Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Treehouse Event: Jamal Yogis & Matthew Allen & Mop Rides the Waves of Change via Skylight Books & LA Public Library – Online Kids Event
Skylight Treehouse and the LA Public Library present an interactive kids event celebrating author Jamal Yogis and illustrator Matthew Allen’s new picture book, Mop Rides the Waves of Change. This event is presented in partnership with the band Punk Rock Marthas.
The second in the Mop Rides series finds surfer kid Mop and his friends in a quest to save the ocean with mindfulness, surfing, and a band—The Coconut Heads.
Where: Skylight Bookstore Online Kids Event (see site)
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 11 am
Address: Skyllight Books Online 9see site)
Michael Pollan, with Rick Dobin, PhD, & This Is Your Mind on Plants via Vroman’s – Online Event
Michael Pollan, in conversation with Rick Dobin, PhD, will present and discuss his book, This Is Your Mind on Plants
In this book, author Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as thorugh participatory journalism, he examines and experiences these plants from very different angels and contexts, and offers fresh insights into our fundamental human needs and entanglement with the natural world.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/michael-pollan-discusses-your-mind-plants
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 12th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Ficcion en espanol Book Club with Dan Lopez via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
The Ficcion en espanol Book Club is led by Dan Lopez via Zoom, and focuses on reading and discussing works of fiction in Spanish.
This month’s selection is Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s book. La Ciudad de Vapor, which is a posthumous story collection in recognition of readers who followed him along the saga begun with The Shadow of the Wind.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/ficcion-en-espanol-book-club-with-dan-lopez-7
AJU Book Club & The Netanyahus via American Jewish University – Online Event
Join us for a lively discussion of Joshua Cohen’s book, The Netanyahus.
The Netanyahus mixes fiction with non-fiction in the author’s latest novel, which sprung from an anecdote told by critic Harold Bloom about the time he hosted Benzion Netanyahu for a campus visit at Cornell.
Set in Corbin College in the winter of 1959-1960, a Jewish historian—but not a historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, they lay reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a copy of the book are at site.
Where: AJU – Online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/305639521030772
Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus & Love People, Use Things via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear the hosts of The Minimalists Podcast, Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus,in conversation with Erwin McManus, discuss Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works.
The authors will discuss how minimalism makes room to reevaluate and heal the seven essential relationships in our lives: stuff, truth, self, money, values, creativity, and people. All of this is to provide a template for how to live a fuller, more meaningful life.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a copy of the book are at site.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Poetry Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Poetry Open Mic, hosted by Wyatt Underwood.
Share a poem you wrote or a poem you love, or just listen and enjoy;
Please RSVP to wwood@lapl.org for zoom link.
Where: LAPL Online Zoom Event (see site for details)
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-3
Chris Struck, with Chris L. Terry, & Give My Love to Savages: Stories via Book Soup – Online Event
Author Chris Struck, in conversation with writer Chris L. Terry, will discuss his new book, Give My Love to Savages: Stories.
The nine tales in this book illuminate the multifaceted Black experience, exploring the thorny intersections of race, identity, and Black life through an extraordinary cast of characters. These stories take aim at the ironies and contradictions of the American racial experience.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Matt Haig, with Kathryn Budig, & The Comfort Book via Vroman’s – Online Event
Matt Haig, in conversation with Kathryn Budig, will present and discuss his book, The Comfort Book.
This book is the author’s life raft for anyone in search of hope, or looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of encouragement. This collection of notes, lists, and stories written over a span of several years served as reminders to Haig’s future self that things are not always as bad as they may seem. He offers warmth and reassurance, advising us to slow down and appreciate the beauty and unpredictability of existence.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Where: Online event
Live at Dynasty Typewriter: Sam Kean, with Megan Rosenbloom, & The Icepick Surgeon via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Sam Keon, in conversation with librarian Megan Rosenbloom, will present and discuss his book, The Icepick Surgeon,
This book fuses the drama of scientific discovery with the illicit thrill of a true-crime tale. Science is usually a force for good, but when obsession or unfettered ambition gets the better of some scientists, they can push the line and trample ethical boundaries, often committing crimes in the process. Over a period of two thousand years, he reveals the past sins of science, and how some of them connect to our present and possibly our futures as well.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-dynasty-typewriter-sam-kean-conversation-megan-rosenbloom
Book of the Month (BOTM) Club & Memorial via Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Our Book of the Month Club will discuss its June 2021 Pride Month selection, Memorial, by Bryan Washington, online in a virtual discussion.
