Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Book Advice with Past Penguin Publisher Cynthia Good via American Jewish University – Virtual Event
If your 2021 resolution is to read more books, join former publisher and literature expert Cynthia Good, as she shares the ten best novels that you should read!
This is a 75-minute workshop, and upon registration, your Zoom invitation will be emailed to you one week before the event start time.
NOTE: Details and costs at event link
Where: AJU – Online Event
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 2 pm – 3:15 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://facebook.com/events/473788057326723
Zero Discrimination Day Conversation: Challenges of Disability Discrimination in Law, Politics & Society via ALOUD Reading Series, Central Library, LAPL – Virtual Event
In celebration of Zero Discrimination Day, join Jasmine E. Harris and Ruth Colker, in conversation with Michelle Bratcher Goodwin, to discuss how we can work towards inclusion, equity, and real change in our society in a discussion of the intersectional issues of gender race, and disability rights. How can we break barriers and overcome biases against communities that have been historically marginalized, overlooked, and misunderstood?
Jasmine Harris is Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Hall Research Scholar at UC Davis, and an expert in disability and antidiscrimination law, and has published widely.
Ruth Colker is a leading scholar in the areas of Constitutional Law and Disability Discrimination and a Distinguished University Professor at Ohio State, and author of 16 books and more than 50 articles in law journals.
With other special guests to be announced, UC Irvine Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin will moderate this panel discussion.
NOTE: Details available at event link.
Where: Central Library, LAPL– Online Event
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lfla.org/event/ongoing-challenges-of-disability-discrimination-in-law-politics-and-society/
Isabel Allende & The Soul of a Woman via LA Times Ideas Exchange & Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author Isabel Allende, in conversation via the LA Times Ideas Exchange series, to hear herdiscuss her new book, The Soul of a Woman, a passionate and inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman..
This book describes what feeds the souls of feminists and all women today, and how much work is left to be done, and how to best ensure that it will be done.
NOTE: See site for event details and to register via eventbrite.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 5:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Anne Lamott & Dusk Night Dawn: Notes on Courage via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Anne Lamott to hear her present and discuss her new book, Dusk Night Dawn: Notes on Courage.
In this book the author explores how we can recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak. We begin, she writes, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity. Drawing from her own experiences, she shows us the intimate and human ways we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us..
NOTE: Details, registration and tickets available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/anne-lamott
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 1st
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Queer Book Club & The Henna Wars via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
The Queer Book Club, hosted by CB Lee, discusses a variety of books by Queer authors, and topics across genres (mostly fiction) and these selections are discussed via Zoom.
This month’s selection is The Henna Wars,by Adiba Jaigirdar. This book is about prejudice, cultural appropriation, and romance, and is set in a Catholic Girls High School in Dublin.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 1st
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 7th 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 2nd (through Mar 9th)
Time: 9 am – 11 am
Address: Surprise the Line Poetry Workshops – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/113665750550049 CHECK SITE UPDATE
Book Discussion Group & The Dutch House via Beverly Hills Public Library – Zoom Online
The Friends of the Library Book Discussion Group will host a discussion of our reading of the novel, The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett.
Ann Parchett’s The Dutch House is her eighth novel, and a kind of paradise lost tale about two siblings, who bond tightly after their mother leaves home when they are only ages 10 and 3. Home is the eponymous Dutch House, a 1922 mansion outside Philadelphia that their father Cyril, a real estate mogul, bought fully furnished in an estate sale as a surprise for their mother when the oldest sibling was 5. The house stands as distinct character in this extensive family saga, which in part is about real estate lust.
Where: Beverly Hills Public Library – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 10:15 am
Address: Zoom Online
USC’s Josh Kun in Conversation with Fran Lebowitz via USC’s Visions and Voices Series – Online Event
Join USC’s Visions and Voices for a live conversation between USC communications professor Josh Kun and celebrated author and journalist Fran Lebowitz, the star of the new limited documentary Netflix documentary series directed by Martin Scorsese.
Fran Lebowitz: Pretend It’s a City is about the author, humorist, social observer, and artist Fran Lebowitz. She is recognized as a cultural satirist and her books, include the bestsellers Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.
