Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Book Club Bonanza: Women’s History Celebration via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Join us to pick a book to read via Hoopla in celebration of Women’s History Month. We will pitch each other YA fiction, nonfiction or graphic novels, and return on March 14 for read-alikes on the book(s) we’ve chosen, and on March 21 for our book discussion.
NOTE: See site for event detail and to RSVP.
Where: Central LIbrary, LAPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: LAPL Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-bonanza-womens-history-celebration
Mike Schur, with Kristen Bell, & How to Be Perfect at Aratani Theater – On-site Event
Join us to hear TV writer and producer Michael Schur, in conversation with actress Kristen Bell, discuss his new book, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question.
This book is a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,400 years of deep thinking from around the world. The author offers fresh and inspiring wisdom on the toughest issues we face every day in our efforts to produce a verifiably maximal amount of moral good
NOTE: See site for event details, tickets, and guidelines.
Where: Live Talks LA – Aratani Theater
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 244 South San Pedro St., Los Angeles,, CA 90012
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/mike-schur-with-kristen-bell/
Alex Evans, with Winona Bechtle, & Enchanted Strings at Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us in-store to hear Alex Evan, Executive Director and Head Puppeteer of Bob Baker Marionette Theater, in conversation with fellow puppeteer Winona Bechtle, discuss and perform Enchanted Strings: Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
Bob Baker Marionette Theater has enchanted families in Los Angeles and beyond with delightful marionette performances since 1963. Enchanted Strings captures the visual history of this palace of puppetry from Bob Baker’s earliest days to the theater’s transformation into a thriving hub of creative culture.
Archival images and ephemera provide a behind-the-scenes look at Bob’s amazing work for Walt Disney and iconic Hollywood films. Includes more than 300 vintage and contemporary photographs.
NOTE: See site for event details and to RSVP.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site event
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/march-7-randal-metz
At Skylight: Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Love in the Library via Skylight Bookstore – In-person Event
Join author Maggie Tokuda-Hall to hear her present and discuss her exquisite picture book, Love in the Library.
Love in the Library is based on the experiences of the author’s grandparents and tells a love story for the ages without sugarcoating history. With watercolor illustrations by Imamura, it brings ot life her grandparents’ love story, Japanese internment camps, and the continuing impact of racism, in a powerful read. It’s both a revealing expose of unjust history and a tribute to her family history, to love, and to hope.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – In-person event
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-maggie-tokuda-hall-presents-love-library
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 7th
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-288903055817
Author Talk: Kate Manguso & USC Center for the Changing Family & Equal Partners via Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us to hear a moderated conversation with author Kate Manguso, author of the forthcoming book (June, 2022) Equal Partners, an interactive guide to supporting building household balance in all partnerships.
NOTE: See site for event detail and to RSVP.
Where: Central LIbrary, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: LAPL Online Event- Streaming Live on Facebook & YouTube
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-kate-mangino-and-usc-center-changing-family
Author Talk: Faith Twardzik & The Hummingbird’s Sayang via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us to hear author Faith Twardzik, present and discuss her book, The Hummingbird’s Sayang, a story of obsessive love between people from two different worlds.
NOTE: See site for event detail and to RSVP.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 3 pm
Address: LAPL Online Event – Streaming Live on Zoom
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-faith-twardzik
Annabelle Gurwitch, with Lisa Edelstein, & You’re Leaving When? via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join author Annabelle Gurwitch, Lisa Edelstein, to hear her present and discuss her new book, You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility.
You’re Leaving When” Adventures in Downward Mobility is launching its paperback version, with the attendance of insiders from corporate American, NGOs, policy, entertainment, and the media.
This book is s for anybody who thought they had a semblance of security but wound up with a fragile economy and a blankie. Gurwitch offers stories of resilience, adaptability, low-rent redemption, and the kindness of strangers.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 5 pm PST
Address: Skylight – Online Event
Poetry Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join host, poet and author Wyatt Underwood for our monthly Poetry Open Mic. Share a poem you wrote or a poem you love! You are also welcome to just listen and enjoy.
