Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Jonathan Franzen, with Mona Simpson, & Crossroads via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
FSG presents acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen, in conversation with author Mona Simpson, to discuss and present his new novel Crossroads, in which the author again weds depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision.
Crossroads begins on December 23,1971, where heavy weather is forecast for Chicago and Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church is about to break free of a joyless marriage. But his wife Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their three children are also in crisis, and all of the Hildebrandts seek a freedom that each of the others threaten to complicate. Franzen explores the history of two generations in a pivotal moment of moral crisis, with interwoven perspectives, on a single winter day, and conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.
NOTE: See site for tickets, book purchase & event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Anna David, with Jeff Garlin, & Party Girl via Book Soup – Online Event
When Party Girl was released in 2007, it was hailed as the book that launched the “Quit Lit” movement. With a movie deal in the works, that book is now back with a story that shows the surprising hilarity of a sober life. Author Anna David, in conversation with actor Jeff Garlin, will discuss Party Girl, in which we meet celebrity journalist Amelia Stone, the quintessential Hollywood party girl.
Amelia stays out late, rubs shoulders (and occasionally more) with celebrities and ingests copious amounts of cocaine. After losing her friends, and much of her mind, she decides to end her drug abuse, Once sober, she’s hired to write a column about her former life, starts seeing Mr. Right, and finds the lure of her former life begin to pull at her. She must decide to save herself or salvage her reputation as the ultimate party girl.
NOTE: See site for tickets, book purchase & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/anna-david-party-girl
Alison Green Myers Virtual Launch Party for A Bird Will Soar via Children’s Book World – Online FB & YouTube
Author Alison Green Myers, in conversation with author Meera Trehan, will present and discuss the publication of her debut children’s book, A Bird Will Soar.
A Bird Will Soar is about a bird-loving autistic child whose family’s special nest is in danger of falling apart. Axel loves his life—his time spent with friends and observing birds. But when a tornado damages both his home and the eagles’ next, his life is thrown into chaos. Suddenly there are many changes, and he must trust his own instincts to help heal his family and the nest he loves.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase & event details.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://childrensbookworld.net/alison-green-myers-a-bird-will-soar/
Filipino American History Month Poetry Reading with Alan Aquino & Barbara Jane Reyes via Cerritos Memorial Library – Online Zoom Event
Join us to hear poets and educators Alan Aquino & Barbara Jane Reyes read and present their poetry in honor of Filipino American History Month.
Alan Aquino is a poet and professor of Asian American studies at CSU Northridge, former president of the Filipino American National Historical Society, and his scholarship spans Asian Pacific American history, media, contemporary issues, and pop culture and literary arts.
Barbara Jane Reyes is a writer and poet and the author most recently of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (2020). Her work “explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing self and culture.” She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco’s Philippine Studies Program.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Cerritos Memorial Library – Online Event
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online (See Site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159977933701018&set=a.10150972386871018 or http://menu.ci.cerritos.ca.us/cl_UoLVirtualPrograms.htm or https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84940074008?pwd=aEpVeC9pMGVIY1JCSFY1eURwMFh6Zz09#success
Miranda Tacchia, with Aminder Dhaliwal, & Unimpressed via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Graphic author, animator and designer Miranda Tacchia, in conversation with animator and author Aminder Dhaliwal (Women World, Cyclopedia Exotica),will discuss and present her debut graphic novel Unimpressed, which contains more than 200 hilarious one-liners and drawings tackling modern friendship, romance, urban living and self-image.
This book bridges comics and memes, and the author uses her biting sense of humor and other talents and visual tools to illustrate that her protagonists “don’t give a shit about you.” Funny, smart, observant, sexy, and relatable, she depicts the life of a young woman today that echoes Fleabag and Broad City.
NOTE: See site for tickets, book purchase & event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
This 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 from 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 18th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Conversation (in English) with Gianrico Carofiglio & Three O’Clock in the Morning via Central Library, LAPL – Online FB & YouTube Event
Join LAPL and the Instituto Italiano Cultura for a conversation with celebrate Italian author Gianrico Carofiglio, who will discuss most recent book, Three O’Clock in the Morning, moderated by Wendy Horowitz.
