NOTE: There Are Both Online and Virtual Events
Vroman’s Local Author Day, Kids Edition: Eshelle Williams & Brian Carmody at Vroman’s – Online Kids & YA Event
Dr. Eshele Williams is the author of But Mommy, Our Last Name Isn’t Foster, which explains the feelings behind the words that help children understand a unique way of being a family — a foster family. With warm words and poignant pictures, Dr. Williams uses her lived experience to shine a sensitive light on this unique way of being a family.
Brian Carmody is the author of My Magic Summer; With the Moon Maidens. This story is set in summer of ’94, and Connor Whelan is excited to spend the last three months before his senior year with his uncle in Texas. Aware this trip is due to his mom’s cancer treatments, he still hopes this will be a season of magic.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Monday the 28th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/vromans-live-presents-local-author-day-kids-edition
Quantum Book Club: Bubble & Jordan Morris at The Book Jewel – In-Person Event
Join us for the Quantum Book Club, to discuss this month’s selection, Bubble, by co-author Jordan Morris, who will join us.
This high energy graphic novel is based on the mash hit audio serial, with a satirical take on the “gig economy.”
Built and maintained by corporate benevolence, the city of Fairhaven is a literal bubble of safety and order (and amazing coffee) in the midst of the Brush, a harsh alien wilderness ruled by monstrous Imps and rogue bands of humans. Humans like Morgan, who’s Brush-born and Bubble-raised and fully capable of fending off an Imp attack during her morning jog. She’s got a great routine going—she has a chill day job, she recreationally kills the occasional Imp, then she takes that Imp home for her roommate and BFF, Annie, to transform into drugs as a side hustle. But cracks appear in her tidy life when one of those Imps nearly murders a delivery guy
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: The Book Jewel, Westchester – In-Person event
Date: Monday the 28th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6257 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/?ref=page_internal
Angel Dominguez, with Sesshu Foster, & Desgraciado (the collected letters) via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear a conversation between author Angel Dominguez and author Sesshu Foster (Atomic Aztex), when he presents his book, Desgraciado (the collected letters).
This book is a collection of epistolary poems that exorcises and explores the material violence and generational trauma of colonization and systemic racism stored within queer Latinx memory. The author navigates language and memory to illuminate the ongoing traumas of misremembered and missing histories and their lasting impacts. Dominguez unravels a critical and tender language of lived experience in letters addressed to their ancestral oppressor. This collection doesn’t seek to heal the incurable wound of colonization so much as attempt to re-articulate a language towards recuperation.
NOTE: See site for event details link.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Monday the 28th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-angel-dominguez-conversation-sesshu-foster
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-304062819077
Life Stories Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Join us to share something that happened to you. You can read a piece that you wrote, or speak off-the-cuff. You are also welcome just to listen. The stories can be funny, sad, or simply a slice-of-life. This is your opportunity to express yourself.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 2:05 pm
Address: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/life-stories-open-mic
Teen Book Bites: Badass Women & Women’s History Month via Central Library, LAPL – Online YouTube & FB Teen Event
Join our librarians as they share books for teens that celebrate Women’s History Month!
You may also watch past episodes on YouTube for more book recommendations.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Central Library, LAPL (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/life-stories-open-mic
Venice Book Club: Sarah Rose & For All the Tea in China via Venice Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Join our Venice Book Club to read and discuss this month’s selection, For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the Worlds’ Favorite Drink and Changed History, by Sarah Rose.
In this dramatic story of espionage, the author explores the fascinating and unlikely circumstances surrounding a turning point in economic history: in 19th century the British East India Company faced the loss of its monopoly on the lucrative tea trade with China, forcing it to send Scottish botanist Robert Fortune to steal the crop from deep within China and bring it back to British plantations in India.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, Zoom link and details.
Where: Venice – Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Venice Branch Library, LAPL (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/venice-book-club-0
Phy-Sci Book Club: Clean, by James Hamblin at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us for a discussion of our monthly book selection, Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less, by author and Atlantic staff writer James Hamblin.
In this lucid, accessible, and deeply researched book, the author explores the ongoing, radical change in the way we think about our skin, introducing readers to the emerging science that will be at the forefront of health and wellness conversations in coming years.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., #30A, Riverside, CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/phy-sci-book-club-clean
L.A. Times Book Club: Reyna Grande & A Ballad of Love and Glory via LA Times Book Club – Online Event
Join us for our March Book Club selection, to hear bestselling author Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us), in conversation with LA Times editor Steve Padilla, about her new novel, A Ballad of Love and Glory.