This book is a funny, sexy, stunning book, about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship, the limits of love, and what it means to have and not have home in Houston Texas and in Osaka Japan.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this event.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Where: See site
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
Mystery Book Club & A Door Behind a Door via Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Our Mystery Book Club reads new release mysteries, and book selection is done by e-mail voting prior to the event, which will be held in-person on the patio outside, and moderated by Bobby McCue.
This month we have two selections:
First is Yelena Moscovich’s book, A Door Behind a Door. This is a loose, dreamy, symbol-packed story which speaks to the themes of immigration, and the fact that our pasts cannot be shaken.
Second is Nalini Singh’s book, Quiet in Her Bones. This gripping thriller is set in New Zealand, in the twisted world of and exclusive cul-de-sac located on the edge of a sprawling forest.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this event.
Where: Pages Bookstore – In-Person event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Where: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/mystery-book-club-person-0
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading and Guest Poet Sophia Falco – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Sophia Falco.
Sophia Falco is a poet and the author of the debut full-length collection, Farewell Clay Dove (2021), which overcomes and transfigures the stigma and challenges of bipolar disorder.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Adult Book Club & The Dutch House via One Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Our Adult Book Club has been going strong for 40 YEARS and meets on the second Tuesday of the month at America’s oldest children’s bookstore.
This month our selection is Ann Patchett’s most recent novel, The Dutch House, a tour-de-force story, that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love, and forgiveness, of how we see ourselves and how we really are.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this event.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Zoom event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 7:30 pm
Where: See site
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-dutch-house-ann-patchett-meeting-zoom
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 13th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar (Check site to confirm date)
Jim Terry, with Ezra Clayton Daniels, & Come Home, Indio via Skylight Bookstore – Live Online Event (This event precedes a signing event at 6pm)
Join prolific comic book artist and author Jim Terry, in conversation with Ezra Clayton Daniels, discuss his debut memoir, Come Home, Indio: A Memoir.
This memoir and powerful graphic novel from a Native American cartoonist explores the isolation and anxiety of being lost between two worlds but ultimately becoming comfortable in his own skin. The author discovers his identity as an indigenous person through a life-altering experience at Standing Rock, following a mixed-race, suburban upbringing, and an urban adulthood marked by alcoholism and the death of his parents.
NOTE: See details at site. This event is followed by an in-person signing at 6pm.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Live Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 3 pm (1st of two events)
Address: See site
Children’s Book Club Chats with Author Jarod Pratt & Illustrator Jey Odin & Lemonade Code via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Kids Event
Join the Children’s Book Club to chat with author Jarod Pratt and illustrator Jey Odin, to ask questions about their book. Lemonade Code, as well as how to write and what their favorite books are.
This program is for children ages 8-12 years old.
Please RSVP to lkratz@lapl.org for details.
Where: LAPL Online Zoom Event (see site for details)
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event
Jim Terry, with Ezra Clayton Daniels, & Come Home, Indio via Skylight Bookstore – Live In-Store Event (This event follows the Virtual Event at 3pm)
Join prolific comic book artist and author Jim Terry, in conversation with Ezra Clayton Daniels, for a discussion and in-person signing of his book, Come Home, Indio: A Memoir.
This memoir and powerful graphic novel from a Native American cartoonist explores the isolation and anxiety of being lost between two worlds but ultimately becoming comfortable in his own skin. The author discovers his identity as an indigenous person through a life-altering experience at Standing Rock, following a mixed-race, suburban upbringing, and an urban adulthood marked by alcoholism and the death of his parents.