This novel is a spellbinding story of Antonio, who is on the brink of adulthood, still figuring out who he is and who he wants to be. A diagnosis of epilepsy and hope for a cure take father and son to Marseilles, a city that melds old-world charm and modern-day bohemia. The author if a multi-award-winner and his bestselling books are translated into 27 languages worldwide.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 1 pm
Address: LAPL (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/conversation-celebrated-italian-author-gianrico-carofiglio
Theater Workshop: The Death of Ruben Salazar via Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us for a theater workshop, The Death of Ruben Salazar,which tells about LA Times journalist Ruben Salazar, who was covering the event and was killed during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970, when a tear-gas projectile fired by LA County Sheriff’s deputy Thomas Wilson hit him as he took refuge inside a location near the march.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Emm Gryner, with Emily Schultz, & The Heallng Power of Singing via Book Soup – Online Event
Author, musician, and vocal coach Emm Gryner, in conversation with Emily Schultz, will present and discuss her book, The Healing Power of Singing: Raise Your Voice, Change Your Life.
The Healing Power of Singing contains vocal health tips, stories from the tour bus, and action items to improve your voice and boost your self-confidence from an award-winning musician and life coach in the music industry. The author finds the human voice to have the power to elevate and move us to authentic living.
Emm Gryner’s book is part study in the art of singing, part guide to finding one’s voice, and part memoir. Emily Schultz is co-author of the novel Little Threats, and the award-winning novel The Blondes.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/andrea-elliott-invisible-child-poverty-survival-hope-american-city
Joshua Lurie, with Minh Phan, & History Is Delicious via Vroman’s – Online Live Event
Join us to hear author Joshua Lurie, in conversation with author Minh Phan, who will present and discuss his new book, History Is Delicious.
This book explores the history of different dishes, cultural traditions, and even a few great recipes, from well-known cultures to those just being discovered
NOTE: See Site for CORRECT DATE, details and guidelines.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-joshua-lurie-history-delicious
Attica Locke & Rachel Howzell Hall in an Author Conversation via Pasadena Literary Alliance & Open Book at NOOR– In-Person Event
Authors Attica Locke & Rachel Howzell Hall, will be in conversation and discuss their most recent books, Heaven My Home and These Toxic Things, respectively.
Attica Locke has become one of the foremost interpreters of Black experience, in TV and in crime fiction alike. She has worked with Lee Daniels on Empire, Ava Duvernay on and Celeste Ng on Little Fires Everywhere. She has changed the world of crime fiction as well, as her five mystery books capture the challenge of being a Black man in America, and won numerous awards.
Rachel Howzell Hall has written seven critically acclaimed novels, including the Detective Ellie Norton novel series. She has collaborated with James Patterson on The Good Sister, featured on NPR, and served as an AWP mentor. And Now She’s Gone garnered great attention in 2020, and her newest book, These Toxic Things, concerns a digital archeologist who, upon the suspicious death of a client, finds the requested items for her digital scrapbook have a more sinister meaning to someone else.
NOTE: See site for tickets, event details, guidelines, and to purchase book.
Where: Pasadena Literary Alliance at NOOR – In-Person Event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 300 E. Colorado Blvd., #200, Pasadena CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/365483478629605
National Day on Writing Open Mic Event: Mike “The Poet” Sonksen & Sesshu Foster & Othersvia Statement Magazine & Cal State LA – Online Zoom Event
Cal State LA & Statement Magazine celebrate a National Day of Writing Open Mic Event, with guest MC Mike Sonksen, and featuring Sesshu Foster, and readers:
(Swirling Alhambra), Ricardo Means Ybarra, Steve Kalinich, MIchael C. Ford, Nicole Favors, Rosalinda Flores Joshua D. Jones, Alejandro Medina, Liang Yujing, and Luo Jian.
.Register now to join the event on Zoom!
NOTE: See site for Zoom link & event details.
Where: Cal State LA & Statement Magazine – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm PT
Address: Online Zoom event:
Website: https://calstatela.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUof-6qqzwsHNIb15fKJZ02vc3PQni71iBI?fbclid=IwAR2YnD8vz4gaS6F2Az39hzlPpwm3TBfLddi2I95ngxtX0jh_4-VndlGdExw or https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159804225933993&set=pob.703711017
Judith Freeman, with Louise Steinman, & MacArthur Park at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author of four novels, a collection of stories, a biography, and a memoir, Judith Freeman, will bein conversation with author and curator Louise Steinman, will present and discuss her new book, MacArthur Park: A Novel.
