Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Wesley Brown, with Douglas Kearney, & Tragic Magic via Skylight Books – Online Event
Wesley Brown, in conversation with poet Douglas Kearney, will read and discuss his book, Tragic Magic.
Wesley Brown is the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, Dance of the Infidels, and four produced plays. Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. The author structures this first person tale around Ellington’s first day on the outside, haunted by a past that drives him to make sense of choices leading up to this day.
Originally published in 1978, and edited by Toni Morrison during her time at Random House, this Of the Diaspora edition of Tragic Magic features a new introduction by author Wesley Brown.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-wesley-brown-reads-tragic-magic-douglas-kearney
Ramadan Resistance: Poetry as Process in Islamophobic Times Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Poetry as Process in Islamophobic Times is an intensive two-session writing workshop led by Tanzila Ahmed, a political strategist, storyteller, and artist based in Los Angeles.
The month of Ramadan for Muslins is a holy month of fasting daily, spirituality, and community. What began as a program for Poetry-A-day for Ramadan has turned into a group project of 70 participants grappling with increased attacks on the Muslim American Community.
Ahmed creates at the intersection of counter-narratives and culture-shifting as a South Asian American Muslim 2nd generation woman. See site for further details.
NOTE: See site for details and ticket information.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Mondays, May the 3rd & May the 10th
Time: 5pm – 7 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html
Laura Dave, with Lauren Levy Neustadter & The Last Thing He Told Me via Book Soup – Online Event
Laura Dave, in conversation with Lauren Levy Neustadter, will present and discuss her book. The Las Thing He told Me.
Author and novelist Laura Dave’s new book has breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and is an evocative family drama as well as a riveting mystery. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his wife of one year: protect her. Hannah knows his note refers to Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. As they set out to discover the truth, they soon realize they’re building a new future—one they never anticipated.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Julianna Margulies & Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life via Live Talks LA – Zoom Online
Join LiveTalks Los Angeles to hear Emmy and golden Globe award-winning actress Julianna Margulies discuss her new book, Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life.
Julianna Margulies, star of The Good Wife and ER on network TV, and recently starring on series such as The Morning Show, Billions, and The Hot Zone, is also involved in Project ALS and Erin’s Law. She is a board member of the New York City-based MCC Theatre, and resides in New York with her husband and son.
Interviewer TBA.
NOTE: This is a ticked event so check site for details.
Where: LiveTalks LA -Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/julianna-margulies/
Mother’s Day Night of Poetry with Four Fabulous Poets via Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Celebrate Mother’s Day with a poetry reading by four amazing, fabulous poets:
bridgette bianca is a poet and professor from South Central Los Angeles. Her debut poetry collection, be/trouble, was published by Writ Large Press in 2020.
liz gonazalez is a creative nonfiction writer and poet, born and raised in the San Bernardino Valley. She is the author of Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected (Los Nietos Press, 2018). She teaches writing at the UCLA Extension Writers Program.
Gail Newman was co-founder of Room: Woman’s Literary Journal and has edited towo books of children’s poetry.
Lynne Thompson is the newly appointed Los Angeles Poet Laureate, and the author of three poetry collections, most recently Fretwork.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom event
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/may3-poetry
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 3rd
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Queer Book Club with CB Lee & Surrender Your Sons via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
The Queer Book Club led by CB Lee reads and discusses Queer authors, books, and topics across genres (mostly fiction).
This month’s book selection, Surrender Your Sons, by Adam Sass, can be ordered online at the store’s site. In this book a group of queer teens work together to survive imprisonment on an island,
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details-details/queer-book-club-with-cb-lee-5
Nikita Lalwani, with Tessa Hadley, & You People via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Nikita Laiwani, in conversation with Tessa Hadley, to hear them discuss her new novel, You People.
This story describes the inner worlds of characters and captures their intimate, tender exchanges as a way to ask profound questions: should we break the law if we feel it to be unjust? is it impossible to move away from hate and towards love?
