Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Kathy Freston & Gene Stone & 72 Reasons to Be Vegan via Book Soup – Online Event
Authors Kathy Freston & Gene Stone will present and discuss their book, 72 Reasons to Be Vegan: Why Plant-Based. Why Now.
72 Reasons to Be Vegan: Why Plant-Based. Why Now informs us that if we adopt a vegan diet you can enjoy better sex, save money, ward of diseases, and help save the planet, etc. This book answers all the questions about a vegan diet from the perspective of what one would gain, rather than what one would give up.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Where: 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 21st
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Joshua Cohen & The Netanyahus via American Jewish University (AJU) – Online Zoom Event
Join us to hear author Joshua Cohen, in conversation with AJU President Dr, Jeffrey Herbst, discuss this wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy about blending identity, politics, and the Jewish concept of chosenness.
The author mixes fiction with non-fiction in this latest novel, which sprung from an anecdote told by critic Harold Bloom about the time he hosted Benzion Netanyahu, father of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for a campus visit at Cornell. Set in upstate New York in winter, 1959-1960, a Jewish historian plays reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies.
Where: Online Zoom Event (see site for details)
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 12 pm – 12:45 pm PST
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/490453478870059/
Suzanne Simard & Finding the Mother Tree via ALOUD Reading Series – Online Event
Author Suzanne Simard, in conversation with The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino, will discuss her debut book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, which traces her journey from growing up in a logging community in the rainforests of British Columbia to her incredible work pioneering the frontier of plant communication and intelligence.
This book illuminates how trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life, and explains trees and their connections to one another and to other living things. Her work has influenced filmmakers (James Cameron’s Avatar) and authors (Richard Powers’ The Overstory) and her TED talks have been viewed by millions.
Where: Online Event (see site for details)
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://lfla.org/event/finding-the-mother-tree-discovering-the-wisdom-of-the-forest/
James Ellroy in an “Ellroypalooza Panel” & Widespread Panic via Chevalier’s Books – Online Zoom Event
Acclaimed author James Ellroy, in conversation with a panel of Ellroy scholars and enthusiasts, will present and discuss his new novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground—a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies.
The panelists will add to the fun: John Anderson and Grant Nevel created the Ellroycast, and have written about pop culture, film, and TV; Joan Renner is a social historian and author of true crime in LA; Zoe Dean is an award-winning short story writer of crime fiction.
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for details of this free event.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore & Writers Bloc – Online Zoom event
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://writersblocpresents.com/main/james-ellroy/
Pride Month: Jonathan Ned Katz & Eve Adams’ Lesbian Love (1925) via Holocaust Museum LA – Online Event
Celebrate Pride Month by joining a discussion of Jonathan Ned Katz’s carefully researched life of the resistant, spirited Eve Adams, who published the pioneering book Lesbian Love, in 1925, after which she was arrested and deported to Europe, where she was murdered in Auschwitz. She was originally a Polish immigrant to the U.S. in 1912.
NOTE: See site for Zoom details and book purchase for this free event.
Where: Holocaust Museum LA – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/513519270006278/?active_tab=about
New Play by Native Voices: Arbeka &Tara Moses via The Autry – Online Livestream Event
Celebrate Native Voices by joining a production of Tara Moses’ play Arbeka. The author belongs to the Seminole nation of Oklahoma.
This play considers the question: Can one truly go home again? Hotke Tiger I about to find out when she returns to the Arbeka grounds in Oklahoma, after a decade, Hotke must confront past tragedies, mistakes, and wounds. Does she have what it takes to be a tiger?
NOTE: See site for free admission and details for this event.