This book is a captivating, emotionally taut novel about the complexities of a friendship between two women—and how it shapes, and reshapes, both of their lives. Jolene and Verna share complicated ties that have crystalized over time. But when Verna marries Vincent, Jolene’s ex-husband, their paths might have permanently diverged. Jolene travels the world as a successful artist, while Verna works from her home near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Then Jolene asks one more favor, for Verna to take a road trip with her back to their small hometown in Utah, where they will confront the truths and falsehoods of their memories and their lives.
NOTE: See site for tickets & event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-judith-freeman-conversation-louise-steinman
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & 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 writer living in the Santa Cruz area, and is the author of Fairwell Clay Dove (UnCollected Press 2021). She is a dedicated volunteer blogger for The International Bipolar Foundation (IBPF) since April 2020. She is also the author of her award-winning chapbook, The Immortal Sunflower (UnCollected Press, 2019).
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 19th
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 19th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (Check to verify)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/da_poetry_lounge/ (Check to verify)
In Conversation with Author Molly Wizenberg via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event
Join us for LA Made and the LAPL’s LGBTQIA committee in welcoming author Molly Wizenberg, who will be in conversation with therapist and long—time friend Rachel Keller for a discussion of her most recent memoir, The Fixed Stars.
In addition to having written the James Beard Award-winning blog, Orangette, Molly Wizenberg is the author of three books, including A Homemade Life and Delancy. She has written for numerous journals and magazines, cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk, and co-founded the award-winning podcast Seattle restaurants Delancy and Essex.
Those attending the virtual program will have an opportunity to win a free copy of The Fixed Stars.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: LAPL – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online – See Site
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/conversation-author-molly-wizenberg
An Evening of Filipino American Poetry with Barbara Jane Reyes & Friendsvia Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Bel Canto Bookstore presents an evening of Filipino Poetry, featuring: Barbara Jane Reyes, Angela Penarendondo, Irene Suico Soriano, Charles Valle, Jason Bayani & Jason Magabo Perez.
Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of the collections, Letters to a Young Brown Girl (2020), Invocation to Daughters (2017), Diwata (2010), Poeta in San Francisco (2005), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Gravities of Center (2003). She is co-editor of Doveglion Press, and is adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program.
Angela Penarendondo is a queer Filipinx writer and interdisciplinary educator/artist/scholar. She is the author of All Things Lose Thousands of Times (Inlandia Institute, Winner of Hilary Gravendyk Regional Prize) and Maroon (Jamii Publications). She is a Kundiman, VONA/Voices of our Nations Art fellow, Macondista as well as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Humanities at California State University San Bernardino.
Irene Suico Soriano is an immigrant Filipina American poet, independent literary and film curator, and the author of the poetry collection,Primates from an Archipelago (2017). She received the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2001 and was a 2003 Project Involve Fellow in the Film Programming Track. She is currently the Literary Curator for the FilipinX American Arts Collective KITAKITS – LA.
Charles Valle is the author of the poetry collection, Proof of Stake, a meditation on loss and grief, and the audio CD collection Bamboo Shadows: The Haiku Poetry of Charles Valle.
Jason Bayani is a poet, author, educator, and arts organizer. He is author of the Northern California Book Award nominated Locus (Omnidawn, 2019) and Amulet (Write Bloody, 2013), and creator of the solo theater show “Locus of Control.” He is also artistic director of Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country.
Jason Magabo Perez is a writer, performer, teacher, and scholar. He is author of Phenomenology of Superhero (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016), and This is for the mostless (WordTech Editions, 2017). He has been a featured player at many notable venues and works as an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at CSU San Marcos, and serves as the inaugural Community Arts Fellow at Bulosan Center and Associate Editor for Ethnic Studies Review.
NOTE: See site for registration, event details and to purchase books.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-of-filipino-american-poetry-tickets-188851137837
Ruth Ozeki, with Amy Bender, & The Book of Form and Emptiness via ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Join us to hear author Ruth Ozeki, in conversation with author Amy Bender (The Girl in the Flammable Skirt),to hear them discuss novelist and filmmaker Ozeki’s new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness.
This brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and the resiliency of our relationships to all things, blends sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions. It is classic Ruth Ozeki—bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane, and heartbreaking.