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online Event
May Book Club & Grit via NAWBO – OC – Zoom Online Event
The NOWBO – OC Club for women business owners in our area holds a monthly online book club
This month’s book selection is Grit, by Angela Duckworth, and you can check out our past reads at our website link
NOTE: After registering you will receive a confirmation email, so check site for details.
Where: NAWBO – Orange County – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/283741512889947
Justine Dean & Anna K Away via Vroman’s Books – Online Kids Event
Justin Dean will present and discuss his children’s series and new book, AWESOME DOG 5000, a wild action-comedy told through a mix of text and black-and-white illustrations, with a mystery to solve at the end. Robotic dog AWESOME DOG 5000 is back in his third adventure: Evil Cat vs, Awesome Dog!
The author is an award-winning writer for TV, animation, video games, live events.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Journey of the Invisible Man Group Discussion #2 via the Hammer Museum – Online Event
The Hammer Museum is offering a series of programs celebrating the literary, cultural, and social legacies of Ralph Ellison’s groundbreaking work, Invisible Man. Explore this classic American novel with three group discussion, followed by a culminating discussion
Journey of the Invisible Man is an intimate seminar following the protagonist’s journey from South to North, focusing on the novel’s Harlem setting.
The next readings and discussions will be held on May 18.
NOTE: Reservations required for this ticketed event at Eventbrite site.
Where: Hammer Museum – Online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2021/revisiting-ralph-ellisons-invisible-man
CAAM Poetry Suite: Tina Turner via California African American Museum – Online Event
In conjunction with Nikita Gale: PRIVATE DANCER, writer, dancer, and activist Harmony Holiday performs her latest poems inspired by the exhibition and the work of Tina Turner, an icon referenced in Gale’s installation. Enjoy this live presentation, te closing program for the exhibition. RSVP for Zoom details.
NOTE: Reservations required for this ticketed event at Eventbrite site.
Where: CAAM – Online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://caamuseum.org/programs/concerts-performances-and-screenings/caam-poetry-suite-tina-turner
Tanya Ko Hong Reading Event via Rattlecast # 91 – Online Event
Rattlecast # 91 features Tanya Ko Hong reading and discussing her latest book, The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora. The author is a poet, translator, and cultural curator who champions bilingual poetry and poets. Born and raised in South Korea, she immigrated to the U.S. at age eighteen. She is the author of four books, and is now a PhD Student at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She lives in southern California with her husband and three children.
NOTE: Reservations. link, and further information available at site.
Where: Rattlecast # 91 – Online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/253778803141787/
Noah Isenberg, with Sam Wasson, & Billy Wilder via Book Soup – Online Event
Noah Isenberg, in conversation with Sam Wasson, will present and discuss his book, Billy Wilder on Assignment.
Author Noah Isenberg’s new book is filled with rich reportage and personal musings, as Billy Wilder on Assignment showcases the burgeoning voice of a young journalist who would go on to become a great auteur and one of Hollywood’s most revered writer-directors.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Elizabeth Warren, with Amber Tamblyn, & Persist via Live Talks LA – Zoom Online
Join LiveTalks Los Angeles to hear Senator Elizabeth Warren, in conversation with Amber Tamblyn, to discuss her book, Perist.
Elizabeth Warren, senior senator from Massachusetts and former presidential candidate, is the author of eleven previous books, and mixes vivid personal stories with a passionate plea for political transformation. Here she writes about six perspectives that have influenced her life and advocacy. It is a deeply personal book and a powerful call to action.
Amber Tamblyn is an Emmy. Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award nominated actress, writer, and director, and the author of six books, including Era of Ignition: coming of age in a time of rage and revolution.
NOTE: This is a ticked event so check site for details.
Where: LiveTalks LA -Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 6 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/event/elizabeth_warren/
Victoria Aveyard, with Emma Theriault & Realm Breaker via Vroman’s Books – Online Event
Author Victoria Aveyard, in conversation with Emma Theriault, will present and discuss her fantasy series and new book, Realm Breaker, an irresistibly action-packed story full of lethal surprises.
