Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Terry Miles, with Cory Doctorow, & Rabbits via Book Soup – Online Event
Author Terry Miles, in conversation with author Cory Doctorow, will present and discuss his new book, Rabbits.
Terry Miles’s new book depicts how a deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast. Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas. Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners declared. The deeper you get, the more dangerous the game becomes, and when K—a Rabbits obsessive—enters the eleventh round, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/terry-miles-conversation-cory-doctorow-discusses-rabbits
Clint Smith, with Ibram X. Kendi, & How the Word Is Passed via Live Talks LA – Online Event
Live Talks LA presents the virtual launch for How the Word is Passed, by author Clint Smith, in conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, editor of a new book, Four Hundred Souls, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain.
Author of the poetry collection, Counting Descent, and staff writer for The Atlantic, Clint Smith’s new book is How the World Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. In this book the author leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks and offers an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves. This is a deeply researched and transporting history, a landmark book, informed by scholarship and memory, and brought to life by people living today.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a signed copy of the book are at site.
Where: Live Talks LA – Online (see site)
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/clint-smith-with-ibram-x-kendi/
Jill & Dave Henry & The Greatest College Health Guide via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join us to hear authors Jill & Dave Henry present and discuss their book, The Greatest College Health Gide You Never Knew You Needed
Every fall, around eight million young adults go to college fired up for the best years of their lives, but many are not prepared to care for themselves in the college setting. This book is a comprehensive field guide to dealing with the five biggest health obstacles students face in college, and beyond
Where: Vroman’s – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 7th (Postponed from April 22nd)
Time: 6 pm PT
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/jill-and-dave-henry
Neal Allen with Anne Lamott, & Shapes of Truth via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Neal Allen, in conversation with his wife and author Anne Lamott, present and discuss his new book, Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside of You.
Shapes of Truth provides step-by-step instructions for you to find and access the set of 35 divine objects of God hidden in your body that can grant immediate and sustained relief from everyday suffering. This book parallels Platonism and Sufi mysticism, and is endorsed by many.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Lisa Taddeo, with Steph Danler & Gillian Flynn, & Animal via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Lisa Taddeo, in conversation with authors Steph Danler & Gillian Flynn, present and discuss her new book, Animal.
Animal illustrates one woman’s exhilarating transformation for prey to predator, in this debut novel from the author of Three Women. Lisa Taddeo presents the story of Joan, who has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. It’s a depiction of female rage at its rawest, and a visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and for critique and discussion. Registration is required.
Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing form Mills College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Literatures at CSU Channel Islands. She also has published poetry and non-fiction, and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Queer Book Club with CB Lee & Surrender More Than Organs 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 More Than Organs, by Kay Ulanday Barrett, can be ordered online at the store’s site. In this book of poems, the author presents a remix of people of color as earth-benders, who replay “the choreography of loss” after the 2015 Pulse shooting and till joy from the cosmic sweetness of a family’s culinary history.
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/queer-book-club-with-cb-lee-6
Q&A with Author and LGBTQIA Advocate Juan Acosta & Channel Kindness via LAPL – Online Event
Join us for a Q&A with author Juan Acosta, one of the contributors to the book Channel Kindness, a collection of inspirational stories written by young people as well as personal notes of empowerment from Born this Way Foundation co-founder Lady Gaga.
Juan Acosta is a national speaker and LGBTQ Mental Health Advocate who has collaborated with numerous organizations and on many global stages.
Where: Online Event (see site for details)
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/q-author-and-lgbtqia-advocate-juan-acosta
Poetry Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Share a poem you wrote or a poem you love, or just listen and enjoy. This monthly Open Mic is hosted by Wyatt Underwood.
To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
NOTE: See site for details for this free event.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-2
Sasha Isenberg, with Adam Nagourney, & The Engagement via Book Soup – Online Event
Sasha Isenberg, in conversation with Adam Nagonrney, will present and discuss his book, The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage..
