Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Stuart Neville & The House of Ashes via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join us to hear author Stuart Neville, present and discuss his novel, The House of Ashes, a chilling and gorgeous portrait of violence and resilience, told in two voices.
Sara Keane’s husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a “fresh start” in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows no one in Northern Ireland, is jobless, carless, friendless–all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door, insisting the house is hers before being bundled back to her care facility, Sara begins to understand the house has a terrible history her husband never intended for her to discover. As the two women form a bond over shared traumas, Sara finds the strength to stand up to her abuser and Mary–silent for decades–is ready to tell her story.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/upcoming-events
Free Public Poetry Workshops via San Bernardino Valley College – In-Person Event
Join us to participate in free poetry workshops and have the opportunity to write a poem based on experiences with recovery or exploring the purpose and themes of National Recovery Month.
Poetry writing workshops about crafting a poem will take place on September 20th & 21st, in SBVC Classroom 100. Workshops about performing a poem will be held on September 27th & 28th in SBVC Auditorium. All will be held from 4pm – 5pm/
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: San Bernardino Valley College – SBVC Classroom Business 100 – In-person
Date: Monday the 20th & Tuesday the 21st
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 701 S. Mount Vernon Ave., San Bernardino, Ca
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/621314525525733/
Stephen J. Pyne, with David Carle, & The Pryocene via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Stephen J. Pyne, in conversation with David Carle, will present and discuss his new book, The Pryocene, which is a dramatic reorientation of humanity’s relationship with fire.
This is the story of what happened when a fire–wielding species, humans, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earth’s history. Whether direct or indirect, fires have expanded humanity’s reach beyond flame’s grasp. Ancient relationships between flames and humans broke down when biofuels made flames unbounded, and catalyzed climate change, and globalized their impacts into a new geologic epoch. The Pleistocene yielded to the Pyrecene.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (See site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/stephen-pyne
Scripps Presents: Josh Ritter & The Great Goddamn of It All via Skylight Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Josh Ritter, singer, songwriter and actor,will present and discuss his second novel. The Great Goddamn of It All, and here his singular voice takes readers to the ancient magic of the Idaho pines and the last days of America’s lumberjacks.
In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-year-old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory and tall tales. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the lumberjacks are dying out and it’s up to Weldon to defend his family legacy. This story is bursting with heart, humor and magic.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event – see site
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/scripps-presents-josh-ritter-conversation
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 event (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Dana Middleton, with Jill Diamond, & Not a Unicorn via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us for the middle school book launch of Not a Unicorn, by Dana Middleton, who will be in conversation with Jill Diamond. They also will be hosting a special book bingo game.
Not a Unicorn tells us that middle school is hard enough without being a unicorn! Jewel is an average eighth grader, making art with friends, and trying to stay invisible while she waits to be old enough to leave her small town. But she has a unicorn on her head, and she decides the horn needs to come off! Join us to learn what her true dilemma turns out to be.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/not-a-unicorn
Robyn Schneider, with Christine Riccio, & The Other Merlin via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Robyn Schneider, in conversation with author Christine Riccio (Again, But Better), will present and discuss her new book, The Other Merlin.
This is a creation by the author of a new Camelot that becomes the ultimate teen rom-com hotspot in a fresh take on the Arthurian legend. Life in Court is full of scandals, lies, and back-stabbings, so what’s a casually bisexual teen wizard masquerading as a boy to do? Other than fall for the handsome prince, stir up trouble, and offend the prissy Princess Guinevere. It’s up to Emry to decide what to do.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/launch-other-merlin-robyn-schneider
Matt Witten, with Naomi Hirahara, & The Necklace via Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Person Event
Matt Witten, in conversation with Naomi Hirahara, will present and discuss his new book, The Necklace, which is a thriller with an unlikely heroine.
Susan Lentigo is a small town waitress fighting to prove that the man who’s about to be executed for killing her daughter twenty years ago is actually innocent—and the real killer is still free. On her journey to witness the execution, she discovers shocking new evidence and finds out the prime suspect’s daughter is at terrible risk. As the clock ticks down she takes on the FBI in a heart-pounding crusade for justice.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Person Event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/september-21-matt-witten
Diane Lefer Presents Out of Place, in conversation with: Hector Tobar, Andrew Tonkovich & Dana Johnson via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Diane Lefer, in conversation with authors Hector Tobar, Andrew Tonkovich & Dana Johnson, will present and discuss her book, Out of Place, an international noel of displacement and connection, while also offering a scathing indictment of the human cost exacted by the security state.
