Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Tween Book Club & Escape from Mr. Lemoncillo’s Library via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Kids Event
Join the Tween Book Club for kids ages 9-12 to meet monthly and discuss and share books you’ve read and recommend. The titles are all available through Libby/Overdrive, or check out a copy from your local branch.
Our selection for January 10th is titled Escape from Mr. Lemoncillo’s Library, by Chris Grabenstein. This book asks the question:Can 12 twelve-year-olds escape form the most ridiculously brilliant library ever created?
NOTE: Contact Jennifer Murphy at jmurphy@lapl.org for Zoom link and event details.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom online
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tween-book-club-0
Book Club & Mexican Gothic via Sun Valley Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our Adult Book Club to meet monthly and discuss our book selections.
Our selection for January 10th is Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. This novel is about what occurs when Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexica countryside. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi is not sure what she’ll find. Her cousin’s husband is a handsome Englishman, a stranger, and she knows little about the region.
NOTE: Email ebararra@lapl.org for Google Meet link and event details.
Where: Sun Valley Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 4:45 pm – 5:50 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tween-book-club-0
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 10th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-fiction-workshop-tickets-235567126617
Benson Shum Book Launch & Anzu the Great Kaiju at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Please join Once Upon a Time Bookstore to hear children’s author and illustrator Benson Shum discuss his new book, Anzu the Great Kaiju.
This adorable new picture book will allow young readers ages 4+ to discover the power and beauty of being your true self. Join us for a storytime and craft via Zoom and order a signed copy at site link. Pre-orders will receive a special print form Benson!
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, & event details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/anzu-great-kaiju
Diana Giovinazzo Book Launch & Antoinette’s Sister: A Novel at Bel Canto Bookstore – Online IG Event
Please join Bel Canto Bookstore to hear author Diana Giovinazzo discuss her new novel, Antionette’s Sister.
As Marie Antoinette took her last breath as Queen of France in Paris, another formidable monarch—Antoinette’s dearly beloved sister, Charlotte—was hundreds of miles away, in Naples, fighting desperately to secure her release from the revolutionaries who would take her life. Little did Charlotte know, however, that her sister’s execution would change the course of history—and bring about the end of her own empire.
“You are the queen. You are the queen that Antoinette wanted to be.”
Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte—tenth daughter and one of sixteen children of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria—knows her position as a Habsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her cherished sister, Antoinette, whose companionship she values over all else. But not yet. The Habsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte’s older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples and will soon take her place as queen. Before she can journey to her new home, however, tragedy strikes. After visiting the family crypt, Josepha contracts smallpox and dies. Shocked, Charlotte is forced to face an unthinkable new reality: she must now marry Ferdinand in her sister’s stead.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, & event details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/events or https://shopthehangout.com/products/bcb-antoinettes-sister
Poetry Open Mic with Wyatt Underwood via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Poetry Open Mic every second Tuesday of the month, hosted by poet Wyatt Underwood.
Share a poem you wrote or a poem you love. You are also welcome to just listen and enjoy.
NOTE: Contact us for Zoom link and event details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom online
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event (Check to verify)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic
Expressions LA Poetry Reading Series & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Expressions LA Poetry Reading & Open Mic event every 2nd & 4th Tuesday.
The Expressions LA Poetry Reading Series offers featured poetry readings and open mic poetry.
NOTE: Email eaaronson@lapl.org for link and event details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/expressions-la-poetry-reading-series-and-open-mic
Vroman’s Live: Leonard Mlodinow & Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking – Online Event
Join us live online to hear author Leonard Mlodinow present and discuss his book Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking.
In this book the author explores how extraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking.He gives us the tools to understand our emotions better so we can detect when they can help and when they can hurt, in order to make the most out of nature’s greatest gifts.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s – See Site
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/leonard-mlodinow-emotional
Antoine Wilson, with David Ulin, & Mouth to Mouth: A Novel – On-site Event
Join us in person to hear author Antoine Wilson, in conversation with author David Ulin (Sidewalking, Labyrinth), present and discuss his new novel, Mouth to Mouth.