Where: The Autry LA – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3609057939320026
Moya Bailey, with Mariame Kaba, & MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED via Skylight Books – Online Event
Author Moya Bailey, in conversation with Mariame Kaba, will discuss her book. MISOGYNOIR TRANSFORMED: Black Women’s Digital Resistance
When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea it would go viral and quickly enter the lexicon. Here she delves into he concept, highlighting Black women’s digital resistance to anti-Black misogyny on many platforms, and shows how Black women actively reimagine the world in this way and carve out spaces on social media and reclaim teir lives.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 22ND
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via LAPL – Online Event
Join Expressions LA Poetry Reading Series for featured poetry readings and an Open Mic.
Please email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join this event.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Life Stories Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Life Stories Open Mic Series for an opportunity to express yourself. Share something that happened to you, or just listen and enjoy.
To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/life-stories-open-mic-3
Author Daniel Oppenheimer, with Dave Hickey & Christopher Knight, & Far From Respectable via Book Soup – Online Event
Author Daniel Oppenheimer’s book on art critic and essayist Hickey, Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art, will be in conversation with Dave Hickey and Christopher Knight.
Regarded as both a legend and a villain, the critic Dave Hickey has inspired generations of artists, art critics, musicians, and writers. Oppenheimer examines the controversial writer’s distinctive takes on a broad range of subjects, and how Hickey’s vision of an “ethical, cosmopolitan paganism” built around a generous definition of art is more urgently needed than ever before.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Non-Fiction Book Club & Agent Sonya via Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Pages Bookstore presents its Non-Fiction Book Club, facilitated by Mark Polak, which reads non-fiction and meets generally on the Fourth Tuesday of each month. This month’s selection is Agent Sonya by author Ben MacIntyre.
Author Ben MacIntyre’s Agent Sonya takes place in 1942 in a quiet English village, where a thin, elegant woman lived in a small college with her family and lived an unassuming life. Her neighbors didn’t know she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, running powerful agents across Europe, a dedicated Communist, and veteran agent gathering scientific secrets for building the bomb. This is a true-life spy story.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a copy of the book are at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club-0
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 Truth Thomas, plus an open reading.
Truth Thomas’ most recent collection, Speak Water (Cherry Castle, 2012), won the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Poetry. Truth Thomas is a singer-songwriter and poet is the author of four collections of poetry, and his poems have appeared in over 100 publications.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
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 22nd
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar (Check site to confirm date)
Middle Grade Book Club & Bea Is for Blended via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Pages Bookstore presents its Middle Grade Book Club, which reads new fiction and meets generally on the Third Wednesday of each month. This month’s selection is Bea Is for Blended by author Lindsey Stoddard.
Author Lindsey Stoddard’s Be Is for Blended is about a girl and her mom who have always been a two-person team—until her mom marries Wendell, and their team grows by three boys, two dogs, and a cat. She soon learns that building a new life does not mean leaving her old one behind.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a copy of the book are at site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club
Amanda Gorman & Tracy K. Smith & The Hill We Climb via LA Times Idea Exchange & Write Girl – Online Event
LA Times Ideas Exchange Presents: Amanda Gorman, with Pulitzer Prize winning author and former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, to present and discuss the power of language to inform and reinvigorate, as well as her uplifting poem/ book, The Hill We Climb. They will be in conversation with LA Times columnist Erika D. Smith.
NOTE: See costs, RSVP and details at site.
Where: LA Times & Write Girl & several bookstores– Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/ideasexchange/ or https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/ideas-exchange-amanda-gorman
Nana Nkweti, with Yaa Gyasi, & Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories via Book Soup – Online Event
Author Nana Nkweti, in conversation with acclaimed author Yaa Gyasi, will discuss her new book, Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories.
In this enthralling debut, the author presents a powerful, gender-bending story collection. She skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, conflicting belief systems, to a murder investigation driven by statistics, to a story organized by the hairstyles of the main character. This is a dazzling collection of complex and vibrant characters.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Be the Change Series: Fairest by Meredith Talusanvia Glendale Library – Online Event
Be the Change Series: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism, features a virtual author talk with Meredith Talusan about her book, Fairest, a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a sun child from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. The author shares poignant and powerful episodes, and her evocative reflections will shift our perceptions of love, identity, gender, and the fairnesss of life.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Glendale Library & Be the Change Series – Online
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/be-change-series-featuring-fairest-meredith-talusan
Robert C. Ritchie, with William Deverell, & The Lure of the Beach via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Robert C. Ritchie, in conversation with author William Deverell, about his book, The Lure of the Beach: A Global History.
