Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Tween Book Club & Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Kids Event
Please join our Adult Book Club to read and discuss author Chris Grabenstein’s book, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library.
This story is about twelve 12-year-olds who escape into a futuristic brilliant library after a night of nonstop fun.
NOTE: See site for book event details. Contact Jennifer Murphy at jmurphy@lapl.org to join via link.
Where: Palms Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Monday the 13th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tween-book-club-0
Adult Book Club & A Wish in the Dark via Sun Valley Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join our Adult Book Club to read and discuss the book, A Wish in the Dark, by author Christina Soontormvat.
This book is a 2021 Newberry Honor Book. A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice.
NOTE: See site for book event details. Contact ebarrera@lapl.org to join Zoom link.
Where: Sun Valley Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Monday the 13th
Time: 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/sun-valley-book-club
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 to use 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 13th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Natashia Deon, with MInda Hart, & The Perishing via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Author Natashia Deon, in conversation with Minda Hart, will present and discuss The Perishing, her latest novel following her auspicious debut, Grace.
In this historical fantasy novel for fans of N.K. Jamison and Octavia E. Butler, a Black immortal in 1930’s Los Angeles must recover her memory of her past in order to save the world.
Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She’ll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times, but Lou’s extraordinary life is about to take an even more remarkable turn. When she befriends a firefighter at a downtown boxing gym, Lou is shocked to realize that though she has no memory of meeting him, she’s been drawing his face for years.
Increasingly certain that their paths previously crossed–and beset by unexplainable flashes from different eras haunting her dreams–Lou begins to believe she may be an immortal sent here for a very important reason, one that only others like her can explain. Setting out to investigate the mystery of her existence, Lou must make sense of the jumble of lifetimes calling to her, just as new forces threaten the existence of those around her.
Immersed in the rich historical tapestry of Los Angeles–Prohibition, the creation of Route 66, and the collapse of the St. Francis Dam–The Perishing is a stunning examination of love and justice through the eyes of one miraculous woman whose fate seems linked to the city she comes to call home.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, & event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/december-14-natashia-deon
Matt Coyle, with Naomi Hirahara, & Last Redemption via Vroman’s – Online Event
Author Matt Coyle, in conversation with author Naomi Hirahara (Clark and Division, Mas Aria series), will present and discuss his newest Rick Cahill novel (#8), Last Redemption.
In this detective thriller Rick is finally settled into a happy life with his fiancée Leah Landingham, who is pregnant with their first child. Then his doctor informs him the headaches he’s been suffering are due to CTE—a secret he keeps from Lean and his best friend, Moira MacFarlane. Now he finds himself forced to battle sadistic killers, as he tries to stay alive long enough from this insidious illness, to see the birth of his long-awaited child.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 6 pm – 7pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/matt-coyle-conversation-naomi-hirahara-discusses-last-redemption
Expressions LA Poetry Readings and Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Please join us every 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the month for Expressions LA Poetry Featured Readings and Open Mic.
Tell your story. Or, just listen and enjoy.
NOTE: See site for book event details. Contact Emily Aaronson at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions and to join via link.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Poetry Open Mic with Wyatt Underwood via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join us for a monthly Poetry Open Mic, hosted by poet Wyatt Underwood.
Share a poem you wrote of a poem you love, or just listen.
NOTE: See site for event details. Contact wwood@lapl.org to receive a Zoom link.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-3
BOTM Book Club & An American Sunrise via Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Please join Bel Canto’s Book of the Month Club to read and discuss the December selection, An American Sunrise: Poems, by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
This collection of poems is informed by the author’s Native American tribal history and connection to the land, Here, she returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history, and creates as space for renewal, and sings of beauty and survival, Illuminating a spirituality the connects her to her ancestors, which thrums with the quiet anger of living in the ruins of injustice.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs or https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHEcP4EAJHs0cTIvjMh7o4R6P9FzwX7E3LI_uGprT7aQX6xQ/viewform
Mystery Book Club & All Her Little Secrets via Pages Bookstore – On-site Event
Please join our Mystery Book Club to read and discuss the December selection, All Her Little Secrets, by author Wanda M. Morris.
