Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Lesley Tellez & Eat Mexico via La Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Virtual Event
Join us on Zoom and FB Live as author Lesley Tellez presents her book, Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City’s Streets, Markets and Fondas, and demonstrates how to make Peneques, a traditional Mexico City recipe that dates to the 19th century.
NOTE: Details available at event link.
Where: La Plaza de Cultura y Artes– Online Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/129956188996703
Tween Book Club & The Land of Forgotten Girls via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Virtual Event
Kids ages 9 to 12 are invited to a monthly book club meeting that discusses book recommendations and takes place over Zoom. This month’s book selection is The Land of Forgotten Girls, by Erin Entrada Kelly. (Available on Hoopla)
NOTE: Details available at event link.
Where: LAPL – Online Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tween-book-club
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 8th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club with Dan Lopez via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
The Ficcion en Espanol Book Club, hosted by Dan Loopez, reads and discusses fiction in Spanish, and the discussion will be in Spanish and English, via Zoom.
This month’s selection is Dolores Reyes’ book, Comiteria.
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: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/ficcion-en-espanol-book-club-with-dan-lopez-3
Rise & Shine Workshop: Winter 2021 / Series of Odes via Surprise the Line – Online Facebook Event
This is the final 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 9th
Time: 9 am – 11 am
Address: Surprise the Line Poetry Workshops – Online event
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-shine-winter-2021-series-of-odes-tickets-135021515989 or https://www.facebook.com/events/158377622403252
Deesha Philyaw & The Secret Lives of Church Ladies via California African American Museum – Zoom Online
In conjunction with the CAAM exhibition, Enunciated Life, author Deesha Philyaw discusses her latest book, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.
Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Life of Church Ladies was a National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, and offers a series of short stories about Black women, faith, and desire. In it, four generations of characters grapple with the church’s standards and their own needs and passions. Philyaw discusses this work with writer, photographer, and podcast host Nneka Julia Odum.
NOTE: RSVP for Zoom instructions.
Where: CAAM – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1115262915607179
Kate Hope Day, with Liberty Hardy, & In the Quick via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Kate Hope Day, in discussion with Liberty Hardy, to hear them discuss her new book In the Quick.
Kate Hope Day’s novel. In the Quick, is a propulsive narrative of one woman’s persistence and journey to self-discovery through her investigation of what went wrong on a spacecraft equipment failure It’s an exploration of the strengths and limits of human ability in the face of hardship, and the costs of human ingenuity.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/kate-hope-day-conversation-liberty-hardy-discusses-quick
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for a monthly featured Poetry Night & Open Mic Poetry event offered virtually via Zoom.
To receive a Zoom invitation, please email Emily at eaaronson@;apl.org.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL– Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Sam Cohen, with Nikki Darling, & Sarahland via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author Sam Cohen, in conversation with author Nikki Darling,to discuss her collection of stories, Sarahland.
In this debut collection, Cohen brilliantly and often hilariously explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, and casts new origin stories, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it, and new possibilities for life itself. In Sarah’s refusal to adhere to a single narrative, she builds a better home for all, a place called Sarahland.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
Mystery Book Club & The Long and Faraway Gone: A Novel via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join our Mystery Book Club to discuss the book, The Long and Faraway Gone, a novel by Lou Berney. This book was an Edgar Award winner and 2015 nominee for the LA Times Book Prize.
This book explores two tragedies that rocked Oklahoma in the summer of 1986. Six movie theater employees were killed in an armed robbery, and a teenage girl vanished from the State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved. Twenty-five years later the reverberations of those unsolved cases quietly echo through survivors; lives. This book explores the mysteries of memory and the impact of violence, as well as the lengths survivors will go to find the painful truths of the events that scarred their lives.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore Live – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/mystery-book-club-virtual-meeting-8
Adult Book Group & The Underground Railroad via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Join our Adult Book Group via Zoom on the second Tuesday of each month, where this month we will be discussing Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Underground Railroad.
The book is available in paperback and in digital format.
NOTE: Details available at website,
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-underground-railroad-colson-whitehead
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 9th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar
Conversation with Kazuo Ishiguro & Klara and the Sun via Skirball Cultural Center – Online Event
Join author and 2017 Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro (Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go),in a virtual conversation about his latest book, the highly anticipated Klara and the Sun: A Novel, presented by Writers Bloc and the Skirball Cultural Center.
This thought-provoking dystopian novel is told from the perspective of Klara, an artificial friend designed to be a child’s companion. In conversation with Westwood co-creator Lisa Joy, Ishiguro discusses the implications of artificial intelligence and the fundamental question of what it means to love.