Set in 1846, Grande’s historical saga follows a Mexican Army nurse and a disheartened Irish soldier during the Mexican-American War form 1846-48. This historical fiction reveals the story of the St. Patrick’s Batallion, a regiment of soldiers of European descent who deserted the U.S. Army and joined the Republic of Texas fighters in Mexico, through the efforts of one man, John Riley, and his relationship with the healer and nurse in the Mexican army, Ximena Salome. It deals with issues of love and betrayal, both personal and political, and the struggles for human dignity and freedom.
NOTE: See site for event details and Zoom link.
Where: LA Times Book Club with Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 6 pm – 7:15 pm
Address: LA Times – Online Event
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/march-la-times-book-club-with-reyna-grande-tickets-271859367687 or https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/la-times-march-book-club
AAPI Book Club: The Leavers by Lisa Ko via Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Join the AAPI Book Club to read our March selection, The Leavers, by Lisa Ko.
In this finalist for the 2017 National book Award for Fiction, the author’s debut, Deming ng Guo’s mother Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon—and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her.
With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his adoptive parents’ desire that he assimilate with his memories of his mother and the community he left behind.
Told from the perspective of both Daniel—as he grows into a directionless young man—and Polly, this is a heart-wrenching story.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, link, and event details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Bel Canto Books – Online event (see site)
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs or https://shopthehangout.com/products/bcb-leavers
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Kelli Russell Agodon – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Kelli Russell Agodon.
Kelli Russell Agodon is a writer, editor, and poet and the author of Hourglass Museum (2014) and Letters from the Emily Dickenson Room. Other books include: Small Knots, Geography, and Fire on Her Tongue: an Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry. She also was editor of Crab Creek Review for six years, and is co-founder of Two Sylvias Press.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Live Talks LA: Jane McGonigal, with Felica Day, & Imaginable at Wilshire Boulevard Temple– In-Person Event
Live Talks LA will present author Jane McGonigle, in conversation with Felicia Day, at Wilshire Boulevard Temple to discuss her new book, Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That seem Impossible Today.
The author is a world-renowned future forecaster and game designer teaches us to envision the future before it arrives—and gives us the tools to help shape the world we want to live in. McGonigle is also the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (2011) and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully (2016),
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Live Talks LA – Off-site at Wilshire Boulevard Temple – In-Person Event
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 8 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 3643 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/jane-mcgonigal/
Da Poetry Lounge Tuesday Open Mic at Dynasty Typewriter – In-Person & IG Event
Open Mic Tuesdays at Da Poetry Lounge are back! Catch us live at Dynasty Typewriter and also on IG Livestream. Hosted by Alysha Wise and Matthew “Cuban” Hernandez.
Today’s event is Women & Femmes Night at Dynasty Typewriter.
Where: DA Poetry Lounge at Dynasty Typewriter
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 9 pm – 11 pm
Address: 2511 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYvULkirZCx/ or https://www.instagram.com/p/CbX26Z5lrTD/
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 29th
Time: 9 pm – 12 am
Address: 5205 E. Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90804
Kenneth Kales, with John Evens: How Publishing Works for Independent Publishers & In the Shadows of Paris: The Nazi Concentration Camp that Dimmed the City of Light via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Kenneth Kales, founder and publisher of Kales Press, in conversation with John Evans of DIESEL, A Bookstore will present a special discussion, How Publishing Works for Independent Publishers. Kales Press was founded in 1999 and publishes books that make a difference through an emphasis on world-class nonfiction by distinguished authors including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Prize laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, and in collaboration with distinguished institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress and the British Monarchy Royal Collection.
The conversation will include discussion of the book In the Shadows of Paris: The Nazi Concentration Camp That Dimmed the City of Light, by Ann Sinclair, Sandra Smith (Translated by), which is a finalist for the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Nonfiction.
“This story has haunted me since I was a child,” begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grandfather’s, Léonce Schwartz. What her tribute reveals is part memoir, part historical documentation of a lesser known chapter of the Holocaust: the Nazi’s mass arrest, in French the word for this is rafle and there is no equivalent in English that captures the horror, on December 12, 1941 of influential Jews — the doctors, professors, artists and others at the upper levels of French society — who were then imprisoned just fifty miles from Paris in the Compiegne-Royallieu concentration camp. Those who did not perish there, were taken by the infamous one-way trains to Auschwitz; except for the few to escape that fate. Léonce Schwartz was among them.