When a research institute in the Mojave Desert falls under suspicion in the aftermath of 9/11, lives are turned upside down. This is a cautionary tale in a world and novel celebrating diversity and the natural world, and spanning cultures and continents. These characters share a common unease, at being seen as out of place.
Diane Lefer is the author of four other novels, three story collections, including Mary McCarthy Award winning California Transit, and the nonfiction book, The Blessing Next to the Wound. She has led social justice writing workshops for children in conflict zones and their service providers, and in L.A, works with torture survivors from around the world as they seek asylum and rebuild their lives.
Hector Tobar is the L.Á. born author of five books, most recently the novel, The Last Great Road Bum, and his nonfiction bestseller Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of Thirty-Three Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle that Set Them Free. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and he has been a foreign correspondent with the Los Angeles Times and a contributor to numerous publications. He is the son of Guatemalan immigrants.
Andrew Tonkovich has worked in the anti-war and peace movements since youth, and as a nonviolent direct action trainer. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared widely, and he is the longtime editor of the Santa Monica Review. He is the author of two collections, The Diary of Anne Frank and More Wish Fulfillment in the Naughties and Keeping Tahoe Blue and Other Provocations. He co-edited, with Lisa Alvarez, Orange County: A Literary Field Guide.
Dana Johnson is the author of the short story collection In the Not Quite Dark. She is also the author of Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel, Elsewhere, California. Her work has been published in numerous journals, and she is a professor of English at USC.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm PST
Address: Online – See Site
Afrofuturism Book Club & Witches via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Afrofuturism Book Club is hosted by Tyree Boyd-Pates, and reads mostly fiction in a genre that spans art, music, theory—everything that looks forward while being rooted in the past.
This month’s selection is Ciannon Smart’s Witches Steeped in Gold. In this book, two witches from different traditions must work together to uproot corruption.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/the-afrofuturism-book-club-with-tyree-boyd-pates-9 or https://www.facebook.com/events/857164741844879
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & George Wylie – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Diane Funston.
Diane Funston lives in Marysville, CA, andis a poet and the creator and facilitator of Poetry Square, a monthly live online poetry reading featuring three poets plus herself reading their own work. She features poets with diverse voices as well as reading from diverse geographical locations via the Internet. She also created a poetry group in Tehachapi, CA in 2001, where she lived for almost twenty years, and she is still involved with today. She is very active in Sacramento poetry and poetry in her hometown area of Rochester, New York. She has been published in a variety of anthologies and is putting together her first chapbook.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
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 – IG Online
DPL events at the Greenway Court Theatre are postponed until further notice.
DPL has an open mic every Tuesday night. There is a sign-up procedure and a three-minute time limit per performer.
Where: Online IG event
Date: Tuesday the 21st
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (Check to verify)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/da_poetry_lounge/ (Check to verify)
Mystery Book Club & How Quickly She Disappears via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
The Mystery Book Club meets every 4th Wednesday of the month, and will read and discuss this month’s selection, How Quickly She Disappears, by Raymond Fleischman.
This is a fantastic mystery thriller told in alternating time periods. Set in 1941 in a small Alaskan town, it is about this relentless landscape, about madness, loneliness and grief, and the ferocious bonds of family.
Whether you love it, hated it, or haven’t finished it, we want to see you there, at America’s Oldest Children’s Bookstore.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 9 am
Address: See Site
Giulio Boccaletti, with Lynn Scarlett, & Water: A Biography via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Guilio Boccaletti, in conversation with The Nature Conservancy’s Lynn Scarlett, will present and discuss his book, Water: A Biography, which is monumental in scope and insightfulness, and adds to our understanding and relationship to the most fundamental substance on earth..
This book combines environmental and social history, and examines: how societies were made possible by sea level changes, how farming led to led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which in turn led to a population explosion and labor specialization. Experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation, and the modern world had to develop a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm PST
Address: Online – See Site
Writing Workshop with Matt Sedillo via Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us for a writing workshop, hosted by Chicano Political Poet, Matt Sedillo.
Matt Sedillo is an El Sereno native, a political activist, speaker, and writer, and author of the poetry collection, Mowing Leaves of Grass (Flowersong Press, 2019).
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Re/Arte centro literario – In-Person event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
PEN Presents: Percival Everett, with David Ulin, & The Trees via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Percival Everett, in conversation with author editor of Air/Light David Ulin (Sidewalking, The Lost Art of Reading),will present and discuss his book, The Trees: A Novel, which leads us through the all-too-familiar white supremacy that undergirds so much of American life.