NOTE: See site for details, Link, and to purchase books.
Where: LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online – See Site
Website: https://lfla.org/event/the-book-of-form-and-emptiness/
Susan Nguyen, with Victoria Chang, & Dear Diaspora via Skylight Bookstore – Online Events
Author Susan Nguyen, in conversation with Victoria Chang (Obit, Dear Memory). will present and discuss her book, Dear Diaspora.
Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric, documentary, and epistolary poems, we follow Suzi as she untangles intergenerational grief and her father’s disappearance while climbing trees to stare at the color green and wishing that she wore Lucy Liu’s freckles. Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, its deliberate interweaving of voices explores Suzi’s journey while bringing to light other incarnations of the refugee experience.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 5 pm
Address: See Site
Marvin Kalb, with Ambassador John Emerson, & Assignment Russia via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear award-winning journalist and author Marvin Kalb, in conversation with Ambassador John Emerson,to hear them discuss Klab’s new book Assignment Russia.
This book captures the excitement of the creation of a new era in journalism, and the Cold War politics at work at the time that Russia and the United States were leading the world in those debates. Kalb was Moscow correspondent for CBS News at the time, and was eyewitness to that history.
NOTE: See site for details, Link, and to purchase books.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online – See Site
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/october-20-marvin-kalb
Adam Schiff, with Larry Wilmore, & MIdnight in Washington via Live Talks LA – Online Event
Join us to hear US Congressman and author Adam Schiff, in conversation with Larry Wilmore, discuss his book. Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.
From the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever.
In this book Adam Schiff argues that the Trump Presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. Schiff’s fight for democracy through impeachment of Trump and the January 6 insurrection, shows us how the anti-democratic forces unleashes will continue to define our challenges and make the future of democracy more uncertain than ever.
Larry Wilmore hosted Wilmore on Peacock from NBC where he and his guests discussed issues during the 2020 election. He has been a television producer, actor, comedian, and writer for more than 25 years. He can also be heard as host of Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air on The Ringer Podcast Network.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 6 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/rep-adam-schiff-with-larry-wilmore/
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 20th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feve
CAREFREE BLACK GIRLS W/ ZEBA BLAY + DR. YABA BLAY via Reparations Club – Online Event
A VIRTUAL EVENT w/ film and culture critic, Zeba Blay, in conversation with author and scholar-activist Dr. Yaba Blay about her debut essay collection Carefree Black Girls: A Clebration of Black Women in Pop Culture!
Dr. Yaba Blay is a scholar-activist, public speaker, and cultural consultant whose scholarship, work, and practice centers on the lived experiences of Black women and girls, with a particular focus on identity/body politics and beauty practices.
Where: Reparations Club
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online
Website: https://rep.club/products/oct-20-zeba-blay
(RE)INVENTING THE POEM Workshop with Anne Marie Wells via Sims Library of Poetry – Virtual Event
Join Anne Marie Wells for a writing workshop, (RE)INVENTING THE POEM.
Participants will explore well-established poetic forms (sonnets, haiku, etc), and examine several examples of how modern poets have subverted these established forms or invented their own forms entirely.
NOTE: See website link for tuition costs, registration, perks & details.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry – Virtual event
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 2702 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/events
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 20th
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/2956323614627814/
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 20th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Wednesday Night Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry & Mariano Zaro at The Ugly Mug – In-Person Event
Join Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry for the Wednesday Night Open Mic and featured poet Mariano Zaro, in person at the Ugly Mug in Orange, CA.
Mariano Zaro is the author of six books of poetry: Decoding Sparrows (What Books, Los Angeles), Padre Tierra (Olifante, Zaragoza, Spain), Tres letras/Three Letters (Walrus, Barcelona), The House of Mae Rim/La casa de Mae Rim (Carayan Press, San Francisco), Poems of Erosion/Poemas de la erosión (Carayan Press, San Francisco) and Where From/Desde Donde (Bay Books). His poems have been included in the anthologies Monster Verse (Penguin Random House), Wide Awake (Beyond Baroque), The Coiled Serpent (Tía Chucha Press) and in several magazines in Spain, Mexico and the United States.
Mariano Zaro’s translations and short stories have been widely published, and he is currently a professor of Spanish at Rio Hondo Community College.
$4 cover fee, cash only. Masks are required unless eating or drinking.