This legal thriller is a brilliantly nuanced, powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the crushing pressure of keeping secrets. A Black lawyer gets caught in a dangerous conspiracy after the sudden death of her boss. When she uncovers shady dealings inside the company, her past and present lives collide, and she races to protect the brother she tried to save years ago.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – On-site Event
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/mystery-book-club-0
Adult Book Group & Barren Grounds via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Please join our Adult Book Group to read and discuss the December selection, Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga) by award-winning author David A. Robinson. Our Adult Book Group has been going strong for over 40 + years at America’s oldest children’s bookstore.
Barren Grounds in a middle grade fantasy and has a Narnia-esque theme and is an indigenous story. It features passages form the journals of two young Moffatt party members who embark on a dangerous mission to try to save the Misewa before the icy grip of winter frees everything—including them.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details. Email Maureen to request invite/link.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-barren-grounds-david-robertson
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Sean Mahoney – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Sean Mahoney.
Sean Mahoney is a poet who believes poetry is a bridge that allows people to express their feelings and make others live every single word they read, and help the community better, understand life, and live it more passionately.It’s purpose is to educate, to lead people away from hate to love, from violence to mercy and pity, and it’s much deeper than words alone.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Kaeru Garden Signing with Artist/Writer Josh Wolfat The Comic Bug Bookstore – On-site (2 locations) Event
Please join The Comic Bug for a signing by Josh Wolf of Kaeru Garden. This book signing event will be held at two store locations:
The Comic Bug, 4267 OVERLAND Ave., Culver City, CA 90230: 12 pm – 3 pm.
The Comic Bug. 1807 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266: 4 pm – 7 pm.
NOTE: See site for purchases & event details.
Where: The Comic Bug – On-site Event at 2 locations: Culver City & Manhattan Beach
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 12 pm – 3 pm & 4 pm – 7 pm (2 location times)
Address: On-site Signing Events (see above)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/188808706780235
Who Writers Read Salon: Bridgette Bianca & Lindsey Ellisvia – Online Event
Please join Who Writers Read to hear a conversation with authors and writers bridgette bianca and Lindsey Ellis.
Bridgette bianca is a poet and author of the debut collection be/trouble, which offers an unflinching gaze of Black lives and a symphony of Black love. It depicts the everyday minutia of Black Angelino life, and the heritage handed from one generation to the next. She is a professor at Santa Monica College.
Lyndsey Ellis is a fiction writer, essayist and author of the debut novel Bone Broth, which excavates the social and familial issues that one Black family must navigate after the passing of their volatile patriarch and how trauma affects family dynamics and the confronting of painful memories of the past.
Who Writers Read is a series/project born during the Covid-related quarantine of 2020. It’s a volunteer effort of two hosts:
Jody A. Forrester was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in Venice, CA with her husband, musician John Schneider. She is the author of a recently published memoir, Under the Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary.
Ginger Eager has published essays, reviews and short fiction, and her debut novel, The Nature of Remains (2021) won the AWP Award for Fiction, among other awards. She lives in Decatur Georgia, with her husband and two cats.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Who Writers Read – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 2 pm PST
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/409592007325891 or www.whowritersread.com
Coffee Time Book Club & Oh, William! at Pages Bookstore – On-site Patio Event
Pages Coffee Time Book Club generally meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month. Our new release literary fiction selection for December is Oh, William! by author Elizabeth Strout.
In her latest novel, Oh, William!, author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the complex love of her character Lucy Barton and her ex-husband William, who’s a hard man to read. William asks Lucy to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret, and Lucy learns more about the quiet forces that hold us together—even after we’ve grown part. She observes, “This is the way of life, the many things we do not know until it’s too late.”
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – On-site Patio Event
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 9:30 am
Address: 904 Manhattan Beach Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-1
Middle Grade Book Club & Frankie & Bug via Pages Bookstore – On-site Patio Event
Pages Middle Grade Book Clubgenerally meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month. Our new release fiction selection for December is Frankie & Bug, by author Gaye Forman.
In Frankie & Bug, a New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year, we follow a young girl and her new friend as they learn about family, friendship, allyship, and finding one’s way in a complicated world, set in summer, 1987. And that even though life isn’t always fair, we can all do our part to make it more just.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – On-site Patio Event
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Beach Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-1
Sharon Gless, with Annabelle Gurwitch, & Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir via Book Soup Bookstore – Online Event
Join us online when actress Sharon Gless, in conversation with author Annabelle Gurwitch (You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility),will present and discuss her memoir Apparently There Were Complaints.
