emotional lives and hide our worst traits from everyone, including ourselves.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/catie-disabato-conversation-edan-lepucki-discusses-u
Chris Hauty, with Joe Ide, & Savage Road via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Chris Hauty, in conversation with author Joe Ide, (IQ series),to hear them discuss his latest thriller, Savage Road.
When a series of devastating cyber security attacks rock the United States, Hayley Chill is assigned by the “deeper state” to track down their source. NSA analysts insist that Moscow is the culprit, and with pressure on the president to steer him to war, she must stop the hacker and prevent World War III. Along the way she also discovers some shocking truths about her own life.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Pages Live – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/chris-hauty-joe-ide
John Densmore & Luis J. Rodriguez in Conversation via Tia Chucha’s Bookstore– Online Event
Please join musician John Densmore and author Luis J. Rodriguez in conversation to discuss John’s new book, The Seekers: Meetings With Remarkable Musicians (and Other Artists, as well as his music, artistry and more.
This is an online fundraising benefit for Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore.
Where: Tia Chucha – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: Live on bit.ly/tiachuchaFB or bit.ly/tiachuchaYT
Tanya Selvaratnam, with Liz Plank, & Assume Nothing via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Author Tanya Selvaratnam, in conversation with journalist Liz Plank (The Meteor),will discuss her new book, Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence.
When the author met then New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the Democratic National Convention in July 2016, they seemed like the perfect match. But behind closed doors, Tanya’s life was anything but ideal. Schneiderman became controlling, mean and manipulative, drank and used sedatives, and became violent and abusive, even threatening to kill her if she tried to leave.
Twenty-five percent of women in America are victims of domestic abuse, and Tanya never thought she would become part of that statistic. This sensitive and nuanced book details how the relationship devolved, how she found the strength to find her voice, leave and reclaim her life to start again after being a victim of intimate violence.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 25th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
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 25th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
NoHo Book Club & Savage the Bones via North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join us twice a month, alternating meetings featuring either a selected title or a title of your choice. New members are welcome!
This NoHo Book Club meeting will discuss the book Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward, the 2011 National Book Award winner in Fiction. The novel explores the plight of a working-class African American family in Mississippi as they prepare for Hurricane Katrina and follows them through the aftermath of the storm.
RSVP to nohlwd@lapl.org at least two days in advance to receive the link.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 26th
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-book-club-discuss-book-your-choice
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 27th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1053404815104788
A Reading and Conversation with Poet Kevin Young via USC Visions and Voices – Online Events
USC’s Visions and Voices series presents an inspiring afternoon with Kevin Young, award-winning poet, author, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and poetry editor of The New Yorker. In this special event Kevin Young will read from his work and discus it with USC President Carol L. Folt.
Young is the author of 13 acclaimed books of poetry and prose, the editor of nine volumes, including The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010 and the new African American Poetry 1770-2020: 250 Years of Struggle & Song. He was named a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2020.
NOTE: Details available at website. Register for these free events online.
Where: USC Visions and Voices – Online Events
Date: Friday the 26th
Time: 3 pm (PST)
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2817186308499295
The Big Read: The Round House by Louise Erdrich via Westchester-Loyola Village Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Westchester Senior Center Book Club to discuss The Big Read selection, The Round House, by Louise Erdrich. This book won the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction, and is part of her “justice Trilogy of novels and follows the story of Joe Coutts, a 13-year –old boy who has become frustrated with the poor investigation into his mother’s gruesome attack and sets out with his friends to find his mother’s attacker. The story is set on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Friday the 26th
Time: 3:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-0
Ioan Grillo, with Peniley Ramirez, & Blood Gun Money via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Ioan Grillo, in conversation with author Peniley Ramirez, to hear them discuss his book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.
The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting, but guns and drugs aren’t often connected in our heated discussions. The author explores the many ways legal guns cross-over into the black market and into the hands of criminals, fueling violence here and across the border. Perhaps if guns were seen not as symbols of freedom but as key accessories in our epidemics of addiction, the conversation would shift. This book is that conversation shifter.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Friday the 26th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/ioan-grillo
The Definitive Soapbox Open Mic (TDSB) via Fox Coffee House, Long Beach – Online Event
TDSB is a FREE Open Mic in Long Beach, CA offered every last Friday of the month, from 7pm- 9:30 pm.
Can you believe we have been online for almost a year?!? CRAZY!
Join us this Friday February 26th, 2021, for a SWEET SAD DELICIOUS DEEP OPEN MIC!
Zoom link will be posted an hour before the event. See you there!
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Online (see site)
Date: Friday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/thedefinitivesoapbox
or https://www.facebook.com/events/2545907572371612
LibroMobile Presents: Café y Chisme: Celebrating SalviMex Culture with Bernie Molina – Online IG Event
Join LibroMobile for Café y Chisme: Celebrating SalviMex Culture with Bernie Molina , author of Herencia Cookbook.