NOTE: See site for event details and to RSVP for Zoom link.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: LAPL Online Event – Streaming Live on Zoom
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic
Expressions L.A. Poetry & Open Mic via Zoom – Online Event
Join us for our monthly Expressions L.A. Poetry Open Mic. Our featured poet will be Joe DeCenzo, former Poet laureate of Sunland-Tujunga (2004-2006). His published work includes The Ballad of Alley and Hank and The Study Guide and Poetry Primer.
NOTE: See site for event details and Zoom link.
Where: Expressions – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online Event – Streaming Live on Zoom: 894 0445 8834
Website: N/A
In Conversation: Azar Nafisi & Jeffrey Brown & Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times via ALOUD Reading Series, LFLA – Online Event
Join us to hear Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Teheran, and Jeffrey Brown, author of The News and PBS NewsHour correspondent, discuss her new book, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times, and how literature, through its free exchange, can affect politics and resistance.
Nafisi offers in her new book, Read Dangerously, The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times, a guide for our times, with a resistance list which includes selections from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. Drawing on her own experiences—from living in the Islamic Republic of Iran to immigrating to the United States—Nafisi seeks to answer the challenges now confronting our democracy in a book structured as a series of letters to her father, and argues why, in a genuine democracy, we must engage with the enemy, and how literature can be a vehicle for doing so.
NOTE: See site for event details and to RSVP for Zoom link.
Where: ALOUD, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: LAPL Online Event – Streaming Live on Zoom
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic
Mystery Book Club & When You Are Mine at Pages Bookstore – In-person Event
Join us to discuss our Mystery Book Club selection this month, When You are Mine, by author Michael Robotham.
This novel is a page-turning psychological thriller about a young female police officer who faces danger on all fronts—from a clever victim of abuse, her colleagues on the force, and even her own mobster father.
NOTE: See site or RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – In-person Patio event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/mystery-book-club-2
Melissa Meszaros & Heavy Metal Headbang via Book Soup – On-site Event
Join us to hear author Melissa Meszaros discuss her new book, Heavy Metal Headbang. In this book the author tells the story of publicist Melissa Meszaros’s recovery form a traumatic brain injury sustained in an accident on her way to a Judas Priest concert. This defiant memoir confronts our celebrity obsessed culture as well as the social challenges that come from recovering from a life-changing injury.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Book Soup – On-site event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/melissa-meszaros
At Skylight: Jill Gutowitz, with Gabrielle Korn, & Girls Can Kiss Now at Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Join author Jill Gutowitz, in conversation with journalist Gabrielle Korn, to hear her present and discuss her book, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
Girls Can Kiss Now is a debut collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity. Here she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and refracting our values, and always teaching, distracting, disappointing, and revealing us..
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – On-site event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Where: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Caroline Frost, with Ellie Eaton, & Shadows of Pecan Hollow via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join us to hear author Caroline Frost, in conversation with Ellie Eaton, discuss her novel, Shadows of Pecan Hollow.
It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees and muddy creeks of the town of Pecan Hollow, far from Manny. But when he shows up at her doorstep a new man, fresh out of prison, Kit’s profound and twisted attachment to him compels her to let him in. Immediately, Kit is forced to reckon with the shadows of her past, and her community is sent into a tailspin.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s – Online Event (see site)
Adult Book Group & Island of Sea Women at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-person Event
Join us for the Adult Book Club event when we read our monthly selection, Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See.
This beautiful, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge, engaging in dangerous physical work, and the men take care of the children. A classic Lisa See story—one of women’s friendships and the larger forces that shape them—The Island of Sea Women introduces readers to the fierce and unforgettable female divers of Jeju Island and the dramatic history that shaped their lives.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-island-sea-women-lisa-see
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Dimitri Reyes – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Dimitri Reyes.