From the author of the Red Queen series, this book begins where hope is lost and asks: When the heroes have fallen, who will take up the sword? In this book, a strange darkness grows in Allward, and now they must stand together against a vicious opponent, invincible and determined to burn all kingdoms to ash.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/victoria-aveyard
Casey Wilson, with Kristen Wiig, & The Wreckage of My Presence via Dynasty Typewriter & Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Casey Wilson, in conversation with Kristen Wiig, to hear them discuss her new essay collection, The Wreckage of My Presence.
This collection of essays explores the joys and vagaries of modern-day womanhood and motherhood through her not-quite-typical family, and include touching meditations on grief, motherhood, and identity.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Dynasty Typewriter &Skylight Bookstore – Online
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event
Jonathan Taplin, with Ian Masters, & The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life via Diesel Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Jonathan Taplin, in conversation with Ian Masters, to hear them discuss his new book, The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life.
This author’s extraordinary journey has put him at the center of every major cultural wave in the past half century—from Woodstock to Hollywood’s rebellious film movement. Here he makes a convincing case for art’s power to deliver us from “passionless detachment” and rekindle our humanism.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Diesel’s Bookstore – Online
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Teri Cross Davis & Open Reading – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature poet Teri Cross Davis, plus an open reading.
Teri Cross Davis is the author of Haint (Gival Press, 2016).winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is a Cave Canem fellow and member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 4th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
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 4th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar (Check site to confirm date)
Laura Dave Virtual Lunch Break, with Jane Green, & The Last Thing He Told Me via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for a conversation with Laura Dave (800 Grapes and Hello Sunshine) for a virtual luncheon and conversation between Dave and bestselling author Jane Green about her new book, The Last Thing He Told Her.
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah knows the note refers to Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey, who wants nothing to do with her stepmother. But as she and Bailey set out to discover the truth and putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they are building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 5th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/special-virtual-lunch-break-laura-dave-and-jane-green
David E. Hayes-Bautista & El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition via Bowers Museum – Online Event
Join us for a conversation with Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista, distinguished professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA,about his book, El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition.
In this book the author outlines and explores the Civil War origins of Cinco de Mayo.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Bowers Museum – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 5th
Time: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/154390966608865
Mystery Book Club & A Rising Man via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for the Mystery Book Club, to read and discuss the debut novel, A Rising Man (2017) by Abir Mukherjee, which is a tale of murder and intrigue set in Calcutta, India in 1919. Email prncho@lapl.org for link.
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for event details.
Where: LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 5th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-25
Ian Manuel, with Bryan Stevenson, & My Time Will Come via ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL – Online Event
Author Ian Manuel, in conversation with author and prison reformer Bryan Stevenson (Just Mercy),will discuss his memoir, My Time Will come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption.
At age fourteen, the author was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime, after growing up homeless in Tampa, Florida. He was imprisoned for two-thirds of his life, and shares how he endured the savagery of the US prison system through his dedication to writing poetry and through hope from others advocating for his freedom. His is a transcendent story of redemption, and we will look at how we can address our judicial system to bring about “just mercy.”
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for event details.
Where: LAPL – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 5th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://lfla.org/event/my-time-will-come-a-memoir-of-crime-punishment-hope-and-redemption/
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 4th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/AnansiVirtual Workshop/ (Check site to confirm date)
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 4th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading Ellyn Maybe 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 feature is poet, muse and enigma Ellyn Maybe.
Ellyn Maybe is an irresistible force. To read or listen to her poetry is to be gently crushed while simultaneously inspired and charmed.Published works include: Rodeo for the Sheepish; Praha and the Poet; The Cowardice of Amnesia; Walking Barefoot in the Glassblowers Museum; A Talk with Nature; A Day in the Life of a Working Poor Xylophone Maker.
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 5th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry or https://www.facebook.com/events/777744776452001
AJU Book Launch: Michael Oren & To All Who Call In Truth via American Jewish University (AJU) – Online Event
Join us to hear acclaimed author and Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren, discuss his recent novel,To All Who Call In Truth.