This book is a chronicle of humanity’s history with the coast, and the author traces the materials and social economies of the coast, through all of its developmental usages and relationships. The conflicts between private ownership and public access, and all of its human history and ecosystems needs to be examined and protected now more than ever.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Amanda Montell, with Owin Pierson, & Culitsh via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Author Amanda Montell, in conversation with Owin Pierson, will present and discuss her book, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism.
This book is an analysis of the social science off cult influence: how cultish groups form Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. Through storytelling and original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,” revealing how they affect followers, pervade our modern start-ups, and online feeds. This enrapturing take on the social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish” everywhere.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Queerland Open Mic via Spoke & Weal WeHo – Online Event
Join Queerland Open Mic for an amazing free evening of queer poetry, art, spoken word, along with vocalist, musicians, and talented singers for Pride Month.
This event is hosted by Queerland, an arts-focused youth community center for empowering LGBTQIA+ young adults (14-25) by providing opportunities in the arts through free workshops, performance opportunities, and social events.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Spoke & Weal LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/108600744686655
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 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/ (Check site to confirm)
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 23rd
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 TBA.
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 23rd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/two-idiots-peddling-poetry
Braintrust Poetry Workshop & Kelsey Bryan-Zwick via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
Braintrust Poetry Writing Workshop is a regular two-hour generative workshop, community check-in and group share, established by Danielle Mitchell, and instructed this time by Kelsey Bryan-Zwick.
NOTE: Reservations and details are at site.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/braintrust
Yehudi Mercado, with Raina Telgemeier, & Chunky via Vroman’s Bookstore– Online Middle Grade Event
Yehudi Mercado, in conversation with author Raina Tellgemeier, will present and discuss his middle grade graphic memoir, Chunky.
In this middle grade graphic memoir, author Mercado draws inspiration from his childhood struggle with his weight while finding friendship with his imaginary mascot Chunky, as he navigates growing up in a working class Mexican Jewish family.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
“A Queer History of the U.S. for Young People Book Club” via Queerland Center – Online Event
Join Queerland for this month’s Book Club meeting and read A Queer History of the U.S. for young people, by author Michael Bronski. This discussion will be moderated by ASU English professor and Drag Story host, David Boyles.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Queerland Center – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/791021424934619
Conversations with the Author: David Charles Sloane & Is the Cemetary Dead? via LA Regional Planning History Group – Online Zoom Event
Join LARPHG for its new program, Conversations with the Author, a series of one-hour presentations and discussions with authors of new books on topics of urban planning in Los Angeles.
David Charles Sloane is the author of a new book, Is The Cemetary Dead? Join us for the discussion.
NOTE: See site for Zoom details for this free event.
Where: Los Angeles Planning History Group – Online event
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/147955590727353
God’s Suicide, with Harmony Holiday,via Hammer Museum– Online Event
Authorand artist Harmony Holiday, will present an essay and her one-man play, God’s Suicide, with actor Larry Powell portraying Baldwin in this production.
This Made in LA event takes Black male vulnerability as its central subject. Adapted from an essay by the artist Harmony Holiday and constructed around the rarely acknowledged five suicide attempts of writer and public intellectual James Baldwin, this deeply personal work examines the interplay between creative and destructive forces in societies infected with white supremacy.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Hammer Museum – Online event
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2021/gods-suicide-harmony-holiday
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 24th
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 25th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/249997356883102
In Conversation with Author Lynell George & A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky – Online LAPL Teen & Adult Event
Please join The Octavia Lab to meet author Lynell George, who will present and talk about her book, A Handful of Earth A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler. She is a journalist and essayist, a former staff writer for both The Los Angeles Times and The LA Weekly, and the author of several books.