Author Sasha Isenberg’s new book takes us back through the steps to the June 26, 2015 US Supreme Court ruling that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the U.S. It takes us to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state’s supreme court first started grappling with the issue and traces the fight for marriage equality from the enactment of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to the Goodridge decision that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, and finally to the seminal Supreme Court decisions of Windsor and Obergefell. This is the definitive book on this legal struggle.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Mystery Book Club & When the Stars Go Dark via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Pages Bookstore presents its Mystery Book Club, facilitated by Bobby McCue, which reads new release mysteries. This month’s selection is When the Stars Go Dark by author Paula McLain.
Anna Hart is a seasoned missing-persons detective in San Francisco with too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When tragedy strikes her personal life Anna flees to Mendocino to grieve, where she lived as a child. There she learns that a local teenage girl has gone missing, which reminds her of a time in her childhood, and she realizes she has been led to this moment. This propulsive story is about redemption and our faith in one another.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a copy of the book are at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/mystery-book-club-person
Michael Punke, with Michael Hampton, & Ridgeline via Vroman’s Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Michael Punke, inn conversation with Michael Hampton,present and discuss his new novel, Ridgeline
In 1866, barely recovered from the Civil War, the country faces war on the western frontier—a clash of cultures between a young ambitious nation and the Native tribes who have lived there for centuries. Colonel Henry Carrington must build a fort in Powder River, Wyoming in the middle of critical hunting grounds of the Lakota, where Red Cloud and Crazy Horse know this invasion means their home, culture and lives are at stake. This is a taut saga based on real people and events, and this is a memorable debut that grapples with essential questions of conquest and justice that still echo today.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 6 pm PT
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-michael-punke-discusses-ridgeline
Expostion Review Vol. VI: Hunger Readingvia Skylight Books – Online Event
Exposition Review is an independent, multi-genre literary journal that publishes narrative by new, emerging, and established writers in many genres, and featured readers from Volume VI: Hunger, include:
Safia Aguilar, originally from Los Angeles, is a Latina writer, editor, and senior at Sarah Lawrence College. An alum of WriteGirl, she is a three-time recipient of a young writers scholarship for outstanding contributions to her student community Her work has been published in several journals.
Ashia Ajani is a poet and writer whose work is centered at the center of Black liberation and political ecology. She is now completing her post-graduate degree at Yale School of the Environment.
Chris Clements is an undergraduate English major at Arizona State University, and recipient of the Jules J. Anatole Creative Writing Scholarship form AZU for his fiction writing.
Natashia Deon is an NAACP Image Award Nominee, practicing criminal attorney, and college professor at UCLA and Antioch University. She is also the author of the critically-acclaimed novel Grace, and the forthcoming novel, The Perishing.
Rocio Franco is Latinx poet and activist from Chicago, and a 2020 Frost Poetry Conference alum, who has been published in several journals.
David Higdon is a writer and graphic designer who lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Jennifer A, Howard teaches and edits Passages North in Michigan’s snowy Upper Peninsula. Her collection of flash sci-fi, You on Mars, was published by The Cupboard Pamphlet, and she has a new chapbook of dispatches from one kid’s Flat Stanley coming out in 2021.
Andy Marlowe is an artist, author and anchorite who lives and creates in the Florida Panhandle.
Natalie Mislang Mann is an educator who is currently working on a memoir based on her youth in the San Fernando Valley..
Dave Osmundsen is a queer and autistic playwright and dramaturg whose work explores the intersection of neurodiversity and queerness. His play Light Search, was the 2021 Distinguished Achievement recipient of the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award.
Viva Padilla is a poet, artist, editor and founder of the literary journal, Dryland, established in 2015 in South Central Los Angeles. She currently works at Tia Chucha Press and lives on the eastside in Los Angeles.
Jory Pomeranz worked as a chef for eight years, and writes about the service industry, which he left to pursue medicine after a horrendous bus accident in New York City.