This book is a compulsively readable novel in which an unsuspecting guidance counselor gets drawn into an illicit relationship and a macabre murder mystery in 1970s suburbia. He evokes the time of racial, political, and social turmoil in the ‘70s time period.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: American Jewish University (AJU) – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 6th
Time: 12 pm – 12:45 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/507110507114627
Paolina Milana, with Brenda Gazzar, & Committed via Vroman’s Books – Online Event
Author Paolina Milana, in conversation with Brenda Gazzar, will present and discuss her new book, Committed: A Memoir of Madness in the Family
From the founder of Madness To Magic, the author’s mission here is to share stories that celebrate the triumph of the human spirit and power within each of us to bring about change for the better. After a decade of caring for crazy and keeping her mother’s mental illness a secret form the outside world, Paola longs for just one year free from the madness of her home. When she gets the chance to go to school out-of-state, she takes it, but her family wont’ leave her be, and the voices in her head challenge her as well. Poignant and impactful, Committed is one woman’s story of resilience as she struggles to stay sane despite the madness that surrounds her.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Thursday the 6th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Book Club & Your House Will Pay via Felipe de Neve Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join our book club discussion of Steph Cha’s book inspired by the 1992 LA uprisings following the Rodney King verdicts, Your House Will Pay.
Please contact felipelibrary48@lapl.org for the Zoom link.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 6th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-discussion-your-house-will-pay-steph-cha
Rooted: Workshop with Mindy Nettifee via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
Please join a free four-part writing workshop titled Rooted, led by Mindy Nettifee.
In this online workshop, Dr. Mindy Nettifee will guide experiential somatic meditations and writing practices that help us tap states of grounded connectivity and artistic containment, as a means to understand our creative process, and harness it to write new work. This workshop is appropriate for writers of all levels, and consists of three workshops and a culminating class performance.
NOTE: See website link for details on this free workshop.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 6th (May, 13, May 20 & June 3)
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/880836119360210
Elissa Washuta, with Randa Jarrar, & White Magic via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Elissa Washuta, in conversation with author Randa Jarrar, to hear them discuss her new essay collection, White Magic.
This collection of bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, intertwined essays explores the land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch. She questions cultural inheritance and the particular danger, as a Native woman, of relaxing into romantic love under colonial rule.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online
Date: Thursday the 6th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-elissa-washuta-discusses-white-magic-randa-jarrar
Beyond This Moment Benefit via Beyond Baroque – Online Ticketed Event
Join Beyond Baroque for an online Benefit Gala, Beyond This Moment, and enjoy an amazing group of featured artists, including:
Abiodun Oyewole I Amanda Gorman I Amy Gerstler I Amy Landecker I Bradley Whitford I Carolyn Foronda I E. Ethelbert Miller I Jaki Shelton Green I John Sinclair I The Linda Lindas I Louie Pérez I Luis J. Rodriguez I Lynne Thompson I Peter J. Harris I Ryka Aoki I Simon Callow I Tyehimba Jess I Wayne Kramer
Hosts: Pat Thomas & Shonda Buchanan
On this day we will celebrate poetry, literature, and renewed literary community in support of Beyond Baroque’s reopening later this year.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Thursday the 6th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/2021gala.html
Morgan Matson, with Maureen Goo, & Take Me Home Tonight via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Virtual Event
Author Morgan Matson, in conversation with Maureen Goo, will discuss her book, Take Me Home Tonight.
From the author of Since You’ve Been Gone, this is the story of: Two girls. One night. Zero phones. Kat and Stevie— best friends, theater kids, polar opposites— have snuck away from the suburbs to spend a night in New York City. They have it all planned out, and plan to have the best night ever. What could possibly go wrong?
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 6th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/morgan-matson
Future Now: A Black & Brown Open Mic & Reading Seriesvia Dryland LA Online
Join us for the 2nd monthly meeting of the Future Now Black & Brown Open Mic & Reading Series, to be held every first Thursday of the month, and hosted by Nikolai Garcia and the Dryland team.