NOTE: See details at site. This event is preceded by a virtual event at 3pm.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Live In-Store Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 6 pm (2nd of two events)
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/store-signing-come-home-indio-jim-terry-w-ezra-claytan-daniels
Open Mic Poetry Nightvia Thousand Oaks Library – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a virtual Open Mic Poetry Night via a joint program by the Thousand Oaks Library and Ventura County Poetry Project, offered every two weeks..
Come listen to local poets and share your own work every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. Every fourth Wednesday will also include a reading from a guest reader.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Thousand Oaks Library – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1649043465295804/
Lucy Jane Santos & Half Lives via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Join us to hear author Lucy Jane Santos, in conversation with Dr. Brandy Shillace, present her book, Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium.
Come listen to local poets and share your own work every second and fourth Wednesday of the month. Every fourth Wednesday will also include a reading from a guest reader. This book is the fascinating, curious, and sometimes macabre history of radium as seen in its uses in everyday life. It was once considered a wonder element and a supposed cure-all, and offers a surprising interplay between science and popular culture, as it evolves from a once-fetishized, to a feared substance.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/lucy-santos
Grito De Boyle Heights Open Mic & Matt Sedillo via Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month Re/Arte offers the Grito De Boyle Heights Open Mic, hosted by Sammy Quetzalli.
Come early at 6pm for a writers workshop guided by Chicano political poet Matt Sedillo! He is the author of the collection, Mowing Leaves of Grass.
Donations accepted.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos or www.facebook.com/events/345701186949789/
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop via The World Stage – In-Person 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.
We return to the building after a 15-month, Covid-19 imposed exile, where the faithful met weekly via Zoom online. We are currently working on the process to continue to include our online community each session. WELCOME HOME!
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.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: The World Stage (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Dengan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/events.html or https://www.facebook.com/events/2956323581294484/
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 14th
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 14th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/two-idiots-peddling-poetry (confirm at site) (Check site to verify)
Skylight Treehouse: Jen Wang & Stargazing via Skylight Books & LAPL – Online Middle-Grade Event
Join us to hear author and illustrator Jen Wang present and discuss her children’s book, Stargazing
In this interactive event presented in partnership with Punk Rock Marthas, we are introduced to a heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel in the spirit of Real Friends and El Deafo. In this book, the author draws on her childhood to paint a deeply personal yet wholly relatable friendship story that’s at turns joyful, heart wrenching, and full of hope.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event locations & details.
Where: Skylight Books & LAPL – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 15th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Event
Grady Hendrix & The Final Girl Support Group via Book Soup – Online Event
Author Grady Hendrix will present and discuss his book, The Final Girl Support Group.
Like his bestselling novel, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, the author’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. It pays tribute to, and slyly subverts, our most popular horror films, and is about a group of girl survivors who never give up.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a copy of the book are at site.
Where: Book Soup – Online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 15th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/grady-hendrix-discusses-final-girl-support-group
“Where Is your Fire” Workshop & bridgette bianca via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
“Where Is Your Fire?” Poetry Writing Workshop is an on-going 5-week course (this is the 3rd meeting if five), led by poet and educator bridgette bianca. She is the author of the debut collection, be/trouble, and her work seeks to serve the people and moments most forget or ignore.
This ongoing workshop is appropriate for writers of all levels, and includes four weeks of live lecture, discussion, and guided writing, plus a final live online show on July 29th where participants can show their work and celebrate each other.
NOTE: Reservations, cost schedules, and details are at site.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 15th (through July 29th)
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/2021/fire-workshop
Kimberly B. Cummings & Next Move, Best Move via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Author Kimberly B. Cummings discusses her book, Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning into a Career You’ll Love.
This book is a thorough, expert guide to navigating the world of work, to gain expertise and skills, and to change the trajectory of your career and become leaders in the workforce.
NOTE: Reservations and details to obtain a copy of the book are at site.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 15th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Dana Spiotta, with Rachel Kushner, & Wayward via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Dana Spiotta, in conversation with author Rachel Kushner, present and discuss her novel, Wayward.