Cole Pragides is an Asian Pacific Islander teenage poet and a current student at University of Colorado, Boulder.
Amalia Oliva Rojas is a Mexican poet, and theatre artivist based in New York. Recent credits include Leo and Friends (Theater Accident).
Eugene Schacht is a member of the Metro-Wriders writing group in Washington, D.C.
Audrey Sloeng is a junior in high school, and has a blog for young writers (Sprouting ink).
Nick Zelle is a longtime circus artist, and his critical writing on Contemporary circus culture can be found on Cirkus Syd.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-exposition-review-vol-vi-hunger-reading
Book of the Month Club (BOTM) & How Much of These Hills Is Gold via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join us at BOTM during Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month to discuss How Much of These Hills Is Gold, by C. Pam Zheng.
This book is about a social media influencer who is shipped off to a digital detox summer camp in this funny coming-of-age story. She finds that between some unexpected friendships and an alarmingly cute farm boy, Sunny might be surprised by the connections she makes when she’s forced to disconnect.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Bel Canto Books – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
George J. Sanchez in Conversation with David Kipen & Boyle Heights via Skirball Cultural Center – Online Event
Skirball Cultural Center offers a community event to discuss the new book, Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy, by George J. Sanchez, in a virtual conversation between USC professor George J. Sanchez and Libros Schmibros founder David Kipen.
In a time when coalition building and civic resistance are in great need, the author shares how Boyle Heights’ rich history of solidarity across racial and ethnic lines makes the neighborhood a beacon on a hill toward which the country can strive.
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for details of this free event.
Where: Skirball Cultural Center – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm PDT
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skirball.org/programs/words-and-ideas/george-j-sanchez-conversation-david-kipen
Adult Book Club & I Capture the Castle via Once Upon a Time Books – Online Event
Join our Adult Book Club to discuss I Capture the Castle, by English children’s novelist and playwright Dodie Smith.
This book is a love story, the first novel by Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband relocated to California. She longed for home and wrote of a happier time in the 1930s.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-i-capture-castle-dodie-smith-meeting-zoom
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Chrystophver R & Open Reading – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature poet Crystophver R plus an open reading.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
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 8th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar (Check site to confirm date)
Hen House at Home Reading: Dariel Sanchez, Martha Cooley & Sadie Hoaglandvia Red Hen Press – Online Event
The next reading in our Hen House at Home series features three fantastic novelists. The authors will discuss the intricacies of finding identity in the face of uncontrollable circumstances, the cases of three protagonists: a lottery winner, a polygamist commune survivor, and a Cuban lawyer,
Dariel Sanchez is the author of Memories of a Cuban Soldier.
Martha Cooley is the author of the novels The Archivist, and Thirty-Three Swoons.
Sadie Hoagland is the author of Strange Children, about two teens in a commune who fall in love and break religious law, with devastating consequences.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Red Hen Press – Online
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/316507816658564
Lawrence Wright & The Plague Year via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Writers Bloc and the Beverly Hills Bar Association present Lawrence Wright, staff writer for The New Yorker, playwright, screenwriter, and author of ten books, who will present and discuss his latest, The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid.
In The Plague Year the author weaves together the maddening, sometimes farcical and comical,, story of what went wrong and why the response to Covid boggled between catastrophe and heroism. It makes clear this story is an ongoing global drama.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Writers Bloc & Skylight Bookstore – Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/writers-bloc-presents-lawrence-wright-author-plague-year
Andrew McCarthy, with Michael Oates Palmer, & Brat: An 80’s Story via Vroman’s Books – Online Event
Author Andrew McCarthy, in conversation with Michael Oates Palmer, will present and discuss his book, Brat: An 80’s Story.
This memoir focuses author Andrew McCarthy’s gaze onto a singular moment in time, as the Brat Pack represents both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. This book is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity. It’s a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm PT
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vroman’s-live-andrew-mccarthy-discusses-brat-80’s-story
Kristen Arnett, with Esme Weijun Wang, & With Teeth via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Kristen Arnett, in conversation with Esme Weijun Wang, present and discuss her book, With Teeth.
