Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Vroman’s Live Event: Local Author Day via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join Vroman’s Live Local Author Day, featuring three authors and their new work.
Barbara Mossberg is the author of the book, Here for the Present. In this exuberant record of the author engaging audiences from California to Finland, you will find poems, stories, memoir, humor, elegies, celebrations, travel narratives, rollicking speeches, nature rapture, literary tributes, cooking instructions, and love songs, among other riches. In her company, experience moments “when the Universe will reveal itself … as something generous and good, some whiff of passing grace.”
Felicia Taylor E. is the author of Southern Spiced: A Brown Girl’s Tale, which weaves stories through narrative poetry of the author’s memories of her childhood in the 1970’s South. She writes of stories of self-identity in an honest and often humorous way.
Robert Vincent is the author of the children’s book, From the Pocket of an Overcoat. It tells the true story of his son’s black cat named Max, who was rescued by a homeless woman in Dallas. A portion of books sales will be donated to organizations that promote animal rescue and adoption.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online event
Date: Monday the 28th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s – Online Event (see site)
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online Event
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 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 28th
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-275015066467
At Store Meet & Greet: Kelly Yang Book Launch: New From Here at Children’s Book World – In-person Event
Join children’s author Kelly Yang to celebrate the release of her new children’s book, New From Here. This isa middle grade novel about courage and resilience as an Asian American boy fights to keep his family together and stand up to the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
The author will be signing CBW purchased copies of her newest book, New From Here.
NOTE; See site for guidelines and event details.
Where: Children’s Book World – In-person event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Tiffany Drayton, with Stephanie Land, & Black American Refugee via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear journalist and author Tiffany Drayton, in conversation with Stephanie Land, discuss her new book, Black American Refugee. In this book the author tells the story of her early ‘90s migration from Trinidad and Tobago with her siblings to join their mother in New York City. Chasing stability they were constantly uprooted, from Texas to Florida to New Jersey, and she began to question the binary Black and white American world, and why they were so obviously unbalanced. After returning to Tobago to enjoy a simpler, safer life. Now, as an outsider, she grieves and rages for Black Americans in a way she couldn’t when she was one.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, link, and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/tiffanie-drayton
Rebecca Serle, with Jessica Knoll, & One Italian Summer at Diesel Bookstore – In-person Event
Join us to hear Rebecca Serle, in conversation with editor Jessica Knoll, discuss her new book, One Italian Summer.
This novel is about a woman whose mother and best friend dies just before their planned trip to the Amalfi Coast. She goes on the trip alone, but immediately feels her mother’s spirit there with her there, and somehow “gets her back” and proceeds to learn so much more about her as a complete and complex person.
NOTE: See site or RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – In-person Courtyard event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/one-italian-summer
Namrata Podder, with Aline Ohanesain, & Border Less via Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-person Event
Join us to hear author Namrata Podder, in conversation with author Aline Ohanesian, (Orhan’s Inheritance), discuss her new book, Border Less.
In this story, Dia Mittal is an airline call center agent in Mumbai searching for an easier life. As her search takes her to the United States, Dia’s checkered relationship with the American Dream dialogues with the experiences and perspectives of a global South Asian community across the class spectrum–call center agents, travel agents, immigrant maids, fashion designers, blue- and white-collar workers in the hospitality industry, junior and senior artists in Bollywood, hustling single mothers, academics, tourists in the Third World, refugees displaced by military superpowers, Marwari merchants and trade caravans of the Silk Road, among others. What connects the novel’s web of brown border-crossing characters is their quest for belonging and negotiation of power struggles, mediated by race, class, gender, nationality, age, or place. With its fragmented form, staccato rhythm, repetition, and play with English language, Border Less questions the “mainstream” Western novel and its assumptions of good storytelling.
NOTE: See site for book purchase and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-person event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/march-1-namrata-poddar
At Skylight: Leslie Kirk Campbell, with Elena Karina Byrne, & The Man With Eight Pairs of Legs via Skylight Bookstore – In-person Event
Join author Leslie Kirk Campbell, in conversation with Elena Karina Byrne, to hear her discuss her book, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs.
The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally – scars, tracks, tattoos – and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, this collection of short stories is a study in compassion and in passion, a must-read for our times.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – In-person event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Stephen White, Jonathan Spaulding & Suzanne Lummis: A Country Called California via Vroman’s – In-person Event
Join Vroman’s to hear the presentation and discussion of the book, A Country Called California: Photographs 1850-1960, a book of fine-art photography illuminating the visual history of California, featuring guests:
Stephen White is a gallery owner, author and curator, and has been collecting and curating photographs related to the state’s growth and development for over 25 years, and has written extensively on every aspect of contemporary photography.