In Antoine Wilson’s new novel, set in a first class lounge at JFK airport, our narrator listens as Jeff Cook, a former classmate he only vaguely remembers, shares his uncanny story of his adult life—a life that changed course years before, the moment he resuscitated a drowning man. Thereafter, the paths of the two men come together and diverge in dizzying ways until the novel’s staggering ending.
Sly, suspenseful, and engrossing, Mouth to Mouth masterfully blurs the line between opportunity and exploitation, self-respect and self-delusion, fact and fiction—exposing the myriad ways we deceive each other, and ourselves.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – On-site Courtyard event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/mouth-to-mouth
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Molly Gaudry – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Molly Gaudry.
Molly Gaudry is a poet and the founder of Lit Pub. She is the author of the verse novel, We Take Me Apart, which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award and shortlisted for the PEN/Osterwell. This book’s sequel, Desire: A Haunting, is also now available.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Mystery Book Club Discussion with author Christopher Huang via West Valley Regional Library, LAPL– Online via Zoom
Join our monthly Mystery Book Club, when we will be joined by author Christopher Huang for this discussion!
This month’s selection for reading and discussion is A Gentleman’s Murder by author Christopher Huang. In the year 1924, the streets of St. James ring with jazz as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. However, London’s back alleys are filled with broken soldiers and still shadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War. Lieutenant Erik Peterkin becomes drawn into a murder mystery case concerning a colleague, and soldier’s soldier, who was a fellow member of his private club.
Where: LAPL – Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 10:30 am – 12 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-5
Good Trouble Reading Group & Afghan Women’s Poetry via Edendale Branch Library, LAPL– Online via Zoom
Join our Good Trouble Reading Group, led by Dr. Andrea Liss, to discuss a selection of poetry by Afghan women poets from anthologies available through the library.
Readings include selections from the anthology, Load Pens Like Guns: Women’s Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan, by Farzana Marie, who is also a poet, writer, translator and artist. She is also the author of a poetry chapbook, Letters to War and Lethe (2014); and a nonfiction book, Hearts for Sale! A Buyer’s Guide to Winning in Afghanistan (2013). The author a U.S. Air Force veteran and served as a civilian volunteer in Kabul.
The Good Trouble Reading Group shares books that engage themes of social justice with love and family at their core. Dr. Andrea Liss, an Echo Park resident, is Professor Emerita of Visual Culture and Cultural Theory at California State University at San Marcos. Her teaching and research focus on feminist visual culture and writing, visual art and photography related to historical events and representations of social justice particularly through the work of African American women.
Where: LAPL – Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/good-trouble-reading-group-afghan-womens-poetry
Tony DuShane & Tell Your Story…Workshop via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event
This free workshop is presented by UCLA instructor Tony DuShane, author of the novel Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, now a major motion picture from director Eric Stoltz.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: LA Public Library – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Where: LAPL Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/creative-writing-workshop-tony-dushane-2
Matt Sedillo & The Three Act Poem Writers Workshop at Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-person Event
Please join our Poet-in Residence, author and Chicano political poet Matt Sedillo, to participate in his Writers Workshop: The Three Act Political Poem.
Matt Sedillo is the author of Mowing Leaves of Grass, and is a Chicano political activist and speaker who has performed at colleges and universities nationally and world-wide. This workshop has been taught in many educational venues.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: Re/Arte centro literario – In-person Event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Where: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Peggy Dobreer’s Release Reading of Slow Lighting via Zoom Online Event – Online Event
Please join poet and author Peggy Dobreer to hear her release reading of Slow Lighting: Impractical Poetry.