This event is part of the Octavia E. Butler Celebration.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: LAPL event (see site)
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/conversation-author-lynell-george
In Conversation with Author Lynell George via Central Library, LAPL– Online Zoom Event
Join the Octavia Lab for a conversation with author and journalist Lynell George, author of the book. A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler.
As a former staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and the LA Weekly, Lynell George focused on social issues, human behavior, visual arts, music, and literature. This book has been nominated as a finalist for a Hugo Award, under Best Related Work category.
This event is part of the Octavia E. Butler Celebration.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: LAPL & Octavia Lab– Online Zoom event
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/conversation-author-lynell-george
Your Author Series: Susie Hicks & Zaynab The Great via LAPL – Online Kids Event
Join us to meet writer, producer, and TV host, Susie Hicks, as she talks about her book, Zaynab The Great and The Great Plastic Monster. The author is a dedicated climate change activist who works with PBS SoCal on content for early learners.
Those attending this virtual program will have an opportunity to win a free book.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: LAPL – Online Zoom event
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 4 pm
Where: See Site
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-susie-hicks
Rhiannon McGavin & Grocery List Poems via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us for Junior High Presents: Rhiannon McGavin present and discuss her second full-length poetry collection, Grocery List Poems (Not a Cult).
If the word stanza means “room,” then this book is an orchard. Former Youth Poet of Los Angeles Rhiannon McGavin crafts poems form the everyday, form dream diaries, from postcards, and integrates the facts of daily life into lyric verse. Led by emotions, she explores what it means to become your won calendar.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event locations & details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/junior-high-presents-rhiannon-mcgavin-author-grocery-list-poems
Poetics of Decolonization: Angel Dominguez & Josiah Luis Alderete via Sims Library of Poetry – Online Event
The Sims Library of Poetry Presents: Poetics of Decolonization with readings by Angel Dominguez & Josiah Luis Alderete..
This hour of poetics and platica will feature Angel Dominguez and Josiah Luis Alderete reading from their new work, Poetics of Decolonization, and in conversation about the power that poetry has to decolonize our hearts, minds, and vida. There will be Q&A at the end of the reading.
NOTE: See site to RSVP and for details.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry – Online Event
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/event-details/poetics-of-decolonization-2
Authors Night: Dr. Michael Datcher & Noel Alumit via LA Department of Cultural Affairs (COLA)
Grand Vision is honored to host authors Noel Alumit and Dr Michael Datcher, recipients of the City of Los Angele (COLA) 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship grant. Both authors will read from their new works, and there will be Q&A and conversation.
Noel Alumit is the author of Letters to Montgomery Clift and Talking to the Moon, and he will read from his new novel, The Valet This book is set in 1929 Hollywood and is a fictional account of the valet for filmmaker F.W. Murnau, who died in a car crash along the California coast.
Dr. Michael Datcher is the author of the novels, AMERICAUS, RAISING FENCES, and ANIMATING BLACK AND BROWN LIBERATION, A Theory of American Liieratures. He will read from his new novel, CULT, the story of a “positive womanist cult” disguised as a womanist church where the Black Divine Feminine will be worshipped.
NOTE: See site for tickets & details.
Where: COLA & Grand Annex Event
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/189603359680819
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 26th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929541349152/
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 26th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785643795184/ (Check and Verify)
Exclusive Book Launch with Emily Jenkins & Pete Oswald via Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
Join an exclusive virtual book launch of the children’s book , Harry Versus the First 100 Days of School, with author Emily Jenkins and illustrator Pete Oswald.