This book opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi, where a pair of detectives meet widespread resistance. At the crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. The first suspicion is that these are crimes of retribution, but soon eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country, and the author takes direct aim at a history of lynching, racism, and police violence that we are unable to be ignore.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore & PEN America – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm PST
Address: Online – See Site
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/pen-presents-percival-everett-and-david-l-ulin
Open Mic: Grito de Boyle Heights with Sammy Quetzalli via Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us for an Open Mic: Grito de Boyle Heights, hosted by Sammy Quetzalli every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month.
Sammy Quetzalli is a spoken word poet and musician from Los Angeles.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Re/Arte centro literario – In-Person event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 6:45 pm – 9:15 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Cambria Gordon & The Poetry of Secrets via Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Cambria Gordon present and discuss her new novel, The Poetry of Secrets, a timeless love story about identity, religious intolerance, and female empowerment.
As a young woman in 1481, Trujillo, Spain, Isabel should be overjoyed the alguicil of the city wants to marry her, since she and her family are conversos—Jews forced to convert to Catholicism—leaving them low on the hierarchy of the new Spanish order. But she longs to pursue an independent life filled with poetry and a partner of her own choosing: Diego Altamiro, a young nobleman whose family would never let him court someone with tainted blood like hers. An even greater risk is the fact her family practices Judaism in the refuge of their own home. Amid the threat of discovery, she and Diego will have to fight to be truly free.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm PDT
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/september-22-cambria-gordon
2021 Book Discussion Program: The Overstory, by Richard Powers via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event
Join us for the 2021 Palisades Reads program, to discuss The Overstory: A Novel, by Richard Powers, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
This monumental book is a sweeping and impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a tribute to the natural world. It unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking tables that range for antebellum New York to the late twentieth century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. We are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Palisades Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: (See site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/2021-overstory-book-discussion-program
An Evening with Michael Kearns, with JoNell Kennedy via Stories Books & Cafe – In-Person Outdoor Event
Join us for an evening with Los Angeles playwright Michael Kearns, to hear his readings, a short interview, talkback, and for a book signing of an anthology of his work, Who’s Afraid of Michael Kearns? He is currently an Artistic Associate at Skylight Theatre Company, Artist-in-Residence at Housing Works, Artistic Director of QueerWise, and West Coast Program Director for Spoken Interludes Next.
This event will include special guest, JoNell Kennedy. She is an American actress, producer and writer, and is currently known for her recurring role on The Mentalist, among other roles.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Stories Books & Cafe – In-Person Outdoor Event
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 1716 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://storiesla.com/?q=h.calevents
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 22nd
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/2956323607961148/
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 Joseph Rios.
Joseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn), winner of the American Book Award, and was named one of the notable debut poets by Poets & Writers Magazine for 2017. He is currently attending the low residency MFA program at Bennington College.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Presents Kelsey Bryan-Zwick Book Launch via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Zoom Online
Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and host Ben Trigg presents weekly poetry readings by the Ugly Mug and the events are now virtual.
This week’s Ugy Mug event will feature Kelsey Bryan-Zwick, with special guest Danielle Mitchell, of the Poetry Lab.
Kelsey Bryan Zwick (she/they) is a queer, disabled, bilingual poet and a columnist for the Los Angeles Poet Society. Disabled with scoliosis at a young age, her work focuses on trauma, shedding light on this disabling experience. She is founder of the micro-press BindYourOwnBooks, and her work is published in many journals. Her forthcoming micro-chapbook, Bone Water (Blanket Sea Press, October, 2021) and her first full-length poetry collection, Here Go the Knives (Moon Tide Press, Feb, 2022) focus on her decades living with scoliosis.
You can join in at the Zoom event via link provided.
NOTE: See site for further details. $4 cover fee, cash only.
Where: Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1914914748676015
Book Talk: Rebecca Frankel & Into the Forest via American Jewish University – Online Event
Join us for a Book Talk with author Rebecca Frankel, who will present her book, Into the Forest, and be in conversation about one family’s inspiring true story.
In 1942 the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war they trekked across the Alps into Italy where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.