Peggy Dobreer is a Los Angeles poet and writing mentor and the author of three collections of poetry. She is a Community of Writers facilitator, assisting Janet Fitch, and a member of Beyond Baroque and the Long Now Foundation. These poems emerged from the author’s daily guided meditations and integrated writing prompts at the height of the Pandemic.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details. RSVP for Zoom link at: ADHOCINK@YAHOO.com
Where: RSVP for link – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Where: Zoom Online Event
Website: https://www.peggydobreer.com/
Life of JEM Podcast and Book Launch via Life of JEM, LAPL– Online Event
Join a Life of JEM live video podcast which will air a special book launch episode!
JEM will read live from her latest book, Tales on an Inland Empire Girl, and there will be a giveaway. Buy her book on the Los Nietos Press website or on Amazon, and at B&N and all local/national retailers.
Where: Life of JEM – Online (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1344905722647366/
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 12th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wednesday-night-poetry-workshop-tickets-235565842777
Poetry Reading & 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.
The format is to welcome a featured poet for a reading, and also have an Open Mic reading.
Details TBA.
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 12th
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)
LA Made: All Night Menu Book Series with Sam Sweet via LAPL – Online Event
Join LA Made’s All Night Menu, a book series created by writer and historian Sam Sweet, to explore the lost corners and forgotten histories of Los Angeles. Sam will draw from his vast archive of audio-visual artifacts to unite unseen, unheard, and unexpected aspects of Los Angeles culture.
Participants will have an opportunity to win a free issue of All Night Menu.
NOTE: See site for YouTube & FB links and event details.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library – YouTube & FB online
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL- Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/all-night-menu
CA Youth Poet Laureate Series: F. Douglas Brown & Tongo Eisen-Martin via Urban Word & Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom Event
Join Urban Word & Beyond Baroque for the 2nd installment of the California Youth Poet Laureate Series. Join us for a workshop, performance, and talk back with California poets F. Douglas Brown and Tongo Eisen-Martin (SF Poet Laureate).
This virtual event is open to the public and all CA youth poets (13-19 years old) who have participated in a local Youth Poet Laureate program. CA organizational leaders are also welcome to attend.
F. Douglas Brown is the author of two poetry collections, ICON (2018) and Zero to Three (2014), and co-authored with poet Geoffrey Davis, Begotten (2016), a chapbook as part of the Floodgate Poetry Series. He has been an educator for over 20 years, and 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.
Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of Someone’s Dead Already (2015), Heaven Is All Goodbyes (2017), which received the California Book Award and an American Book Award, and Blood on the Fog (2021). A poet, movement worker, and educator, his latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Change Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. Currently, he is San Francisco’s eighth Poet Laureate.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Urban Word & Beyond Baroque – Zoom online
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Beyond Baroque – online event
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ca-youth-poet-laureate-series-f-douglas-brown-tongo-eisen-martin-tickets-238750879307
SHOUT! Open Mic Poetry Night at Half Off Books – On-site Event
The SHOUT! Open Mic is back to being an in-person event, and is offered every 2nd Thursday of the Month at half Off Books in Fullerton.
Please join us to celebrate community and diverse voices in front of a live audience.
Sign-ups for the Open Mic go up no later than 6:30 pm and close at the start of the readings.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and event details.
Where: Half Off Books
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 141 W. Wilshire Ave., Ste. A, Fullerton, CA 92832
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/368980975002428/
Jim Miller, with Matt Belloni, & Tinderbox Book Talk at Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site Event
Author and award-winning journalist Jim Miller, in conversation with Matt Belloni, will discuss his book Tinderbox, which tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to transform our relationship with television.
Over the course of 750 interviews with key sources Miller reveals how fraught HBO’s journey has been, capturing the drama and the comedy off-camera and in the boardrooms as HBO created and mobilized a daring new content universe and reshaped storytelling and the entertainment industry.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, & event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site Event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 North Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/january-13-jim-miller
Your Author Series: Jennifer E. Smith & Leo Espinosa via Los Angeles Public Library – Online Kids Event
Join LAPL’s Your Author Series to hear author Jennifer E. Smith and illustrator Leo Espinosa present their new children’s book, The Creature of Habit. Jennifer is the author of nine books for young adults, two of which have recently been adapted for film. Leo is an award-winning illustrator and designer from Bogota, Colombia, whose work has been featured internationally in a variety of publications, products, animated series and gallery shows.