The author’s memoir delves into Gless’s career, from Cagney & Lacey to Queer as Folk, Burn Notice, and many others. It explores her complicated family, struggles with alcoholism, fears of romantic commitment, as well as her many encounters with Hollywood celebrities.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/sharon-gless
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 15th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Trevor Crafts & The Unseen Photos of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join author and filmmaker to hear him discuss his book, The Unseen Photos of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street. It expands on the film’s exploration of the origins and legacy of Sesame Street with exclusive interviews and previously unpublished phots form the first season of the globally beloved children’s series.
The book is a tribute to the enduring achievements of an ingenious group of artists, educators, and television pioneers who believed that the values of equality, education, and inclusion should not just be championed but also made available to all–a dream that Sesame Street has carried forward for more than fifty years.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/trevor-crafts%C2%A0discusses%C2%A0-unseen-photos-street-gan
Marcus Nobreus & The Four Elements: We Are Earth Mother at Village Well Books & Coffee– In-person Event
Join us when author Marcus Nobreus will present and discuss his book,
The Four Elements, We Are Earth Mother, which is a reminder of our origins and how we have become extremely disconnected from our ancient way of life.
The author is a modern day shaman who works with ancient methods to help people heal energetically and physically from all kinds of afflictions.
NOTE: See site for tickets, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee – In-person Event
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/15073
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 15th
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/2956323644627811/
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 15th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Holiday Party & Open Mic by 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. Tonight’s event will be a Holiday Party and Open Mic. Bring on your holiday poems, winter ghost poems, or whatever you would like to close out the year with.
Hope to see you there! There will be no reading on the 22nd or 29th.
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 – In-person event
Date: Wednesday the 15th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/2471797806289047
LA MADE: Jaime Hernandez, with Javier Cabral, & Queen of the Ring via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event
Jaime Hernandez, acclaimed graphic novelist, has been creating a Love and Rockets-adjacent world—set in the heyday of 1960s and 70s women’s wrestling and Luche Libre!—with an entirely separate cast of characters.
For this special event, Jaime will be in conversation with Javier Cabral, editor of the popular website LA Taco. Participants will have a chance to win a free copy of Queen of The Ring: Drawings by Jaime Hernandez (1980-2020).
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details. Streaming live on YouTube & FB.
Where: LA Public Library – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Meet Playwright Diana Burbanovia LibroMobile Bookstore at Alta Baja Market – On-site & IG Live Hybrid Event
Join us to meet playwright Diana Burbano, whois a Colombian immigrant, a playwright, an Equity actor, and a teaching artist at Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble and South Coast Repertory.
Burbano’s work ranges from drama to sci-fi, and her play Ghosts of Bogata won the Nu Voices festival at Actors Theatre of Charlotte in 2019, and it will be produced there in 2022. Sapiens, a Playground-SF 2929 winner, will premiere at the Moxie Theatre in January 2022.
Burbano is in the Geffen’s Writers Lab in 20-21 and was in Center Theatre Group’s 2018-19 Writers Workshop cohort. She is the current Dramatist Guild Rep for Southern California.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, and event details.
Where: Alta Baja Market – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/from-drama-to-sci-fi-meet-playwright-diana-burbano or https://www.facebook.com/events/4454325631311983
Your Author Series: Daniel Jose Older & Flood City via LAPL – Online Teens Event
Your Author Series presents writer, editor and composer Daniel Jose Older to present and discuss his new book Flood City, a story about the only habitable place left on the drowned earth. Flood City is also the battleground between the Star Guard, who have controlled the city for decades, and the Chemical Barons, who once ruled the planet.
The author has received many awards, and his work includes being lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic, and having a decade-long career as a paramedic in New York City.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online FB & YouTube Event
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-daniel-jose-older
Bookish Discussion: Susan Orlean, Natashia Deon & W. Bruce Cameron, with Sandra Tsing Loh via Southern California News Group & One Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Bookish Discussion event presents authors Susan Orlean, Natashia Deon & W. Bruce Cameron, in conversation with host, radio personality and author Sandra Tsing Loh.
Susan Orlean is the author most recently of On Animals, and her previous books include the bestselling book, The Library Book, about the burning of the Los Angeles Central Library in the 1980, and The Orchid Thief.
Natashia Deon is the author of the sci-fi fantasy The Perishing, the much- anticipated second book following her debut novel Grace.