During the first ghetto massacre, Miriam Rabinowitz rescued a young boy named Philip by pretending he was her son. Nearly a decade later, a chance encounter at a wedding in Brooklyn would lead Philip to find the woman who saved him. And to discover her daughter Ruth was the love of his life.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: American Jewish University – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 12 pm – 12:45 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/529938461407145
Journal of My Life Writing Workshop via DSTL Arts & LAPL Adult Services – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a new DSTL Arts Writing Workshop Series (in progress), presented with LAPL Adult Lit Services: Journal of My Life Writing Workshop. This series of events is open to all experience levels, and participants’ life stories may be published in an anthology and released at a special reading during Poetry Month, 2022.
Dates for this class are: September 9, 16, 23, & 30 and October 7.
Additional series offerings also will begin in mid-October and mid-January.
NOTE: See site for details and registration.
Where: DSTL Arts – Online Zoom Event
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.dstlarts.org/calendar
An Evening with Kristen Hannah with Christina Baker Kline, & The Four Winds via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for a Virtual Book Club Discussion of The Four Winds, with #1 bestselling author Kristen Hannah, who will be in conversation with Christina Baker Kline.
The Four Winds is a novel that seems eerily prescient in 2021, as is it in epic story of love and heroism and hope, set against one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression. It tells us we are a nation of scrappy survivors, who have been in dire straits before, and we have the capacity to prevail again.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore & McMillan’s Book + Author Series – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 4 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/770365273633883/
Andrea Abi-Karam, with Randa Jarrar, & Villany via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Andrea Abi-Villany, in conversation with author Randa Jarrar, will discuss her new book, Villany, which harnesses street protest as a poetic formation, and exhibits the desires that bring queers into public space. She answers the call to action for poetry itself to become the radical accomplice to shatter the rising influence of new facism.
Andrea Abi-Karam is a trans, Arab-American punk rock performer cyborg and author of Extratransmission (2019), a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War On Terror. Randa Jarrar is the author of the memoir, Love Is an Ex-Country, the novel A Map of Home, and the story collection, Me, Him and Muhammad Ali.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 4:30 pm PST
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-andrea-abi-karam-discusses-villainy-randa-jarrar
Susan Nguyen, with Sara Sams & Dear Diaspora via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear author Susan Nguyen, in conversation with Sara Sams, present and discuss her Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Poetry Prize award-winning collection, Dear Diaspora.
This collection scrutinizes our turning away from the trauma of our past and our complicity in its erasure. The author, caught between enjoying a run-down American adolescence and living with the inheritance of war, tries to unravel her inherited grief ad she explores her identity and selfhood against the Vietnamese diaspora. This collage of poems covers her struggles and experiences, from childhood yearnings to understanding her father’s disappearance.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/susan-nguyen-conversation-sara-sams-discusses-dear-diaspora
Richard Powers, with Karen Joy Fowler, & Bewilderment via Vroman’s, Diesel & Point Reyes Bookstores – Online Event
Join us to hear Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Powers (The Overstory), in conversation with author Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austin Book Club, Sister Noon), present and discuss his new novel, Bewilderment.
Astrologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain…
With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’ most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Vroman’s, Diesel & Point Reyes Bookstores – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/richard-powers-discusses-his-new-novel-bewilderment or https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/virtual-event-thursday-september-23rd-600-pm-richard-powers-discusses-bewilderment
Scripps Presents: Cathy Park Hong in Conversation & Minor Feelings via Skylight Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Cathy Park Hong is an award-winning poet and essayist, and her searching work ruthlessly reckons with the American racial conversation. Weaving together personal stories, historical content, and cultural criticism, her book Minor Feelings was a 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
As the daughter of Korean immigrants, the author grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. These feelings are not small, they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. Minor Feelings blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to reflect a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America Today.
NOTE: See site for tickets & event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore & Scripps Presents – Online Zoom Event
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event – see site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/332147431983273 or https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/scripps-presents-cathy-park-hong-conversation
Rachel Kushner, with Mitchell Kamin, & The Hard Crowd via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Rachel Kushner, (The Flamethrowers, The Mars Room),in conversation with attorney Mitchell Kamin, discuss her new book, The Hard Crowd.
This book contains nineteen razor-sharp essays that span literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature. The author takes us on a journey through diverse times and places, with the closing essay a manifesto on nostalgia, doom and writing. These pieces, old and mew, are electric, vivid and wry, and witness the evolution and range of a dazzling and fearless writer.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/september-23-rachel-kushner
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 23rd
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
California Native Voices Through Poetry Event via UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center – Online Event
Please join us for California Native American Day, celebrated each year on the fourth Friday of September to recognize tribal people, cultures, California native histories and heritage. This special poetry event will feature readings by two California native poets:
Dr. Melissa Leal is from the Ohlone tribe and grew up in Sacramento, CA. She earned her PhD in Native American Studies for UC Davis in 2012 where she studied under the renowned photographer Hulleah Tsnihnahjinnie.