Participants will have an opportunity to win a free book.
NOTE: See site for links and event details.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library – Online YouTube & FB event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL- Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-jennifer-e-smith-and-leo-espinosa
Joshua Senter Meet & Greet & Still the Night Call at Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site Event
Author Joshua Senter will sign and take questions on his book, Still the Night Call, which follows his debut novel, Daisies (Division Books, 2014).
This story is about Calem Honeycutt, a 32-year-old Missouri dairy farmer of few words, but an eloquent voice. It delves into the quickly diminishing world of Midwestern farmers whose livelihoods have become fodder for politicians and trade wars while their traditional values have become the subject of scorn and culture wars. And they are now looking for hope anywhere they might find it.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, & event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site Event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 133 North Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Noah Hawley & Anthem at Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Author, director and producer Noah Hawley will present and discuss new epic literary thriller, Anthem: A Novel, about a band of unlikely heroes whose quest to save one innocent life might end up saving us all.
In this new novel, something is happening to teenagers across America, spreading through memes only they can parse. This story is an adventure that finds unquenchable lights in dark corners, with wild characters and a plot as fast and bright as pop cinema, in a Vonnegutian story that is as timeless as a Grimm’s fairy tale.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/noah-hawley-discusses-anthem-0
Vroman’s Live: Emily Levesque & The Last Stargazers– Online Crowdcast Event
Join us live online to hear author and award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque present and discuss her book The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers.
In this book the author shares the stories of modern-day stargazers in this new nonfiction release, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science. It’s a love letter to astronomy and a tribute to the crucial role humans can and must play in the future of scientific discovery.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s (see site)
LibroMobile 4th Anniversary Literary Arts Festival at Heritage Museum of Orange County – Off-site Event
Join the 4th Anniversary Event of LibroMobile’s Literary Arts Festival, to be held at the Heritage Museum of Orange County in Santa Ana.
Festivities include: Modesta Avila Award, Literary Readings & Workshops, Art Vendors, Musica y Mas!
All events are FREE and open to the public!
Schedule of events:
HMOC Doors Open: 12 pm – 8 pm
All Day: DJ Nickyboi
2:00 pm: Opening Performance: Drag Queen Storytime with Elektra LaKill
3:30 pm: OC Prose Writers: Andrew Tonkovich, Sarah Mosqueda, Brian Lin & Carribean Fagoza
Andrew Tonkovich, longtime editor of the West Coast literary journal Santa Monica Review, has published his fiction, essays, and reviews in the Los Angeles Books, OCWeekly, Ecotone, Fautline, Juked, ZYZZYVA and Best American Nonrequired Reading. With Lisa Alvarez he edited Orange County: A Literary Field Guide, and is the author of the fiction collections The Dairy of Anne Frank and More Wish Fulfillment in the Noughties and Keeping Tahoe Blue and Other Provocations. He is the founding editor of the Community of Writers’ online journal The OG Quarterly
Sarah Mosqueda is a features writer for TimesOC, Los Angeles Times, and her work has appeared numerous other Southern California publications.
Brian Lin is a writer teacher, editor and PhD candidate at USC. He has published in Hyphen Magazine, Lambda Literary, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Brian is fiction editor of Apogee Journal and is working on his first books of prose.
Carribean Fagoza is a passionate writer, journalist, and artist from South El Monte, who has been published in The Aperture, Bomb Magazine, LA Weekly, KCET, Culture Strike, LARB, and Tropics of Meta, among others. She is co-editor of the anthology East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, Mapping Community Narratives, andauthor of the collection, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You.
