Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Book Club Bonanza: Indigenous Voices via LAPL Teen Event – Online Event
Join Los Angeles Public Library for a Teen Book Club Bonanza reading and discussion of two indigenous voices and their books:
The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills, is a tale of lives that may be haunted by grieving. Shelley has inherited her family’s ability to catch ghosts in her hair and help them along, both animals and people. But what happens if we can’t have what we want – our loved one to stay?
A Girl Called Echo: Volume 1, by Katherine Vermette, features compelling illustrations and a female main character who is caught in the foster care system. She discovers her Metis heritage first-hand, while slipping back and forth through time.
NOTE: See site to for details. Email teens@lapl.org from your school email address at least one hour before the program to request the link.
Where: Los Angeles Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 4:30 pm – 6 pm
Address: LAPL Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-bonanza-indigenous-voices
Jenny Qi, with Brian Byrdlong & Julayne Lee, & Focal Point via The Book Jewel – On-site Event
Please join poet and author Jenny Qi, with poets Bryan Byrdlong and Julayne Lee, to hear them meet for a poetry reading in celebration of Qi’s debut collection, Focal Point, winner of the Steel Toe Books Poetry Award. Focal Point is a scientist’s unofficial dissertation, a daughter’s faithful correspondence, and a coming-of-age story. Written largely while Jenny Qi was a young Ph.D. student conducting cancer research after her beloved mother’s death from cancer, the collection turns to “all the rituals of all the faiths,” invoking Western and Eastern mythology and history, metaphors from cell biology, and even Jimi Hendrix, as Qi searches for a container to hold grief. The opening poem of this debut collection primes us to consider all definitions of the titular “focal point,” as the speaker evaluates this moment of early loss beneath a literal and metaphoric microscope.
Bryan Byrdlong is a Haitian-African American, award-winning poet and marketing specialist whose work has appeared in many journals. He was part of Chicago’s Louder Than a Bomb poetry slam competition, and is a winner of the Boulevard 2020 Contest for Emerging Poets, among other awards.
Julayne Lee was born in South Korea to a mother she never knew and adopted by a white Christian family in Minnesota. Not my White Savior is her memoir in poems, exploring what it means to be a transracial and inter-country adoptee, and what it means to grow up being constantly told how better your life is because you were rescued from your country of origin. The book is angry, brilliant, unapologetic, and unforgiving, which sparks discussion and debate.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: The Book Jewel – On-site Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.thebookjewel.com/events
Nicole Glover, with L. Penelope, & The Undertakers via Book Soup – Online Event
Please join author Nicole Glover, in conversation with L. Penelope, to hear them discuss the second book in her exciting Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post-Civil War Philadelphia: The Undertakers.
Nothing bothers Hetty and Benjy Rhodes more than a case where the answers, motive, and murders themselves are a bit too neat. When one victim of one of the recent series of fires in Philadelphia is followed closely by the death of his son, they believe their deaths might be linked, and the recent fires might be linked to a powerful fire company known to let homes in the Black community burn to the ground
NOTE: See site for book purchase, tickets & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/nicole-glover-undertakers
Andrew Lawler & Under Jerusalem via Vroman’s – Online Event
Please join author Andrew Lawler, to hear him discuss his new book, Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City
In 1863, a French senator arrived in Jerusalem hoping to unearth relics dating to biblical times. Digging deep underground, he discovered an ancient grave that, he claimed, belonged to an Old Testament queen. News of his find ricocheted around the world, evoking awe and envy alike, and inspiring others to explore Jerusalem’s storied past..
Under Jerusalem takes readers into the tombs, tunnels, and trenches of the Holy City. It brings to life the indelible characters who have investigated this subterranean landscape. With clarity and verve, acclaimed journalist Andrew Lawler reveals how their pursuit has not only defined the conflict over modern Jerusalem, but could provide a map for two peoples and three faiths to peacefully coexist. (Doubleday Books)
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/andrew-lawler-discusses-under-jerusalem
Nikkolas Smith, with Vanessa Crocini, & The 1619 Project: Born on the Water via Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-store Kids Event
Please join author and illustrator Nikkolas Smith, in conversation with his wife and filmmaker Vanessa Crocini,to discuss The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse, which chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the U.S.: The 1619 Project: Born on the Water.
