Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Lisa Taddeo, with Stephanie Danler, & Animal via Book Soup – Online Event
Author Lisa Taddeo, in conversation with author Stephanie Danler, will present and discuss his 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 details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/lisa-taddeo-conversation-stephanie-danler-discusses-animal
Gina Yashere, with Michelle Buteau, & Cack-Handed via Live Talks LA – Online Event
Live Talks LA presents the virtual launch for the memoir Cack-Handed, by author and co-producer of CBS’s series, Bob Hearts Abishola, Gina Yashere, in conversation with actress/comedian Michelle Bateau, now in the popular Netflix series, The Circle.
Author of Cack-Handed, Gina Yashere is a British comedian of Nigerian heritage who has appeared on countless TV shows in the US and UK. She has also performed on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, has three comedy shows on Netflix, and is co-executive producer, writer and series regular on the CBS sitcom Bob Hearts Abishola, which she co-created with Chuck Lorre.
According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill her dreams of her grandmother Patience, who was born with a spot on her neck, From birth, Gina carried a similar birthmark—a sign she would fulfill Patience’s dreams. Gina would learn to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a man’s job, and travel the world with a free spirit. This is a collection of eccentric, and uproarious stories that reveals how her unconventional upbringing became the foundation of her successful career.
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 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/gina-yashere/
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 14th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club with Dan Lopez & El tercer pais via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
The Ficcion en Espanol Book Club led by Dan Lopez, reads and discusses contemporary fiction in Spanish.
This month’s book selection, El tercer pais, by Karina Sainz Borgo, the author of It Would Be Night in Caracas, can be ordered online at the store’s site. In this book, The Third Country/El tercer pais, the author merges her talents in a new Latin American literature, one that merges thrillers, westerns, classic tragedies, and the great legacy left behind by the great Latin American Boom.
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details//ficcion-en-espanol-book-club-with-dan-lopez-6 or https://www.facebook.com/events/294116305581789
Virtual Meet-Up for Mexican and Latino Writers via Latino Writers Initiative & National Museum of Mexican Art – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a virtual meet-up for Mexican and Latino writers of all levels. Practice your writing skills with writing prompts and fun exercises that are sure to inspire. Connect with other writers and get feedback on your stories. Join us and be part of the next generation of Latino writers.
Where: Online Zoom Event (see site for details)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 3:45 pm PST
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/368523767813632
Social Justice Book Club & Channel Kindness via LAPL – Online Kids Event
Join us for the Social Justice Book Club for kids ages 6-12, to read books with librarians to help us understand events of the day.
Gale, Heather brings us Ho’onani: hula warrior, a celebration of Hawaiian culture and a story about being true to who you are.
Where: Online Event (see site for details)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/social-justice-book-club-1
Pride Month: Robert Jones, Jr., with Maurice Carlos Ruffin, & The Prophets via CAAM – Online Event
Celebrate Pride Month with author Robert Jones, Jr. as he discusses his debut novel, The Prophets, with writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, a finalist for the PEN Falkner Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
The Prophets tells of the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Mississippi plantation, and the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. As tensions build and the weight of centuries culminates in a climactic reckoning, the book reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but also the heroic power of love.
NOTE: See site for Zoom details and book purchase for this free event.
Where: CAAM – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm PT
Address: Online event
Website: https://caamuseum.org/programs/talks-and-workshops/in-conversation-robert-jones-jr
Virtual Book Launch: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Others & In the Heights via Vroman’s – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a conversation between Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegria Hudes, & Jeremy McCarter, with moderator America Ferrara, to hear how a little show called Heights shook up Broadway, and will now discus the book behind the timeless story of how one neighborhood—Washington Heights—can speak to the world. In the book Heights: Finding Home.
This is sure to be an unforgettable conversation on creativity, community, and finding home, and it’s your chance to hear from the creative team behind their first success, before Hamilton became a global phenomenon.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm (Check time at site since two times given: 12pm & 5pm PT)
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/heights-virtual-book-launch
John McMahon, with Karen Dionne, & A Good Kill via Vroman’s – Online Crowdcast Event
Join us to hear author John McMahon, inn conversation with Karen Dionne,present and discuss his new novel, A Good Kill
This is an electrifying mystery featuring a troubled small-town police detective faced with three interwoven crimes that reveal sinister crimes about his community—and the deaths of his family.