NOTE: Details available at website,
Where: USC – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/842255606631146
Stuart Gibbs Book Launch & Charlie Thorne and the Lost City via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join children’s author Stuart Gibbs on Facebook Live for the Charlie Thorne and the Lost City book launch. This book is the latest in the Charlie Thorne series.
The deadline to order signed and personalized books is Tuesday, March 2nd at noon PST.
NOTE: Details available at website,
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/charlie-thorne-and-lost-city
AJU Book Club & City of a Thousand Gates, by Rebecca Sacks via American Jewish University – Online Event
Join us to hear librarian and facilitator Rachel Kamin lead a lively discussion of author Rebecca Sacks’ newest book, City of a Thousand Gates.
This debut novel portrays the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank and the irreconcilable points of view are woven around the murder of two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian.
Upon registration, your Zoom invitation will be emailed to you.
NOTE: Details available at website. Register at Eventbrite.
Where: AJU – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/134732561854634
NAWBO-OC Books Coffee Book Club & Wow, No Thank You via NAWBO – Online Event
Join NAWBO – OC for our March Book Club meeting, when we review Wow, No Thank You: Essays, by Samantha Irby.
NOTE: Register in advance for this meeting at site, and check link to list of our past reads.
Where: NAWBO-OC – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/976479169443306
Dantiel W. Monitz & Melissa Broder Discuss Their New Books via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join authors Dantiel W. Monitz & Melissa Broder to hear them present and discuss their new books: Milk Blood Heat and Milk Fed, respectively.
Dantiel W. Monitz’s book Milk Blood Heat is a livewire debut depicting the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection race, motherhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Each story delves into the ordinary worlds of those who find themselves confronted by moments of violent personal reckoning.
Melissa Broder’s Milk Fed is a novel about Rachel, age twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion, who takes her therapist’s advice to take a 90-day detox from her mother. Early in the detox Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent on feeding her. Rachel is entranced by her and embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk and honey. This fantasy tale of appetites and the ways we humans compartmentalize them, is a meditation on the psyche—both sacred and profane.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/dantiel-w-moniz-melissa-broder-discuss-milk-blood-heat-and-milk-fed
Noreena Hertz, with Brian Grazer, & The Lonely Century via LiveTalks – LA – Online Event
Author Noreena Hertz, in conversation with author and producer Brian Grazer (Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection), will discuss her new book, The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart.
This book is a bold, hopeful, and thought-provoking account of how we built a lonely world, how the pandemic accelerated the problem, and what we must do to come together again.
NOTE: Details and RSVP for this ticketed event at site.
Where: LiveTalks – LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm (PST)
Address: LiveTalks – Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/noreena-hertz-with-brian-grazer/
Poetry Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for a monthly Poetry Open Mic event hosted by poet Wyatt Underwood.
Share a poem you wrote or a poem you love, or just listen and enjoy.
To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@;apl.org.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL– Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-1
Holly Goldberg Sloan, with Maria Semple, & The Elephant in the Room via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Holly Goldberg Sloan, in discussion with author Maria Semple (Where’d You Go Bernadette), to hear them discuss her book, The Elephant in the Room.
This is a moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between humans and animals. This novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humor that that readers expect form the author of Counting by 7s.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Diesel Bookstore – Online event
First Tuesdays Book Club & The Poet X via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Join us at the First Tuesdays Book Club to meet and discuss this month’s selection, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
This is the author’s debut YA novel and National Book Award winner. It highlights the struggle of growing up as a Latina girl in Harlem dealing with her sexuality and religion, and finding her voice through slam poetry.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Diesel Bookstore – Online event
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/first-tuesdays-book-group-discusses-poet-x-elizabeth-acevedo
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 2nd
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar
Marisa Reichardt & A Shot at Normal Visits Mira Costa High School Students via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Marisa Reichardt, in a virtual visit and conversation withMira Costa High School studentsto discuss her book, A Shot at Normal, a YA novel about justice, agency, family and taking your shot, even when it seems impossible.