Dimitri Reyes is a Boruca poet and writer born in Newark, and the author of Every First & Fifteenth (Digging Press, 2021). He is the marketing and communications director of CavanKerry Press.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
SOM Open Mic Tuesdays 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 8th
Time: 9 pm – 12 am
Address: 5205 E. Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90804
Book Club & The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins, at West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our Book Club via Zoom link to read and discuss our selection this month, The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins.
Stolen from the forehead of a Hindu idol, the dazzling gem known as “The Moonstone” resurfaces at a birthday party in an English country home — with an enigmatic trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail. Laced with superstitions, suspicion, humor, and romance, this 1868 mystery draws readers into a compelling tale with twists and turns ranging from sleepwalking to experimentation with opium. The suspense and drama is heightened as the narrative passes from one colorful character to the next. Wilkie Collins‘ masterpiece is particularly distinguished by the appearance of Sergeant Cuff, a prototype of the English detective hero and the harbinger of a popular tradition of sleuthing.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-5
Big Read Event & The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui, at West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our Morning Book Club via Zoom link to read and discuss our selection this month, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui.
This graphic novel (Comic Arts, 2017) is a beautifully illustrated and emotional story which is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details. Please email wstchs@lapl.org for the Zoom link.
Where: Westchester-Loyola Village Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-best-we-could-do-illustrated-memoir-thi-bui
Book Club & Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague, by Maggie O’Farrell, at Pacioma Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our Book Club via Zoom link to read and discuss our selection this month, Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague, by Maggie O’Farrell.
This novel is set in 1580’s England during the Black Plague. A young tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Woman’s Prize for Fiction.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details. Please email pcoima@lapl.org for the Zoom link.
Where: Pacoima Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 1 pm
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/pacoima-book-club-0
Bob Odenkirk, with Jack Black, & Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama at Aratani Theater – On-site Event
Join us to hear TV writer, actor and producer Bob Odenkirk, in conversation with actor Jack Black, discuss his new book, Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama.
This book is a memoir of the star of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul and he opens up about the highs and lows of show biz, his cult status as a TV writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at age fifty.
NOTE: See site for event details, tickets, and guidelines.
Where: Live Talks LA – Aratani Theater
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 244 San Pedro St., Los Angeles, 90012
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/bob-odenkirk/
Book of the Month Club (BOTM) & The Black Kids via Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to discuss our BOTM Club selection, The Black Kids: A Novel, by Christina Hammonds Reed.
This book is a novel and an unforgettable coming-of-age debut that explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy Black teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.
NOTE: See site for event details, tickets, and guidelines.
Where: Bel Canto Books
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Bel Canto – Online Event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs or https://shopthehangout.com/products/bcb-infinite-country-paperback
Anansi Writers Workshop at The World Stage – In-Person Event
The Anansi Writers Workshop was founded in 1990 by Kamau Daáood, Akilah Oliver, Nafis Nabawi and Anthony Lyons. In 1993, Michael Datcher initiated the development of a three-part format for the workshop. Our tradition of a community workshop began in the late 1960s at the Watts Writers’ Workshop, where World Stage co-founder Kamau Daáood started his writing career. For general information and booking, contact V. Kali, the Anansi Writers Workshop Coordinator, at vkaliflowers@gmail.com.
• 7:30p.m.–8:30p.m. — Formal workshop;
• 8:30p.m.–9:00p.m. — Featured reader;
• 9:05p.m.–10:00p.m. — Open mic
Admission: $5 Suggested Donation
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 9th
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 9th
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-290403222857
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry & Tony Wallin-Sato 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 Tony Wallin-Sato.
Tony Wallin-Sato is a Japanese American who works with formerly incarcerated individuals in higher education. He is also a freelance journalist covering criminal justice through the lens of his own incarcerated experience, as well as being an MFA Creative Writing student at CSULB. He recently published his first chapbook of poems through Cold River Press, titled Hyouhakusha: Desolate Travels of a Junkie on the Road.