NOTE: See site for further details, guidelines & information.
Where: The Ugly Mug, Orange
Date: Wednesday the 20th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry-23001953541/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/424329855778453
An Afternoon with Author TC Boyle & Talk to Me via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event
Join us for a conversation with bestselling author TC Boyle, who will discuss his new novel Talk to Me. He will be in conversation with LAPL librarian Karen Packard-Four.
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published seventeen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He’s recently been the recipient of the Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Award, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.
Where: LA Made, LAPL – Online FB & YouTube Event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online – See Site
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/afternoon-with-tc-boyle
More Than Organs Poetry Reading: Kay Ulanday Barrett via LibroMobile – Online IG Event
Author Kay Ulanday Barrett will present and discuss her new collection of poetry, More Than Organs.
More Than Organs is a love letter to Brown, Queer, and Trans futures, and questions what “wholeness” means for bodies always in transit, for the safeties and dangers they silo. These poems remix people of color as earthbenders and till joy from the cosmic sweetness of a family’s culinary history.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: LibroMobile – Online IG Event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online IG Event (see site)
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/more-than-organs-poetry-reading-featuring-kay-ulanday-barret or https://www.facebook.com/events/255829946553049/
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author & Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at UC Irvine Illuminations Event – Hybrid Event
Pulitzer Prize winning author and former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, will discuss her work, in conversation with moderator Professor Cole Morgan (UCI English)
Tracy K. Smith received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her third book of poems, Life on Mars. The collection draws upon the genre of science fiction in considering who we humans are and what the vast universe holds for us. In poems of political urgency, tenderness, elegy and wit, Smith conjures version upon version of the future, imagines the afterlife, and contemplates life here on earth in our institutions, cities, houses and hearts. Life on Mars was a New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a New Yorker, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Her other books include The Body’s Question, Duende, and Ordinary Light. Smith served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States.
NOTE: See site for free registration and event details.
Where: Private Event – Register for details
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: (See site)
Website: https://campusgroups.uci.edu/Illuminations/rsvp_boot?id=1144352
Cherie Dimaline, with Rebecca Roanhorse, & Hunting by Stars via Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Bel Canto Bookstore presents a virtual launch event for author Cherie Dimaline, in conversation with Rebecca Roanhorse, to present and discuss her new book, Hunting the Stars.
From the acclaimed author of The Marrow Thieves comes a thrilling new story about hope and survival that New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley called “a revelatory must-read”
Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones. Soon, residential schools pop up—or are re-opened—across the land to bring in the dreamers and harvest their dreams.
Seventeen-year-old French lost his family to these schools and has spent the years since heading north with his new found family: a group of other dreamers, who, like him, are trying to build and thrive as a community. But then French wakes up in a pitch-black room, locked in and alone for the first time in years, and he knows immediately where he is—and what it will take to escape.
Meanwhile, out in the world, his found family searches for him and dodges new dangers—school Recruiters, a blood cult, even the land itself. When their paths finally collide, French must decide how far he is willing to go—and how many loved ones is he willing to betray— to survive.
NOTE: See site for registration, event details and to purchase books.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online IG Event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/CU5r220h5qU/ or https://belcantobooks.net/events
St. Clair Detrick-Jules, with Brandi Clarke & Brigid Carmichael, & My Beautiful Black Hair via Book Soup – Online Event
Author St. Clair Detrick-Jules, in conversation with Brandi Clark & Brigid Carmichael, will present and discuss her book, My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood.
My Beautiful Black Hair is a collection of empowering stories and captivating photos, and celebrates an aspect of Black Femininity—natural hair— and embraces it as a central part of Black womanhood. In this book 101 women share their stories of learning to love their natural hair and the immense power of Black love.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: See Site
Mallory O”Meara, with Hope Ewing, & Girly Drinks via Skylight Bookstore – Online Events
Author Mallory O’Meara, in conversation with Hope Ewing (Movers & Shakers), will present and discuss her book, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol.
Girl Drinks is an engrossing feminist history of women drinking through the ages.