Juniper Jade’s parents are hippies and the Jade family lives an all-organic homeschool lifestyle. She doesn’t question this until the unthinkable happens. When she contracts the measles and unknowingly passes it on, with tragic consequences, she feels both helpless and furious, and decides to wage a war for her autonomy to get vaccinated.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore Live – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 1:15 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/marisa-reichardt-visits-mira-costa-hs
The Big Read: The Round House by Louise Erdrich via Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Chatsworth Branch Library for a discussion of 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 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: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-round-house-louise-erdrich-2
Mystery Book Club Everywhere that Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library for a discussion of our Mystery Book Club selection, Everywhere that Mary Went, by Lisa Scottoline. This book is the first in the author’s Rosato & Associates series. Copies are available through our catalog or the hoopladigital app.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-21
Book Club Discussion & The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom via Felipe de Neve Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Felipe de Neve Branch Library for a Book Club discussion of The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom. This book is a brilliant, haunting, and unforgettable memoir of the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.
Please contact sfukushima@lapl.org for the Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/eventsbook-discussion-yellow-house-sarah-m-broom
Luvvie Ajayi Jones, with KevOnStage, & Professional Troublemaker via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join author Luvvie Ajayi Jones, in conversation with KevOnStage, to hear them discuss her book, Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual.
Luvvie Ajayi Jones’ book, Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual, has been haunted by fear, and once nearly skipped doing a TED talk that changed her life because of imposter syndrome. We’re all afraid at times. But in order to do the things we need to do or say to live free, we have to become professional trouble makers; people who are committed to not letting fear talk them out of these things. The point is not to be fearless, but to charge forward regardless, and to live boldly in spite of all the reasons we have to cower.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/luvvie-ajayi-jones
We Too Anthology Reading with Editor Natalie West & Contributors via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join editor Natalie West, and contributors Sonya Aragon, Vanessa Carlisle, April Flores, Milcah Halili & Yin Q,to discuss the anthology, We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival.
In this collection of narrative essays by sex workers, responding to the #MeToo movement in 2017, we find complicated stories of sexual harassment and violence, and expand conversations often limited to normative workplaces. Writing across topics such as homelessness, otherhood, and toxic masculinity, these essays give voice to the fight for agency and accountability across sex industries, and treat these workers as subjects in need of respect—not rescue.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
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 3rd
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 3rd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Zoom Online
Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and Ben Trigg present weekly poetry readings at the Ugly Mug and the events are now virtual. Check their Facebook page for any updates on this weeks event. Next week features Sonia Greenfield.
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.
Where: Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/twoidiotspeddlingpoetry
ABBA California Virtual Book Fair via The Ticknor Society – Online Event
Join the two-day ABBA California Virtual Book Fair where nearly 200 exhibitors form around the world are featuring new acquisitions, discoveries, and rare finds from around the globe.
NOTE: See site for further details, full schedule, and information.
Where: Online event (See site)
Date: Thursday the 4th at 9am (through Saturday March 6th at 8pm)
Time: 9 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/433240764661673
Well-Versed: Poets Ernest Hilbert & Dana Gioia via ABBA (Antiquarian Book Sellers of America & California Antiquarian Book Fair – Online Event
Join a conversation with poets Dana Gioia & Ernest Hilbert, about reading, writing, and collecting rare books.
Dana Gioia is former Poet Laureate of California and the author of five collections of poetry, including Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award. He served as Chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003-2009.
Ernest Hilbert is an American poet, critic, and opera librettist. He is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caliguan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets Prize—and Last One Out. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer at Bauman Rare Books, and writes about culture and history for the Washington Post and the Wall street Journal.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite free tickets)
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2826000671000673/
In Conversation: Lynell George & adrienne maree brown via California African American Museum – Online Event
A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Bitler is the latest book by journalist and essayist Lynell Grorge and in it she offers a blueprint for a creative life form the perspective of the award-winning science-fiction writer. Join George as she discusses the book, her years of research, and the great resurgence of interest in Butler with writer, doula and pleasure activist adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements..
NOTE: See site for details and Zoom instructions.
Where: CAAM – Online event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/908715489882537
Sarah Langan, with Sarah Haskins, & Good Neighbors via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Sarah Langan, in conversation with Sarah Haskins, to hear them discuss her new book, Good Neighbors.