In this story, a young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400 years ago, in 1619, their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders.
But before that, they had a home, a land, a language. She learns how the people said to be born on the water survived.
With powerful verse and striking illustrations by Nikkolas Smith, Born on the Water provides a pathway for readers of all ages to reflect on the origins of American identity.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Store Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/november-22-nikkolas-smith
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 22nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Tanzila Ahmed & Contributors, with New Moons Anthology Launch Event via Book Soup Bookstore – Online Event
Join us online when Tanzila Ahmed and contributors Kazim Ali (editor), Ramy Eleteby, and Zohra Saed present New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims.
New Moons is a dynamic collection of contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by North American Muslims. And editor Kazim Ali states that its goal is to represent that full range of expressions of Islam, as well as genres, to demonstrate the trajectories between pieces—like that of kismet;”… both symphony and cacophony at once, like the body of Muslins as they are today.”
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/tanzila-ahmed
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open MIc via LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Expressions LA Poetry Readings & Open Mic event to tell your story.
We will have featured poetry readings and a Poetry Open Mic for others to join in.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details. Email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
M. Steven S. & ILL Behavior Book Release Party at Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Please join M. Steven S. for the release party for his novel, ILL BEHAVIOR.
Notorious Los Angeles graffiti writer, SOBR, Finds himself wanted for a murder he did not commit. With the help of a childhood friend, an LAPD Magistrate Inquirer, he sets out to clear his graffiti name while haunted by a foretelling of his impending death. This book is an unorthodox take on LA Noir, and a modern extension of ancient mythology.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site Event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/novemeber-23-m-steven-s
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Heidi Kasa – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Heidi Kasa.
Heidi Kasa writes fiction and poetry. Her chapbook, Split, was a finalist for a Black Lawrence Press award in 2019. Kasa’s story, Robot You, was shortlisted for a Fractured Literary award in 2021. Her artist poetry book, Seaweed, was sold at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. Kasa’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Racket, Meat for Tea, The Raw Art Review, Monday Night Lit, and Ab Terra. Her debut fiction chapbook is due out from Monday Night Press in winter 2021. She works as an editor and lives in Austin.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Mystery Book Group: Richard Osman & The Thursday Murder Club at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Event
Start your morning with a lively discussion of author Richard Osman’s book The Thursday Murder Club.
In this cheeky and surprising story, four septuagenarian sleuths who live in a retirement village, but are unlikely friends, come together and discuss unsolved crimes in the Jigsaw puzzle room. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photo left next to the body, this group finds themselves in the middle of their first live case.
Whether you loved it, hated it, or haven’t finished the book, please join us at America’s oldest children’s bookstore!
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In the circle in front of Star Café
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 9 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mystery-book-group-thursday-murder-club-richard-osman
Classics Book Club & An American Sunrise, by Joy Harjo at LAPL – Online Event
Classics Book Club celebrates Native American Heritage Month by selecting and discussing An American Sunrise, by U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
In this powerful poetry collection the author follows a wisdom quest as she returns to the place of her ancestors to renew her spirituality, tribal history and connection to the land east of the Mississippi, in Oklahoma.
NOTE: See site for details and book purchase.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL– Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 1:30 pm – 3 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/classics-book-club-discussion-american-sunrise-joy-harjo
Quest Book Club & Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law via The Book Jewel – On-site Event
Please sign up for the Quest Book Club, offered on the last Wednesday of the month, when we will read and discuss this month’s selection, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, by Mary Roach.