Tabitha Whipple is from the Mono/Maidu/Wailakie tribes and studied at San Francisco State University.
NOTE: See eventbrite link for tickets and details.
Where: UCLA – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/292833538847772/
Friday Floricanto Poetry Reading via Sims Library of Poetry – Online Event
Please join us for a Friday Floricanto Poetry Reading featuring poets:
Lisbeth Coiman is a poet and educator from Venezuela. Her debut book, I Asked the Blue Heron: A Memoir (2017) explores the intersection between immigration and mental health. Her new poetry collection, Uprising / Alzamiento (Finishing Line Press) will be released in the fall of 2021. Coiman lives in Los Angeles, CA. https://lisbethcoiman.com.
Cesar L. DeLeon is the author of “speaking with grackles by soapberry trees” (FlowerSong 2021). He is a poet-organizer for Poets Against Walls and his poetry has been published in various anthologies and journals. César is a Golden Circle Award recipient from The University of Columbia Press and he holds an MFA in creative writing with a certificate in Mexican American studies from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), and Notes from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge (Ghost City Press, 2021). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco. He writes for SFGATE, KQED, Oaklandside, 48Hills, and other publications, and is on Twitter and IG being a useless pocho millennial @alan_chazaro.
NOTE: See website link for RSVP and details.
Where: Sims Library – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/event-details/friday-floricanto-poetry-reading
Tori Eldridge, with Elle Marr, & The Ninja Betrayed via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear author Tori Eldridge, in conversation with Elle Marr, discuss her book, The Ninja Betrayed.
Author Tori Eldridge, will present and discuss her new book in the Lily Wong series, The Ninja Betrayed. Things get personal for Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja Lily Wong in Hong Kong when she dives into the dangerous world of triads, romance, and corporate disaster during the height of the pro-democracy protests. Lily’s mother has been summoned by her grandfather to attend an emergency board meeting for their business. They go together only to discover shaky finances, questionable loans, and plans involving them both. Will her ninja skills allow her to protect her mother, the family business, and a renegade teen while navigating so many threats?
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/tori-eldridge-conversation-elle-marr-discusses-ninja-betrayed
Marisa Kanter, with Becky Albertalli, & As If on Cue via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online YA Event
Join us to hear author Marisa Kanter, in conversation with Becky Albertalli, discuss her book, As If on Cue.
Lifelong rivals Natalie and Reid have never been on the same team. So when their school’s art budget faces cutbacks, of course Natalie finds herself up against her nemesis once more. She’s fighting to direct the school’s first ever student-written play, but for her small production to get funding, the school’s award-winning band will have to lose it. Reid’s band. And he’s got no intention of letting the show go on.
But when their rivalry turns into an all-out prank war that goes too far, Natalie and Reid have to face the music, resulting in the worst compromise: writing and directing a musical. Together. And now they must also deal with new feelings for each other.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/marisa-kanter-conversation-becky-albertalli-discusses-if-cue
TDSB Anniversary Show: Yesika Salgado & Karla Cordero via The Definitive Soapbox Open Mic – Online Event
This month for our anniversary get ready for an amazing Anniversary event at the TDSB House: Yesika Salgado and Karla Cordero are about to grace us with not just their poetry, but also a Q&A!!!
Karla Cordero is a Chicana poet, educator, and ARTtivist, raised along the borderlands of Calexico, CA. As a performing artist, Karla is the 2013 Grand Slam Champion, aiding the Elevated San Diego Slam Team to rank 4th in the nation at the National Poetry Slam Competition. She has performed for television networks such as NBC 7 San Diego, TBN Juice Live, and the Old Globe Theater. Her poems have appeared in Oprah Magazine, NPR,
Academy of American Poets, the Bernie Sanders 2020 Campaign, The Break Beat Poets Volume 4. LatiNEXT Anthology, among others. Karla is the author of How To Pull Apart The Earth (NOT A CULT. ) a 2019 San Diego Book Award winner and awarding-winning finalist for the 2019 International Latino Book Award and the 2019 International Book Award.
Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles based Salvadoran poet who writes about her family, her culture, her city, and her fat brown body. She has shared her work in venues and campuses throughout the country. Salgado is a two time National Poetry Slam finalist and the recipient of the 2020 International Latino Book Award in Poetry. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Teen Vogue, Univision, CNN, NPR, TEDx, and many digital platforms. She is an internationally recognized body-positive activist and the writer of the column Suelta for Remezcla. Yesika is the author of the best-sellers Corazón, Tesoro, and Hermosa, published with Not a Cult.
GIVE THEM A FOLLOW, GET THEIR BOOKS, JOIN US ON FRIDAY!
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Friday the 24th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/343652940498950 or https://www.facebook.com/events/393533285544083
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 25th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929611349145/
National Comic Book Day Celebration with Rex Richardson via Bel Canto Books – Online IG Live Event
Jon us as we celebrate national Comic Book Day with comics super-fan and Long Beach’s Vice Mayor Rex Richardson!
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Bel Canto – Online IG Live event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm PT
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/events
Treehouse & LA Public Library Present; Amy Timberlake & Egg Marks the Spot! via Skylight Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us for an interactive event presented in partnership with Punk Rock Marthas.
Amy Timberlake’s novels for young readers have received a Newberry Honor, an Edgar Award, a Golden Kite Award, and The China Times Best Book Award. She is the author of Egg Marks The Spot! which is about rock scientist Badger and the Spider Eye Agate he found as a cub, and which was stolen by his crafty cousin, Fisher. Badger sets off with friends to find an agate at his favorite spot on Endless Lake. But all is not as it seems at Campsite #5.
Jon Klassen is a Canadian-born author and illustrator, and Caldecott Medal winner, who lives in Los Angeles. This endearing tale leans heavily on Book #2 of this series.
NOTE: See website link for registration &details.
Where: Skylight Books & LAPL – Online Kids event
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 11 am
Address: See site
Special Story Time with Laurenne Sala & Zara Gonzalez Hoang & Mi Casa Is Mt Home via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us to hear author Laurenne Sala and illustrator Zara Gonzalez Hoang, discuss their children’s book, Mi Casa Is My Home.
In this book, Lucia invites you to visit her bustling casa and meet an intergenerational array of loved ones in a charming Spanglish celebration of family life. She lives in her casa with her big, loud, beautiful familia, and she’s going to show you around and tell you about how they live here. This book celebrates home in a bilingual picture book that feels like an abrazo from your favorite people, your familia.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online (see site)
Creative Journaling Workshop via WriteGirl Mentoring Programs – Online Teen Event
In its 21st Season of creative writing and mentoring programs, WriteGirl offers its members and mentees a variety of programs to promote creativity, critical thinking, and leadership skills to empower teen girls. All events are held online.
NOTE: See website for registration, schedule, and further details.
Where: Write Girl – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 11 am – 1:15 pm
Address: WriteGirl –Online event
Website: https://www.writegirl.org/calendar
Writer’s Workshop with Viva Padilla via Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Join us for an introduction to submitting your writing to journals and magazines. Incudes career advice, and writing feedback. Bring your work and a notebook.
NOTE: See website for registration, donation, and further details.
Where: Re/Arte– In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Print & Internet Publishing Workshop with MOLIMAU “USOLOSIPHER” FATU + Poets in Spectrum – via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by MOLIMAU “USOLOSIPHER” FATU, and Poets published in the Spectrum Online Edition: Fall Down.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Online Zoom Event
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Poetry Reading with David Romero & Mike Sonksen at The Book Jewel Bookstore – In-Person Event
The Book Jewel presents a Poetry Reading, featuring two great Los Angeles poets: David Romero and Mike Sonksen:
David Romero is a Mexican American spoken word artist and poet who just published his third collection, My Name Is Romero (Flowersong Press). In a world mispronouncing his name or trying to define it for him, the author digs through his family history, his childhood memories, and stories of working people, to create his own meaning for his family name.
Mike Sonksen is a poet, journalist, professor, and third-generation Los Angeles native, whose latest book is Letters to My City (Writ Large Press). He is published by KCET, in numerous journals and publications, and often hosts literary events and readings. He chronicles the many facets of Los Angeles, its influences and treasures, while also mentoring many youth poets and writers in the area.
Where: The Book Jewel – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Zoom Events
Website: https://www.thebookjewel.com/events
Burning Issues Book Club (BIBC) & Evicted via Bel Canto Books – Online IG Live Event
Join us as we hold a virtual discussion of our Burning Issues Book Club selection for this month: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), by Matthew Desmond.