Where: Diesel Bookstore & Warwick’s – Online Zoom Event
Date: Wednesday the 30th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: Diesel Bookstore – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/kale-2022
Rachel Ricketts, with Kiese Laymon, & Do Better via Book Soup – Online Event
Join attorney and author Rachel Ricketts, in conversation with author Kiese Laymon (Long Division, Heavy), to discuss her book, Do Better,
Do Better is a revolutionary offering that addresses racial justice from a comprehensive, intersectional, and spirit-based perspective. This actionable guidebook illustrates how to engage in the heart-centered and mindfulness-based practices that will help us all fight white supremacy from the inside out, in our personal lives and communities alike. It is a loving and assertive call to do the deep–and often uncomfortable–inner work that precipitates much-needed external and global change.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 30th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online Event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/rachel-ricketts
2nd Annual 30 in 30 Writing Workshop Series with Brendan Constantine via Beyond Baroque – Online Event
Join Beyond Baroque for the 2nd Annual 30 in 30 Workshop, with author, poet and writer Brendan Constantine.
This four-week intensive writing workshop coincides with National Poetry Month, when poets everywhere challenge themselves to write a poem a day. Last year’s workshop with Brendan Constantine was a huge success, so we’re doing it again!
Each class will include group discussions on the art of poetry, effective tools and routines, and enough prompts to keep you busy until the next session. We promise you’ll have everything you need to write 30 poems in 30 days, and probably a lot more! No experience necessary. Writers of all genres are welcome. Join us and be inspired.
Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many of the nation’s standards, including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, Tin House, and Poem-a-Day. His most recent collections are Dementia, My Darling (2016) from Red Hen Press and Bouncy Bounce (2018) a chapbook from Blue Horse Press. New work is forthcoming in the Washington Square Review.
NOTE: See site for costs, link, and details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 30th through April 20th, 2022 & optional April 27th meeting.
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Beyond Baroque – Online Event
Quest Book Club: The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang at The Book Jewel – In-Person Event
Join us for the Quest Book Club meeting, to discuss this month’s selection, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, by author Esme Weijun Wang.
This Book Club reads literary fiction and non-fiction involving journeys of the mind.
This book is the winner of the Graywolf Press non-fiction prize, and is an intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her own life.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: The Book Jewel, Westchester – In-Person event
Date: Wednesday the 30th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6257 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/photos/a.104096281005518/683124263102714/
At Skylight: Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, with Jade Chang, & Good Company at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, in conversation with author Jade Chang (Everything, Everything), to discuss her new novel, Good Company.
In this new novel from the author of The Nest, Sweeney writes of the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship, and writes with humor and tenderness about lifelong friendships that both wound and heal us.
Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring—the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five.
Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian’s small theater company—Good Company—afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes, a chance to breathe easier, and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now?
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 30th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-cynthia-daprix-sweeney-presents-good-company-jade-chang
Anansi Virtual 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
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 30th
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 30th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry & Hari B Khalsa 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 Hari B Kahlsa.
Hari B Kahlsa will present her current chapbook She Speaks to the Birds at Night While They Sleep, which was selected by Judge Gail Wronsky for Tebot Bach as the 2020 winner of their Clockwise Chapbook Contest. She wrote these poems in the early days and weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic, pecking at her IPad before drifting off to sleep at night. These 28 poems chronicle the small and large moments of a woman’s day-to-day, a way to express what was experienced as both real and earthly, as well as the internal, the spirit, the imagination that takes flight on the wings of birds.”
Her work has appeared in over fifty publications, and in 2009 her poem “I Would Tell You” was selected for the Best of the Web 2009. Her first chapbook, Life in Two Parts, was selected in the Mainstreet Rag Chapbook Competition, and Walrus Books published her full length collection, Talk of Snow, in 2015,
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 30th
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/681065393036126
Virtual Book Talk with 2 Authors: Sana Balagamwala & Ira Sukrungruang via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for a Virtual Bok Talk to hear authors, Sana Balagamwala and Ira Sukrungruang discuss their new books: House Number 12, Block Number 3 and This Jade World, respectively.
Sana Balagamwala’s House Number 12, Block Number 3 is a novel about the home that has sheltered the Rahmat family for decades in Pakistan, and it narrates and recollects past events, trying to absolve itself of the burden it feels of being privy to the real reason for Nadia’s turmoil, but not being able to do anything about it. Whatever the cause of this mysterious affliction, Zainab, Nadia’s mother, is at pains to keep it hidden from the community at large; she is worried Nadia will be labeled as mad, and she knows all too well the taboos that mental illness brings with it.