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 0th
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/770695677237720
Jo Harkin, with Jessamine Chan, & Tell Me an Ending via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear author Jo Harkin, in conversation with Jessamine Chan, discuss her novel, Tell Me an Ending.
This book follows four characters grappling with the question of what to remember—and what they hoped to forget forever. Clever and propulsive this speculative novel explores what the world would be like if we were able to wipe away our worst moments. The author raises provocative questions about the nature of memory, through characters who confront new knowledge about themselves and a need f or answers, meaning, connection, and story.
NOTE; See site for link and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online Crowdcast Event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/jo-harkin
Venice Mystery Book Club & Total Recall, by Sara Paretsky, at Venice-Abbot-Kinney Memorial Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our Mystery Book Club via Zoom link to read and discuss our selection this month, Total Recall (A V.I. Warshawski novel) by Sara Paretsky.
This mystery is an intricate maze of war-time lies, secrets and retribution which takes place over fifty years, and starts with a dispute over Holocaust assets.
Email venice@lapl.org for Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Venice–Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 9th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/venice-mystery-book
California Youth Poet Laureate Series: Mahogany Browne & Tonya Ingram via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque and Urban Word for a special reading and discussion with Mahogany Browne and Tonya Ingram in the next installment of the California Youth Poet Laureate Series, via Zoom:
Mahogany L. Browne was born in Oakland, CA andis the author of several poetry collections and chapbooks, including I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love (Haymarket Books, 2021); Kissing Caskets (YesYes Books, 2017); Smudge (Button Poetry, 2016), Redbone (Aquarius Press, 2015); and #Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out Online (Penmanship Books, 2010). She is also the author of several young adult and children’s books, including Vinyl Moon (Crown, 2022); and Black Girl Magic (Roaring Brook Press, 2018). In addition, she is the editor of His Rib: Stories, Poems & Essays by HER (Penmanship Books, 2007). Browne is the founder and publisher of Penmanship Books, which she created “as the answer to the performance poet’s publishing problem.” An award-winning performance poet, she is also active in the spoken word community as she hosts/curates the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Friday Night Slam Series. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Tonya Ingram is a poet, Cincinnati native, Bronx-bred introvert, and mental health advocate. She has graced the stages of The Getty Museum, Madison Square Garden, San Francisco Opera House, Nuyorican Poets Café, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and many more. Her work appears in the online and physical pages of The New York Times, Vice i-D, Bustle, and Marie Claire, and the classrooms of schools in the United States and Ghana, just to name a few. Her viral collaboration with BuzzFeed, “An Open Letter to My Depression,” has reached over 4 million views and counting. Tonya’s writing explores the necessity in taking care of ourselves, especially on the days we feel unworthy. She is a graduate of New York University and Otis College of Art and Design and she currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. HOW TO SURVIVE TODAY is her third book of poetry. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter.
NOTE: See site for further details, Eventbrite tickets and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event
Website: 6ttps://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/california-youth-poet-laureate-series-mahogany-l-browne-and-tonya-ingram-tickets-269250865587
Amanda Pelligrino, with Katy Colloton & Katie O’Brien, & Smile and Look Pretty via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join us to hear author Amanda Pelligrino, in conversation with Katy Colloton & Katie O’Brien, present and discuss her novel, Smile and Look Pretty.
Best friends Cate, Lauren, Olivia and Max are overworked and underpaid assistants to some of the most powerful people in the entertainment industries. Like the assistants who came before them, the women know they have to pay their dues and abide the demeaning tasks and verbal abuse from their bosses in order to climb the ladders to their dream jobs.
But as they are passed over for promotions and the toxic office environments reach a breaking point, the women secretly start an anonymous blog detailing their experiences, which snowballs into hundreds of others coming forward with stories of their own. Confronted with newfound viral fame and the possibility of their identities being revealed, the assistants have to contend with the life-changing consequences of speaking out against those who refuse to share the power.
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s – Online (see site)
Blanca Bianco, with Heidi Parker, & Breaking the Mold at Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us to hear author Blanca Bianco, in conversation with Heidi Parker, present and discuss her book, Breaking the Mold.