This book is a surprising and moving story of two mothers, one difficult son, and the limitations of marriage, parenthood, and love. This book blends the warmth and wit of her breakout hit, Mostly Dead Things, with a candid take on queer family dynamics, in a portrait of the delicate fabric of family, and the many ways it can be torn apart.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-kristin-arnett-discusses-teeth-esme-weijun-wang
Elizabeth Newstat Poetry Series: Brendan Constantine, Chiwan Choi, Kim Dower, Donna Spruijt-Metz & Amy Uyematsu via Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Join hosts Rich Ferguson & Stephanie Barbe Hammer to welcome and hear our featured poets for this event:
Brendan Constantine is a widely-published LA-based poet whose most recent collections are Dementia, My Darling (2016) and the chapbook Bouncy Bounce (2018). He currently teaches at Windward Schooland works with speech pathologist Michael Biel to develop poetry workshops for people with Aphasia an Traumatic Brain Injury.
Chiwan Choi is the author of three books of poetry: The Flood,, Abductions, and The Yellow House. He is a partner at Writ Large Press, a Los Angeles-based publisher that is focused on using literary arts to resist, disrupt, and transgress, and a member of The Accomplices.He now splits his time between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.
Kim Dower is a former Poet Laureate of West Hollywood, and has publlshed four poetry collections, all with Red Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars, Slice of Moon, Last Train to the Missing Planet, and Sunbathing on Tyrone Powers’ Grave. Her poetry is included in several anthologies, and she teaches in the BA program at Antioch University. She is founder of Kim-from-LA, a literary marketing and publicity company.
Donna Spruijt-Metz is a poet, translator, and Professor of Psychology and Medicine at USC. Her first career was as a professional flutist. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous venues.
Amy Uyematsu is a third generation Japanese American poet and teacher from Los Angeles. She has published several poetry collections, and her first book, Miles from J-Town was awarded the 1992 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. She was a co-editor of the widely-used UCLA Asian American Studies anthology Roots; An Asian American Reader.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/lizpoetrynight-060921
Hong-My Basrai & Behiind the Red Curtain via Life of JEM – Online Event
Join The Life of JEM live podcast to hear author Hong-My Basri, in an interview with JEM, present and discuss her book, Behind the Red Curtain.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: JEM – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2883886681861348/
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 workshop 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. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/
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 Luivette Resto.
Luivettte Resto is a mother, teacher, and poet, and the author of two collections: Unfinished Portrait and Ascension, both published by Tia Chucha Press. Her third book is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic & Poetry Reading 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 event is Six of Nine, A Poetic Celebration of Cunning Linguistics at The Virtual Ugly Mug. Yes, we’re stuck in junior high school for life, our maturity level forever stunted. This is an erotic-themed poetry event, curated by Stina French, More details to follow.
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 9th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/two-idiots-peddling-poetry
Kilph Nesteroff & Tai Leclairevia Will & Ariel Durant Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us via Zoom for a discussion of the history and current state of Native American comedy, with Kilph Nesteroff, author of The Comedians and We Had a Little Real Estate Program, and featured commentator on CNN’s The History of Late Night and Tai Leclaire, writer and performer on NBC Peacock’s Rutherford Falls.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Will & Ariel Durant Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 2 pm
Address: Online Event
Braintrust Writing Workshop with Danielle Mitchell via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
Join us for a 2 hour generative poetry writing Workshop, community check-in, and group share. Free! Donations are always appreciated.