Ira Sukrungruang’s This Jade World the story centers on a Thai American who has gone through a series of life changes. Ira Sukrungruang married young to an older poet. On their twelfth anniversary, he received a letter asking for a divorce, sending him into a despairing spiral. How would he define himself when he was suddenly without the person who shaped and helped mold him into the person he is?
After all these years, he asked himself what he wanted and found no answer. He did not even know what wanting meant. And so, in the year between his annual visits to Thailand to see his family, he gave in to urges, both physical and emotional; found comfort in the body, many bodies; fought off the impulse to disappear, to vanish; until he arrived at some modicum of understanding. During this time, he sought to obliterate the stereotype of the sexless Asian man and began to imagine a new life with new possibilities.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 31st
Time: 5 pm
Address: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/march-31-sana-ira
Sarah Fay, with Porochista Khakpour, & Pathological at Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear author Sarah Fay, in conversation with Porochista Khakpour, discuss her new book, Pathological: the Ture Story of Six MIsdiagnoses.
Over a period of thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses–anorexia, major depressive disorder (MDD), anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and bipolar disorder. Pathological is the gripping story of what it was like to live with those diagnoses, and the crippling impact each had on her life. It is also a rigorous investigation into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)–psychiatry’s “bible,” the manual from which all mental illness diagnoses come. Like the millions of Americans who’ll receive DSM diagnoses in their lifetimes, she believed the DSM and its diagnoses were valid, only to discover that this revered manual has little scientific merit. (HarperOne)
This memoir creates a work of art that entertains as much as it informs as it is witty, irreverent, and compelling in every way.
NOTE: See site for book purchase and event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Thursday the 31st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/sarah-fay
Author Appearance: Sam Foster & Panther Crosses Over at Flintridge Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Sam Foster, who willdiscuss his first in a trilogy of books, A Panther Crosses Over: A Novel, which begins his reframing of the epic legacy of the fight for the American Midwest.
A clash of civilizations, two powerful leaders, and a dramatic outcome that ripples through generations. Following the French and Indian War, white settlers pour over the Appalachians and down the Ohio River. But native tribes have long inhabited this land—and they are willing to fight to remain. Leading the Shawnee is Tecumseh— courageous, discerning, and capable of assembling fifty thousand warriors to rise together to chase the white settlers back east when he commands. Against Tecumseh stands an equally talented, implacable, and gifted opponent, William Henry Harrison. The decades-long struggle between cultures, and men, comes to a dramatic head at the Battle of Tippecanoe, with history-shaping consequences.
Sam Foster’s ancestral home is a dying little port on the Illinois River. He came to Los Angeles for college, graduated with a history degree, and ended up in U.S. Marine Corps. Always a storyteller, it wasn’t until his mid-forties that he was brave enough to indulge his creative impulses. His second book, Non-Semper Fidelis, was nominated for the 2017 Small Press Association PUSHCART PRIZE for Best Novel. He has lived most of his life at the beach in Los Angeles.
NOTE: See site for book purchase and event details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 31st
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 858 Foothill Blvd., La Canada Flintridge, CA 91011
At Skylight: Henry Hoke, with Kate Durbin, & Sticker at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Henry Hoke, in conversation with Kate Durbin, present and discuss his book, Sticker (Object Lessons).
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Stickers adorn our first memories, dot our notebooks and our walls, are stuck annoyingly on fruit, and accompany us into adulthood to announce our beliefs from car bumpers. They hold surprising power in their ability to define and provoke, and hold a strange steadfast presence in our age of fading physical media. Henry Hoke employs a constellation of stickers to explore queer boyhood, parental disability, and ancestral violence.
A memoir in 20 stickers, Stickeris set against the backdrop of the encroaching neo-fascist presence in Hoke’s hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, which results in the fatal terrorist attack of August 12th and its national aftermath.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 31st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N, Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-henry-hoke-presents-sticker-kate-durbin
FOS-Thursdays & FOST Artistic Collective present: Freedom of Speech Open Mic with Sabor y Cultura Café – Online IG Event
Please help FOS’s in-person venue Sabor y Cultura with the link in the bio. Open Mic is currently only on IG Live at 8 pm PST, with sign-ups open on Wednesday at 3pm PST.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Freedom of Speech (FOS) Open Mic – Online IG event
Date: Thursday the 31st
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online IG Event
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Check to verify)
Your Author Series: Chad Sell & The Cardboard Kingdom via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Join the Your Author Series event featuring author Chad Sell, the creator of the graphic novel The Cardboard Kingdom, which he illustrated and co-wrote with a team of ten collaborators.