Welcome to Maple Street, a picture perfect slice of suburban Long Island. But menace skulks beneath the surface of this exclusive enclave. This book is a riveting and ruthless portrayal of America suburbia, and excavates the perils and betrayals of motherhood, and friendships and the dangerous clash between social hierarchy, childhood trauma, and fear.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/sarah-langan-conversation-sarah-haskins-discusses-good-neighbors
Auriane Desombre & Monica Gomez-Hira Present Their Booksvia Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join authors Auriane Desombre & Monica Gomez-Hira, in conversation with Rachel Lynn Solomon,to hear them present and discuss their new books: I Think I Love You and Once Upon a Quinceanera.
Auriane Desombre’s I Think I Love Youis the story of arch-nemeses Emma, a die-hard romantic, and the more practical-minded Sophia, and asks what happens if their rivalry turns into a romance.
Monica Gomez-Hira’s Once Upon a Quinceanerais about Carmen Aguilar, who is stuck in an unpaid summer internship and trying to stop her cousin from ruining her own quinceanera.
NOTE: Details, registration and tickets available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/auriane-desombre-and-monica-gomez-hira
Tori Tefler, with Lyz Lenz, & Confident Women via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
Join us to hear Tori Tefler, author of Lady Killers, in conversation with guest Lyz Lenz, present an discuss her new book, Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion.
For con women, it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. But as a con-loving public, most of us must ask why we enjoy these tales so much, and forget the human cost so easily. The author will dive into the murky world of swindlers-turned-celebrities and try to put the “anti” back into “anti-hero.”
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Jen Silverman, with Torrey Pines, & We Play Oursleves via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Author Jen Silverman, in conversation with Torrey Pines (Detransition Baby),will discuss her new novel, We Play Ourselves.
After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Get Lit Virtual Open Mic via Get Lit- Words Ignite – Online Event
The Get Lit Open mic is a low-pressure environment for poets to share their work with Get Lit youth and featured poets. Join us in our free virtual playhouse hosted by Raul Herrera.
See site for further information.
NOTE: Details and event link available at website.
Where: Get Lit-Words Ignite – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/716049495726279
Richard Ferguson, with Stephanie Barbe Hammer, & Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Join author Richard Ferguson, in conversation with author Stephanie Barbe Hammer, to hear them discuss his latest book, Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates.
Beloved Los Angeles poet/performer Rich Ferguson delivers a tender, complex collection whose 8 selections offer free verse and prose poems ranging from hip satire to elegy and beyond – to gentle mantras that you might repeat to yourself in a parking lot or in bed at night. Bold, generous and self-deprecating, his work challenges readers to accept grief and dare—despite it—to dream of glorious things.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/march-04-rich-ferguson
Tonalli Thursdays Open Mic via LA Poet Society – Online Zoom Event
Join the LA Poet Society for Tonalli Thursdays Open Mic every first Thursday of the month.
All artists are welcome. 2021 Schedule TBA.
NOTE: See site for link information.
Where: LA Poet Society – Online Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapoetrysociety.org/events
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 4th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
California Virtual Book Fair Tour: Embracing Diversity via ABBA – Online Event
EMBRACING DIVERSITY is a virtual tour with our specialists and scholars examining material at the book fair that reflects the LGBTQ+ experience.
Greg Williams is Director of the Gerth Archives and Special Collections Department in the CSU Dominguez Hills Library and board member for the ONE Archives Foundation at USC.
John Durham is original co-founder and senior owner of Bolerium Books. It’s unusual blend of specialties—including radical politics and gay studies—derives from his experience as a political organizer dispatched ot work with the gay liberation movement in San Francisco.
Sue Englander, PhD is former editor with the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford, and specializes in materials related to the Civil Rights movement and the Woman’s movement.
NOTE: Pre-REGISTER in advance to receive the link.
Where: ABBA – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/147492113881004
Will Eisner Week Celebration: Dream, Write, Draw: Connecting with Graphic Novels via LAPL – Online Kids Event
Join us for Your Author Series, for a celebration of comic creation whose innovative ideas might inspire you, featuring:
Lucy Knisley, Varian Johnson and Shannon Wright, Michael Yates and Paul Downs, Chris Grine, Darnell Johnson and Natalie Riess.