This book club reads literary fiction and nonfiction focused on books that are classic, diverse, contemporary, banned, and more! Fuzz is about managing the conflicts between humans and the natural world, and examines many unique and compelling dynamics between species in the scientific realm.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: The Book Jewel – On-site Event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.thebookjewel.com/events
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 24th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Calling All Poets! Listen & Share Poetry at Open Mic via Thousand Oaks Library – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a joint program between the Thousand Oaks Library and Ventura County Poetry Project, offered every 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month: Calling All Poets!
Listen to local poets and share your own work every 2nd & 4th Wednesday, at an Open Mic event, and hear a featured guest reader every 4th Wednesday.
NOTE: See site for details. Registration required.
Where: Thousand Oaks Library – Online Zoom event
Date: Wednesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/168199132195318/
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 17th
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/2956323661294476/
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 24th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Poetry Reading & Open Micby Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at The Ugly Mug – In-Person Event
Join Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug on Wednesday Nights.
See site for details and/or to verify.
$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 24th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry/ (Check to verify)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Creative Writing Workshop via LAwritersgroup.com – Online Zoom 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. Limited to 8 participants.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929624682477/
Celebrate Small Business Saturday at Flintridge Bookstore – In-Person Event
Celebrate this annual holiday shopping tradition where you can support local authors and your favorite small bookstores.
Author Meet & Greet/Signings Schedule:
10:30 am – 12:15 pm
Bruce Craven is the author of Sweet Ride: A Novel, about a Manhattan ingénue and her gritty dive-bar crowd, and the poetry collection Buena Suerte in Red Glitter, which is a wide-ranging collection about longing.
Scott Casperon is author of the children’s book How the Candy Cane Got its Stripes, which reminds us that the only holiday gift that matters is friendship. He is also the author of Room for One More and In the Dark.
Nalin DeSilva is the author of the children’s book Agnes and the Butterfly Dragon, a story of bravery, overcoming fear, and enduring friendship.
Tracy Holczer is the critically acclaimed author of the middle grade books Brave in the Woods, a story about a girl descended for the Grimm brothers,and Everything in the Universe, moving family story set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.
12:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Janie Emaus is the author of the children’s book Latkes for Santa Claus, which blends Christmas and Hannukah.
Bob Inman is the author of Urban Hikes Southern California: A Guide to the Area’s Greatest Urban Hiking Adventures, which features easy urban trails for everyone.
Gary Keyes & Mike Lawler, is the author of Crescenta Valley’s Dirty Laundry: Gossip, Crime, and is the author of One in a Billion: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey through Modern-Day China, about the inspiring peasant An Wei.
Jeffrey Pollack is the author of First Second Coming: The New God, a sci-fi fantasy novella bout God holding a 60 day conference in L.A. to determine humanity’s fate.
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Poetry Reading
Lin Benedek is the author most recently of the collection Singing Lessons, which demonstrate a “soundtrack” that shows how women must take up more space.
Michelle Bitting is the author of Broken Kingdom, winner of the 2018 Catamaran Poetry Prize. This poet writes lush journeys into the female psyche, braking all the rules.
Sam Roxas-Chua is the author of Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater which is a swirling, sensual and stubborn vision of how to chart our world and find ourselves.
Lynne Thompson, author most recently of Fretwork, winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, is the current Los Angeles Poet Laureate. She writes of family and the music of her people in cadences that resonate in their language.
2:15 – 4:15 pm
Emily Heebner is the author of Seneca Lake, a coming-of-age novel about interracial romance in rural New York in World War II. The author is a professor and theatre professional, and writer of documentary scripts.
Ari Loeb is the author of Thunder AZ: A Novel, is a debut horror novel about a small town that vanishes in Northern Arizona.
Henry Schlinger, Professor of Psychology at CSU Los Angeles, is the author of How to Build Good Behavior and Self-Esteem in Children.
Lisa Taylor is a journalist, historian andauthor of Lost Amusement Parks of California, one of the Images of America books.