Again, capturing the thrill and magic in his latest graphic novel, The Cardboard Kingdom: Roar of the Beast. The same creative team joined Chad to create an epic adventure in the Cardboard Kingdom where a mysterious monster stalks through the neighborhood at night. Every kid in the Kingdom will need to join together to solve the mystery and defeat (or master?) this menacing new monster!
Email nohlwd@lapl.org to receive the Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online FB and YouTube event
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online – LAPL Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-chad-sell
Dylan Marron, with Franchesca Ramsey, & Conversations with People Who Hate Me via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Dylan Marron, in conversation with Franchesca Ramsey, present and discuss his book, Conversations with People Who Hate Me.
Conversations with People Who Hate Me: 12 Things I Learned from Talking to Internet Strangers comes to us from the host of the award-winning podcast, Conversations with People Who Hate Me, and is a witty, thought-provoking, inspirational exploration of different conversations and how to navigate them. In this book the author retraces his journey through a project that connects adversarial strangers in a time of unprecedented division. After years of production and dozens of phone calls, he shares what he’s learned about having difficult conversations and how having them can help close the ever-growing distance between us.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Crowdcast Event (see site)
You Sound Like a White Girl, with Julissa Arce and Yesika Salgado, via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Julissa Arce, in conversationwith poet and authorand Yeiska Salgado (Corazon, Tesoro, Hermosa),discuss her new book, You Sound Like a White Girl.
Julissa Arce’s You Sound Like a White Girl is a book in which she interweaves her own story with cultural commentary in a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America. Instead, she calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans.
The author dives into and tears apart the lie that assimilation leads to belonging. She combs through history and her own story to break down this myth, arguing that assimilation is a moving finish line designed to keep Black and brown Americans and immigrants chasing racist American ideals. She talks about the Lie of Success, the Lie of Legality, the Lie of Whiteness, and the Lie of English–each promising that if you obtain these things, you will reach acceptance and won’t be an outsider anymore. Julissa deftly argues that these demands leave her and those like her in a purgatory–neither able to secure the power and belonging within whiteness nor find it in the community and cultures whiteness demands immigrants and people of color leave behind.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/calendar
Poetry Reading with Jerry Garcia & Beth Ruscio at Beyond Baroque – In-Person Event
Join Beyond Baroque in-person for a poetry reading with poets and write Jerry Garcia and Beth Ruscio.
Jerry Garcia is celebrating the release of his newest poetry collection, Trumpets in the Sky, published by Moon Tide Press. The collection is a series of poems that point to the universe while proclaiming the complexities of living on planet earth. These poems are full of astonishment, absurdity, reverence, and social science. He will be joined by poet and actress Beth Ruscio, whose latest work, Speaking Parts, won the Brick Road Poetry Prize.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines and event details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – In-Person Event
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA 90291
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
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.
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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 1st
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom event
Our 44 Poetry Class Free Trial at the Sims Library of Poetry – Online Zoom Event
Join us for an exclusive one-time offer, to attend our 44 Poetry Class for FREE!
If you are looking for a place to learn about poetry and a place to share your poems in community, please join us!
Streaming LIVE from the Sims Library of Poetry on Zoom.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 10 am
Address: Onllne Zoom Event (see site)
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/event-details/our-44-poetry-class-free-trial
Memoir Writing Workshop with Susy Porter, at Palms-Ranch Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for a Memoir Writing Workshop led by Susy Porter. Write, laugh & explore your life story in a new and exciting way. Learn fun techniques to help unleash your creativity & imagination. Writers of all levels are welcome!
Susy Porter wrote her first memoir at age 7 and has been writing ever since. She has studied creative writing with renowned teachers including Francesca Lia Block, Terrie Silverman, and Diana Rabb. She wrote and performed her autobiographical solo show called “Wake Up Little Susy”.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/memoir-writing-workshop
Book Club: The Book Women of Troublesome Creek, a novel by Kim Michele Richardson via Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Los Feliz Library Book Club to discuss our next monthly selection, The Book Women of Troublesome Creek, by Kim Michele Richardson.
This bestselling book describes1930s Kentucky life in the hollers and features an indomitable heroine navigating a community steeped in racial intolerance. In 1936, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project, delivering reading material to the rural people of Kentucky, and is based on true stories of heroic librarians and the blue-skinned people of Kentucky.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details. To obtain a Zoom link please email: mpanzera@lapl.org.
Where: Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-book-woman-troublesome-creek
The Big Read: The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui via Chinatown Branch Library, LAPL – Online Teen Zoom Event
Join the Big Read and the Chinatown Library Book Club to discuss our book selection, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
This Big Read title is about the Vietnam War, refugees and immigrants, and intergeneration trauma, for kids ages 11-16.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details. To obtain a Zoom link please email: inguyen@lapl.org.