From the earliest days of civilization, alcohol has been at the center of social rituals and cultures worldwide. But when exactly did drinking become a gendered act? And why have bars long been considered “places for men” when, without women, they might not even exist? With whip-smart insight and boundless curiosity, Girly Drinks unveils an entire untold history of the female distillers, drinkers and brewers who have played a vital role in the creation and consumption of alcohol
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Books – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-mallory-omeara-presents-girly-drinks-hope-ewing
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 21st
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
Korean Vegan Luncheon, with Joanne Lee Molinaro, & The Korean Vegan via Pages Bookstore Off-Site – In-Person Event
Author Joanne Lee Molinaro, in conversation with Kiki Koroshetz, will present and discuss her new cookbook, The Korean Vegan: Reflections and Recipes from Omma’s Kitchen.
This debut cookbook shares both traditional and reimagined dishes and narrative snapshots of the food that shaped her family history. Some come from her family, some pay homage. With intimate storytelling and stunning photography, the author’s become known on social media, and here she celebrates how deeply food and famlly shape our identity.
NOTE: See website for costs, RSVP, book purchase, and further details.
Where: Little Sister at the Point – In-Person event (see details at website link)
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 11:30 am – 1 pm
Address: 830 S. Pacific Coast Hwy., Suite 100, El Segundo, CA 90245
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/korean-vegan-little-sister-point
Your Author Series: Lilliam Rivera & We Light Up the Sky via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event
Join us for a conversation with bestselling author Lilliam Rivera, who will discuss her new YA novel, We Light Up the Sky. In this haunting, gender-bending YA story the author explores the social and racial ramifications of an alien invasion from the different perpectives of three Latinx teens, unexpectedly thrown together, and who now must face this crisis.
Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning writer and the author of the young adult novels Never Look Back, a Pura Belpré Honor book; Dealing in Dreams, and The Education of Margot Sanchez, as well as the Goldie Vance series for middle-grade readers, and the standalone middle-grade novel Barely Floating. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Elle, to name a few.
Where: LAPL – Online FB & YouTube YA Event
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online – See Site
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-lilliam-rivera
Aurielle Marie, with Morgan Parker, & Gumbo Ya Ya via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear writer and author Aurielle Marie, in conversation with poet and author Morgan Parker (There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, Magical Negro), to discuss her book, Gumbo Ya Ya, which won the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Douglas Kearney.
Gumbo Ya Ya: Poems is a stunning debut, a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black girls, soaring against the backdrop of the contemporary South. It catalogs the wide gamut of Black life at intersections, with punching cultural commentary and a poetic voice that holds tenderness and sharpness in tandem.
Aurielle Marie is a Black and queer essayist, poet, and cultural strategist hailing form the deep South. A multiple prize winner and Fellowship award recipient, her work has been featured in numerous journals, and she writes and speaks about Blackness, sex, and pop culture from a Black feminist lens.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, details, and book purchase.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-aurielle-marie-presents-gumbo-ya-ya-morgan-parker
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 23rd
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929628015810/
Tracey Baptiste & African Icons via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Tracey Baptistte discuss her book, African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History. Presented with the Punk Rock Marthas.
African Icons tells of ten remarkable kings, queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who built a continent and changed the world. Illustrator Hillary D Wilson’s brilliant portraits accompany each profile, along with other maps and graphics.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, details, and book purchase.
Where: Skylight Bookstore & LAPL – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Writer’s Workshop with Viva Padilla via Re/Arte Centro Literario – 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 Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Group Poetry Reading with Sandra Lim, Randall Mann & Miguel Murphyvia Book Soup – Online Event
Sandra Lim was born in Seoul, Korea and she is the author of three collections, most recently, her collection, A Curious Thing. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry and lives in Cambridge, MA.
Randall Mann is an American poet, born in Provo, Utah, the only son to Olympic track and field medalist Ralph Mann. He is the author of Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009), Complaint in the Garden (2004), and co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (7th ed. 2007). His work often describes Florida, San Francisco, and contemporary gay life.
Miguel Murphy is the author of SHOREDITCH (2021), DETAINEE (2016), and A Book Called Rats, winner of the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry. He lives in Southern California, and teaches at Santa Monica College.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase books.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 3 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/ group-poetry-reading-sandra-lim-randall-mann-and-miguel-murphy
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Scott Noon Creley Workshop & Cyberwit Press Artists at My Place Cafe (Off-site)
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop with Scott Noon Creley, and readings by Cyberwit Press, featuring:
Don Kingfisher Campbell, Bill Cushing, MarvinLouis Dorsey & Ethan Goffman.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Offsite at My Place Cafe
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles, Pasadena, CA
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Dulce Stein Presents: Art Expo & Work of Enrique Brito & Alan Albert at Neutra Institute & Museum – In-Person Event
Dulce Stein Presents: Art Expo of the work of Enrique Brito & Alan Albert, with poetry, music and community.