Learn more about our creators and have an opportunity to win a free book by one of our presenters. This event will be Streaming Live on Facebook or YouTube.
NOTE: See details at the link.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
The World of Octavia Butler with Lynell George via ABBA – Online Event
Author and journalist Lynell George will discuss award-winning science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. This recorded conversation will be followed by a brief presentation form the Huntington Library, where Butler’s papers are held.
Lynell George is a Los Angeles-based journalist, essayist and author and here she was interviewed by Louise Steinman, writer and independent literary curator.
NOTE: Pre-REGISTER in advance to receive the link.
Where: ABBA – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/191908062682979
Natalie Walton, with Shafia Zaloom, & Revenge of the Sluts via Flintridge Bookstore – Virtual YA Event
Author Natalie Walton in conversation with mental health expert/author Shafia Zaloom (Sex, Teens & Everything in Between), will present and discuss her YA novel, Revenge of the Sluts.
In this authentic and ambitious novel about psychological trauma and modern feminism, double standards are about to get singled out. The author tackles privacy and relationships in the digital age, when intimate pictures of six female students are anonymously emailed to an entire school. The six young women join forces with another student to find the perpetrator and fight back.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – Online
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Address: Virtual event
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Poetry Open Mic with Cynthia Alessandra Briano – Virtual Event
The First Fridays Rapp Saloon Open Mic events have been offered virtually recently. Check posts for updates and details. In February, Cynthia Alessandra Briano celebrated 5 years as host!
NOTE: See website link for details. (TBA)
Where: First Fridays Rapp Saloon (online)
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/rappsaloon
National Day of Unplugging Scavenger Hunt via Jefferson Park Little Free Library
Look for Little Free Libraries & The Nocturnals participating in this fun event. Locate all libraries, solve the clues, and you might even find extra goodies along the way.
How do these NDU scavenger hunts work? Look for a clue taped to the Little Free Library at each stop. It may be a word to unscramble or decode. After completion, as a reward, you will get access to a link to watch the author of The Nocturnals, Tracey Hecht’s storytime.
NOTE: See website to sign up for this FREE event and get your first clue.
Where: Jefferson Park Little Free Library – Online FB event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 9 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/757706621810841
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 6th
Time: 9 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785633795185/
Black Book Chat & The Color of Compromise by CSUF African American Studies Department – Virtual Event
Black Book Chat is an informal, virtual meet-up which explores a variety of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction books by Black authors, and you don’t have to read the book to join in. Please Contact Natalie Graham at site link for more information.
This month we will be chatting about The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, by Jemar Tisby.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Black Book Chat – CSUF (online)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 10 pm – 11:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/789220831693204/
Storypalooza for National Read Across America Day – Santa Monica Public Library – Online Kids Event
Celebrate Read Across America and the birthday of author Dr, Seuss with fun activities to promote literacy and making reading fun. All day, from 10am – 4pm, pick up an easy reader book to take home (at Curbside locations while supplies last). Enjoy a virtual performance with Buster Balloon at 11am (register in advance at site link) and make crafts starting at 12pm with our how-to video (pick up a craft kit at Curbside locations starting March 1.)
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: SMPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: All Day: 10 am – 4 pm (see site)
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33715
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 6th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929501349156/
Western Edge Writers Workshop via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Writers and aspiring writers, join us for a group discussion that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs. Share your work and receive constructive criticism.
NOTE: Email shannah@lapl.org for Zoom participation details.
Where: Eagle Rock Library – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-1
The Big Beach Clean-up with Charlotte Offsay & Katie Rewse via Children’s Book World – Online YouTube Event
Join debut author Charlotte Offsay, illustrator Katie Rewse, and local environmental group Heal the Bay, for a virtual reading of THE BIG BEACH CLEANUP and a live animal feeding, steaming live on your YouTube page.