Jonathan Spaulding is an independent author and curator, formerly chief curator of the Autry Museum, and author of Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography, among other works.
Suzanne Lummis is a poet and editor of the anthology Wide Awake Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. Her most recent collection Is Open 24 Hours. She was a 2018/19 COLA fellow.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – In-person event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Beverly Voight – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Beverly Voight.
Beverly Voight is the author of the chapbook Song of the Overcast, (Finishing Line Press, 2021), a collection dealing with grief, loss, love, and rooted in the natural world.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 1st
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 1st
Time: 8 pm
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYvULkirZCx/
SOM Tuesdays Open Mic at Di Piazza’s Pizza, Long Beach
SOM Open Mic Tuesdays at Di Piazza’s are back! Come and share music, comedy, and poetry with us.
Where: Di Piazza’s Pizza
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 9 pm – 12 am
Address: 5205 E. Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90804
Young Adult Book Club & The Bone Spindle, by Leslie Vedder, at Pages Bookstore – On-site Event
Join our Young Adult Book Club to read and discuss our selection this month, The Bone Spindle, a novel by Leslie Vedder.
This novelis set in a lush world inspired by beloved fairytales, and is a fast-paced YA fantasy full of adventure, romance, found family, and snark. Cursed princes are nothing but ancient history to Fi—until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle while exploring a long-lost ruin. Now she’s stuck with the spirit of Briar Rose until she and Shane can break the century-old curse on his kingdom.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – On-site event on Patio
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/young-adult-book-club-7
Jennifer E. Smith, with Lauren Graham, & The Unsinkable Greta James at Vroman’s – Online Event
Join Vroman’s Live online to hear Jennifer E. Smith, in conversation with actress Lauren Graham, discuss her book, The Unsinkable Greta James.
Following the sudden death of her mother, and before the launch of her second album, Greta James falls apart on stage and her career is suddenly in jeopardy. Month later, she agrees to go on the Alaskan cruise her parents had booked, she is drawn to ben Wilder, a historian on board to lecture about The Call of the Wild. Here she must confront the choices she’s made, and family hurts that run deep, to find her way forward and maybe find her voice again.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s Online (see site)
Robert Kerbeck, with Paul Kolsby, & Ruse via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author and actor Robert Kerback, in conversation with screenwriter Paul Kolsby (City Unplugged, Spread) present and discuss his book, Ruse: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street.
Robert Kerbeck’s Ruse is a juicy memoir which tells riveting tales with the thrill of a spy novel. In this book he shares the wildest business secrets within the world of corporate espionage. His ruse job was supposed to be temporary, but he became one of the best practitioners of this deceptive and illegal trade. Now, after the inevitable crash, he shares details of the cons he ran and the money he made.
NOTE: See site for book purchase and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Skylight Online (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-robert-kerbeck-conversation-paul-kolsby
Midweek Feast: Cooking & Poetry Workshop Series with Nancy Lynee Woo at Angels Gate Cultural Center – In-person Event
Please join poet and instructor Nanct Lynee Woo to participate in her new workshop series, Midweek Feast: Cooking & Poetry.
Nancy Lynee Woo is a poet, writer, and author who has led many writing workshops and events, and this new one is a cooking and poetry inspired one.
See site for details and register on Eventbrite!
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: Angeles Gate Cultural Center – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Where: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/fancifulnance or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/midweek-feast-tickets-264805158357/
Cedd Moses & Erik Cardona, with Darryl Holter, & Pouring With Heart via Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us to hear authors Cedd Moses & Erik Cardona, in conversation with historian and Chevalier’s co-owner Darryl Holter, discuss their new book, Pouring With Heart.
Everyone thought Cedd Moses had lost his mind when he used his life savings to open ten bars in struggling Downtown Los Angeles. Not only would those venues help lift the communities around them-they’d go on to set a new standard for bars in LA, setting the stage for one of greatest bar success stories in American history.
Moses attributes this remarkable success to one thing. Pouring with Heart.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site event
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/march-2-cedd-moses
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop at 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.
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 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Dengan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/events.html
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 2nd
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-276940425267
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry & LeAnne Hunt 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. Tonight’s featured artist is Becca Hiraheta.
Becca Hiraheta is a Salvadoran American poet and blogger that is homesick in two languages for no place in particular. She writes about love, identity, and the near colonization of her body. She is currently Social Media Coordinator among other roles at The Poetry Lab, and has been published in Hue Journal and featured alongside World Stage Press and Not a Cult at LibroMobile.
