Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
King Day 2022 Celebration for Kids, Teens & Families at California African American Museum LA (CAAM) – On-site Event
Welcome back to CAAM to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day In person!
Our schedule for the day includes:
11:00 am -12:00 pm: King Study Group
Participate in this community reading and discussion about King’s1967 speech, “A Christmas Sermon on Peace.”
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Family Story Time
Librarians from the LA Public Library read beloved books about King and change including; Be a King: Dr Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You by Carole Boston Weatherfield and Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman, plus lead a fun family activity!
2:00 pm: Musical Performance by ICYOLA
Members of the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA) perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and a medley of classic spirituals and original compositions.
Drop in to enjoy open galleries and special programs offered throughout the day.
NOTE: See Site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: CAAM – On-site Event
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 11 am – 5 pm
Address: 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA 90037
Website: https://caamuseum.org/programs/kids-teens-and-families/king-day-2022
Jonathan Evison & Benjamin Percy Book Presentations via Book Soup & The Book Catapult – Online Event
Join authors Jonathan Evison and Benjamin Percy as they present and discuss their new novels: Small World and The Unfamiliar Garden, respectively.
Jonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against iconic backdrops like the California Gold Rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it’s a grand entertainment that asks big questions.
Benjamin Percy’s The Unfamiliar Garden is the second novel in his grippingly original sci-fi series, The Comet Cycle, in which a passing comet causes irreversible change to the growth of fungi, spawning a dangerous, invasive species in the Pacific Northwest that threatens to control the lives of humans and animal alike.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Book Soup & Book Catapult – Online event
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/book-soup-jonathan-evison
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 17th
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-243778868157
Dana Schwartz & Anatomy: A Love Story via Book Soup – Online Event
Join author, journalist, and Noble Blood podcast host Dana Schwartz to hear her discuss her new novel: Anatomy: A Love Story.
Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currier is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. After a chance encounter, Hazel thinks nothing of it at first. But when she gets kicked out of medical lectures for being the wrong gender, she realizes her new acquaintance might be helpful.
Without corpses to study, she can’t pass the medical exam on her own. But when she tries to enlist Jack’s help, he has his own problems: strange men have been skulking around cemeteries as his friends are disappearing off the streets, and the dreaded Roman fever is back with a vengeance. Now they must work together to uncover the secrets of Edinburgh society.
NOTE; See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/dana-schwartz-discusses-anatomy-love-story
Vroman’s Live: Barbara F. Walter, with Ben Rhodes, & How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them – Online Event
Join us live online to hear author Barbara F. Walter, in conversation with Ben Rhodes, present and discuss her book How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them.
In this book the author explores how extraordinary political violence in Texas, Michigan, and other U.S. locations resemble civil conflicts she has studied in places like Iraq and Sri Lank. As she becomes more worried about her own country, she notes that both autocracies and democracies are largely immune to civil war, while the countries in the middle ground are more vulnerable. And this is where more and more countries, including the U.S., are finding themselves today. Crucial risk factors include backsliding and factionalization, and the politics of resentment. A civil war today would begin with sporadic acts of violence and terror, accelerated by social media, and later leave us wondering how we could have been so blind.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s – See Site
Daphne Palasi Andreades, with Mina Seckin, & Brown Girls: A Novel via Skylight Bookstore- Online Event
Join us to hear author Daphne Palasi Andreades, in conversation with writer Mina Seckin (Apogee Journal. The Four Humors), present and discuss her new novel, Brown Girls.
In Brown Girls: A Novel , set in Queens, the streets echo with languages form all over the world, subways rumble above dollar stores, trees bloom and topple over sidewalks, and the funky smell of the ocean wafts in from Rockaway Beach. Yong women of color and countless others try to reconcile their immigrant backgrounds with American culture, and vow to be friends for life. But as they age, rifts form, and some remain local while others seem at odds with their humble beginnings.
Still, in this debut novel, it is to one another — and to Queens — that the girls ultimately return.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Skylight – Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-daphne-palasi-andreades-conversation-mina-seckin
In Conversation: Margo Jefferson and Allyson Hobbs via California African American Museum (CAAM) – Online Event
Join us to hear Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland: A Memoir, in conversation with Allyson Hobbs, Associate Professor of U.S. History and Director of African and African American Studies at Stanford University, when they examine the creation of the Black middle and upper classes, social cubs, feminism, and the ways these themes play a role in CAAM’s exhibition Rights and Rituals: The Making Of African American Debutante Culture.