When P.T. Marsh is called to the scene of a school shooting, the personal and professional become intertwined. Its’ been years since the mysterious deaths of his wife and child, but the police detective in the small town of Mason Falls, Georgia, suspects that whoever is behind the crime may be connected to his own family tragedy.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 6 pm PT
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-john-mcmahon-discusses-good-kill
LAPL & Skylight Present: Rosecrans Baldwin, with Charles Yu, & Everything Now via Skylight Books – Online Event
Author Rosecrans Baldwin, in conversation with National Book Award winner Charles Yu (Interior Chinatown), will discuss his book Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State if Los Angeles.
America is obsesses with Los Angeles, but this deeply reported and researched book approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, intertwining his own voice with a chorus of others, form iconic writers such as Octavia Butler and Joan Didion, to everyday citizens, activists, and many others. He finds Los Angeles’s idiosyncrasies both magnify those of America, and are at the same time so fully its own.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/la-public-library-and-skylight-present-rosecrans-baldwin-author-everything-now-conversation or https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/rosecrans-baldwin-everything-now-author-conversation-charles-yu
In Conversation: Abdellah Taia & Hedi El Kholti & Toward the sea, Where we meetvia Hammer Museum – Online Event
The first Arab writer/filmmaker to publicly declare his homosexuality, Abdellah Taia, explores sexuality and contemporary Moroccan culture through transgressive, often autobiographical work. The award-winning author adapted one of his nine novels, Salvation Army, for his directorial debut, which was selected for the Venice Film Festival and TIFF. He Joins Made in L.A. artist Hedi El Kholti in conversation about their shared experiences growing up queer in Morocco, and their personal journeys translating these experiences into writing, art, and film.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Hammer Museum– Online event
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2021/hedi-el-kholti-abdellah-taia-toward-sea-where-we-meet
Nobuko Miyamoto, with Deborah Wong, & Not Yo’ Butterfly via Chevalier’s Books – Online Zoom Event
Author Nobuko Miyamoto, in conversation with Deborah Wong, will present and discuss her mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community and purpose, Not Yo’ Butterfly.
In this memoir the author tells her intimate and unflinching life story, from her fearful youth during World War II on the west coast, to the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art. Her release of A Grain of Sand was considered to be the first Asian American folk album, and her experience raising an Afro-Asian American son, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 riots, and prompted her to use art to create interracial solidarity and conciliation. Her sometimes barbed, often provocative, and always steadfast story is now told.
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for details of this free event.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom event
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 7 pm PDT
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/nobuko-miyamoto
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Kathabela Wilson & Open Reading – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature poet Kathabela Wilson, plus an open reading.
Kathabela Wilson created and directs Poets on Site, Tanka Poets on Site, and Caltech Red Door Poets. She holds salons and weekly tanka meetings with her husband Rick Wilson at their home, and hosts tanka performance festivals in and around Pasadena, CA.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
AfroFuturism Book Club with Tyree Boyd-Pates & El tercer pais via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
The AfroFuturism Book Club led by Tyree Boyd-Pates reads and discusses literature from a vast and forward-looking movement with solid roots in the past, and typically reads new fiction, though it spans everything.
This month’s book selection, The Gilded Ones, by Namina Forna, a debut in which young women are relegated to roles based on their blood. When Deka shows the rare “gold blood,” she is expected to defend her oppressive society.
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 15th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/the-afrofuturism-book-club-with-tyree-boyd-pates-6 or https://www.facebook.com/events/470761614187349
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 15th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar (Check site to confirm date)
Coffee Time Book Club & Fresh Water for Flowers via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Pages Bookstore presents its Coffee Time Book Club, facilitated by Linda McLaughlin Figel, which reads new release fiction and meets generally on the Third Wednesday of each month. This month’s selection is When the Stars Go Dark by author Paula McLain.