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 2nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/Two-Idiot-Peddling_poetry/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/444169910789339
Scripps Presents: PEN Out Loud: Solmaz Sharif in Conversation via Scripps & PEN Out Loud – Online Event
Join us to hear poet, author, and National Book Award finalist Solmaz Sharif discuss her second poetry collection, Customs.
This book examines the “culture of performed social skills and poetry itself—its foreclosures, affects, successes. The collection of poems “trace a pointed indoctrination to the customs of the nations-state and the English language, and the realities they impose on the imagination.”
NOTE; See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Scripps Presents: – Online event
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online Crowdcast Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1016113778980178/
Beyond & Within: On Spiritual Practices & Narrative Forms via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque’s for a special reading and discussion, Beyond & Within, to hear three poets and authors read and discuss their work in non-traditional forms via Zoom:
Teresa Carmody writes fiction, creative non-fiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. She is the author of Maison Femme: a fiction (2015) and The Reconception of Marie (2020). She is co-founding editor of Les Figues Press and director of Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas.
Janice Lee is a Korean American writer, editor, teacher, and shamanic healer. She is the author of seven books of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, most recently: The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), Imagine a Death (Texas Review Press, 2021), and Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022). She currently lives in Portland, OR where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.
Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is the author of a novel, The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven (Noemi Press, 2018), which won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and a book of creative nonfiction, Names for Light: A Family History (Graywolf Press, 2021), which was the winner of the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College.
NOTE: See site for further details, Eventbrite tickets and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Zoom event
Website: 6ttps://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-within-on-spiritual-practices-narrative-forms-tickets-261469641737
Karen Knotts & Tied Up in Knotts: My Dad and Me at Book Soup – On-site Event
Join us to hear author Karen Knotts discuss her new book, Tied Up in Knotts: My Dad and Me.
In this book the author tells the story of a loving daughter’s life with her comedic actor father Don Knots, who played the role of Barney Fife in The Andy Griffith Show. She provides a full-life narrative of Don’s difficult childhood in an abusive home, his escape into comedic performance, becoming a household name, his growth and failing health, and his family life throughout. Since she grew up on the set, she shares memories of many of the actors and others he worked with.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/karen-knotts-presents-tied-knotts-my-dad-and-me
Kate Gale & Guests Book Launch: The Loneliest Girl at Hen House Literary Center – On-site & Live Stream Event
Join us to hear poet, author, and co-founder and Managing Editor of Red Hen Press Kate Gale, with guest readers,present and discuss her new poetry collection, The Loneliest Girl (University of New Mexico Press).
This book is a collection offering a powerful new narrative in which women are the makers of the world and determine their own destiny. It explores the narrative in which all women have carried guilt and shame—for being a woman, for not being enough, for being a victim, from which a new one can emerge.
Guest poets include:
Francesca Bell, poet, translator, and poetry editor at River Styx, has published poems in many magazines and journals. She is the author of Bright Stain (Red Hen Press, 2019) which was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, and is translation editor at the Los Angeles Review.
Kim Dower has published four collections of poetry, with a fifth, I Wore This Dress for You, Mom, to be published in April 2022. She is a former West Hollywood Poet Laureate, and teaches poetry workshops for Antioch University, UCLA Extension, and others.
Ron Koertege is a poet and YA fiction author and Poet Laureate of South Pasadena. He has published three collections with Red Hen Press, most recently has (2018).
Douglas Manuel has published poems and essays in many literary journals, magazines and websites, most recently Zyzzyva, Pleiades, and The New Orleans Review. He is a Bayard Rustin Fellow at Whittier College and teaches at Spaulding University’s low-res MFA program.
NOTE; See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Hen House Hybrid Event: On-site and Live Stream
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/675690577191346/
Cara Black, with Naomi Hirahara, & Murder at the Porte De Versailles at Vroman’s – On-site Event
Join us to hear author Cara Black, in conversation with author Naomi Hirahara (Clark and Division, Max Aria series),present and discuss her novel, Murder at the Porte De Versailles.
Murder at the Porte De Versailles is set in November 2001, in the wake of 9/11, when Paris is living in a state of fear.A gathering of Aimee Leduc’s friends and family is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police lab, and her friend is found unconscious at the scene with explosives under his fingernails. When she tries to prove this, she uncovers ties to a cold case of her deceased father, and is pressured by her child’s father to leave Paris—which she feels she cannot do.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – On-site event
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. St., Pasadena, CA 91101
Tonalli Thursday Open Mic Event via L.A. Poet Society – Online Zoom Event
Join us at Tonalli Thursday Open Mic, offered every Thursday of the month by the Los Angeles Poet Society.