Blanca Bianco’s Breaking the Mold is the story of her own self-made journey to becoming an award-winning actress and fashion model, with graduate degrees in psychology and social work. Blanca reveals the secrets of her past. Born in the U.S., then as a Latina immigrant, from Mexico, who at 9 years old with her family of six, soon to be seven, and with no other options, had to live in a garage for 2 years without hot running water and heat, weathering the frigid winters of Washington State. Her remarkable resilience is outlined in her harrowing near-death drive through the fires that destroyed her Malibu home, the tragic death of her mother at age 62, and her successful processes of dealing with adversity to reach her goals.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N, Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/march-10-blanca-blanco
Shout! Open Mic Finale: LeAnne Hunt & PK at Half Off Books – In-person Event
Please join Eric Moraga for SHOUT! The Open Mic for its last event before going on hiatus, and to celebrate live poetry with two amazing poets and an Open MIc:
LeAnne Hunt has worked as a freelance writer, tutor, and data reviewer for an environmental lab and a library assistant. She is a regular at Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug and is a member of the Poetry Lab. Her poems have recently appeared in Lullaby of Teeth, an anthology of Southern California Poets, and Issue 3 of Incandescent Mind.
P.K. Page is also known as P.K. Irwin, the acclaimed and painter, and as Judith Cape, the fiction writer. Her many poetry collections include Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New (2002), and she was given a Canadian Governor’s Award for her second book, The Petal and the Flower. She’s had a long and illustrious career with many themes in her work, and still enjoys extending the fairy tale.
NOTE: See site for event guidelines and details.
Where: Half Off Books – In-person Event
Date: Thursday the10th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 141 W. Wilshire Ave., Ste. A, Fullerton, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/368982015002324/
NoHo Book Club & Book of Your Choice via North Hollywood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
This Book Club meets twice each month, once to share a book selected by the group in advance, and once to discuss a book of your choice. This meeting will be a discussion of the “Book of Your Choice.”
Please email nohlwd@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 the11th
Time: 10 am
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-book-club
Noontime Poetry with Jean-Pierre Rueda at My Place Café – On-site Event
Please join us for Noontime Poetry, featuring poet Jean-Pierre Rueda.
Jean-Pierre Rueda left Costa Rica for the U.S. at age 15, and the sadness of the stories he found here aroused in him an interest in politics, poetry, and the invaluable contributions of the Latinx community here. He writes of the courage of those living here, and hopes to create spaces for dialogue with his poems of love, history, politics and heritage. He published his debut book in 2020, titled HER EYES WERE THE MOON AND I WAS THE WAVES.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: My Place Café – On-site Event
Date: Friday the11th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Unit #10, Pasadena, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/995929051013007/
Lisa Barr, with Malina Saval, & Woman on Fire via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Lisa Barr, in conversation with Malina Saval, present and discuss her novel, Woman on Fire.
Woman on Fire, a thrilling tale of secrets, love, and sacrifice that illuminates the destructive cruelty of war and greed and the triumphant power of beauty and love, tells a remarkable story. After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual–and very secret–assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel’s most famous work, Woman on Fire. World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this portrait of a beautiful, mysterious woman for deeply personal reasons, and has enlisted Dan’s help to find it. But Jules doesn’t have much time; the famous designer is dying.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, link, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s Books – Online (see site)
At Skylight: Jacques Rancourt, with Cory Van Langingham, & BROCKEN SPECTRE via Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us to hear author Jacques Rancourt, in conversation with forthcoming author Corey Van Langingham (Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens), discuss his book, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre is a poetry collection which examines the way the past presses up against the present. The speaker, raised in the wake of the AIDS crisis, engages with ideas of belatedness, of looking back to a past that cannot be inhabited, of the ethics of memory, and of the dangers in memorializing and romanticizing tragedy.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Social Justice Book Club & Race Cars, by Jenny Devenny at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for the Soclal Justice Book Club discussion of our selection this month, Race Cars, a Children’s Book About White Privilege, by author Jenny Devenny.