Harry Bergen-Murphy, age 5, is starting first grade but doesn’t feel ready. But, together with his family and friends, he finds a new world of learning and friendship at school
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.childrensbookworld.com/event/exclusive-virtual-book-launch-emily-jenkins-and-pete-oswald
Liz Climo & Jory John & Summer Camp Jitters via Vroman’s Bookstore– Online Kids Eve
Illustrator Liz Climo and author Jimmy John will lead a special storytime with some familiar faces and some new ones who meet up at summer camp… and they all feel nervous. But they learn they can get over their nerves to have some fun and make new friends.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids event
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 11 am
Where: Online event
LA Made: Hanif Abdurraqib, with Courtney Lilly, via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Zoom Event
Join bestsellng author and poet Hanif Abdurraqib, author of Go Ahead in the Rain, in conversation with Courtney Lilly, head writer of the hit TV show Blackish. They will be discussing Hanif’s new book, A Little Devil in America” Note in Praise of Black Performance.
In this book the author weaves together gorgeous essays to reveal resilience, heartbreak, and joy within Black performances. Each moment has resonance in Black and white cultures, and he includes his own personal story.
Those attending this virtual program will have an opportunity to win a free book.
NOTE: See website for online link and details.
Where: LAPL – Online Zoom event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event (see website) –
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/conversation-between-hanif-abdurraqib-and-courtney-lilly
Book Launch for Beyond Birds & Answers – Online Event
Join us for an online virtual book release for Beyond Birds & Answers, a dialogue by Alice Pero and Vera Campion. Brew some coffee or have a favorite beverage on hand as we read poetry and view beautiful collages,
You might even win a book signed by the author and the artist!
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 2 pm– 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/767168093975792/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Cassandra Lane & Spectrum Poets via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop, led by writer Cassandra Lane, author of the memoir We Are Bridges
Also featured, poets published in Spectrum Online Edition: Summer Sounds.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online event
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Book Release Celebration: Mary Camarillo & The Lockhart Women via LibroMobile – Online & IG Event
Join LibroMobile and local author and poet Mary Camarillo for a debut book release celebration of her new novel, The Lockhart Women.
This book is about a family thrown in to chaos in 1990s Southern California, and it’s an emotional portrait of three women dealing with unexpected change.
Reading will be outside the bookstore, and packaged snacks and beverages will be provided.
Where: LibroMobile – Online & IG event
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/704324286934830/ or https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/book-release-celebration-the-lockhart-women-by-mary-camarillo
Parable of the Sower Graphic Novel Creators via Central Library, LAPL – Zoom Online
Come and meet the adaptation team for the Parable of the Sower graphic novel: John Jennings and Damian Duffy. This graphic novel has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for 2021. The team is currently working on Parable of the Talents. They will be showing how a graphic novel is made.
This event is part of the Octavia E. Butler celebration.
NOTE: Check site for details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/parable-sower-graphic-novel-creators-presentation
Multi-Author Book Release Party (for Vaccinated People) via California Imagism Gallery – In-Person Event
Come and meet the authors of books released during the quarantine, who had no release party, at CIG, where we will all be celebrating these new books, hosted by John Brantingham.
So far, authors include: Allen Calacci, Victoria Waddle, Romaine Washington, Juanita E. Mantz, Tim Hatch, George Hammons, Kendall Johnson, Lloyd Aquino, Ranney Campbell; authors from Bamboo Dart Press; Andre Turner, author from Arroyo Seco Press; authors from Literary Alchemy Press, Francesca Terzano, Cindy Rinne, Aruni Wijesinghe, Shannon Phillips; authors from Picture Show Press, and others.
The list is still growing and I will post them at this site. Anyone presenting and selling a book, please bring food to share. Bring camp chairs if you have them, Come and hang out with the writing community.
This event is part of the Octavia E. Butler celebration.
NOTE: Check site for details.