NOTE: See site for event details, and Skylight book purchase.
Where: Skirball Cultural Center & Writers Bloc – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 12 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1086944581808540
Middle Grade Book Club & Amari and the Night Brothers via Pages Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Please join the Pages Middle Grade Book club, which reads new releases of middle grade fiction, and enjoy a discussion of Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations #1), by B.B. Alston.
This book is about Amari Peters, who has never stopped believing her missing brother Quinton, is alive, and disbelieving the bullies who said he was gone for good. When she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural affairs, she’s certain she’s found the key to locating her brother. Now she must compete for a spot against kids who’ve known magic all their lives, and she has never felt more alone.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for the event.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-virtual-meeting-9
Chip Jacobs, with Ron Franscell, & The Darkest Glare via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join author Chip Jacobs, in conversation with Ron Franscell, to hear them discuss his book, The Darkest Glare: A True Story of Murder, Blackmail, and Real Estate Greed in 1979 Los Angeles.
Chip Jacobs’ book, The Darkest Glare, recounts a spectacular, noir-ish, true-crime saga from one of the deadliest eras in American history. Late-seventies L.A. was rampant with killers and shady characters, but all the go-getters at Space Matters saw was possibility. The co-owners of the space planning firm operated out of a hip mansion in the Miracle Mile District, and when their blueprints succumbed to treachery and secrets, one launched a murder-for-profit organization. The results resemble a Coen Brothers movie come to life.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/chip-jacobs
Oh, The People You’ll Know: All About Angelenos as Characters via Sideshow Books & Made in L.A. Writers – Online Event
Join us for a literary reading featuring stories of Los Angeles and its inhabitant, to hear contributors to Made in L.A. Vol. 3: Art of Transformation read their work. This volume is a love letter to one of the greatest cities in the world, one that invites, or forces, its inhabitants to transform with it. The contributors to this volume have written stories that capture the dive and angst of the city and the need to constantly reinvent oneself.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Sideshow Books & Made in LA et al – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/269701247942800
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, with Charles Yu, & Disordered Cosmos via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, in conversation with author Charles Yu,to discuss her book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime & Dreams Deferred.
From a star theoretical physicist comes a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more just practice of science. The author’s vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly non-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions. This book dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to tap into humanity’s wealth of knowledge about the wonders of the universe.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)
Address: Online event
LA Times Book Club & Viet Thanh Nguyen & The Committed via LA Times & Pages – Online Event
Join us to hear Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, in conversation with Times columnist Carolina Miranda, discuss his sequel to The Sympathizer. His new book, The Committed, revisits his complicated protagonist, a double agent in the aftermath of the Viet Nam War, and follows him to Paris.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: L.A. Times Book Cub Live – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 7 pm – 8:15 pm
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 10th
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 10th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading with Sonia Greenfield & Brendan Constantine via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Zoom Online
Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and host Ben Trigg presents weekly poetry readings at the Ugly Mug and the events are now virtual.
This week’s features are poets Sonia Greenfield & Brendan Constantine.
Sonia Greenfield has been director of the Southern California Poetry Festival and editor of Rise Up Review. She is an activist and political volunteer, who has worked and lived in numerous locations from California to New York, and now lives in Minneapolis with her family and pets.
Brendan Constantine is a native Angeleno and ardent supporter of Southern California poetry communities and one of its most recognized poets. He has taught in local schools and colleges since 1995. His most recent collections are Dementia, My Darling (2016) from Red Hen Press and Bouncy Bounce (2018), a chapbook from Blue Horse Press.
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 10th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/466052818098140
Julia Lovell & Maoism: A Global History via USC U.S.-China Institute – Online Event
Join a conversation with author and Professor of Modern China at Birkbeck College, University of London, Julia Lovell, who presents and discusses her new book, Maoism: A Global History
In this new history, the author reevaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and an international force, linking its evolution in China with its global legacy. Despite the West’s dismissal of Maoism as an outdated phenomenon, with disagreements and conflicts between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.
NOTE: See site for further details, Eventbrite tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite free tickets)
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 1 pm – 2:15 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/269701247942800
Marie Benedict & The Mystery of Mrs. Christie via Huntington Beach Public Library – Online Event
Acclaimed author Marie Benedict will join Friends of the HBPL to discuss her new novel, The Mystery of Mrs. Christie.