The moving, funny, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters, and one woman’s midlife reckoning is from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat This Document. It’s also about aging,the female body, and about female difficulty and complexity in the age of Trump.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event locations & details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 15th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-dana-spiotta-discusses-wayward-rachel-kushner
Michael Shnayerson, with WR Wilkerson III, & Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream via Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Join us to hear author Michael Shnayerson, in conversation with WR Wilkerson III, present and discuss his book, Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream.
This is the story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas Strip. His brief life led to a violent end, and this captivating portrait aims to understand him in all his complexity.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 15th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/michael-shnayerson
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 15st
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
Yaa Gyasi, & Transcendent Kingdom via Skylight Books & Book Passage – Livestream Event
Join us to hear author Yaa Gayasi, in conversation with Esi Edugyan, present the paperback launch of her novel, Transcendent Kingdom.
This novel is a stunning follow-up to her acclaimed bestseller Homecoming, and it’s a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered story about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. In it Giffy is sixth year PhD candidate in neuroscience studying behavior, depression and addiction, and is determined to find a scientific basis for the suffering see sees around her. She soon finds herself hungering for her childhood faith, but grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Books & Book Passage – Livestream Event
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 1 pm
Address: See site
Your Author Series: Mary McCoy & Indestructible Object via LAPL Your Author Series – Online YA Event
Join the LAPL Your Author Series to welcome author and LAPL librarian Mary McCoy as she discusses her YA novel, Indestructible Object, which won the Printz Honor in 2019, where she wrote about Los Angeles’ notorious past. This is a coming-of-age story follows a Memphis teen whose quest to uncover the secrets of love reveals new truths about herself. .
Those attending the virtual program will have an opportunity to win a free book.
Where: LAPL Online YouTube & FB event
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-mary-mccoy
Gail Sinatra & Barbara Hofer: Science Denial via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear authors Gail Sinatra and Barbara Hofer, who will present and discuss their book, Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do about It.
This book investigates how individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children, or wear masks during a pandemic. The authors are also psychologists, and here they identify the problem of science denial and offer tools for addressing it. They focus on key psychological issues, such as social identity and reasoning biases that limit public understanding of science, and describe solutions for individuals, educators, communicators, and policy makers.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event locations & details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event
Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Poetry Open Mic with Elena Secota & Ten Year Anniversary Celebration – Virtual Event
The Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Open Mic events have been curated by Elena Secota, and this event will be celebrating its Ten Year Anniversary.
This month at Third Fridays Rapp Saloon, our event features poet and photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher, artist and performer Susan Hayden and musician and Beat poet Rich Ferguson. There is also an Open Mic, and musicians Love Me in the Dark, Mason Summit & Irene Green.
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.
Susan Hayden is a fiction writer, dramatist, poet, and creator/producer of Library Girl, a monthly literary series at the Ruskin Theatre in Santa Monica. She is the author of a novel, can be heard on two spoken word CDs, and her poetry and stories have been widely published.
Rich Ferguson has shared the stage with many esteemed poets and musicians, including Patti Smith and Wanda Colman. He serves as California Beat Poet Laureate, and his poetry and spoken word music videos have been widely anthologized. He is the author most recently of the novel New Jersey Me (Rare Bird Books).
NOTE: See website link for details. Zoom details will be sent when you RSVP.
Where: Third Fridays Rapp Saloon (online)
Date: Friday the 16th
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 17th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929564682483/
Santa Monica Reads Book Discussion: The Pull of the Stars via Santa Monica Libraries – Online Event
Join us for a combined meeting of the Notable Fiction and Ocean Park Book Groups: The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donoghue. Book discussions are hosted by trained facilitators and library staff, and participants may share their ideas on its themes or simply listen and learn more about the book.
NOTE: See website for registration and further details.
Where: SMPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33799
Author Damon Todd boos signing event & The Prisoner Book via 10 Dollar Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us for a book singing event for The Prisoner Book, by Damon Todd. Special book price, of $9.99 includes a signed copy, and 50% of all profits from online sources will be donated to the American Wild Horse Campaign, if you can’t make the event.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: 10 Dollar Bookstore – In-Person event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 8727 Tampa Ave., Northridge, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1413078122404130/
Thriller Panel Event: Alexa Donne, Laurie Elizabeth Flynn & Kara Thomas via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us online for a Thriller Panel Event featuring readings by three authors.