Where: Chinatown Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 2 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-best-we-could-do-illustrated-memoir-thi-bui-11
Book Club: The Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler at Café con LIbros Press – In-Person Event
Join our Book Club discussion of the iconic novel, The Parable of the Sower, a dystopian fantasy Octavia E. Butler.
This title images the aftermath of a “future” Los Angeles after riots, scavenging, racial injustice and social disintegration force families to move on to create and find new lives.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Café con Libros Press
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 280 W. 2nd St., Pomona, CA 91766
Website: https://www.facebook.com/cafeconlibrospress/photos/a.1179263212513054/1380658505706856/
Jose Chavez & Bilingual Storytime for Kids at LibroMobile – In-Person Kids Event
Join our Bilingual Storytime for Children when author Jose Chavez reads his work for children and families.
Jose Chavez was born in New Mexico and raised in Southern California. He is a retired second grade Dual Language Immersion teacher in Moreno Valley. He writes poetry, picture books, and short stories for children. His poetry for adults includes the poem Juan Not.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: LibroMobile at Bristol Food Court
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 1180 S. BristolSt., Santa Ana, CA 92704
In-Store Signing: Chad Kultgen, with Lizzy Pace, & How to Win the Bachelor at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Chad Kultgen, in conversation with Lizzy Pace, present and discuss his book, How to Win the Bachelor.
How to Win the Bachelor: The Secret to Finding Love and Fame on America’s Favorite Reality Show uncovers the fascinating history of the show, the most succeccful realitry TV show of all time, and takes a deeper look at what separates the winners form the losers.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 3 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/store-signing-chad-kultgen-and-lizzy-pace-sign-how-win-bachelor
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Open Mic: San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival – Off-Site In-Person Event & Via Zoom
Join us at Saturday Afternoon Poetry off-site at My Place Café for The Big Open, hosted by Jackie Chow and Laurie Wall-Holloway. (Prizes for every open reader in attendance.)
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: My Place Café & via ZOOM online
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Lummis Day Festival Poetry in the Library: Poetry & Conversations with Authors via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us on Zoom for poetry and conversations with four authors:
Mariano Zaro is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Decoding Sparrows (What Books Press, Los Angeles), finalist of the Housatonic Book Award, and Padre Tierra (Olifante, Zaragoza). His poems and short stories have been published in anthologies and literary journals in Spain, Mexico and the 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).
Alison Turner‘s debut collection, The Second Split Between, was selected by Dorianne Laux to be the winner of the 2021 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. Her poems have appeared in various journals including The American Poetry Journal, Mid-American Review, San Pedro River Review, Nimrod and Poetry East. She lives in Los Angeles.
Will Alexander has published many collections, most recently The Combustion Cycle and Refractive Africa. Poets & Writers awarded Alexander the Jackson Poetry Prize in 2016, stating “It is tempting to label Alexander a surrealist or experimentalist, but he is truly a singular voice. Ultimately, his poetry is rooted in a belief in the transformative powers of language.”
Elena Katrina Byrne authored her fifth poetry collection, If This Makes You Nervous. A Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry recipient, Byrne’s work has appeared in journals including Poetry, The Paris Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB and Poetry Daily. She is completing screenplays and a collection of essays entitled Voyeur Hour.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-reading-and-conversation-lummis-day-series
Pond Water Open Reading Presents: Fuck All at Private Home in Covina– In-Person Event
Join us to paint, write, read, create, talk and listen at PondWater, with Joanne Qualey Baines.
You don’t need to bring anything, shuck your responsibilities on the front porch, just under that Matthew Mars map that says “You Are Here”
No entry fee, but if you would like to stick around for dinner there is a suggested donation: a stick of butter, some triple A batteries, a box of Kleenex, unscented hand soap, or some cash.
There will be a sign-up sheet so follow your passion and get here when it tells you to.
NOTE: See website for guidelines and further details.
Where: PondWater Open Reading Event – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm
Address: 16504 E. Masline St., Covina, CA 91722
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/306533738128706/?ref=newsfeed
Floricantos en Primavera Poetry Reading with Flower Song Press at Beyond Baroque – In-Person Event
Join Beyond Baroque in-person for a poetry reading with poets from FlowerSong Press and who are based in Southern California.