Author Valerie Perrin’s Fresh Water for Flowers is a gorgeous read, and takes us into the pool of melancholic Violette Tousaint’s past, from first loves to devastating losses. she is the caretaker of a cemetary in a small town in Bourgogne and her predictable rhythms are disrupted when a local police chief comes to scatter his mother’s ashes on the gravesite of a complete stranger, a gesture which might be intertwined with Violette’s own past.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a copy of the book are at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-virtual-meeting-10
Deborah Lerme Goodman & The Rescue of the Unicorn via Skylight Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Skylight Treehouse & LAPL Present: Deborah Lerme Goodman, will present and discuss her children’s book, The Rescue of the Unicorn (Choose Your Own Adventure).
In The Rescue of the Unicorn, the author was inspired by tapestries,, which have been a lifelong interest and even inspired her to study tapestry weaving in college. She now teaches English to adult immigrants in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Skylight Treehouse & LAPL – Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Menachem Kaiser & Plunder: Humans of the Holocaust via American Jewish University – Online Event
Author Manachem Kaiser, in conversation, will present and discuss his recent memoir, Plunder: Humans of the Holocaust.
Menachem Kaiser’s memoir set out to renew his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battel to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. This book chronicles how he found himself on an unexpected adventure that went far beyond a personal quest. It’s a daring interrogation of inheritance that raises powerful questions about seizing your legacy.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: AJU – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 2 pm – 2:45 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/509728606864877
Hen House at Home Reading: Cecile Barlier, Dexter L. Booth & Carl Marcumvia Red Hen Press – Online Event
The next reading in our Hen House at Home series features three authors and poets who will share their work and discuss their shared themes of love, relationships, lessons, observations, and the unwavering spirit of curiosity.
Cecile Barlier is the author of A Gypsy’s Book of Revelation.
Dexter L. Booth is the author of Scratching the Ghost. and Abracadabra Sunshine.
Carl Marcum is the author of A Camera Obscura.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Red Hen Press – Online
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1145212005982778
Brittany Ackerman, with Gina Nutt, & The Brittanys via Book Soup – Online Event
Author BrittanyAckerman’s new book, The Brittanys, is the winner of the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award. It’s not about the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows their name(s): The Brittanys. In this coming-of-age story the fifth Brittany—our narrator—is finding that her interests may be diverging from her friends’ and life-changing events may be taking shape in the lives of her mother and brother.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/brittany-ackerman-conversation-gina-nutt-discusses-brittanys
WeHo Reads Presents: Rajiv Mohabir, Jubi Arriola-Headley & Dare Williamsvia City of West Hollywood – Online Event
In celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month & as part of the City’s One City Online Pride Arts Festival, poets will read and discuss their work with mentors they never met along with their own work.
Rajiv Mohabir is the author of The Cowherd’s Son.
Jubi Arriola-Healdy is the author of Original Kink.
Dare Williams is the author of Starfucker.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: WeHo Reads & One City One Pride – Online
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events415368386422320
Bill Bratton, with Connie Rice, & The Profession via Live Talks LA – Online Event
Live Talks LA presents the virtual launch for the memoir The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America, by author and former police chief of Los Angeles and New York, Bill Bratton, in conversation with author and civil rights lawyer Connie Rice.
This book is both a searching examination of the path of policing over the past fifty years, for good or for ill, and a master class in transformative leadership. It’s a riveting combination of cop stories and community involvement, and offers a vision for the future of American policing that we sorely need.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a signed copy of the book are at site.
Where: Live Talks LA – Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/bill-bratton-with-connie-rice/
Dan Suarez, with Christopher Castellani, & The Playwright’s House via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Playwright Daniel Suarez, in conversation with Christopher Castellani, will present and discuss his novel, The Playwright’s House (Red Hen Press).
In this novel a Cuban lawyer has more than he could possibly ask for. He’s happily married, backed by a powerful mentor, and with career prospects that would take him abroad. But when Serguey’s estranged brother Victor appears with news that their father—famed theater director Felipe Blanco—has been detained for what he suspects are political reasons, his privileged life is suddenly shaken. Soon he must make a decision which he cannot afford to regret.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
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 16th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/ (Check site to confirm)
Feminist Book Club with Julia Callahan & Godshot via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
The Feminist Book Club led by Julia Callahan reads and discusses an intersection variety of feminist literature, from any and all genres.