Without a home, everything else falls apart.
This New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. This book transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality off home, without which nothing else is possible.
Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. He is the author of four books, most recently Evicted, and is principal investigator of The Eviction Lab. He is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and has been called one of the most influential voices in the national political debate.
NOTE: See website for online link, further details and to purchase book.
Where: Bel Canto – Online IG Live event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 12 pm PT
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/events
Fourth Sundays Poetry Reading: Andrea Carter Brown & Beverly Fontaine via Claremont Library/ Off-Site – In-Person Event
Join us as we again host Fourth Sundays Poetry Readings in-person, this time at our alternative venue, the Claremont United Church of Christ.
Andrea Carter Brown’s new collection of award-winning poetry, September 12, was just published by Word Works for the 20th anniversary of 9/11/ SH has also authored three previous collections: Domestic Karma (2018), The Disheveled Bed (2006), and Brook & Rainbow (2001), and has been series editor of the Washington Prize since 2017. An avid birder, she lives in Los Angeles and grows fruit trees in her backyard. Visit her website at www.andreacarterbrown.com.
Beverly Lafontaine is a Los Angelespoet and playwright. She has enjoyed four productions of her plays in the L.A. area and has published her poetry in various journals and anthologies. Her cross-genre projects include: six of her poems incorporated into Walk a Mile in My Shoes, a sculptural project erected by the City of Los Angeles in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King; Scenes from Sarajevo, in which she collaborated with composer Tom Flaherty to produce a prize-winning chamber music piece for voice, cello, and viola.
NOTE: See website for online link, further details and to purchase book.
Where: Claremont United Church of Christ – Louise Roberts Room
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm PDT
Address: 233 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3736094436495622/
La Palabra Poetry Reading Series via Avenue 50 Studio – Online Zoom Event
Join us for the monthly La Palabra Reading Series, hosted by educator, poet and author Angelina Saenz, and featuring:
Luivette Resto is a teacher, poet, and the author of two books published by Tia Chucha Press: Unfinished Portrait and Ascension. Her third book is forthcoming and some of her latest work can be found in Martin Espada’s anthology on the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center website: What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage.
David Romero is a poet and spoken word artist, and the author of his third collection, My Name Is Romero (Flowersong Press). In a world mispronouncing his name or trying to define it for him, he digs through his family history, childhood memories, and stories of working people, to create his own meaning for his family’s name.
Briana Munoz is a poet, short story writer, and the author of the collections Loose Lips (2019) and Everything Is Returned to the Soil (2021). Her recent book reclaims her indigenous culture, recounts growing up wedged between two borders, and documents heartache through the extremities of mind, body and spirit.
NOTE: See site for registration and event details. Zoom: 881 0616 8718
Where: Avenue 50 Studio – Online event
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 2 pm PDT
Address: See site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/256158902917055/
Brian Sonia-Wallace: Voice Your City Workshop via The Poetry Salon – Online Live Event
Join the Poetry Salon as we host West Hollywood Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace for a writing workshop titled “Voice Your City.”
Brain Sonia-Wallace is the author of The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter, and he is interested in community development, cultural literacy, and people talking to each other. He has led numerous community writing events, has worked as a poet-for-rent, on commissions and in public venues, and will guide you to find and voice yourself in your own city and place in this workshop.
NOTE: See website for online link, further details and to purchase book.
Where: The Poetry Salon – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 2 pm – 5 pm PDT
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://thepoetrysalon.lpages.co/the-poetry-salon-online-info/
Roar Shack Reading Series September Show with David Rocklin – Online Zoom Event
Join us for the monthly Roar Shack Reading Series, hosted by David Rocklin, for an extraordinary lineup, featuring:
Janice Lee is a Korean American writer, editor, teacher and the author of seven books of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, most recently Imagine A Death (Texas Review Press, 20021) and the forthcoming Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022). She writes about interspecies communication, plants, and personhood, trauma, the apocalypse, among many other subjects, and incorporates shamanic and energetic healing, and Korean culture in her work. She is a professor at Portland State University, and is a founder and executive editor of Entropy, co-publisher of Civil Coping Mechanisms, and co-founder of The Accomplices LLC.
Michael Seidlinger is a Filipino American and the author of My Pet Serial Killer, Dreams of Being, The Fun We’ve Had, and nine other books. He has written for numerous publications, and led workshops nation-wide. He is co-founder of The Accomplices arts collective, founder of the indie press Civil Coping Mechanisms, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Meghan Lamb is the author of the novel Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace, 2017), the poetry chapbook Letters to Theresa (dancing girl press, 2016), and the novella Sacramento (Solar Luxuriance, 2014).