Where: California Imagism Gallery – In-Person Event (vaccinations required)
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 5 pm – 9 pm
Address: 119 W. Transit Street Unit 7, Ontario, CA 91762
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1493346407697440
Re/Arte Grand Opening Party & Open Mic via Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Celebrate and be merry with us for the opening of the literary space, Re/Arte, a literary and art space run/owned by Viva Padilla. Re/Arte is the headquarters of Dryland, a literary journal born in South Central Los Angeles, and we plan to host a variety of events, such as screenings, book readings, open mic nights, workshops, author talks, a literary program for youth, and to collaborate with other organizations.
Doors open at 5:30pm for anyone who would like to check out the space before la parranda.
Feel free to bring books or supplies, (office supplies, books, plants, art prints) to donate to our space. We are also accepting donations via venmo or through our fiscal sponsor, Tia Chucha (details at site). Visit our website reartela.org.
NOTE: See site for event location & details.
Where: Re/Arte Event
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2014 E. Cesar E/ Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1081275952684811/
Burning Issues Book Club & Richard Rothstein & The Color of Law via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join us for the Burning Issues Book Club meeting to virtually discuss author Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. This book disputes the legal amnesia of the Roberts Court that plays to the safety of continued white privilege by denying decades of intentional racism which manifests as segregation, and covers from the period of Reconstruction into the 21st century.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details.
Where: Bel Canto Books – Online
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
Lynne Thompson, LA Poet Laureate Reading via Cecilia Woloch & Friends – Online Event
Join us to hear a reading by LA Poet Laureate and author Lynne Thompson, as well as readings from poets in our community, and a brief reading by Cecelia Woloch. We’ll close out with a Q&A.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Cecilia Woloch & Friends – Online event
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/534013574448824/
Fourth Sundays Poetry Reading via Friends of the Claremont Library – Online Event
Join us to hear poets and featured guests, Romaine Washington and Anna Leahy read from their work at Fourth Sundays at The Claremont Library Poetry Readings.
Romaine Washington is the author of the chapbooks Purgatory Has an Address (2021) and Sirene in Her Belly (2015). Her work appeared in numerous journals and she has presented on a wide variety of programs, including KPFK and NPR. She works as a teacher for gifted students.
Anna Leahy is the author of the poetry collections, What Happened Was, Aperture and Constituents of Matter, and the nonfiction book, Tumor. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed and elsewhere, and her essays have won top awards. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University and edits the international Tab Journal.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: TheClaremont Library – Online event
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/fourthsundayspoetry/photos/a.218576998180208/3921113691259835/
La Palabra Poetry Reading Series via Avenue 50 Studio – Online Zoom Event
Join us for the monthly La Palabra Reading Series, hosted by Angelina Saenz, and featuring:
Lisbeth Coiman is a bilingual author and educator from Venezuela, and the author of I Asked the Blue Heron (2017) and Uprising /Alzamiento, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.
jo reyes-boitel is a poet, essayist, and playwright, and author of the forthcoming chapbook mouth.
Donna Spruijt-Metz is a poet, professor, translator, and the author of Slippery Surfaces.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details. Zoom: 881 0616 8718
Where: Avenue 50 Studio – Online
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 2 pm
Address: See site
Website: http://avenue50studio.org/la-palabra
Roar Shack Reading Series with David Rocklin – Online Zoom Event
Join us for the monthly Roar Shack Reading Series, hosted by David Rocklin, and featuring:
Karen Poppy is a poet and fiction writer, and the author of the forthcoming chapbook Our Own Beautiful Brutality.
Bill Kenower N/A
Morgan Day N/A
Kushmei N/A
Gina Frangello is the author of A Life in Men: A Novel.
NOTE: See site for Zoom link and event details.
Where: Roar Shack – Online
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/343478773788051/
Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club & Richard Rothstein & The Color of Law via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club is led by Kathryn E. McGee and it is a horror book club.
This month’s selection is The Reckoningby John Grisham,
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check site details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/the-thing-in-the-labyrinth-horror-book-club-with-kathryn-e-mcgee-6
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