Cora plans to be a sandcastle-building champion, but when the contest is cancelled due to litter at the beach she and her mother decide to get to work, and then realize it will take more than two pairs of hands to solve a big problem. This is a hopeful and relevant story.
Where: Heal the Bay & CBW – YouTube Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event (see website)
The Big Read: The Round House by Louise Erdrich via West Lo s Angeles Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the NEA Big Read Book Discussion to discuss 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: Saturday the 6th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/nea-big-read-book-discussion-round-house-louise-erdrich
Poetic Self-Portraits: It’s All About Me: Workshop with Douglas Manuel via Beyond Baroque – Online Event
Join us for Poetic Self-Portraits: It’s All About Me: A Workshop led by Douglas Manuel.
Do you ever get tired of writing about yourself? This class will give you the opportunity to write about the thing about which many of us are obsessed—ourselves!
Beginning with famous self-portraits from the visual art world by Jean Michel Basquiat, Frida Kahlo, and Pablo Picasso, we will explore some of the motives and strategies of the self-portrait.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom event (see details & ticketing info at website link)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html
Ocean Park Brach Library Book Club via Santa Monica Public Library – Online Event
The Ocean Park Branch Library of SMPL will take a fascinating look at the adventures and legacy of nineteenth-century botanist and food explorer David Fairchild, through reading and discussing his book, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist who Transformed What America Eats.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: SMPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33711
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 6th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/418997709313152/
Book Reviews Workshop with Daniel Olivas via LibroMobile – Online Event
Are you interested in book reviewing, but aren’t sure how to get started? Join us over Zoom wi Daniel Olivas, playwright, renowned author and critic, when he talks with LM Voices Editor Erin Rubin to share tips, practices, y mas, so you can write your best book reviews.
NOTE: See website for registration for this free event, Zoom link, and details.
Where: LibroMobile – Online Zoom event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/events
Poemscaping Workshop with Matthew Feinstein via Surprise the Line – Online Event
Surprise the Line Guest Teacher Workshop presents: Poemscaping: Trim, Write, Repeat, with poet, educator and editor Matthew Feinstein. This revision workshop helps poets create new horizons for their work by creating a no-pressure environment where trimming a poem leads to its rebirth.
NOTE: See website for Eventbrite registration, costs, link, and details.
Where: Surprise the Line – Online Zoom event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 1 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www,https://www.facebook.com/events/2842598462681464
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Writing Workshop via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Campbell. (Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum Online Edition: Lucky Ducks by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, March 20th)..
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Open Reading at Ironbark Ciderworks via Open Words Poetry Reading – In-Person Event
Open Words is back for another go at having a live Covid-careful open reading at Ironbark Ciderworks on their recently re-opened patio.
Sign-ups start at 3:45. So come and share your poetry or creative prose, or just come and listen and enjoy. Everyone is welcome. Refreshments are available for purchase, and reservations are recommended but not required.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Open Words Poetry – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 1420 N. Claremont Blvd. #107B, Claremont, CA 91711
Website:https://www.facebook.com/events/790362778355490
International Women’s Day Speaker: Author Alev Lytle Croutier via TALL – Online Event
TALL is proud to present Alev Lytle Croutier, the most widely published woman of Turkish origin, whose books have been translated into 23 languages. Ms. Croutier will share what inspired her to write her books, Harem: The World Behind the Veil and Seven Houses, and what her process and creative influences are and why.
Kindle editions of her books will be available online if you would like to read them in advance of the event. They may also be purchased through Amazon.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Turkish American Ladies League Charity – Online FB and Zoom event
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/176891184207584
Live at Dynasty Typewriter: Annabelle Gurwitch, with Andie MacDowell, & You’re Leaving When? via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Author Annabelle Gurwitch, in conversation with actress Andie MacDowell, will discuss her new memoir, You’re Leaving When?
This book gives an irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proving that our no-frills new normal doesn’t mean a deficit of humor. In these essays the author embraces homesharing, welcoming a housing-insecure couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary and stories about the dating pool also shine here. This book is for anyone who thought they had a semblance of security, but wound up only with a fragile economy and a “blankie.”
NOTE: See site for event details. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: Skylight Bookstore & Dynasty Typewriter– Online event
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event
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