Jefferson is the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism and previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and The New York Times. In this book she maps the complexities of a life informed by her rarefied upbringing and education among a Black elite.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: CAAM – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 7 pm- 8:30 pm
Address: CAAM – Online event (see site)
Website: https://caamuseum.org/programs/talks-and-workshops/in-conversation-margo-jefferson-and-allyson-hobbs
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Laurel Blossom – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Laurel Blossom.
Laurel Blossom is a poet and author most recently of the chapbook Un-, from Finishing LIne Press, and a book length narrative prose poem The Longevity of Bone, the second in a projected trilogy of long poems. The first was Degrees of Latitude. She lives in Los Angeles.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Da Poetry Lounge Tuesday Open Mic via Da Poetry Lounge – IG Online
Open Mic Tuesdays at Da Poetry Lounge are back! Catch us live on IG for our first Open Mic of the season and hear updates about the 2022 season.
Where: DA Poetry Lounge – IG Online
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYvULkirZCx/
Coffee Time Book Club Discussion & Still Life at Pages Bookstore – On-site Event
Join our monthly Coffee Time Book Club meeting, when we discuss literary fiction, led by facilitator Linda Mcloughlin Figel.
This month’s selection is Still Life, by author Sarah Winman.
This story is set in Tuscany in 1944, where a young English soldier encounters an art historian trying to salvage paintings from the ruins. They find a kindred spirit in each other and set off on a memorable course of events. This is a rich story of people brought together by love, art, flood and the ghost of E.M. Forster, by the author of Tin Man.
Where: Pages Bookstore (RSVP at link at site)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-2
Adult Book Club Discussion & The Four Winds via Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL– Online via Zoom
Join our monthly Book Club meeting, when we will discuss the novel The Four Winds, by author Kristen Hannah.
This story is set in Texas in 1934 and is an epic novel of love and heroism and hope set against the era of the Great Depression. When the dust bowl era arrives with a vengeance, Elsa Martinelli – like her neighbors — must decide whether to fight for the land she loves or go west, to California. Her courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.
Where: LAPL – Online (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 1:30 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-discussion-four-winds
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 19th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Where: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Gwen Kirby, with Liv Stratman, & Shit Cassandra Saw via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Gwen Kirby, in conversation with writer Liv Stratman (Cheat Day), present and discuss her collection of stories, Shit Cassandra Saw.
In these warm, funny, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today, the author experiments with found structures, and shows how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. These women refuse to be secondary characters, and emerge as strong protagonists, when telling stories of triumph, or sharing their pain.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Skylight – Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-gwen-kirby-conversation-liv-stratman
ALOUD Reading Series: Andrea Elliott & Invisible Child via LFLA – Online Event
Please join ALOUD to welcome Pulitzer-Prize winning author Andrea Elliott, in conversation with Dr. Robin J. Hayes, to hear here discuss her book, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City.
This book follows eight dramatic years in the life of a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. Dasani was named after the bottled water that signaled Brooklyn’s gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani comes of age, the homeless crisis in New York City has exploded and she must guide her siblings through encounters with hunger, violence, drug addiction, homelessness, and the monitoring of child protective services. When she finally escapes city life to a boarding school, she faces an impossible choice between staying to help her family or moving away for a chance at a better future.
NOTE: See site for online link, tickets, and event details.
Where: ALOUD & LFLA – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm
Where: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lfla.org/event/invisible-child-poverty-survival-hope-in-an-american-city/
Lalo Alcarez & “Fighting Covid with Cartoons” via LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Online FB & Zoom Event
Please join author Lalo Alcarez, an award-winning cartoonist and principal artist of CovidLatino.org, to hear him discuss his work and the subject of “Fighting Covid with Cartoons.” Lalo Alcarez is thecreator of “La Cucaracha” comic strip, which is carried in the Los Angeles Times, among his other endeavors.
NOTE: See site for Zoom and FB link
Where: LA Plaza de Culture y Artes – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 7 pm
Where: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3141899662709224
Jean Chen Ho, with Jade Chang, & Fiona and Jane at Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Please join author Jean Chen Ho, in conversation with Jade Chang (The Wangs vs. The World), to discuss her novel, Fiona and Jane.
This witty, warm, unsentimental, and irreverent story traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades. Best friends since second grade, when ambitious Fiona moves to New York, jane remains in California and grieves her estranged father’s sudden death. Told in alternating voices, and strained by distance and unintended betrayals, the women float in and out of each other’s lives, their friendship both a beacon of home and a reminder of all they’ve lost.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Where: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-jean-chen-ho-presents-fiona-and-jane-jade-chang
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 Pam Ward.