W. Bruce Cameron, is the author of A Dog’s Perfect Christmas and The Dogs of Christmas: A Novel.
Sandra Tsing Loh is the author of The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/bookish-december
Full Moon Writing Workshop: The Narrative Method with Shari Foos at Village Well Bookstore – In-person Event
Join us for another Full Moon event, a writing workshop using The Narrative Method by Shari Foos, using her DIY Human card decks. In this workshop we will focus on writing your personal narrative from an experiential new perspective.
Shari Foos is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and creator of The Narrative Method. In 1999 Foos founded The Bridge Program at Antioch University, where she also taught as an adjunct professor. Her writing and commentary have appeared in a range of online and print publications.
NOTE: See site for link, ticket information, and event details.
Where: Village Well Bookstore – In-person Event
Date: Friday the 17th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/14909
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 18th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929614682478/
Seth Fishman & When I Wake Up via at Pages Bookstore – In-person Kids Event
Please join local award-winning children’s author Seth Fishman’s In-person Pajama Party Book Launch for an interactive book reading to celebrate his new children’s book, When I Wake Up.
Seth Fishman is also the author of the children’s books: The Ocean in Your Bathtub, A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars, and Power Up.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – outdoor patio
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 10 am
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/seth-fishman-pajama-party
Book Clubs for Middle Grade Readers: Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin via Brentwood & Palisades Branch Libraries, LAPL– Online MG Event via Zoom
Book Clubs for Middle Grade Readers are offered by both the Brentwood and Palisades Branch Libraries of LAPL online.
This month’s selection for reading and discussion is Starry River of the Sky, by author and illustrator Grace Lin. The Newberry Honor winner brings readers another enthralling fantasy filled with Chinese folklore and exciting new adventures.
NOTE: Please email Miss Gail at gkim@lapl for Zoom login information.
Where: Online (see site)
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-middle-grade-readers-wrinkle-time-madeleine-lengle-0 or https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-middle-grade-readers-wrinkle-time-madeleine-lengle
LGBTQIA Book Club & Confessions of the Fox via Los Angeles Public Library – Online
Join the LGTBQIA Book Club discussion of the book, Confessions of the Fox, by author Jordy Rosenberg.
All are welcome. Email silver@lapl.org for the meeting link.
NOTE: See website for further details & guidelines.
Where: Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL Online Event
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/lgbtqia-book-club-7
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 18th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Bodhi Books Grand Re-Opening & Poetry Reading/Book Launch by traci kato-kiriyama – In-Person Event
Join us for Bodhi Books Grand Re-Opening and a poetry reading to celebrate traci kato-kiriyama’s new book, Navigating Without Instruments. The author will be reading and discussing her book and will be joined by her special guests.
Guest host, Mike the Poet Sonksen will introduce guest readers:
Luivette Resto is a poet and writer who was born in Puerto Rico, raised in the Bronx, and now lives in Southern California with her family. She is the author of the poetry collections Unfinished Portrait (2008) and Ascension (2013), and her third collection is forthcoming from Flowersong Press.
Allan Aquino is a professor at CSUN, where he has been an instructor in the Asian American Studies Department since 2020. He is an editor and author of numerous essays, poems and other writings, and his work has been published in numerous journals and publications.
Terry Robinson is the author of Insomniacs, Inc: The Awakening Paperback (2020).
F. Douglas Brown is an editor, educator, DJ, and the author of two poetry collections: ICON (Writ Large Press, 2018) and Zero to Three (University of Georgia (2013), and co-author with Geoffrey Davis of Begotten (URB Books 2016). He is co-founder and curator of un :: fade :: able – The Requiem for Sandra Bland, a quarterly reading series examining restorative justice through poetry as a means to address racism.
Mike “the Poet” Sonksen is a professor, journalist, historian, and L.A, native acclaimed for his poetry, performances, published articles and mentoring of young writers. He is the author most recently of Letters to My City (2019), and has two books forthcoming in 2022, a book of essays and a book of poetry.
NOTE: See website for covid guidelines and further details. Free Event. Free Parking, Light Refreshments.
Where: Bodhi Books – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 18th
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: 8585 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: N/A
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Featured Readers & Open Mic – Online Event
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for Featured Readers hosted by DKF & an Open Mic led by COCO. Featured readers include:
Katerina Canyon is an award-winning poet and the author most recently of the collection, Surviving Home, which reads like a memoir as she navigates through memories of child abuse and neglect, racial trauma and African American heritage.