“Floricanto” (in xochitl in cuicatl) is a term for poetic expression that originated from the Nahuatl language, spoken predominantly by indigenous communities in Mexico, and brings together two images (flower and song) to create a third meaning. Join us as we welcome a season of bloomings and celebrate the start of National Poetry Month with an afternoon of cantos that embody change and resilience. Two authors are also celebrating newly published poetry collections: Living on Islands not Found on Maps by Luivette Resto, and City on The Second Floor by Matt Sedillo.
Matt Sedillo has been describes as the best political poet in America, as well as “the poet laureate of the struggle” by academics, poets, and journalists alike. He has spoken and perfprmed his work nationally and internationally, a appeared at over one hundred colleges and universities, as well as many conferences and forums. He is the current literary director of the dA Center for the Arts and author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (FlowerSong Press, 2019) and City on the Second Floor (FlowerSong Press, 2022).
Liuvette Resto, a mother, teacher, poet, and Wonder Woman fanatic, was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico but proudly raised in the Bronx. Her two books of poetry Unfinished Portrait and Ascension have been published by Tía Chucha Press. Some of her latest work can be found on the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center website, Bozalta, Spillway, and North American Review. Living on Islands Not Found on Maps (FlowerSong Press, 2022) is her third collection of poetry and first publication with FlowerSong Press.
Briana Munoz is a poet from Southern California. She is the author of Loose Lips, a poetry collection published by Prickly Pear Publishing (2019) and of Everything is Returned to the Soil published by Flowersong Press (2021). Her work has been published in the Bravura Literary Journal, Dryland Literary Journal, the Oakland Arts Review, Boundless: The Anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, and the anthology, Reimagine America, among others. She is an Indigenous Mexica danzante. She currently serves as the Volunteer Event Coordinator for the Sims Library of Poetry and the Volunteer Fundraising Coordinator for the Luis J Rodriguez for CA Governor 2022 campaign.
David A. Romero is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA. Romero is the author of My Name Is Romero (FlowerSong Press 2020), a book reviewed by Gustavo Arellano (¡Ask a Mexican!), Curtis Marez (University Babylon), and founding member of Ozomatli, Ulises Bella. Romero has appeared at over seventy-five colleges and universities in thirty different states in the USA. Romero’s work has been published in literary magazines in the United States, England, and Canada, including: North American Review, The Temz Review, Literary Cultures, Black Bear Review, Pine Hills Review, and Angels Flight • literary west. His poetry deals with family, identity, social justice issues, and Latinx culture.
Gina Duran is an artist, poet, and educator with a focus on marginalized youth. Gina Duran is the founder of the IE Hope Collective; an outreach that helps people living on the streets and in shelters, and provides poetry, art, and yoga workshops for low-income, homeless, foster, refugee, and LGBTQ2+ youth (ages 7-18). She is currently the Guest Editor of Boundless 2022, of The Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival, DJ/Host for The Collective on KQBH LA 101.5 FM. Her first collection of poetry “…and so, the Wind was Born,” was published in 2021 by FlowerSong Press and is a part of the Her Story Mixed Tape collection in the archives of the Autry Museum of the American West, in LA.
Iris De Anda is a Guanaca Tapatia poet, speaker & musician. Iris has been featured with KPFK & KPFA Pacifica Radio, organized with Academy of American Poets, performed at Los Angeles Latino Book Festival, Feria del Libro Tijuana, Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba and is named one of Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color. Author of Code Switch: Fires from Mi Corazon. Her second poetry book Roots of Redemption is available now from FlowerSong Press.
Fernando Albert Salinas is on the Board of Directors for California Poets in the Schools, the Ventura County Area Coordinator, and a Master Poet-Teacher. He is also an Adjunct Professor of English at Ventura College, the Ventura County Area Coordinator and recitation coach for the California Arts Council’s Poetry Out Loud program, and the Editor-in-chief for Spit Shine Publishing. As Literary Arts Program Coordinator for the Ventura County Arts Council, he focuses on enhancing the presence and appreciation of poetry and the literary arts, raising awareness of the power of literature, poetry, and the spoken word. In 2012, Salinas initiated the Groundswell Committee: a small collection of local poets, with the support of the Ventura County Arts Council, and created the County’s poet laureate program. In 2018, he implemented a youth poet laureate program for the county. His written poetry has appeared in several publications, including Askew Poetry Journal, Solo Poetry Journal, Miramar, and Lummox Press. He has performed his spoken word internationally. His new release from FlowerSong Press is titled Toxic Masculinity: The Misadventures of a Barrio Boy
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines and event details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA 90291
Website: http://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/floricantos-en-primavera-a-poetry-reading-with-flowersong-press-tickets-298325137517
Artists Who Write: Big Memory Event at Poetic Research Bureau – In-Person Event
Join us at Poetic Research Bureau for Artists Who Write: Big Memory, a collection of thoughts and reflections in various forms and genres, by new writers, writers informed by other mediums, and artists who write.