When up and coming mystery writer Agatha Christie goes missing for eleven days in 1926 an unprecedented manhunt ensues to uncover her whereabouts. Investigators are as baffled as her husband and daughter when she reappears eleven days later with no explanation. In this book the author brings us into the world of Agatha Christie, imagining why such a brilliant woman would find herself at the center of such a murky story.
NOTE: See site for details and online instructions.
Where: Friends of HBPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/238168621287977
Sara Kathryn Arledge Book Launch via Armory Center for the Arts – Online Event
Join us for the live launch of Sara Kathryn Arledge: Serene for the Moment, the first extended monograph on the artist.
The event features comments and readings of texts from the catalog by Irene Georgia Tsatsos, Sasha Archibald, and Sarah McColl; a presentation of the article’s rarely seen hand-painted glass transparencies along with exhibition images; plus an interactive art activity by artist Julia O. Blanco.
NOTE: See site for details, and to RSVP for the event.
Where: Armory Center for the Arts – Online event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebookcom/events/2839279569693127
The Braintrust: A Free Generative Workshop via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
The Poetry Lab started as a co-work space in Downtown Long Beach in 2013, meeting twice a month. Intermixed with lessons on various topics, were original sessions such as Blind Date with a Book and Submissions Sesh. Braintrust is our virtual version of this workshop. Come see what it’s all about: Everyone is welcome!
Workshop instructor: Danielle Mitchell.
NOTE: See site for details, and to RSVP for the event.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/braintrust-march
Jackie Wang, with Brandon Shimoda, & The Sunflower via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Author Jackie Wang, in conversation with Brandon Shimoda (The Grave on the Wall),will discuss her new collection, The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void.
The poems in this book read like dispatches from the dream world, with the author acting as our trusted comrade reporting across time and space. With a light touch and sense of humor, she illustrate the social dimension of dreams and the ability of them to shape the dreamer’s waking world with renewed energy and insight.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Carla Malden & Shine Until Tomorrow via Diesel’s Bookstore – Online YA Event
Join us to hear author Carla Malden present and discuss Shine Until Tomorrow, a time-travel tale that takes its troubled teenage protagonist from present-day San Francisco back to the “Summer of Love” in 1967.
This is a fun and touching novel about the people who raise us, the times that define us, and the stumbling blocks along the way. It tells the story of a girl obsessed with the future who must visit the past to learn to live in the present.
NOTE: Details, RSVP link are available at website.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/carla-malden-discusses-shine-until-tomorrow
Howard Sherman & Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for a special event offered by Pasadena Playhouse and Deaf West productions, and a conversation with actress Jane Kaczmarek and author Howard Sherman, celebrating the enduring legacy of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
Howard Sherman’s book, Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century, features 13 diverse productions of Our Town, including the landmark 2017 Production by Pasadena Playhouse and Deaf West.
NOTE: Details, RSVP link are available at website.
Where: Vroman’s & Playhouse Live – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/pasadena-playhouse-present-another-days-begun
Kenneth Fischer & Steven D. Lavine Present Their Books via Chevalier’s Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
Join us to hear the work of authors and distinguished leaders Kenneth Fischer & Steven D. Lavine, in a presentation of two new books: Everybody In, Nobody Out and Failure Is What It’s All About, respectively.
Kenneth Fischer’s Everybody In, Nobody Out: Inspiring Community at Michigan’s University Musical Society is about an approach that not only deepened UMS’s engagement with the university and southwest Michigan communities, it led to exemplary partnerships with distinguished artists across the world. It is a reflection on the power of the performing arts to engage and enrich communities.
Steven D. Lavine’s Failure Is What It’s All About is about a life devoted to leadership in the arts.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/kenfischer-stevenlavine
Shout! The Open Mic Poetry Night at Half Off Books – Zoom Online Edition
Join Eric Moraaga for the Zoom online version of SHOUT The Open Mic Poetry Night, which meets every second Thursday of the month. You’ll be signed in to read once the Zoom meeting starts, and we’ll try to add latecomers so everyone has a chance to share. So, dust off your poems, stories, comedy, magic,…whatever floats your heart.
Where: Zoom online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/HOBRF or https://hobrf.com/events-open-mic-poetry-night/
The Pumphrey Brother & The Old Boat via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us to hear the Pumphrey Brothers, author Jerrett Humphrey and illustrator Jerome Pumphrey, whenpresent their newest picture book, The Old Boat. This quiet and thought-provoking story from the creators of The Old Truck will encourage readers to think about the change they can bring to our environment.
NOTE: See site for link and book purchase information.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/old-boat
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 11th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
NoHo Book Club via North Hollywood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the NoHo Book Club twice a month to discuss a selected title and a book of your choice, in an alternating schedule pattern
At this meeting we will discuss any book of your choice.