This month’s book selection, Godshot, by Chlesea Bieker, is a novel set in the Central Valley town of Peaches. A teenage girl and her mother live in what was once an agricultural paradise, but now is an environmental disaster, where residents turn to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance.
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 16th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/feminist-book-club-with-julia-callahan-5
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 16th
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 features hector son of hector, who lives in Oakland, CA and is the child of Mexican immigrants. He currently works at a hospital, dreams of short stories, and writes poetry in secret.
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 or https://www.facebook.com/events/232759028255965?ref=newsfeed
Literary Happy Hour: Martha Cooley & Dinah Lenney Releases via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Pages Bookstore presents a Literary Happy Hour, when authors Martha Cooley and Dinah Lenney will be discussing their new novels: Buy Me Love and Coffee, respectively. Our facilitator for this conversation will be Kathleen Gibbons.
Author Martha Cooley’s Buy Me Love is a novel about chance, trust, and a lottery ticket. On the way to redeeming the lottery ticket is a chance to reimagine, and a surprise.
Author Dinah Lenney’s Coffee is about the beverage, the ritual, the thing that gets us through. It suggests lifestyle. But it’s more than personal history; it’s a promise to oneself in one’s conversation with time.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a copy of the book are at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/literary-happy-hour-martha-cooley-dinah-lenney
Kitt Shapiro, with Jessica Case, & Eartha & Kitt via Book Soup – Online Event
Author Kitt Shapiro, in conversation with Jessica Case, will present and discuss her memoir, Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter’s Love Story in Black and White.
This memoir is a luminous and inspiring story of a Black pioneer and artistic force—Eartha Kitt—and one of the most moving mother/daughter stories in Hollywood history. This tells about Kitt Shapiro, a blonde and pale daughter by a white man, raised by her natural mother, Eartha Kitt, a famous, mixed-race celebrity who identified as Black, and the three decades they shared together before Kitt finally married.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Janel Pineda & Ignacio Carvajal via LibroMobile – Online Event
Poets and literary historians, Janel Pineda, author of Lineage of Rain, and Ignacio Carvajal, Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultures at the University of Kansas, come together to exchange stanzas, ancestral lineage, and the importance of their voices in this nation. They will share a conversation on how to continue to share their histories beyond the page.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: LibroMobile – Online IG event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6 pm PST
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/on-lineage-history-featuring-janel-pineda-ignacio-carvajal7
Anita Diamant & Melissa Berton, with Michaela Pereira & Period via Live Talk LA – Online Event
Author Anit Diamant, author of The Red Tent, and Melissa Berton, Academy Award-winning producer of for the 2019 documentary, Period, End of Sentence., available on Netflix, Come together in conversation with Michaela Pereira of Fox 11, to discuss their book, Period. End of Sentence. A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/period/
Jonathan Evison, with Tod Goldberg, & Legends of the North Cascades via Vroman’s Bookstore– Online Event
Jonathan Evison, in conversation with author Tod Goldberg, will present and discuss his novel, Legends of the North Cascades.
Dave Cartwright used to be good at a lot of things. But after his third tour in Iraq, his life has begun to unravel. Gripped by PTSD he finds himself losing everything, and when tragedy strikes he takes his seven-year-old daughter Bella to live off-the-grid in the Pacific Northwest. Back in town they are rapidly becoming the stuff of legend—to all but those who would force them to return home.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
George Henderson, with John Evans, & Blind Joe Death’s America via Diesel’s Bookstore– Online Event
Author George Henderson, in conversation with Diesel’s John Evans, will present and discuss, Blind Joe Death’s America: John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent.
This book is a deep dive into the writings of John Fahey, aka Blind Joe Death, storied outsider of the folk and blues revival of the 1960s and 70s. Often, after reading Fahey, his many fans return to his music to hear it differently.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6:30 pm
Where: Online event
Get Lit Virtual Open Mic & Aman Batravia Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Event
Jon us for the Get Lit Virtual Open Mic, hosted by Get Lit’s Raul Herrera and Austin Antoine, featuring poet Aman Batra.