Seth Fischer is a Dornslife PhD Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at USC. His writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays, and he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Guernica. He was founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus, and is current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He teaches at the UCLA Extension Writers Program and at Antioch University.
NOTE: See site for Zoom link and event details.
Where: Roar Shack – Online Zoom event
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm PST
Address: See site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/319537836534049/
Beatnik Cafe Poetry Readings & Open MIc via Hey Hey & Hanna Pachman – In-Person & FB Live Event
Beatnik Cafe presents another night of hearing truth from lesser heard perspectives!
Our schedule is as follows: (Masks are required)
4:50-5 pm – Open Mic Signup
5-5:10 pm – Intro
5:10-5:30 pm – Marie Marandola Reading
5:30-6:50 pm – Poetry Open Mic (3 minutes per poet)
6:50-7 pm- Close
Marie Marandola is badass feminist poet who received her MFA degree from Sarah Lawrence College. She now lives in San Diego, where she remains in the habit of picking up fallen bits of trees and giving them to people.
NOTE: See website for online link, further details and Open Mic guidelines.
Where: Beatnik Cafe & Hey Hey – Online FB Live event (see details at website link) & Contemporary Tea House & Common Room
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm PDT
Address: Online event (see website) & at 1555 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3824061814362321/
Rattlecast #111 Reading: Deborah P. Kolodji via Rattle – In-Person & FB Live Event
Rattlecast 111 features Deborah P. Kolodji reading and discussing several projects, including her recent book, Highway of Sleeping Towns.
Deborah P. Kolodji is the California regional coordinator for the Haiku Society of America and former moderator of the Southern California Haiku Study Group, among her many poetry associations and relationships. Author of four chapbooks of poetry, her first full-length book is Highway of Sleeping Towns, from Shabda Press. She has published more than 2000 haiku, as well as speculative fiction, and has been anthologized in many publications.
NOTE: See website for online link, tickets, this week’s prompt & further details.
Where: Rattlecast – Online event
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 5 pm – 7:15 pm PDT
Address: Online FB Live event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2748173682141453
Thing in the Labyrinth Horror Book Club & The Final Girl Support Group via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Thing in the Labyrinth Horror Book Club is led by A.E. Santana and it is a horror book club.
This month’s selection is The Final Girl Support Groupby Grady Hendrix, This story is about how the sole survivors of various horror stories—the literal “final girls”—are drawn back into another deadly scenario.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check site details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online
Date: Sunday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm PDT
Address: Online Event
Sunday Series: Jubi Arriola-Headley Writing Workshop via The Poetry Lab – Zoom Online
Join the Poetry Lab’s Sunday Series event for a generative writing workshop led by poet Jubi Arriaola-Headley.
Jubi Arriaola-Headley is a Black queer poet and storyteller whose work explores themes of manhood, vulnerability, rage, tenderness, and joy. He’s a 2018 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, holds an MFA from the University of Miami, and his poems have been widely published. His debut collection of poems, original kink, is available from Sibling Rivalry Press.
NOTE: See website for registration and further details.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online Zoom Event
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 1 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/sunday-series
The Poetry Salon Reading & Open Mic, featuring Brian Sonia-Wallace – Online Event
Join Tresha Faye Hefner & Kim Malinowski to hear poet, author and West Hollywood Poet Laureate Brian Sonia Wallace, present and reading of his work and an Open Mic.
Brian Sonia-Wallace began busking poetry on the street in September, 2014. Since then he has written for tech companies and governments, toured nationally and internationally, and been nominated for a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award. He is a Partner in the Melrose Poetry Bureau and lives in Los Angeles.
Sonia-Wallace is the author of the memoir The Poetry of Strangers (Harper Collins, 2020), and is the 4th Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. In 2021 he received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
NOTE: See website link for registration &details.
Where: The Poetry Salon – Online event
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: See site
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/542580893629239/
Lisbeth Coiman Release Party & Uprising / Alzamiento via Eventbrite – Online Event
Please join this free celebration of the release of poet Lisbeth Coiman’s bilingual poetry collection, Uprising / Alzamiento (Finishing Line Press, 2021),
Tickets and registration for this free event are available at Eventbrite.
NOTE: Check site for details.
Where: Eventbrite – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uprising-alzamiento-book-release-party-tickets-170504329038
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