RSVP: Email cquinn@lapl.org for the meeting link.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 10 am
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/social-justice-book-club
Adult Book Club & Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen at Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for the Adult Book Club discussion of our selection this month, Enemy of the People, by author Henrik Ibsen.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 11 am
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-12
Kids Storytime with Dilek Mir & & Baby Palm at Village Well Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us to hear local author, Dilek MIr read her children’s book, Baby Palm, a tale about a growing baby palm tree, and lead us through an interactive lesson a about the nature of trees.
NOTE: For each book purchased, a tree will be planted in the name of the young reader. We’ll send them a Tree Planting Certificate in their name.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Village Well Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/16207
Black Queer Poetics: Sarah Nwafor & KB Brookins via LibroMobile – Online Event
Join us to hear Sarah Nwafor and KB Brookins in conversation about Black Queer Poetics.
Sarah Nwafor is a queer Igbo poet, educator, and facilitator who believes storytelling is magick, and speaks to the practices of Igbo orature.
KB Brookins is a poet, essayist, cultural worker, and Artivism Fellow with Broadway Advocacy Coalition, and is the author of: How to Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kalisto Gaia Press, 2022) and Freedom House (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023).
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: LibroMobile
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 12 pm PT
Address: LIbroMobile – Online event (see site)
LA MADE: Darkness Under the Light: LA NOIR at Pico Union Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for the LA MADE event, Darkness Under the Light – Noir Writing in L.A., featuring a discussion led by local noir buff and musician, David Kendrick.
What makes Los Angeles the end of the road for dreams and lives in so many great novels, from Raymond Chandler to the gritty alleyways, beaches, and streets of today’s great noir writers?
RSVP: Please email punion@lapl.org for the invitation link.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Pico Union Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 12:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/la-made-darkness-under-light-noir-writing-la-2
Teens Read to Young Readers: A Teens Leading change (TLC) Event at Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL – On-site Event
Chatsworth Branch teen volunteers have created a program series to engage young readers, particularly those with learning disabilities.
Teens will work with readers in grades 1-5 to engage young learners: reading to kids, introducing them to library resources, and encouraging excitement and interest in reading. Young Readers need not attend all four sessions, though it is encouraged. There will be special giveaways every week.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 1 pm
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tlc-teens-read-young-readers-teens-leading-change-series-events
Early Reader Book Club: The Story of Captain Nemo at Cellar Door Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us for our Early Reader Book Club, when we will read and discuss The Story of Captain Nemp, by author Dave Eggars, illustrator Fabio Negrin & Jules Verne.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr, Unit 30A, Riverside, CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/early-reader-book-club-story-captain-nemo
How to Write Postcard Poems at The Poetry Lab, Off-site at Wriggly Coffee – In-person Event
Join us for a Generative Writing Workshop, where we explore craft tactics that take your reader deep into another world. We will take a close look at prose poetry and the postcard form before attempting to write our own. A coffee and a notebook will be provided.
NOTE: See website for registration, cost, and further details.
Where: Wriggly Coffee – In-person Event
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 1:30 pm – 3 pm
Address: 437 W. Willow St., Long Beach, CA
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/2022/how-to-write-postcard-poems or https://www.thepoetrylab.com/register/in-person/march-12
Afternoon Poetry with Tongo Eisen-Martin at My Place Café – In-person Event
Join us for Afternoon Poetry and to hear San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin present and discuss his work. He is the author of numerous books and is also featured in Writing for Life by Nervous Ghost Press.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: My Place Café – In-person Event
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Unit #10, Pasadena, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/421189369805708/
Author Reading: Rob Osler & Devil’s Chew Toy at The Book Jewel – In-person Event
Join us to hear debut mystery novelist Rob Osler present and discuss his hilarious and stylish mystery, Devil’s Chew Toy. In this story a gay, twenty-something school teacher has to solve the disappearance of last night’s date when the police suspect he’s involved.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: The Book Jewel – In-person Event
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore
Treehouse & Punk Rock Marthas Present: Radhihah Chowdhury & Lavanaya Naidu, author & Illustrator, & THE KATHA CHEST via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Radhihah Chowdhury & illustrator Lavanya Naidu present and discuss their children’s book, THE KATHA CHEST.