All artists are welcome. Featured readers TBA.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: Tonalli Studio – Online Zoom Event: Zoom: 872 6657 0589
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/events (Check to verify)
At Skylight: Jeremy Radin, with Rhiannon McGsvin, & Dear Sal at Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us to hear author Jeremy Radin, in conversation with 2016 Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate and student Rhiannon McGavin, present and discuss his book, Dear Sal.
Jeremy Radin’s Dear Sal is inspired by Lanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly and is a series of epistolary meditations on loneliness, longing, the Jewish diaspora, bewilderment, divinity, and love. Radin’s second collection lays bare a life lived in romantic exile, using the play’s events–one year after a brief but passionate affair, a man returns to a deserted boathouse on his beloved’s family property in order to offer himself to her–as the foundation for a mystifying interior stage, populated by a cast of eccentrics, upon which a man must wrestle, each moment, with his own unremitting desire.,
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N, Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-jeremy-radin-presents-dear-sal-rhiannon-mcgavin
Multicultural Literacy with Cydat Central Library, Los Angeles Public Library – Online Zoom Event
This class explores works of fiction and non-fiction from various cultures as a way to understand our differences and the world as we see it today. Practice reading aloud, conversation skills, and improve your vocabulary through storytelling and sharing folktales.
Please email literacy@lapl.org for the Zoom links and login information.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 11 am
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/multicultural-literacy-cyd
Magdalena Edwards & Chris Clark, with Joshua Rothes, & Julio Cortazar Translations via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear translators Magdalena Edwards & Chris Clark, in conversation with publisher Joshua Rothespresent and discuss their translations of Julio Cortazar’s books, Letters from Mom and What the Mugwig Has to Say & Silvalandia.
Letters From Mom (Sublunary Editions)
Luis and Laura, an Argentine couple looking for a new beginning, settle in France, connected to their former home only through occasional letters from Luis’s mother in Buenos Aires. But when a name from the past appears in an otherwise unremarkable letter, it comes with a dark shadow. What emerges is a psychological study of grief swirling with guilt, equal parts love-triangle and ghost story.
Letters from Mom is one of Julio Cortázar’s most beloved short stories, part of the same collection (Las armas secretas) that gave us Blow-up and At Your Service. It is translated here into English for the first time.
What the Mugwig Has to Say & Silvalandia (Sublunary Editions)
What the Mugwig Has to Say & Silvalandia collects two of the collaborations between Julio Cortázar and his fellow Argentine ex-pat, the artist Julio Silva. In What the Mugwig Has to Say (1966), Silva responds in vivid red illustrations to Cortázar’s brief prose portraits, while in Silvalandia (1975), the tables are turned, with Cortázar writing stories based on the paintings of Silva, creating a landscape and cast of characters for their shared world.
This volume is a full-color, sewn paperback.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, link, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Skylight Books – Online (see site)
At Skylight: Anna Journey, with Joseph Boone, & ADMISSIONS via Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us to hear author Anna Journey, in conversation with author Joseph Boone, discuss her book, The Judas Ear: Poems.
This book resurrects a host of vanished people and places, like the luminous shape-shifting vistas of folktale or myth. Like the ear-shaped mushroom named for a biblical betrayer, these poems can shift suddenly, form wit to pathos, from seductiveness to danger, with a generosity of vision that is at once wise and revelatory.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-anna-journey-conversation-joseph-boone
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Reading Series, with host Cynthia Alessandra Briano, via Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Join First Fridays at Rapp Saloon Open Mic & Featured Readers, offered every 1st Friday of the month by host Cynthia Alessandra Briano.
Our featured guest poets and artists this month TBA
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 event details.
Where: Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom event
Adult Book Club & Memoria Drive, by Natasha Tretheweyat Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for the adult Book Club discussion of our selection this month, Memorial Drive, the haunting memoir by former U. S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
New member are always welcome. To obtain a link to the discussion please email us.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 11 am
Address: LAPL– Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-memorial-drive
Douglas Manuel Poetry Workshop: Cruising Through Forms: There’s More Than Sonnets via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque for an intensive poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome poet and educator Douglas Manuel titled Cruising Through Forms: There’s More Than Sonnets.
In this workshop we will not focus on traditional western forms, but instead explore and examine closed poetic forms form all over the world. Participants will be asked to write landays, ghazals, pantouns,zuihitsus, blues poems, golden shovels, and duplexes. We will closely read the style and content of new and influential poets to generate new material and find fresh meaning on the page.