Pam Ward is the author most recently of Between Good Men and No Man at All (World Stage Press, 2022). Author of two novels, Want Some Get Some, and Bad Girls Burn Slow, she is a California Arts Council Fellow, Pushcart nominee, and Art Center instructor/designer. Her poetry has been published in Calyx, Chiron, The Santa Monica Review, Voices of Leimert Park, and The Los Angeles Times. Pam’s writing sings of her beloved city in prismatic color.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
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-240261086377
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. Since feature Stacy Dyson had to cancel her in-person appearance, there will be just an Open Reading tonight.
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 19th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/318728270254760
Nick Bruel & Bad Kitty Gets a Phone via Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
Join beloved children’s author Nick Bruel for a special school talk about his newest book, Bad Kitty Gets a Phone.
This is a school event but the public is invited with the purchase of any Nick Bruel–Bad Kitty books from Children’s Book World at site. Other schools are also invited to apply to participate via link at site.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and event details.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 10 am – 10:45 am
Address: Children’s Book World – online (see site)
LA Made: Writer Hector Tobar in Conversation with Journalist Alex Cohen via LAPL – Online Event
Join LA Made’s event series to hear award-winning author and writer Hector Tobar in conversation with journalist Alex Cohen as they discuss Tobar’s latest novel, The Last Great Road Bum.
In this novel, Hector Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a native son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting guerillas in El Salvador, into the great American novel for our times.
Participants will have an opportunity to win a free issue of The Last Great Road Bum.
NOTE: See site for YouTube & FB links and event details.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library – YouTube & FB online
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/writer-hector-tobar-conversation-journalist-alex-cohen
Mike Hipple, with Rob Zabrecky, & Lived Through That: 90s Musicians Today via Book Soup – Online Event
Join author and photographer Mike Hipple, in conversation with Rob Zabrecky, as they discuss his book, Lived Through That: 90s Musicians Today.
The music of the 1990s was the music Generation X came of age listening to and the songs Millennials cut their teeth on. In this book photographer and music enthusiast Mike Hipple shares unique photographic portraits of dozens of the artists from the ‘90s, accompanied by in-depth interviews throughout. This collection reveals details of each musician’s time in the limelight as well as where life has taken them.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event (see site)
Vroman’s Live: Mike Sielski, with John Gonzales, & The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality – Online Event
Join us live online to hear author Mike Seilski, in conversation with John Gonzales, present and discuss his book The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality.
In this book the author hopes to provide an insight into Kobe Bryant that no other analysis has. In researching and writing The Rise, Mike Sielski had a terrific advantage over other writers who have attempted to chronicle Kobe’s life: access to a series of never-before-released interviews with him during his senior season and early days in the NBA. For a quarter century, these tapes and transcripts preserved Kobe’s thoughts, dreams, and goals from his teenage years, and they contained insights into and told stories about him that have never been revealed before. This book is an exploration of identity and making of an icon, and the effect of his early development on the man.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s – See Site
PEN America’s Annual New Year New Books Party via Skylight Bookstore – Off-site Outdoors Event at Second Home Hollywood
Join us to ring in the new year among fellow PEN America members and supporters at the annual New Year New Books Party, with our literary host committee of KK Wooten, Randa Jarrar, and Jade Chang.
KK Wootenv has taught writing at USC and at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies. Wootton has published short fiction in the Grove Press anthology They’re at It Again and creative nonfiction in the Houghton Mifflin collection, Personals. In his column “On Language,” William Safire attributed to her the first media appearance of the phrase “get a life.”
Randa Jarrar is the author of the memoir Love Is an Ex-Country, the novel A Map of Home, and the collection of stories Him, Me, Muhammad Ali. She is also a performer who has appeared in independent films and in the TV show Ramy. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon, Bitch, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award and an American Book Award, as well as awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, PEN America, and others. She lives in Los Angeles.
Jade Chang is the author of The Wangs vs. the World, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The Wangs has been named a New York Times Editors’ Choice as well as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Buzzfeed, ELLE, and NPR, and was honored with the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. The novel will be published in 12 countries. According to NPR, “Her book is unrelentingly fun, but it is also raw and profane—a story of fierce pride, fierce anger, and even fiercer love.” Photo Credit: Emma McIntyre
NOTE: See site for registration, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Off-site event outdoors at Second Home Hollywood
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: 1370 N. St. Andrew’s Place, Los Angeles, CA 90028
At Skylight: Jessamine Chan, with Alissa Nutting, & School for Good Mothers via Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Please join us to hear author Jessamine Chan, in conversation with Alissa Nutting, present and discuss her taut and explosive debut novel, The School for Good Mothers.
In this story, Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough.