NOTE: See website for further details & guidelines.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 10:30 am – 4:15 pm
Address: 858 Foothill Blvd., La Canada Flintridge, CA 91011
Website: https://www.flintridgebooks.com/instore-events/2021/11/27/small-business-saturday-celebration
Celebrate Small Business Saturday or “Indies First” at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – On-site Event
Celebrate this annual holiday shopping tradition where you can support local authors and your favorite small bookstores.
Author Meet & Greet/Signings Schedule
11 am – 11:45 pm
Catia Chien is the illustrator of The Longest Letsgoboy. She is a Brazilian Taiwanese artist and illustrator of children’s picture books.
12 noon – 12:45 pm
PJ Gardner is the author of the middle grade series, Horace and Bunwinkle, the first in a middle grade animal series in which an anxious Boston terrier and an exuberant potbellied pig team up to solve crimes in their back yard.
1 pm – 1:45 pm
Shaina Rudolph & Mary Vukadinovich are co-authors of the picture book Brilliant Bea, a story that demonstrates that a learning difference like dyslexia doesn’t define who you are.
2 pm – 2:45 pm
Dana Middleton is the author of the middle grade novel Not a Unicorn, a story about the power of self-acceptance to change the world.
3 pm – 3:45 pm
Mike Lawler is the author of numerous local history books, including the just-released Crescenta Valley’s Dirty Laundry: Gossip, Crime and Tragedy.
NOTE: See website for further details & guidelines. Plus special deals all day.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 11 am – 3:45 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu.Ave. Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/indies-first-small-business-saturday-2021
Celebrate Small Business Saturday at Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Celebrate this annual holiday shopping tradition where you can support local authors and your favorite small bookstores.
Author Meet & Greet/Signings Schedule:
11 am – 3 pm
Mark Maziarz is the author of the children’s book Two Gators in Waders, the story of pair of alligators, a dad and his daughter, who decide to ditch their swampy home in Florida for a fly fishing adventure out west.
Julie Anderson is the author of The Golden Age of Hollywood through the Lens of Joe Ackerman, the story of her father’s collection of autographs and celebrity photos.
David Bensimon is the author of the book Little Crab Finds a Friend, first in a series about astrology.
Michelle Woo is a journalist, magazine editor, and the author of Horizontal Parenting; How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down, an entertaining book about how to make parenting easier.
Sarah Chin is the author of the children’s book The Mystery of UFOs, a story about how siblings Iris and Aaron use teamwork and mutual support to investigate what mysteries interest them.
Farnaz N. Reneker is the author of The Love Frequency: A Guide to Oneness, a deep and powerful exploration of the human heart which demonstrates the possibilities of healing, love and transformation.
NOTE: See website for further details & guidelines.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Outdoor Courtyard
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 11 am – 3 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/small-business-saturday-2021
Small Business Saturday Signing & IN HER PURPOSE at Bel Canto Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join Bel Canto Bookstore to celebrate the store’s 2nd anniversary and for a book signing of the anthology by Rose Buado & Jennifer Redondo-Marquez: In Her Purpose: 40 Principals of Asian Women Redefining Success on Their Own Terms.
These are real, powerful stories of inspiring women who offer impactful and compelling life stories that give us hope, courage, and drive. They all took different paths, and all struggled to defy social and cultural conventions to shape a new existence.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore, Long Beach – On-site Event
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 11 am
Address: 2122 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90814
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/
Mystery Book Club & Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL– Online Event
The Westwood Branch Library hosts an Adult Mystery Book Club, and invites you to read the book and join a lively discussion of it.
This month’s selection for reading and discussion is Winter Counts, by author David Heska Wanbli Weiden. This story is about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx. The hero is Virgil Wounded Horse of the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and the search becomes personal when his nephew becomes a victim. He soon realizes the incredible cost it takes to face his demons and follow the twisting, turning trail of justice.
NOTE: Please see site for details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online (see site)
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-19
Josh Crute & Hornswoggled via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Please join children’s author Josh Crute, for a special storytime with his new book, Hornswoggled: A Wacky Words Whodunit.