This is a beautifully woven tale about the bonds of love, culture, and memory follows a young girl learning about her family history through her grandmother’s katha chest. Nanu’s katha chest filled with quilts. There are stories in each of the quilts that her Nanu has collected through the years, all about the bold and brave women in Asiya’s family. Among all of the games and exciting things at Nanu’s house, Asiya thinks these hidden histories are the grandest treasure.
NOTE: See site for book purchase and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Skylight – Online Event
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Deep Critique Writing Workshop by G.T. Foster – Online Event
Join us at Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Deep Critique Writing Workshop led by G.T. Foster.
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 12th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Beyond Spanish: Reading Poetry in Basque, Catalan, Galician, and Spanish via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque for Beyond Spanish: Reading Poetry in Basque, Catalan, Galician, and Spanish.
In this reading event, the following authors will read and discuss their work:
Íker Arranz Otaegui, is a Faculty Lecturer in California State University, Bakersfield where he teaches a variety of courses in Basque Studies, Iberian Culture and Ethnicity and Culture. He is part of the Modern Languages and Literatures Department, and the Interdisciplinary Program faculty team. Food Studies and literature are areas of special salience in his research, and offer the opportunity to establish an academic recognition for a cultural tradition deeply rooted in the Basque Country, and one that has great appeal for students and also for those beyond the academy. The emergent field of Small Literatures can provide an interesting frame to revisit periphery/marginal cultures. From social to political, or from economy to regional studies, literature and food are disciplines that create a myriad of intersections.
Mónica Comas Rodríguez, is currently an education advisor at the Education Office of the Embassy of Spain in Los Angeles. Previously, she worked as a teacher of English and Catalan at several Official Language Schools in Catalonia and in the Balearic Islands, besides working at the Education Department of the Government of the Balearic Islands. Her passion is the education field and the acquisition of languages; thus, she takes advantage of any opportunity to continue learning and enjoying the world of languages and teaching.
Santiago Rozas Iglesias was born in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. He decided to come to Los Angeles attracted by the “hippie” revolution and after two years back in Spain he came back for good. He has been a “jack-of-all-trades” but just before retiring, he was working as a computer operator for an important oil company as well as a fire-fighter.
Adriano López García was born in Granada, Spain. He is and has been an English as a World Language High School teacher for 23 years. However, 5 of those teaching years were as an International Visiting Techer in Round Rock (TX) and Chicago (IL). He is currently living and working in Los Angeles for the Spain Education Office whose headquarters is in the Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C.
Jennifer Holmes has directed over sixty works, including Lorca in a Green Dress at the International Theater Festival in Barranquilla, Colombia, and Seeing the Deep, a devised piece inspired by Gilgamesh, at the Leon Katz Rodolphi International Theatre Laboratory in Smolyan, Bulgaria. For six years, Jennifer was the director of the Los Angeles Integrated Arts Program utilizing Los Angeles as a dynamic, experiential teaching laboratory. Jennifer is a professor and Chairs the Department of Theater, Film & Communication Arts, at Whittier College.
Mariano Zaro is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Decoding Sparrows (What Books Press), finalist of the Housatonic Book Award, and Padre Tierra (Olifante). His poems and short stories have been published in anthologies and literary journals in Spain, Mexico and United States. His translations include Buda en llamas (by Tony Barnstone), and Cómo escribir una canción de amor (by Sholé Wolpé). He is a professor of Spanish at Rio Hondo Community College (Whittier, CA). Website: www.marianozaro.com
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Beyond Baroque event (Eventbrite online)
Date: Saturday the 12th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Zoom event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-spanish-poetry-in-basque-catalan-galician-and-spanish-tickets-275276558597
Celebrating Women’s History Month with Diana Giovinazzo & Natalie Obando at Bel Canto Books – On-site Event
Join us at The Hangout to Celebrate Women’s History Month and hear Diana Giovinazzo and Natalie Obando present the books Antoinette’s Sister and The Roots that Help Us Grow.