4:30 pm: Performance by Josie Wreck
5:30 pm: San Tana Poets y Mas:Tina Mai Chuc – OC Youth Poet Laureate, Juan Cardenas, Ellen Webre, J. Martin Strangeweather with S.A.L.A., Gina Duran & Natalie J. Graham – OC Poet Laureate
Tina Mai Chuc – OC Youth Poet Laureate.
Juan Cardenas, Chicano Beat Poet, flutist, and teaching artist, is associate director of L.A. Poet Society, and the author of the debut poetry collection, The Beat of an Immigrant Chicano.
Ellen Webre is a poet and social media specialist for Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and Moon tide Press. She has most recently been published in Moon Tide Press’ ShIt Men Say to me anthology, DARK IN: A Horror Anthology and Voicemail Poems.
J. Martin Strangeweather is the Chief Executive Prognosticator & Oneiric Director of Thaumatturgic Research for S.A.L.A., and is also a poet, painter, and teller of tall tales.
Gina Duran is the poetry collection poet, queer artist, and author of the poetry collection, And So the Wind Was Born.
Natalie J. Graham – OC Poet Laureate is currently chair of African American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, and first OC Poet laureate. She is an author and performer who has toured with her collection of poems Begin With a Failed Body, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
6 pm: Modesta Avila Award y Keynote Speaker Dwayne “BH” Shipp with Orange County Heritage Council
6:30 – 7:30 pm: Lover Sonicos with Moises Vazquez (formerly Conjunto Calle Cuatro)
We’re excited to announce a NEW VENUE & Community Partner — Heritage Museum of OC!
We will also be sharing the opening of our New & Bigger bookstore location in Santa Ana & OC Black History Parade exhibition at Crear Studio.
Where: LibroMobile at Heritage Museum of Orange County (HMOC)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 12 pm – 8 pm
Address: 3101 W. Harvard St., Santa Ana, CA 92704
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/events or https://www.facebook.com/events/4631447790284572/
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 15th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Afternoon Poetry with Reynaldo Macias at My Place Café – On-site Event
Join us for an Afternoon Poetry event to hear poet and teacher Reynaldo Macias present and discuss his work. He has been featured at readings across Southern California, and is also a portrait and event photographer.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: My Place Café – On-site Event
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Unit #10, Pasadena, CA 01104
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/628529638269514/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Open Mic, hosted by COCO – Online Event
Join us for Saturday Afternoon Poetry Readings & Open Mic, to hear features:
Jenn Koiter, Carla Sameth, and Megha Sood.
Jenn Koiter is the author of So Much of Everything, a debut collection by 2021 OC Poet Project.
Carla Sameth is the author of What Is Left, from dancing girl press & studio.
Megha Sood is the author of the collection, My Body Is Not an Apology.
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 15th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Pam Ward Book Release Party & Between Good Men & No Man AT ALL at World Stage Press – In-Person Event
Join us for a book release celebration of author and poet Pam Ward’s new collection. Between Good Men & No Man AT ALL.
Pam Ward is a Los Angeles native, and author of the novel Bad Girls Burn Slow, and her work can be found in Best American Erotica 2002, Men We Cherish, and poetry in Catch the Fire! She has performed in dinner theatre, summer stock, on Broadway, as well as in commercials, radio, and film. She received the prestigious Alexander Scourby Award for her work reading to the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress Talking Books program.
NOTE: See website to pre-order book and for further details.
Where: World Stage Press – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 3 pm – 5pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/987690208486911/
Open Words Open Mic at Ironbark Ciderworks – In-Person Event
Join us for our monthly Open Words Open Mic Poetry Reading.
Come early and sign up to read your poetry or other creative work or just come and listen.
Admission is free (drink purchase encourage though not required)
Everyone is welcome
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Ironbark Ciderworks – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 16th
Time: 3 pm – 5pm
Address: 1420 N. Claremont Blvd., Suite 107B, Claremont, CA
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