Laugh along with a hilarious cast of animal characters searching for a mysterious trickster, which is all pure poppycock.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/vromans-live-storytime-josh-crute-presents-hornswoggled
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 27th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Strong Women Poetry Reading with Lynne Thompson, Lin Benedek & Michelle Bitting at Flintridge Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us for a special poetry reading event at Flintridge Bookstore as part of its Small Business Saturday program, featuring L.A. Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson and poets Lin Benedek & Michelle Bitting.
Lynne Thompson, current Los Angele Poet Laureate, is the author most recently of Fretwork, winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. In mapping her supreme truths, embedded in familial tales, and music, poet Major Jackson tells us “…she embraces that light that emanates from language that aligns memories to myth,” according to poet Major Jackson.
Lin Benedek is the author most recently of the collection Singing Lessons, which as a soundtrack playing through these poems, which Lynne Thompson tells us “…have a ‘say salvation’ soundtrack playing throughout the poems, which above all, demonstrate that ‘women need to take up more space.’”
Michelle Bitting is the author of Broken Kingdom, winner of the 2018 Catamaran Poetry Prize, which offers lush, ruminative excursions through the female psyche and shows women able to break every window and blow up every door in their path.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 858 Foothill Blvd., La Canada Flintridge, CA 91011
Website: https://www.flintridgebooks.com/instore-events/2021/11/27/small-business-saturday-celebration
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Print & Internet Publishing Workshop & Spectrum Poets – Online Event
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by Alejandro Morales, + Poets published in the Spectrum Online Edition: Social Media Trust.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Online at Zoom ID: 759 9367 3202 (no spaces required); P/W: poetry.
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Teatro Performance with Chicano Secret Service Elias Serna at Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us at Re/Arte for a special event: Teatro Performance with Chicano Secret Service Elias Serna.
Details TBA.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 4 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Cellar Door Historical Fiction Book Club & Natalie Haines’ A Thousand Ships at Cellar Books Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us at Cellar Door Bookstore for our Historical Fiction Book Club, offered every 4th Saturday of the month at 5pm.
We will read and discuss author Natalie Haines’ novel A Thousand Ships. This is a story about the silenced women of the Trojan War, and how they suffered from the war and from the devastating consequences of the fall of Troy
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore, Riverside – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 20th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Suite # 30A, Riverside, CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/sci-fi-fantasy-book-club-piranesi
Celebrate Small Business Saturday with Flowersong Press Authors at The Book Jewel Bookstore – In-Person Event
Celebrate this annual holiday shopping tradition where you can support local authors and your favorite small bookstores.
This will be a poetry reading event featuring recent authors from Flowersong Press, including:
Iris De Anda is a writer activist and practitioner of the healing arts. A native of Los Angeles, of Mexican and Salvadoran descent, she is the author of the collection Codeswitch: Fires From Mi Corazon. Her forthcoming collection is titled Roots of Redemption: You Have No Right to Remain Silent.
Luivette Resto is a mother, teacher, poet, and Wonder Woman fanatic, born in Puerto Rico, but raised in the Bronx. Her two books of poetry, Unfinished Portrait and Ascension have been published by Tia Chucha Press. Her forthcoming book is titled Living on Islands Not Found on Maps
David A. Romero is a Mexican American poet and spoken word artist from Southern California and his new collection is titled My Name Is Romero (Flowersong Press, 2020). His work has been widely published and he has appeared at over 75 colleges and universities. His work deals with family, identity, social justice issues, and Latinx culture.
Angelina Saenz is an award-winning public school teacher and poet whose work focuses on memory, mujeres and motherhood. Her work has appeared in many venues, and she is the host of the monthly poetry reading series La Palabra at Avenue 59 Studio in Northeast Los Angeles. Her debut poetry collection is titled Edgecliff (Flowersong Press, 2021).