Diana Giovinazzo is the author of The Roots that Help US Grow, an Authentic Voices Anthology, Volume 1. She is the co-creator of Wine, Women and Words, a weekly literary podcast featuring interviews with authors over a glass of wine. Her novels, THE WOMAN IN RED and ANTOINETTE’S SISTER are out now. Diana is currently the president of The Los Angeles Chapter of The Women’s National Book Association.
Natalie Obando has worked in the world of book publicity since 2008. She is the founder of Do Good Public Relations and the grassroots organization, Women of Color Writers Podcast and Programming. She is the current national president of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA), overseeing all chapters nationwide.
Where: Bel Canto @ The Hangout
Date: Sunday the 13th
Time: 11 am
Address: 2122 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90814
Website: https://shopthehangout.com/products/bcb-author-event-giovinazzo-obando-sun-3-13-11am
Cellar Door Book Club & The Other Einstein at Cellar Door Books – On-site Event
Join us for the Cellar Door Book Club discussion of Marie Benedict’s book, The Other Einstein.
The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein’s enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein’s wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage. Although theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, she learns there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 13th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., #30A, Riverside, CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/cellar-door-book-club-other-einstein
At Skylight: Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley & Devil’s Promenade via Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us for a discussion and signing with authors Antone Dolezal & Lara Shipley for their book, Devil’s Promenade.
Devil’s Promenade is a collection of stories about a bridge and a place known to be the home of many paranormal events.
Dolezal and Shipley return to their home region of the Ozarks in the American Midwest, where locals persist in their search for a legendary floating orb of light that can only be seen from the Devil’s Promenade. It’s a lushly wooded road in an area where wanderers flock to seek possible redemption, or just to escape the boredom and darkness of ordinary rural life. Subtle but revealing portraits are mixed with archives and reinterpretations of mythical, folkloric tales. It’s a nuanced, mysterious and tender representation by photographers returning to the place where they grew up, but also reveals the current, stark realities of a remote place in America.
Antone Dolezal and Lara Shipley are collaborative visual artists whose work employs photography, video, sound, archival materials and bookmaking to survey the cultural and political dynamics of American history, folklore and mythology. Their work has been exhibited widely in museums and galleries in the United States, Europe and Central America and is held in notable public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art – Special Collections and Yale University. They are the author of several books including Spook Light Chronicles (Self-Published, 2015) and Devil’s Promenade (Overlapse, 2021), and their work has been profiled with the British Journal of Photography, El Pais, Leica Fotografie International Magazine, National Public Radio and Smithsonian Magazine.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 13th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Lynne Hightower, with Dr. Alessia de Paola Gottlieb, & The Enlightenment Project at Diesel Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us for a discussion and signing with author Lynne Hightower, in conversation with Dr. Alessia de Paola Gottlieb, on her book, The Enlightenment Project.
The Enlightenment Projec tis a novel about a renowned neurosurgeon and his important research project on his life story, and the trauma in his childhood when he was targeted by a malevolent being which has informed his life thereafter. It is packed with the latest (true) scientific discoveries, and illustrates how powerful the mind can be.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – in the Courtyard
Date: Sunday the 13th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/lynn-hightower-enlightenment-project
Jerry Garcia & Open Mic & Trumpets in the Sky at Second Sunday Poetry Series
Join us for a discussion and signing with author Jerry Garcia, when he presents and reads his new poetry book, Trumpets in the Sky.
There will also be an Open Mic at this event.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, and event details.
Where: Second Sunday Poetry Series
Date: Sunday the 13th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 3433 Cahuenga Blvd. W., Los Angeles, CA 90068
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