Aman Batra is nationally touring Punjabi-American poet from Artesia, CA, currently obtaining her MFA in poetry at Antioch University. She is a TEDx speaker, a National Poetry Slam finalist, and member of the 2016 and 2017 Hollywood Slam Team.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/202719835050446
Rivka Galchen, with Karen Russell, & Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch via Skylight Bookstore– Online Event
Author Rivka Galchen, in conversation with author Karen Russell, will present and discuss her novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
This book is a story that begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Wurttemberg. Plague is spreading, the Thirty Years War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. This story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time, and it will provoke and entertain.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 6:30 pm
Where: Online event
Andy Martino, with Dylan Hernandez, & Cheated via Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Andy Martino, in conversation with Dylan Hernandez, will present and discuss his book, Cheating: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing.
This book is the definitive insider story of cheating in Major League Baseball, and exposes the long- rumored, sign stealing, dark side of baseball.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 7 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/june-10-susan-paterno
True Crime Book Club with James Bartlett via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
True Crime Book Club led by James Bartlett reads and discusses a variety of true crime literature and explores our dark side.
This month’s book selection is TBA.
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/true-crime-book-club-with-james-bartlett-3
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 17th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
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 18th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/323754889161635/
Your Author Series: Ryan La Sala & Be Dazzled– Online LAPL Teen Event
Please join us to meet author Ryan La Sala, who will present and talk about his book, Be Dazzled. He will talk and answer questions about his work, his writing career, and hobbies.
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 18th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-ryan-la-sala
Octavia Lab Tour via Central Library, LAPL– Online Zoom Event
This event invites you to come inspired by the projects and equipment you can use once becoming a member of the Octavia Lab. The Octavia Lab is a 3ooo square feet intergenerational DIY makerspace and studio space with a 3D printer, a recording booth, laser cutter, and much more. This is part of the Octavia E. Butler Celebration.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: LAPL – Online Zoom event
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 4 pm PST
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/octavia-lab-tour
Danielle Henderson, with Ann Friedman, & The Ugly Cry via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author and TV writer Danielle Henderson, in conversation with journalist Ann Friedman, present and discuss her book, The Ugly Cry: A Memoir.
This book is an uproarious, moving memoir about a grandmother’s ferocious love and her determination and faith in her granddaughter, abandoned at ten years old by a mother who chose her drug-addicted, abusive boyfriend over her child. She grew up Black, weird, and uncool in a mostly white neighborhood, but grew up and grew wise through the lessons she learned then about redefining family and its boundaries.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Poetry Open Mic with Elena Secota – Virtual Event
The Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Open Mic events have been curated by Elena Secota, and are now offered virtually.
This month at Third Fridays Rapp Saloon our event features poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher, and music from Love Me in the Dark. There is also an Open Mic.
Alexis Rhone Fancher is the author of How I Lost my Virginity to Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stabs Poems (2014). Her poetry has been published in over thirty anthologies and chapbooks, both in the U.S. and abroad, and her photographs have been published worldwide.
NOTE: See website link for details. Zoom details will be sent when you RSVP.
Where: Third Fridays Rapp Saloon (online)
Date: Friday the 18th
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/therappsaloonpoetryreading/
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 18th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929538015819
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)
Graphic Novel Book Club & Maia Kobabe & Gender Queer via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join us for the Graphic Novel Book Club meeting to virtually discuss author Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer. This book is a memoir focused on themes of identity, sexuality, anti-facism, fairy tales, and homesickness.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Bel Canto Books – Online
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 10 am PST
Address: Online Event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
Ame Dyckman & Eda Kaban & The New Kid Has Fleas via Vroman’s Bookstore– Online Kids Event
Author Ame Dyckman and illustrator Eda Kaban will present and discuss their children’s book, The New Kid Has Fleas, in a special storytime.