Douglas Manuel is a poet and educator whose can be found in many journals, most recently Zyzzyva, Pleiades, and the New Orleans Review. He teaches at Spaulding University’s low res MFA program.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cruising-through-forms-theres-more-than-sonnets-with-douglas-manuel-tickets-262896098307
Boca de Oro Festival of Literary, Visual & Performing Arts and Culture at Historic Santa Ana – On-site Free Event
The Boca de Oro Festival curates diverse and evocative writer, poets, storytellers, and artists who present their work. It is a celebration of literature, expression, and the arts, with authors, poets, performers, dancers, and more. This is its 6th year with an exciting array of live performances, interactive workshops, engaging panel discussions, author talks, readings, and more.
The event takes place at 26 locations throughout the Santa Ana Arts District, and the keynote speaker is Maritza Rubio, author of Maria Maria and other stories. Check a full schedule of presenters at website for details.
Their theme this year is “Together We Rise“ honoring the spirit of healing, recovery, rebirth, and reconnection through the arts amidst the pandemic.
NOTE: See site for ticket link, locations, and details.
Where: Historic Santa Ana – On-site Event
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 11 am – 10 pm
Address: 400 W. 3rd St., Santa Ana, CA 92701
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1320149861745110/ or https://www.bocadeoro.org/
Meet and Greet with Dan Santat at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-person Event
Join us for a Meet and Greet event with children’s author Dan Santat, who will present his latest book, The Aquanaut. Dive into a whimsically adventurous graphic novel form Caldecott-winning author Dan Santat.
This story is about Sophia, who has been moping around Aqualand, a marine theme park, since her father was lost at sea. When she and a band of goofy sea creatures discover that Aqualand is more sinister than advertised, Sophia is determined to help the aquanaut crew free the park’s captive marine life before it’s too late.
NOTE: See website for guidelines and further details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-person Event
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/aquanaut
Afternoon Poetry with Meri Tumanyan at My Place Café – You Tube Event
Join us for a poetry reading with poet Meri Tumanyan
The poet is a mother of two, a full-time school teacher, and an adjunct professor. She has been fascinated with literature since childhood and wrote her first poem at age eight. She understands the daily challenges of raising a family and providing financial stability for them, while finding the time to pursue her passion.
NOTE: See website for tickets and further details.
Where: My Place Café – See YouTube link
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/949479095705600
Robert Kerbeck & Ruse: Lying the American Dream at Diesel Bookstore – In-person Event
Join us on our Courtyard to hear author Robert Kerbeck present and discuss his book, Ruse: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street.
Robert Kerbeck’s Ruse is a juicy memoir which tells riveting tales with the thrill of a spy novel. In this book he shares the wildest business secrets within the world of corporate espionage. His ruse job was supposed to be temporary, but he became one of the best practitioners of this deceptive and illegal trade. Now, after the inevitable crash, he shares details of the cons he ran and the money he made.
NOTE: See website for RSVP, guidelines, and further details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – In-person Event in Courtyard
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/ruse
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Writing Workshop by Don Kingfisher Campbell – Online Event
Join us at Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Campbell. Submit up to three poems totaling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum Online Edition Spring Fantasy by 11:59 pm March 19th.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online Event
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
At Skylight: Calla Henkel & Other People’s Clothes via Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us to hear author Calla Henkel present and discuss her book, Other People’s Clothes.
Calla Henkel’s debutnovel, Other People’s Clothes, is a darkly funny, “harrowing tale about twisty female friendships, slippery identity and furtive secrets” according to author Megan Abbott. This is a portrait of obsession and paranoia set in Berlin, an engrossing cat and mouse game between an artist and two art students which bleeds into life, and vice versa.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, link, tickets, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm PST
Address: Skylight Books – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-calla-henkel-presents-other-peoples-clothes
UC Irvine MFA Reading Series at LibroMobile – On-site Event
Join us for the UC Irvine MFA Reading Series, featuring: Jacob Hyatt, Mo Fowler, Daniella Chavez, and Emma Watson.
Where: LibroMobile, Santa Ana
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 1150 S. Bristol St. A3, Santa Ana, CA 92704
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/uci-mfa-reading
Outdoor Lit Book Club & Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law at Cellar Door Books – On-site Event
Join us for the Outdoor Lit Book Club discussion of Mary Roach’s book Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law.
This instant New York Times bestseller form America’s funniest science writer is an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. Combining forensic science and conservation genetics she explores the many unexpected interactions and conflicts between humans and animals. And offers hope for compassionate coexistence.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., #30A, Riverside, CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/outdoor-lit-book-club-fuzz
At Skylight: Sheila Heti & PURE COLOUR via Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us for a discussion and signing with author Sheila Heti for her tenth book, PURE COLOUR.
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.
Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.
In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-sheila-heti-signs-pure-colour
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