Fernando Albert Salinas is on the Board of Directors for California Poets in the Schools, the Ventura County Area Coordinator, and a Master Poet-Teacher. He is an adjunct Professor of English at Ventura College, and the coordinator and coach for the California Arts Council’s Poetry Out Loud Program, and the editor-in-chief for Spit Shine Publishing. He is the author of Toxic Masculinity: poems by Fernando Albert Salinas.
Matt Sedillo writes from the vantage point of a second generation Chicano born in El Sereno, CA, and hehas been called “one of the most important working-class intellectuals of our time” by Roar Magazine. He has appeared and spoken widely to read his poetry and lead his writing workshops, is the literary director of the dA Center for the Arts, and his collection Mowing Leaves of Grass, (2019) is currently being taught in colleges in California and elsewhere. His forthcoming collection from Flowersong Press is titled City on the Second Floor.
Natalie Sierra is a first generation Latinx poet and author who studied at Mt. San Antonio College, and whose work has been published online and in print in The Sinister Smile Press horror anthologies, and numerous other venues. Her debut poetry collection, Medusa, was published by DSTL Arts in Fall 2020and she is also author of three other volumes of poetry and stories: Nadine: Love Songs for Demented Housewives, Temblors, and Strangelove: Stories of Love and Lust.
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Where: The Book Jewel – Westchester
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St.,Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.thebookjewel/events
Paul Haddad & Freewaytopia via Book Soup – Online Event
Author Paul Haddad will present and discuss his new book, Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles.
From the Arroyo Seco Parkway, constructed during the Great Depression, to the Century Freeway, completed in 1993, this is a history of the 527 miles of roadways the comprise the L.A. freeway system. Each of the twelve freeways receives its own chapter, supplemented by “Off-Ramps”—sidebars that dish out factoids about the jargon and personalities involved. It explores those routes that never saw the light of day, and gives voice to those residents who protested their displacement due to eminent domain, and those who brought their vision, expertise and dedication to the tasks required.
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Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 27th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/paul-haddad-discusses-freewaytopia-how-freeways-shaped-los-angeles
Burning Issues Book Club & David Treuer’s Rez Life at Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Join us at Bel Canto Bookstore’s meeting of our Burning Issues Book Club, offered every last Sunday of the month at 12 pm.
We will read and discuss author and celebrated novelist David Treuer’s book, Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life. In this book the author again expands the horizons of Native American literature to his first full-length, nonfiction work. He brings authoritative research and reportage to misunderstood contemporary issues like sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural resource conservation, and traces the history of public policy and its implementation and how that has transformed the landscape of Native American Life.
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Where: Bel Canto Bookstore, Long Beach – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 12 pm
Address: https://belcantobooks.net/
Fourth Sundays Poetry Open Mic: Poets About Town at Claremont United Church of Christ – On-site Event
Join us at Fourth Sundays Poetry when you are invited to share your poems at our annual Poets About Town open reading & showcase.
Bring 2 poems or 2 pages (whichever comes first) to read. Arrive early to secure your spot, as sign-ups start at 1:50 pm. You may also bring copies of you recent published collection to sell or trade.
All poets of all ages and abilities are welcome! Raise your voice and share your words.
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Where: Claremont United Church of Christ – On-site Event
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 233 W. Harrison Ave., Claremont, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/259898055875383
La Palabra Poetry Reading 2021 with Angelina Saenz & Sonia Gutierrez at Avenue 50 Studio – Online Event
Join us at the monthly La Palabra Poetry Reading, hosted by Angelina Saenz, and featuring:
Sonia Gutierrez, is a poet and the author of the collection Dreaming with Mariposas (Flowersong Press, 2020), She is the winner of the Tomas Rivera Book Award in 2021, and her work has been published in Crate and Fringe Magazine, as well as in numerous anthologies.
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Where: La Palabra at Avenue 50 Studio – Virtual FB Event
Date: Sunday the 28th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: Live on La Palabra FB page
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