NOTE: See details and registration at site.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdeyspjIjH9POqow4kwqEJInPNGf_JjBH or https://www.thepoetrylab.com/braintrust
True Stories En Vivo: Live Stories via Tamarindo – Online Event
Join us for an evening of community, storytelling, and live performances all from the comfort of your device. Live performances will center stories concerning the following themes:
Living in the Hyphen (between two worlds)
Belonging and Acceptance
Embracing Identity
Tamarindo is a Latinx empowerment platform and podcast discussing politics, culture, and how to keep your calma with well-being practices and self-love, hosted by Ana Sheila Victorino and Brenda Gonzalez.
NOTE: See details at site. Free via Eventbrite
Where: Tamarindo – Online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/204433527928468
Puma Perl & Iris Berry Reading via Beyond Baroque Books & Art Center – Online Event
Join us via Zoom for a poetry reading with Beyond Baroque Books author Puma Perl and Punk Hostage Press co-founder and author, Iris Berry.
Puma Perl is the author of Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque Books), among other work.
Iris Berry is author, editor, and publisher of Punk Hostage Press.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Beyond Baroque Books – Online
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 6 pm – 7pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/puma-perl-iris-berry-tickets-157146311849
Daisy Hernandez, with Alex Espinoza, & The Kissing Bug via Vroman’s Bookstore– Online Event
Daisy Hernandez, in conversation with author Alex Espinoza, will present and discuss her book, The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Tin House Books).
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, the author believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple, and only later learned her aunt had died of Chagas, a rare and devastating illness that affects the heart and digestive system. As she researched it, she discovered Chagas—or the kissing bug disease—is more prevalent in the U.S. than the Zika virus.
In this book she chronicles a story vast in its implications, exposing how poverty, racism, and public policies have conspired to keep this disease hidden. Also an investigation of racial politics and for profit healthcare in the U.S., this book reveals the intimate history of a marginalized disease and connects us to the lives at the center of it all.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Susan Paterno, with John Nielsen, & Game On via Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Susan Paterno, in conversation with John Nielsen, will present and discuss her book, Game On: Why College Admissions Is Rigged and How to Beat the System.
Described as a playbook for the Hunger Games of higher education, Game On explains the anxiety, uncertainty, and chaos in college admissions, explodes the myths, and provides strategies to beat and also reform the system.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/june-10-susan-paterno
Shout! Open Mic Poetry Night Series, with Eric Moraga, via Half Off Books
Join us for our monthly Open Mic Poetry Night, hosted by Eric Moraga. This event takes place every second Thursday of the month. Currently we are offering a Zoom edition of our Open Mic Night for you to join. You can find the newest link available on our Facebook Events page. .
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: SHOUT Open Mic – Online Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/HOBRF/events/?ref=page_internal or https://hobrf.com/events-open-mic-poetry-night/
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 10th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
Pride Poets Hotline: Call in for a Custom LGBTQ+ Poem: June 11, 12 & 13! – Online Event
Poets and authors Molly Thornton & Brian Sonia-Wallace will offer a three-day Call-In event to order a Custom LGBTQ Poem in celebration of Pride Month.
As part of the West Hollywood One City One Pride Festival, organized by City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace, with writer Molly Thornton, you can call the hotline at 202-9998-3510 from 10am-10pm PT to receive a FREE custom poem on the topic of your choice!
The whole process will change your life, and only take 10 minutes. See Site for details and list of poets participating and organizers’ bios.
Where: One City One Pride – Online
Date: Friday the 11th (Day 1 0f 3)
Time: 10 am (through June 13th AT 10 pm)
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3660037604101171
Story Time with a Museum Educator via Natural History Museum of L.A. County – Facebook Online Kids Event
Please enjoy a family event from the L.A. County Natural History, which hosts a Museum Educator reading event for the little ones, to share a brand new story in a live reading of favorite books, every Friday morning!
This is a Facebook online event.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 11th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/191932739457642
Your Author Series: Jose Ramirez & Quinito’s Neighborhood– Online LAPL Kids Event
Please join us to hang out with artist and teacher Jose Ramirez, who will present his bilingual book, Quintero’s Neighborhood. Jose’s work has been featured at various locations and on our library’s Summer Reading pages. He has taught at LAUSD for over 23 years and is currently a 3rd grade teacher at Esperanza Elementary.