Featured Artists:
Andrea Sisson is an interdisciplinary artist with a social practice. They are a 2010 Fulbright Fellow and hold an MFA from Bard College, Milton Avery School of the Arts. Their medium spans video, image, sound, participatory projects, peer mediation, and writing.
Yatta Zoker is an artist, musician, performer, and educator from Houston, Texas. Over the years, they have shared the stage with musicians like The Sun Ra Arkestra and Cardi B, creating multimedia performances that tour astrally, nationally, and globally.
Clarissa Ebigwu is an LA, Tulsa, and NYC based artist, attempting to merge with the natural world via sporadic and quantum communication. She lives for the rhythm and dies for the rhythm. Follow her to get lost!
Estelle Araya-S, now based in LA, received her BA at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA in 2008 and her MFA at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2020. Provoked by visuality—the quality of being seen – sculpture, writing, and photography are forms that make up Estelle’s practice.
Where: The Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 801 E. 4th Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: https://www.poeticresearch.com/events/big-memory-artists-who-write
Book Club in the Park & Delilah Green Doesn’t Care at Ripped Bodice Bookstore in the Park– In-Person Event
Join the Book Club in the Park event to discuss Ashley Herring Blake’s book, Delilah Green Doesn’t Care.
When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland. Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and event details.
Where: Ripped Bodice Bookstore – In-Person Off-site Event
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 12 pm
Address: The Actor’s Gang, Venice Blvd. in Culver City, CA
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Claire Keane Book Launch & Little Wonder at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-person Kids Event
Join us for children’s author Claire Keane’s book launch of Little Wonder.
Wake up, Little Wonder! The whole wide world awaits you!
A love letter from a mother to her child accompanies him on a journey of unbelievable fantasies. It’s a day full of breathtaking adventures, exciting twists and turns, and unexpected friends. With an imagination stronger than the tide and a mama’s love deeper than the ocean, Little Wonder can do anything he believes he can.
And he will!
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 2 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/little-wonder
Soulful of Noise Presents: Soulful Sundays Open Mic – In-Person Event
The best Open Mic in the Nation is back! Calling all singers, rappers, poets and musicians to come showcase their talents.
This event takes place the first Sunday of every month at the Sola Beehive at 2 pm.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, tickets, guidelines, rules, and event details.
Where: Soulful Of Noise at Sola Beehive
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 2 pm – 6 pm
Address: 1000 E. 60th St., Los Angeles, CA 90001
Dean Sluyter & The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics at Diesel Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Dean Sluyer read from and sign his book, The Dharma Bum’s Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics!
Some of us were lucky enough to have one passionate, funny, inspiring English teacher who helped us fall in love with books. Add a lifetime of teaching Dharma—authentic, traditional approaches to meditation and awakening—and you get award-winning author Dean Sluyter. Sluyter’s habit of finding enlightenment in unexpected places started at the age of twelve, when Mad magazine triggered his first glimpse of deep transcendence. He went on to discover how “Eastern” spirituality—the light of nirvana—illuminates all the big questions of birth and death, hope and despair, love and fear that Western literature explores.
With droll humor and irreverent wisdom, the Guide unpacks the Dharma of more than twenty major writers, from Shakespeare to Dr. Seuss. It will inspire readers to deepen their own spiritual life and see literature in a fresh, new way: as a path of awakening.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood – in the Courtyard
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 3 pm – 4pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA 900402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/dharma-bums-guide
Open Words Open Reading Event at Terry’s New Home in Claremont – In-Person Event
Join us for the Open Words Open Reading event at a private home in Claremont.
Join us for our monthly open reading at our new venue–the back yard of Terry’s new property in Claremont. Come and share your poetry or prose. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
Address: 534 Baughman Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711.
Baughman runs parallel to Foothill, and is located between 12th Street and Foothill.
Terry’s street is in Zone A of Claremont for parking. Cars parked on this street during daylight hours must display a parking permit. We will give you a permit when you arrive at the reading.
Please bring your own chairs for the reading. Terry has a few chairs, but this will help us.
When you arrive, look for our flag beside her front window. Proceed to the back yard by walking through the side gate on the east side of the house.
If you wish to read, the signup list will be available at 2:30. We will begin reading at 3:00.
NOTE: See website for guidelines and further details.
Where: Terry’s New Home in Claremont – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 3 pm
Address: 534 Baughman Ave., Claremont, CA 91711
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