LM founder Sarah Rafael Garcia and author Bernadette Molina will share food stories and their favorite desayunos, discuss the cookbook, and have a live food demo! Herencia Cookbook contains over 65 recipes, each preluded by an anecdote about the person in the author’s life who inspired the dish. The author hopes to elevate the matriarchs in all of our lives, through food.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: LibrMobile Presents – Online IG event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/460205005340245
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 27th
Time: 9 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785740461841/
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 27th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929524682487/
Middle Grade Book Club & New Kid via Palisades Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us via Zoom online for a discussion by middle grade readers of our monthly book selection. At this meeting we will discuss the book New Kid by Jerry Craft.
Please e-mail akagan@lapl.org or gkim@lapl.org for the Zoom login information.
Where: Palisades Branch Library – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-middle-grade-readers-new-kid-jerry-craft
Mystery Book Club & An Unsuitable Job for a Woman via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us via Zoom online for our mystery Book Club discussion group. This month our book selection is An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, by P.D. James.
NOTE: To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@llapl.org.
Where: Westwood Branch Library – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-19
Get Lit’s Emerging Writers Fellowship via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Teen Event
Get Lit’s FREE 15-week Emerging Writers Fellowship is an online publishing course held on Saturdays from 1-3pm PST.
The course is designated for youth (ages 13-19) who are interested in creating their own poetry chapbooks, as well as learning more about submission and media marketing. No previous experience necessary! Priority to LA youth but all are welcome.
Contact Raul@getlit.org with any questions.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/418997712646485/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Print & Internet Publishing Workshop via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by Sheree La Puma –Watson, plus a SPECTRUM Online Edition: Love Objects Publication reading..
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
The Big Read: The Round House by Louise Erdrich via Arroyo Seco Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Arroyo Book Club to discuss this year’s The Big Read selection, The Round House, by Louise Erdrich. This book won the 2012 National Book Award for Fiction, and is part of the author’s “justice Trilogy of novels, It follows the story of Joe Coutts, a 13-year –old boy who has become frustrated with the poor investigation into his mother’s gruesome attack and sets out with his friends to find his mother’s attacker. The story is set on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event. Email ayosco@lapl.org for participation details.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read- round-house-louise-erdrich-1
Soulful Expressions Open Mic via Bring Justice to My Rhyme – Online IG Event
Join the Soulful Expressions Showcase and Open Mic to catch some of the hottest artist live on IG at @bringjusticetomyrhyme page! If you’re interested in being in the Open Mic section or want to be a featured artist, DM us.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: @bringjusticetomyrhyme – Online event
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/441268790640553
Burning Issues Book Club & The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty via Bel Canto Books Meet-Up – Online Event
Welcome to the Burning Issues Book Club, founded by @renatebakes! This book club focuses on our education on important topics facing humanity.
This month’s book selection is The Cooking Gene, by Michael W. Twitty. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes us to the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbeque, and all Southern cuisine. He tells the struggles his family faced and how food enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries.
NOTE: See website for online RSVP link and further details.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 12 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.meetup.com/Bel-Canto-Books-Book-Lovers-Meetup-Group/events/275987222/
AI LA Book Club– Online Event
Join the AI LA Book Club to discuss monthly book selections via Zoom. Todd Terrazas is the leader of the book club.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: – Online event
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/723339954874819/
Adam Silvera & Infinity Son via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera, who will talk about his book Infinity Son, in anticipation of the release of Infinity Reaper (book two in his Infinity Cycle series).
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/adam-silvera-talks-infinity-son
Beatnik Café: Poetry Open Mic via Hey Hey and Hanna Pachman– Online Event
Beatnik Café presents another night of hearing truth from lesser heard perspectives:
6:40 – 7 pm – Open Mic Sign-up
7 pm – 7:15 pm – Poetry Open Mic
7:15 – 7:30 pm – Allison Joseph Reading
7:30 pm – 9 pm – Poetry Open Mic
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Beatnik Cafe – Online event
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/446535376709250
Plants, Painting, and Poetry Writing Workshop with Nicelle Davis – Online Event
SOIL Writing Workshop with Nicelle Davis is a two-hour workshop, part craft talk, part generative and part revision.
7 pm – 7:40 pm – Close reading of successful Eco and Nature poetry.
7:40 – 8 pm – We will write based on a prompt.
8 pm – 9 pm – We will share and workshop our nature poems.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Online event
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1142772072847515/
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Thing in the Labyrinth Horror Book Club, led by Katherine E. McGee, meets every month and this month’s selection is Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut My Sister, The Serial Killer.
NOTE: See site for event details. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online event
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event
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