Alexa Donne is the author of The Ivies, where five prep school elites would kill to gget into the colleges of their dreams, and there is a showdown after Liz gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn is the author of the novel, The Girls are All So Nice Here, which explores how much things have changed in the years since Ambrosia Wellington graduated from college, and worked hard to create a new life for herself. But then an invitation to her ten year reunion arrives in the mail, along with an anonymous threatening note.
Kara Thomas is the author of That Weekend, is story about a girl with a past full of secrets, who wakes up alone on a mountain with no memory of how she got there. She then learns her best friend and the best friend’s boyfriend are missing.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online Event
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Readings & Open Reading via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for Poetry Readings hosted by Beverly Higgenson, and featuring: Rose Liu, Sharon Smith-Knight, & Alicia Viguer-Espert, plus an Open Reading hosted by COCO.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online event
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Trans Author Panel via Queerland Center – Online Event
Join Queerland for an authors’ panel spotlighting transgander writers!
torrin a. greathouse is a trangender cripple punk & MFA candidate at University of Minnesota. She is the author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions 2020).
Devin H. Tokavian is a trans-woman and debut author of Fairywing, which is a modern transgender fairy tale.
Chris writes under the penname C.L. Creech, and her debut book One Last Quest was published in August, 2020. She does stand-up comedy, drag shows, podcasting, and her YouTube show “Queens or Better,’ and is a retired professional wrestler.
NOTE: See site for ticket information and details.
Where: Queerland Center
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/218029406713913
Poetry Night: Luivette Resto via My Place Cafe – In-Person Event
Join poet and writer Luivette Resto for a night of poetry. Her two books, Unfinished Portrait and Ascension, have been published by Tia Chucha Press. Some of her latest work can be found in the anthology titled What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump, edited by Martin Espada and found on the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center website.
Where: My Place Cafe
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Unit #10, Pasadena, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1191874927919297
C.R. Grimmer Workshop: Sunday Series & Falling via The Poetry Lab – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a virtual one-time workshop featuring C.R. Grimmer, next in a series of workshops offered on the third Sunday of the month.
C.R. Grimmer, who also goes by Chelsea Grimmer, is the author of The Lyme Letters, among others, and is Series Editor for: Literature. Language. Culture. A Dialogue Series, as well as The Poetry Vlog.
NOTE: Registration, costs, and details are available at site.
Where: The Poetry Lab
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 1 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom event
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/2021/cr-grimmer
Briana Munoz Book Launch & Everything Is Returned to the Soil via Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Join us for the Book Launch of Everything Is Returned to the Soil, by poet Briana Munoz. This is a celebration, and other artists performing include:
Iris De Anda, is a poet and the author of the poetry book CodeSwitch.
Rich Ferguson is a musician, writer and performer, and Beat Poet Laureate, and the author of the novel New Jersey Me, and a forthcoming poetry collection, Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates.
Jessica Wilson Cardenas, director of the LA Poet Society, is also creator of many special literary events, and is the author of the chapbook Serious Longing.
Jade Winter White is a musician.
Live art & limited edition art prints by: Johnny Quintanilla.
Books will be available for purchase.
Where: Re/Arte – In-Person event
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 2 pm – 5 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Spoken Word Jam: From the Ashes via The MAIN, Santa Clarita – In-Person Event
Join us At The MAIN for an evening of spoken word, poetry and music: From the Ashes, Stories of Transformation, Resilience, & Hope.
After a year of having to creatively connect, this is an opportunity for the community to congregate live in celebration through story, sharing the catharsis of hearing stories of transformation through original spoken word pieces, poetry and recitation with musical accompaniment, and/or Shakespearean sonnets and monologues.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: At The MAIN & Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 24266 Main St., Santa Clarita, CA 91321
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