Participating Artists include:
Alejandro Lavorde Jaime Montoya
Alejandro Nazareth John Martinez
America Najera Jose A. Costanza
Brenda Vaca Lupe Montiel
David Holguin Maria Herrera
Diosa Xochiquetzalcoatl Mariscela Z. Yatzil
Ethel Xochitiotzin Masiel M. Corona Santos
Fer de la Cruz Matthew Nava
“Grupo Ximarron” Matt Sedillo
Hector Marquez y Virgilio Miztlan
Fernando Losadal Yaotl Martinez de la Cruz
Indiria Isel Torres Cruz
NOTE: See flyer for further details.
Where: Neutra Institute & Museum – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 2379 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. 90039
Website: N/A
Fourth Sunday Poetry Series: Sandra Lim & Marcyn Del Clements at the Claremont Library – Off-Site Event
Fourth Sundays Poetry at the Claremont Library has returned to in-person events, and will meet off-site at the Claremont United Church of Christ, and it features:
Marcyn Del Clements has lived in Claremont since 1975. Over time she has seen some 780 works in print. But Shinrin-Yoku, her first book, has taken thirty years for the birthing. The book contains all the prose and poems to appear since the early 90s in Appalachia Magazine, and was published by their poetry editor, Parkman Howe.
Sandra Lim is the author of three poetry collections: most recently The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021), and The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). She has received the Levis Reading Prize, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches creative writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and lives in Cambridge, MA.
NOTE: See website for guidelines & event details.
Where: Fourth Sundays Poetry – Off-site at Claremont United Church of Christ
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 233 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont, CA
Website: https://stayhappening.com/e/fourth-sundays-sandra-lim-andamp-marcyn-del-clements-E2ISTSLMG5P
Alina Chau & Maeshmallow & Jordan via Skylight Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join Treehouse & LAPL to hear author Alina Chau discuss her new children’s book, Marshmallow & Jordan. Presented as an interactive event with the Punk Rock Marthas.
Marshmallow & Jordan tells the story of Jordan, who was the star player for her school’s basketball team until an accident left her paralyzed from the waist down. Now she’s the team captain, but her competition days seem behind her— until a mysterious elephant, who she names Marshmallow, helps her discover a brand new sport. Will water polo be the way for Jordan to continue her athletic dreams?
NOTE: See site for RSVP, details, and book purchase.
Where: Skylight Bookstore & LAPL – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 2 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
California Native Poets Roundtable via NEA Big Read San Bernardino County – Online Event
In honor of U.S. Poet Laureate .acclaimed new poetry anthology, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, this roundtable will feature poetry readings by contributors:
Deborah Miranda is theauthor of Raised by Humans (2015) and Indian Cartography (1999), (Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen and Chumash);
Casandra López is the author of Brother Bullet (2019), and teaches at Northwest Indian College on the Lummi Reservation in Washington State (Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseno);
Kim Shuck is a poet, weaver and educator, and was Indian editor of Susan Deercloud and New Poets of the American West. She promotes emerging native writers through organizing spoken word events in the Bay Area (Cherokee).
This event is moderated by poet and writer Ruth Nolan, Professor of Creative Writing at College of the Desert. She is editor of the new anthology, No Place for a Puritan: the literature of California’s deserts, published by Heyday Press.
NOTE: See website for registration & further details.
Where: NEA Big Read & Arts Council of San Bernardino – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/379252360238236/
Beatnik Cafe Poetry Night Event & Open Mic via Hey Hey & Anna Pachman – In-Person Event
Celebrate another Beatnik Café Poetry Night with Host Anna Pachman, and featuring Sarah Wheeler.
This event presents another night of hearing truth from lesser heard perspectives!
See complete schedule at site, but feature Sarah Wheeler reads from 5:10 – 5:30 pm. Sarah Wheeler is a writer, performer, and curator of Golden Poems. Visit her gallery at https://www.sarahwheelerpoetry.com/
NOTE: See website for guidelines, prompt, and further details.
Where: Hey Hey (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 24th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 1555 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
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