But one lapse in judgement lands this young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Kids’ 2nd & 3rd Grade Book Club & Once Upon a Camel at Pages Bookstore – Kids Event
Join us for Pages Bookstore’s first meeting of a 1st & 2nd Grade Kids Book Club.
Our first selection for reading and discussion will be Once Upon a Camel, by prize-winning author Kathi Appelt and prize-winning illustrator Eric Rohmann.
This story is about an old camel out to save two baby kestral chicks during a massive storm in the Texas desert, and is filled with over a dozen illustrations.
NOTE: See site for links and event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Friday the 21st
Time: 4 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/2nd-and-3rd-grade-book-club
Vroman’s Live: Dale Maharidge, with Tom Zoellner, & Burn Coast – Online Crowdcast Event
Join us live online to hear author Dale Mahridge, in conversation with author Tom Zoellner, present and discuss his novel, Burn Coast.
In this story, a burned out journalist arrives in a rural location to build a wilderness cabin for himself in the 90s, after spending a decade is a war correspondent. The community subsists mainly on illegal marijuana farming, and the home of the revered matriarch of the original settlers, whose adult son happens to be one of the largest growers in the region. So when she goes missing from their home, the industry’s competing forces can no longer be ignored.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Friday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/dale-maharidge-tom-zoellner-burn-coast
Edule & “Reflections and Views Through Song” via LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Online Event
Artist, musician, songwriter, composer and poet Eddika Edule Organista Moctezuma will sign and perform her work in three languages, which expresses her reflections of life, feelings, and views of her surroundings and experiences through song.
Born in Boyle Heights and of Mexican descent, Edule goes by her middle name (Edule) when she performs solo. She has also fronted the LA based groups El Haru Kuroi and Yanga.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Online Event
Date: Friday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/302570305253735
Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Reading Series: Brendon Constantine & Peggy Dobreer, with host Elena Secota, via Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Join Third Fridays at Rapp Saloon Open Mic & Featured Readers, offered every 3rd Friday of the month by host Elena Secota.
Our featured guest poets and artists this month:
Brendon Constantine is the author most recently of Bouncy Bounce and Dementia, My Darling.
Peggy Dobreer is the author most recently of the collection, Forbidden Plums.
Share your voice at the Open Mic, where there is a time limit of 4 minutes max. Sign-ups are at 8:15 pm. Zoom ID posted 3 hours prior to event.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Date: Friday the 21st
Time: 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://m.facebook.com/events/rapp-saloon-reading-series/rapp-saloon-reading-series-third-fridays-open-mic or https://www.peggydobreer.com/upcoming-events
TREEHOUSE & LAPL Present: Sophie Burrows & Crushing via Skylight Bookstore – Online YA Event
Join us in the Skylight Treehouse and the LA Public Library virtually for the launch of Sophie Burrows’ new YA graphic novel CRUSHING!
This event is presented in partnership with Punk rock Marthas.
CRUSHING, the stunning debut graphic novel from Sophie Burrows is a story told in silence; a story without words, but bursting with meaning; a story about loneliness and love. It explores the human condition through young lives lived in an age of isolation, and is full of wit and wisdom.
Where: LAPL & Skylight Bookstore – Online YA Event
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 11 am
Address: Skylight & LAPL – Online Event
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 22nd
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Author Hour with Sarah Rafael Garcia at Santa Ana Public Library
Join us as we kick off our Author Hour Series with award-winning Chicana author, artist, and local bookstore owner, Sarah Rafael Garcia. Sarah will feature some readings from her books, Las Niñas and San Tana’s Fairy Tales. The readings will be followed by a Q & A segment, and a book signing. Sarah also successfully founded two other successful projects in the Santa Ana community Barrio Writers and LibroMobile. Come listen to how these two projects were founded and the importance they bring to the community.
See site to RSVP
Where: Santa Ana Public Library
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 26 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Afternoon Prose with Cecilia Caballero at My Place Café – Online Event
Join us for an Afternoon Prose Reading event to hear mother, poet, essayist, speaker, poetry workshop facilitator, and co-editor of The Chicana Motherwork Anthology, Cecilia Caballero, present and discuss her work. She is based in Boyle Heights and is currently working on her first book of creative nonfiction/memoir
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: My Place Café – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Unit #10, Pasadena, CA 01104
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3178747092346588/
TREEHOUSE & LAPL Present: Sophie Burrows & Crushing via Skylight Bookstore – In-person Signing Event
Join us in the Skylight Books for an in-store signing of Joshua Melville’s new book, American Time Bomb.