Those attending this virtual program will have an opportunity to win a free book.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: LAPL event (see site)
Date: Friday the 11th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-jose-ramirez
Queer Writers Celebration & New Zine Release via LibroMobile – Online Event
This event features the zine release of a new relationship to pain by KB, with guest poets:
Sarah Nwater, Bei Jie Si, Zoe Fay-Stindt & Wrly T. McCutchen.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: LibroMobile – Online IG event
Date: Friday the 11th
Time: 5 pm PST
Where: Online event
Ben Rhodes, with Alex Wagner, & After the Fall via Book Soup – Online Event
Ben Rhodes, in conversation with Alex Wagner, will present and discuss his book, After the Fall.
Author Ben Rhodes’ new book asks the questions: Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world, and what can we do about it? Rhodes, the author of The World As It Is, and former White House Aide to President Barack Obama, traveled to dozens of countries over the course of three years, and this book is part memoir and part reportage. He finds that looking squarely at where America has gone wrong is essential to be able to fight for what America is supposed to be.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Friday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Live at Dynasty Typewriter: JP Brammer with Phillip Picardi via Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Join us to hear JP Brammer, in conversation with Phillip Picardi, present and discuss his book, Hola Papi!.
This book comes from popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer, and it’s a hilarious memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America’s heartland to become the “Chicano Carrie Bradshow” of his generation.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Date: Friday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
An Evening with Alice Waters & We Are What We Eat! via Vroman’s Books – Online Event
Author, chef, and food activist Alice Waters, in conversation with author and journalist Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation),will present and discuss her book, We Are What We Eat!
This book is a declaration of action against fast food values, and a working theory about what we can do to change the course, from the founder and owner of Chez Panisse. Every decision about we make about what we put in our mouths affects not only our bodies, but also the world at large. We have the power and potential for individual and global transformation, simply by shifting our relationship to food.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online event
Date: Friday the 11th
Time: 7 pm PT
Address: Online event
Pride Poets Hotline: Call in for a Custom LGBTQ+ Poem: June 11, 12 & 13! – Online Event
Poets and authors Molly Thornton & Brian Sonia-Wallace will offer a three-day Call-In event to order a Custom LGBTQ Poem in celebration of Pride Month.
As part of the West Hollywood One City One Pride Festival, organized by City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace, with writer Molly Thornton, you can call the hotline at 202-9998-3510 from 10am-10pm PT to receive a FREE custom poem on the topic of your choice!
The whole process will change your life, and only take 10 minutes. See Site for details and list of poets participating and organizers’ bios.
Where: One City One Pride – Online
Date: Saturday the 12th (Day 2 0f 3)
Time: 10 am (through June 13th AT 10 pm)
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3660037604101171
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 12th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events1256929554682484/
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 12th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785643795184/ (Check and Verify)
Western Edge Writers Workshop via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join writers and aspiring writers for a Zoom group discussion that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, non-fiction and memoirs. Share your work and receive constructive criticism.
Email Shannon@lapl.org for Zoom participation details.
NOTE: See website for online link and details.
Where: LAPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event (see website) –
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-0
Ken Albala & Japanese Luxury Ingredients & Western Cuisine via Central Library – Online Event
Join us to hear author Ken Ablala discuss the transmission of Japanese luxury ingredients and cuisine to Europe, North America, and to the State of California. He is the author of numerous books on food, and his new book Gelatin, is forthcoming.
NOTE: See website for online link and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 10:30 am PT
Address: Online event
Rachael Lippincott, with Robbie Couch, & The Lucky List via Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Rachael Lippincott, in conversation with Robbie Couch, will present and discuss her book, The Lucky List.
This is a story about learning who you are, and who you love, when the person you’ve always shared yourself with is gone.