Featured readers are drawn from our Dryland contributors, and this month, include:
Teka Lo is a poet, essayist, and journalist from Los Angeles, currently living in New York. She is founder and editor of Public Intellectual and the author of the poetry collection Queen of Inglewood. She was featured in Dryland Issue 10, 2020.
Briana Munoz is a writer from Southern California. She is the author of the collection Loose Lips (2019) and the forthcoming collection Everything Is Returned to the Soil (FlowerSong Press 2021). She is featured in Dryland Issue 10, 2020.
Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (2019), and Pinata Theory (2020). His chapbook, Notes From the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge, is now available on Ghost City Press. He was featured in Dryland Issue 10, 2020.
Sign-up for the Open Mic, and read the guidelines at the site link.
Virtual Zoom ID: 878 8950 0444
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Dryland LA – Online Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 6th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://drylandla.org/2021/03/11/future-now-open-mic-reading-series/ or https://dryland.org/future-now/
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 6th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
Your Author Series: Cozbi Cabrera via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Kids Event
Please welcome artist Cozbi Cabrera to the library’s YouTube channel and Facebook page to share her award-winning book, Me & Mama. In addition to children’s literature, Cozbi has also been a success as a textile artist and album cover illustrator, and a doll maker.
Those attending this event will have an opportunity to win a free book.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 7th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-cozbi-cabrera
Grace Miceli, in conversation with Jordan Sondler, will present and discuss her book, How to Deal: With Fear, Failure, and Other Daily Dreads.
Author Grace Miceli’s new book, How to Deal, acknowledges that dealing with ourselves requires… a lot. In this relatable and hilarious collection, she explores how our comfort zones may be a trap, how to stay when you want to run away, and where to find light when everything feels dark. This is a fight or flight manual for life.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Friday the 7th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/grace-miceli-discusses-how-deal-fear-failure-and-other-daily-dreads
Nicholas Schmidle, in conversation with Bud Bissinger, will present and discuss his book, Test Gods, an epic story about extreme bravery and sacrifice, and the line between lunacy and dreams.
New Yorker writer and author Nicholas Schmidle’s new book, Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut, tells the remarkable story of the test pilots, engineers, and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic’s campaign to build a space tourism company. he follows a handful of characters through personal and professional dramas in pursuit of their collective goal: to make space tourism a reality.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Friday the 7th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
James Sie, with Shaan Dasani & Ash Nichols, & All Kinds of Other via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join author James Sie, in conversation with Shaan Dasani & Ash Nichols, to hear them discuss his book, All Kinds of Other.
In this story both Jules and Jack must leave behind old lives to make fresh starts at a new school. Each boy must either play it safe and stay under the radar or embrace the truth—and their feelings for each other.
This is an event which will share profits with the Los Angeles LGBT center.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Friday the 7th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Skylight – Online event
SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music at the Creative House – In-Person Event
SWAAM Spoken Word art & Music at the Creative House is offered every 1st & 3rd Friday of the month at 8pm.
This event by Lorenzo Frank, features an Open Mic, Live Band, Catered Food, Wine Bar, VIP Booths, and the guest artist of the night, “Jeronimo Speaks,” from Chicago. He has won many slam awards and is one of the most sought out spoken word artists in Chicago, selling out at the I I.C.E. Theater, and performing on many TV and radio shows.
NOTE: See website link for costs & details.
Where: The Creative House
Date: Friday the 7th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 122 N. Market St., Inglewood, CA
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, In February, Cynthia Alessandra Briano celebrated 5 years as host!
Features TBA.
NOTE: See website link for details. (TBA)
Where: First Fridays Rapp Saloon (online)
Date: Friday the 7th
Time: 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/rappsaloon
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 8th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929528015820/
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 8th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785647128517/
Women Who Submit: A Literary Submission Workshop – Online Event
The Women Who Submit Workshop and New Member Orientation will be remote by Zoom, and will begin with a panel “Curating and Placing a Chapbook” featuring Janel Pineda, author of Lineage of Rain (Haymarket, 2020) and Jenise Miller, author of The Blvd (DSTL 2019). The Submission Party with Sakai Manning will follow at 11am.