Ruth Nolan is a poet, writer, photographer, and professor at College of the Desert near Palm Springs, She also is a book editor/publisher and is editor of the new anthology, No Place for a Puritan: the literature of California’s Deserts, published by Heyday Books. .
Angelina Saenz is a poet and writer, and the author of a debut collection, Edgecliff: Poems by Angelina Saenz. Her work focuses on memory, mujeres, and motherhood. She also is curator of the monthly La Palabra Reading Series, and is an award-winning public school teacher.
Open Mic led by COCO.
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 18th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Mary Talusan + Musical Guests & Instruments of Empire at Bel Canto Books at The Hangout, Long Beach – In-Person Event
Join Bel Canto Books at the Hangout for an Author Event and to celebrate INSTUMENTS OF EMPIRE: Filipino Muscians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music During US Colonization of the Philippines, by Dr. Mary Talusan, with musical performances at 11am and at 12pm.
This book shows how a band of “little brown brothers” and a Black conductor dazzled America while soothing its racial anxieties. The author draws on hundreds on hundreds of newspaper accounts and exclusive interviews with band members and their descendants to compose the story from the band’s own voices. It explores musical pleasure at the intersection of Euro-American cultural hegemony, racialization, and US colonization of the Philippines.
NOTE: See website for tickets and further details.
Where: Bel Canto Books at The Hangout – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 11 am and 12 pm
Address: 2122 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA
Author Reading: Edith Cohn & Birdie’s Billions at The Book Jewel Bookstore, Westchester – In-Person Kids Event
Join The Book Jewel for an Author Reading Event and to celebrate Birdie’s Billions, by children’s Middle Grade author Edith Cohn.
This book is the story of a savvy eleven-year-old girl who finds half a million dollars and wonders if she can keep it. The book asks big questions about right and wrong and what you’d do for family.
NOTE: See website for tickets and further details.
Where: The Book Jewel Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 6259 W 87th St, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore
Story Time with Stacy Russo & Poetry Hounds and Wild Librarian Bakery at Libromobile Tiny Bookstore, Santa Ana – In-Person Kids Event
Join LibroMobile for a Story Time Event and to celebrate two books by children’s author and local artist and librarian, Stacy Russo.
Stacy Russo is the author of Poetry Hounds (Litwin Books, 2020) that celebrates the joy of living a creative life through the adventures of two dog poets, and is inspired by the author’s senior rescue dogs Joni and Walter.
Stella Peabody’s Wild Librarian Bakery and Bookstore: A Novel-in-Stories (Wild LIbrarian Press, 2021) is the story of a librarian who follows her dream and opens a vegan bakery and bookstore and creates a community built on friendship, belonging and mutual love.
NOTE: See website for tickets and further details.
Where: LibroMobile – In-Person Kids Event
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 220 E. 4th St., (off 4th & Spurgeon in back alley area), Santa Ana, CA
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/storytime-with-stacy-russo-1
LionLike MindState Open Mic with Pomona Poet Laurate David Judah Oliverat Edison Historical District, Pomona – In-Person Event
Join Pomona Poet Laureate David Judah Oliver for the last Pomona Poetry installment of the year. There will be special guest features and LionLike merchandise available, and it costs only $5 at the door.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Pomona Poet Laureate – On-site Event
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 4 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: 406 W. 2nd St., Pomona, CA 91766
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/405789424663166
Book Soup Presents: A Conversation with Spike Lee & SPIKE at Book Soup & Coburn – On-site Event
Join us in-person to hear Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee, in conversation with filmmaker Ernest R. Dickerson, to hear them discussing the launch of the new book, SPIKE, to be published by Chronical Chroma.
This book is a lavish celebration of Spike Lee’s life and career to date, and includes hundreds of never-before-seen photos by David Lee, Spike’s official on-set photographer. The author provides behind-the-scenes material from the making of his iconic films, documentaries, TV shows, and music videos. The author’s amazing film archives include: Do the Right Thing, BlackKlansman, Malcolm X , Tales from the Hood, Hoop Dreams, and He Got Game.
NOTE: See site for Eventbrite link, book purchase, and event guidelines and details.
Where: Book Soup at the Colburn School, Zipper Hall – On-site Event
Date: Sunday the 19th
Time: 5 pm (Doors at 4 pm)
Address: 200 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/book-soup-presents-spike-lee
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