American Time Bomb: Attica, Sam Melville, and a Son’s Search for Answers is one of five books by Joshua Melville, whose titles have become recommended reading in over fifty music business programs, including those at UCLA, Loyola, NYU, Harvard, and Loyola Law Schools. September 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the Attica Uprising, are more central to our history of racially based incarceration and violent social activism than the life of Sam Melville, one of the most reviled and admired and feared radicals in post-World War II history.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Signing Event (See Site for guidelines).
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 2 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/store-signing-joshua-melville-signs-american-time-bomb
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Print & Internet Publishing Workshop with J. Martin Strangeweather – Online Event
Join us for Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Poetry Publishing Workshop led by J. Martin Strangeweather, and a celebration of Latinx Poets featuring:
Virginia Bulacio is a bilingual Latina Photojournalist, poet, and journalist whose work highlights immigrant communities and their experiences and struggles.
Adrian Ernesto Cepeda is the author of speaking con su sombra (2021), la belle ajar (2020), a collection inspired by Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel, and between the spine, a collection of love poems.
Jean Pierre Rueda is an Angeleno author who explores Los Angeles through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He is the author of Herencias, a collection in Spanish.
Where: Online at Zoom ID: 759 9367 3202 (no spaces required); Password: poetry
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Pages on Stages: Be Heard & Be Healed via Simms Library of Poetry – Online Event
Organized by the CSULA chapter of CLI, we invite you to this virtual Pages on Stages event with an open mic!
All are welcome to attend and participate. Come be heard & healed by poetry! ZOOM ID: 82934835718
Where: Online at Zoom ID: 82934835718
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 3 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/event-details/pages-on-stages-be-heard-be-healed
Meet & Greet Book Signing with Alva Sachs & The Pirate Princess via Flintridge Bookstore – On-site Kids Event
Join us at Flintridge Books for a Meet & Greet event with author Alva Sachs for the presentation of her picture book, The Princess Pirate.
This book is a story about what happens on a rainy day when it is turned into an exciting adventure by Madison and her friends Jonah, Sophia, Jackson, and Hannah. They take an amazing journey on the high seas and follow a map in search of buried treasure.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – Kids Event
Date: Sunday the 22nd
Time: 11 am
Address: 858 Foothill Blvd., La Canada Flintridge, Ca 91011
Website: https://www.flintridgebooks.com/instore-events/2022/1/22/childrens-book-author-alva-sachs
Sunday Workshop: Christian Perfas at The Poetry Lab – Online event
The Poetry Lab Sunday Series welcomes poet Christian Perfas to lead a one-time workshop.
There is no minimum writing experience necessary to take this workshop. All people of all backgrounds are welcome.
Christian Perfas (or “Soul Stuf”) is a second generation Filipino-American spoken word poet whose writing revolves around the Song, Truth Universal, and Flow of his own wandering spirit (or “soul”) ~ that’s also where his poetry moniker comes from: STUF, S-T-U-F, is an acronym that stands for those three principles of his work.
NOTE: See site for registration, Zoom guidelines and details.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online Zoom Event
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Address: Zoom Online (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/2022/christian-perfas
Dr. Nina L. Shapiro & Ultimate Kids Guide to Being Super Healthy: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep, Hygiene, Stress, Screen Time, and More via Diesel Bookstore – On-sitt Event
Join us at Diesel Bookstore to hear author Dr. Nina Shapiro discuss her book, Ultimate Kids’ Guide to Being Super Healthy.
This book has a knack for tuning evidence-based scientific research into “plain English” for parents and the general public, and to help readers distinguish genuine heath concerns from the ubiquitous “fake news” in our society today..
Where: Diesel Bookstore – On-site Event
Date: Sunday the 22nd
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, Ca 99402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/super-healthy
Fourth Sundays Poetry: Adam O. Davis & John Brantingham at Claremont Library – Online Event
Join us for the Claremont Library’s Fourth Sundays Poetry Reading event, featuring:
Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses (2020), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and finalist for the Big Other Poetry Award. His work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies. He lives in San Diego, where he teaches English literature at The Bishop’s School.
John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first Poet Laureate. His work has been widely published and his books of poetry and fiction include his most recent book, Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He teaches at Mount San Antonio College.
NOTE: See website for link and further details.
Where: Claremont Library – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 22nd
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Claremont Library (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/656889175308695
Beatnik Café Poetry Night & Open Mic at Hey Hey – On-site Event
Join us for Beatnik Café Poetry Night event, with Hanna Pachman, and featuring:
James Coats is a poet and writer, speaker, and the author of two collections of poetry, self-published, and available on Amazon: If I had Lived (2018) and All the Ways You Are Wonderful (2020).
NOTE: See website for location, guidelines, full schedule, and further details.
Where: Beatnik Cafe – On-site Event
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 1555 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026
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