Where: Women Who Submit – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 8th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/473620233684723/
Tamara Winfrey Harris & Faith Adiele & Dear Black Girl via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join Bel Cano Books for a mother’s Day Kickoff Event of Dear Black Girl, with Tamara Winfrey Harris and Faith Adiele. They will talk about family and the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 8th
Time: 12 pm– 1 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/events
Celebrations of Home: Young Poets Workshop with Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo – Online Event
The Young Poets Workshop, Celebrations of Home, will be led by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, author of Posada: Offering of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications, 2016). She is a director of Women Who Submit and a member of Miresa Collective..
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 8th
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/young-poets-workshop
Rivers Solomon, with Roxane Gay, & Sorrowland via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Rivers Solomon, in conversation with Roxane Gay,to hear them discuss their novel, Sorrowland: A Novel, which is a genre-bending breakout who shows monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations.
Vern, seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised, flees for the shelter of the woods. There she gives birth to twins. But even in the forest she is a hunted woman, and to protect her small family she must face both the past and the future—outside the woods.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 8th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Skylight – Online event
Emerging Writers Fellowship via Get Lit – Online Teen 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 8th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/418997752646481/
Book Study Discussion: Braiding Sweetgrass via Café con Libros Press – Online & In-Person Event
Join the Book Study Group to discuss the book, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Kimmerer. a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
NOTE: We are meeting both online and in-person.
Where: Café Con Libros Press (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 8th
Time: 2 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/304423407718597
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Writing Workshop via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Deep Critique Writing Workshop led by G.T. Foster.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 8th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Harry Shum, Jr., with Viet Thanh Nguyen, via USC Visions & Voices – Online
Join actor and dancer Harry Shum, Jr., in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, to discuss a wide ranging list of issues, including his career in entertainment, advocacy work for children and against racism, the importance of generational storytelling, and more.
This event is part of AAPI Heritage Month at USC, and is presented by Visions and Voices, Arts and Humanities Initiative.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 8th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/575602176737775
XLA Poets Book Launch & Reading via LARB & Hinchas Press – Online
Join XLA Poets and the Los Angeles Review of Books for the launch of XLA POETS, a new collection from Hinchas Press, edited by Linda Ravenswood It features the work of 10 Los Angeles-based BIPOC, LGBTQA+ women and women identifying poets writing about the city we love/hate/can’t live without.
The celebrations feature readings by contributors:
Lynne Thompson is the current Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, and author of three collections of poetry, most recently, Fretwork.
Chelsea Rector is a poet and philosopher, and works in experimental theater. In 2018 she co-founded P/Sicho Street Theater Company with Jeremy Kennedy.
Allison Hedge Coke is a poet and writer of mixed heritage, and the author of the debut collection, Dog Dead Woman, as well as other books and anthologies.
Luivette Resto is a poet who engages in themes of romantic love and cultural identity. She is the author of Unfinished Portrait and Ascension.
Armine Iknadossian is a performer and educator, and the author of All That Wasted Fruit.
Teresa Mei Chuc is the author of three collections of poetry: Red Thread (2012), Keeper of the Winds (2014), and Invisible Light (2018).
Linda Ravenswood is a poet, musician, and performance artist who has published poems, songs, albums, drawings and cover art in many collaborations.
Where: Online free & ticketed event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://dev.lareviewofbooks.org/events/ or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-los-angeles-review-of-books-presents-xla-poets-tickets-152790429287
Bel Canto AAPI Book Club & The Committed via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join Bel Canto’s AAPI Book Club for a discussion of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s latest book, The Committed, the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Sympathizer.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 9th
Time: 12 pm– 1 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club via The Last Bookstore
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club, led by Peter Clines, explores dystopia and the post-apocalypse in their bewildering array of forms.
Our current event is sold out, so check back later.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online event
Date: Sunday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
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