This hilarious picture book is about a new kid in class —who is different. And the word on the playground is: they have fleas. School’s now in session for a howlingly fun “lesson” in preconceptions, differences, rumor, karma, and not just being the new kid, but befriending them.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids event
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 11 am
Where: Online event
Lummis Day Viva Poetry& Lynne Thompson via Arroyo Seco Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Join Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson and Lummis Day poetry readings and conversation with other guest poets, including:
Neil Aitken is a writer, editor and translator,, and author of Babbage’s Dream and The Lost Country of Sight, which won the Philip Levine Prize. He is founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review, received his PhD from USC, and now lives in Canada, where he is a creative writing coach and manuscript consultant.
Lois P. Jones hosted Poets’ Café for many years on KPFK FM Radio, and her first collection, Night Ladder, was short-listed for the Lascaux Poetry Book Award. Her work has been anthologized, including in Wide Awake Poets Of Los Angeles and Beyond, and she co-hosts the Moonday Poetry Series at Flintridge Bookstore.
Eric Moraga now serves as editor of Moon tide Press, and his poetry appears in numerous journals and anthologies. He’s published the collections What We Ache For: Poems and Prose and Here for the Fiction, and the chapbooks First Kill and Secret Origin.
Lynne Thompson was appointed Los Angeles Poet Laureate this year, and she is the author of the poetry collections: Beg No Pardon, Start with a Small Guitar, and Fretwork. She serves on the boards of Cave Canem and LARB, and is Chair of the Board of Trustees, Scripps College.
NOTE: See website for online link and details.
Where: LAPL – Online Zoom event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 3 am
Address: Online event (see website) –
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/events/lummis-day-viva-poetry-0
JPL & Octavia E. Butler via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Kids & Teens Event
Join LAPL as we host Albert “Joey” Jefferson from Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He’ll discuss the Butler Mons, a mountain on Pluto’s largest moon that is a monument to the late author, Octavia 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 Kids & Teens event
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/jpl-octavia-e-butler
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Housing Alliance Readings & Open Mic via Zoom Onlline
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for Readings and an Open Mic for the Poets & Artists Housing Alliance, featuring:
MARVINLOUIS DORSEY, BRIAN DUNLAP, MARK LIPMAN & THELMA REYNA.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online event
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Make a Zine Celebration of Octavia E. Butler and Juneteenth via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Join the Octavia Lab and Sabine Maxine in zine-making to celebrate yourselves and Octavia E. Butler’s affirmations. Sabine dabbles in many different areas of creativity, and is natural-born hyphenate.
This program is open to teens, and is part of the Octavia E. Butler Celebration.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online Zoom event
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/make-zine-celebration-octavia-e-butler-and-juneteenth
The Return of SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music – In-Person Event
Join us typically every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month, but this month on June 19th for the Return of SWAAM Spoken Word, Art & Music, featuring a plethora of artistic, eclectic and creative individuals, with an Open Mic, Live Bands, Food & Drinks.
This week we are having a special JUNETeenth Day of Freedom Celebration!
Experience the passion of these poets! June features “Savvy Raw.”.
Where: The Creative House – In-Person event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 19th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 122 N. Market St., Inglewood, CA 90301 (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/swaampoetry/
Mike “The Poet” Sonksen Poetry Workshop via The Poetry Lab Sunday Series – Zoom Online
The Poetry Lab Sunday Series Workshop will be led by Mike “The Poet” Sonksen in one session, where you can learn craft while creating new work. No minimum level of writing experience is necessary to take this workshop. All people of all backgrounds are welcome.
Mike Sonksen is a poet, essayist, and educator, and the author most recently of the collection, Letters to My City. He is a currently a professor at Woodbury University.
NOTE: Check site for details.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 1 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events
Muti-Author Book Signing Event via Dark Delicacies Books – In-Person Event
Join us for a multi-author book signing event at America’s Home of Horror, with three guest authors:
Lisa Morton is the author of Night Terrors & Other Tales.
Kate Muriyama is the author of Family Solstice.
S. Alessandro Martinez is the author of Helminth.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details. Masks and social distancing required.
Where: Dark Delicacies Books – In-Person
Date: Sunday the 20th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 822 No. Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/314394360331668 or https://www.darkdel.com/store/c2/SIGNINGS.html#/
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