RSVP to nohlwd@lapl.org at least two days in advance to receive the link.
NOTE: Pre-REGISTER in advance to receive the link.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 12th
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
Teens Discuss Kindred by Octavia E. Butler via Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Teens ages 13-18 are invited to discuss the novel Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler, a masterpiece that transcends science fiction and confronts racism, sexism, and human rights, as well as the complexities of love and ancestry.
We will discuss the book’s impact and create poems and alternate book cover drawings.
Email mmorrone@lapl.org for the Zoom link.
NOTE: See details at the link.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 12th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/teens-discuss-kindred-octavia-e-butler
Teresa Carmody, with Connie Samaras, & The Reconception of Marie via Skylight Bookstore – Virtual Event
Author Teresa Carmody, in conversation with artist and photographer Connie Samaras,, will present and discuss her novel, The Reconception of Marie.
In this novel, sexually curious and intellectually adventurous adolescent Marie begins journaling about her life in Western Michigan’s Bible Belt during the rise of the Christian Right. Over the span of many years, her writing becomes a meditation on the ways in which language makes, unmakes, and remakes us. Here, Marie’s many voices coalesce in a spiritual quest navigated with humor, fervency, and queer grace.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online
Date: Friday the 12th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Virtual event
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 13th
Time: 9 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785750461840/
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 13th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929511349155/
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 13th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-1
Book Club: Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Westwood Branch Library Book Club to discuss the classic, Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham. This book is about a young man who finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Please contact wwood@lapl.org to receive a Zoom invitation.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-7
Get Lit’s Emerging Writers Fellowship via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Event
Get Lit’s FREE 15-week Emerging Writers Fellowship is an online publishing course held for teens 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 13th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/418997719313151/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Writing Workshop via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Deep Critique Writing Workshop led by G.T. Foster. (Bring extra copies of your poems-in-progress.)
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website: https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Native American Writers Speak Out via LibroMobile – Online Event
LibroMobile presents the event, Native American Writers Speak Out, featuring Erica T. Wurth & David Weiden.
Sharing works of unconventional characters and crimes, writers Erica T. Wurth author of Buckskin Cocaine and Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend, and David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of Winter Counts and Spotted Trail, challenge selected work and speak out on topics of national tokenism and contemporary Indian voices emerging form the reservation and throughout North America.
NOTE: RSVP at site for this IG event.
Where: LibroMobile – Online IG event (see details & ticketing info at website link)
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Virtual Talk: Lynsey Addario with Sheryl WuDunn via Skirball Cultural Center – Online Event
Join us to meet Lynsey Addario, the artist and humanitarian behind the striking photographs in Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. In conversation with Tightrope co-creator Sheryl WuDunn, Addario discusses her recent work documenting the Covid-19 crisis. Through intimate and arresting images of doctors, patients, and other affected individuals, she offers a harrowing look at life and loss amid the pandemic. Stay after the talk for a Q&A with the artist.
NOTE: See site for reservations for this free event..
Where: Skirball Cultural Center – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 14th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online (see site)
Website:https://www.facebook.com/events/2728497687412488
A Tribute to Ralph Angel: Poetry Reading via Beyond Baroque – Online Event
Beyond Baroque presents a memorial reading in celebration of the life of Ralph Angel, along with Mary Angel, David St. John, and Jim Natal. A poet, teacher, mentor, and an inspiration to all who knew him or read his work, this free program will feature reminiscences and readings of his poetry by colleagues, friends and former students.
Ralph once said, “Poetry is the language for which we have no language.”
Readings will be performed by: Andrea Beltran, Molly Bendall, Elena Karina Byrne, Gillian Conoley, Mark Cox, Jody Gladding, Stella Hayes, Rick Jackson, Sarah Maclay, Holaday Mason, Ata Moharreri, Jim Natal, Mary Ruefle, David St. John, Arthur Vogelsang, Jonathan Wells, Jan Wesley, Sholah Wolpe.
NOTE: See site for required RSVP and event details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom event
Date: Sunday the 14th
Time: 12 pm – 2 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-tribute-to-ralph-angel-tickets-142824934223
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club, with Peter Clines, & The Power via The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club, led by Peter Clines, explores dystopia and the post-apocalypse in their bewildering array of forms.
This month’s book selection for discussion is Naomi Alderman’s The Power. When women discover the ability to generate potentially deadly shocks with a touch, the power structure is upended.
NOTE: See site for event details. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online event
Date: Sunday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event
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