NOTE: See site for details, and to RSVP for this free event.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online event
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 11 am
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/rachael-lippincott
Festival of Books in South Gate via Hobbyville Books – Online Event
Join Festival of Books in South Gate for free books and entertainment!
Plus, meet and greet with 10 local authors!
We are highlighting local Latinx authors, and there will be free refreshments, activities, and music.
NOTE: See site for details, and to RSVP for this free event.
Where: Hobbyville Books – Online event
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 12 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/472790373795842
Online Seminar on Books by Anna Julia Cooper & WEB DuBois via The Agora Foundation of Southern California – Online Event
Join us for an online seminar on A Voice from the South, by Anna Julia Cooper, and The Soul of Black Folk, by WEB DuBois.
We will discuss Part I of the first book, and Chapters 1-4 of the second book. Our tutors are Anika Prather & Andy Gilman.
NOTE: See site for details, and to RSVP for the link.
Where: The Agora Foundation – Online event
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 12 pm – 2 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/205320844735849
Book Study with James Coats & Between the World & Me via Café con Libros – In-Person or Online Event
Please join us at Café con Libros for a Book Study session of Between the Word & Me, by author Ta Nehisi Coates. This book study discussion will be led by poet and writer James Coats.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Café con LIbros – (see site)
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 2 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/502054221162381/
JPL & Octavia E. Butler via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join LAPL as we host Albert “Joey” Jefferson form Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He’ll discuss the Butler Mons, a mountain on Pluto’s largest moon that is a monument to the late author, Octsvia E. Butler, and more!
This program is open to ages 10 and up, and is part of the Octavia E. Butler Celebration.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/jpl-octavia-e-butler
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Deep Critique Poetry Writing Workshop via Zoom Onlline
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Deep Critique Writing Workshop led by G.T. Foster.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online event
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Offsite Event: Cruise Night by Kristen Bedford via Skylight Books – In-Person Eevent
Join Kristine Bedford, author of Cruise Night, at an in-person event and release party with the Los Angeles Lowrider Community. The author will be signing her books with purchase.
Where: El Monte Book Release & Car Show event
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 6 pm – 10 pm
Address: 3600 Peck Rd., El Monte, CA 91732
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/offsite-event-cruise-night-kristin-bedford-signing-and-car-show
Pride Poets Hotline: Call in for a Custom LGBTQ+ Poem: June 11, 12 & 13! – Online Event
Poets and authors Molly Thornton & Brian Sonia-Wallace will offer a three-day Call-In event to order a Custom LGBTQ Poem in celebration of Pride Month.
As part of the West Hollywood One City One Pride Festival, organized by City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace, with writer Molly Thornton, you can call the hotline at 202-9998-3510 from 10am-10pm PT to receive a FREE custom poem on the topic of your choice!
The whole process will change your life, and only take 10 minutes. See Site for details and list of poets participating and organizers’ bios.
Where: One City One Pride – Online
Date: Sunday the 13th (Day 3 0f 3)
Time: 10 am (through June 13th AT 10 pm)
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3660037604101171
AAPI Book Club Presents: Angie Kim & Miracle Creek via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join us for the AAPI Book Club meeting to virtually meet and hear author Angie Kim discuss her novel, Miracle Creek. This book is about what happens in a small town in Virginia where a showdown unfolds concerning an explosion at a hyperbolic treatment chamber and who might be behind it.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Bel Canto Books – Online
Date: Sunday the 13th
Time: 12 pm PST
Address: Online Event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club with Peter Clines via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
The We’re All Gonna Die Book Club led by Peter Clines explores dystopia and the post-apocalypse in all its bewildering array of literary forms. Yes, we’re doomed, but we’re all doomed together.
This month’s book selection is the influential We, by Soviet exile Yevgeny Zamyatin. This is a page-turning science fiction adventure, filled with wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism.
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Monday the 13th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/were-all-gonna-die-dystopian-book-club-with-peter-clines-6 or https://www.facebook.com/events/481512809827562
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