NOTE: There Are Both Online and Virtual Events Listed Here
World Literature Book Club: Story Selections via Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for a spirited discussion of the world’s best short stories! All selections are from The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (New York, 2021) ed. John Freeman. This month’s selections are:
May 2: St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell (2007)
May 9: The Last Thing We Need by Claire Vaye Watkins (2010)
May 16: Ken Liu: Selection to be Announced
May 23: The Dune by Stephen King (2011)
NOTE: See site for event details and Zoom link.
Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 10 am
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/world-literature-book-club-36
Book Club Bonanza: Let’s Celebrate Asian Pacific Voices via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Teens may join our librarians online as they share books for teens that celebrate Asian Pacific voices in YA literature and celebrate and join the Big Read.
The Best We Could Do, by author Thi Bui, is an illustrated graphic noel portraying one family’s poignant journey from war-torn Vietnam to America and will resonate with all who hope for a better future while longing for a simpler past.
The book club discussion itself will be held on Monday, May 23rd, and over the next two weeks we will also host a read-alikes discussion on May 9th and book-related activities on May 16th, prior to the discussion.
Watch past episodes on YouTube for more book recommendations.
NOTE: See site for RSVP & event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-bonanza-lets-celebrate-asian-pacific-voices
Mieko Kawakami, with Ruth Ozeki & All the Lovers of the Night Launchat Skylight Bookstore – Livestream Event
Mieko Kawakami, in conversation with Ruth Ozeki (The Book of Form and Emptiness), will present and discuss her novel, All the Lovers in the NIght.
When freelance copy editor Fuyuko Irie stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.
As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from Fuyuko’s past surface and her behavior slips further and further beyond the pale. All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that sometimes the pain is worth it.
NOTE: See site for tickets, book purchase, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore (with others)
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Skylight – Livestream Event
Chris Hauty, with Sarah Langan, & Storm Rising at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Bestselling author Chris Hauty, in conversation with Sarah Langan, will present and discuss his new thriller, Storm Rising, about a dangerous white supremacy conspiracy that threatens to tear the country apart.
Storm Rising tells the story of a former White House intern turned intelligence operative, Hayley Chill, who stumbles upon a ciphered document under the floorboards of her father’s house and is led into a terrifying subculture of white supremacy within the U.S. military. There is an expansive conspiracy ot bring about the succession of several states form the country, and it’s up to her to stop a second civil war before it starts.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Book Soup (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/chris-hauty-conversation-sarah-langan-discussses-storm-rising
Douglas Stuart, with Abdi Nazemian, & Young Mungo at Vroman’s Off-site at All Saints Church – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author and 2020Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain), in conversation with Abdi Nazemian, discuss his new novel, YOUNG MUNGO.
This novel is a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James.
Born under different stars—Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic—they should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they fall in love, they dream of finding somewhere they belong, as they face the dangers surrounding them.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, tickets, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s at All Saints Church
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/douglas-stuart-discusses-young-mungo
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 2nd
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-328165019407
Author Event: Reyna Grande, with Jean Guerrero, & A Ballad of Love and Glory at Cypress Library – In-Person Event
Author Reyna Grande, in conversation with L.A Times columnist and author Jean Guerrero, will present and discuss her new novel, A Ballad of Love and Glory.
In this seeping historical saga we follow a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, at first for their survival and then for their love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War. This is an unforgettable romance set in a forgotten war, which takes place in 1845 after the controversial annexation of Texas.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Cypress Library
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 5331 Orange Ave., Cypress, CA 90630
Sarah Schulman, with David Roman, & Let the Record Show at ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL – In-Person Event
Author Sarah Schulman, in conversation with USC professor and author David Roman, will present and discuss her new book, Let the Record Show, a comprehensive political history of ACT UP and American AIDS activism.
In just six years, ACT UP New York, grew a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all descriptions and backgrounds to change the world and take on the AIDS crisis with indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attacks on all who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. This event is a combined reading and conversation.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: ALOUD Reading Series, Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Stephen Mills, with Andrea Harner, & Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Author Stephen MIlls, in conversation with Andrea Harner, will present and discuss his new book, Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood, about a young teen chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, then groomed and molested for two years.
Chosen author Stephen Mills tells his own story of the horrific trauma and consummate courage and generosity of a man who faces his torment and tormentor, and in the process is made whole. Author Junot Diaz praises this memoir as an “unparalleled achievement, a work of shattering, almost unbearable radiance” which is “destined to become a classic because this is a book that will save lives.”
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Book Soup (see site)
Allison Raskin, with Gaby Dunn, & Over-Thinking About You at Chevalier’s – In-Person Event
Author Allison Raskin, in conversation with author Gaby Dunn, will present and discuss her new book, Overthinking About You: Navigating Relationships when You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression.
Dating is hard. But pursuing love and relationships when you live with mental illness can be even more overwhelming.
Allison Raskin knows this challenge firsthand and shares her journey with perfect candor. She’s learned from her experiences, and we get to learn from her, discovering new ways to form healthy dating and relationship habits. This is a transformative book, with insights on every page and an inspiring message of optimism and hope.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-allison-raskins-overthinking-about-you-tickets-315685512867
At Skylight: Claire Standford, with Cara Blue Adams, & Happy for You at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join author Claire Stanford, in conversation with Clara Blue Adams, to discuss her new novel, Happy for You, about a young woman who takes a job looking to break into the “happiness market”—even as her own happiness feels more unknowable than ever.
Four years into writing her still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and anticipating a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto is wrestling with big questions about life: How can she do meaningful work in the world? Is she ready for marriage—and motherhood? But no one else around her seems to share her ambivalence.
Wry, touching, and sharply attuned to the ambivalence, atomization, and illusion of control that characterize modern life, Happy for You is a story of a young woman at a crossroads that movingly explores how, even in this mediated world, our emotions, contradictions, and vulnerabilities have a transformative power we could never predict.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-claire-stanford-presents-happy-you-cara-blue-adams
David Sheinkopf & Leslie Jordan Present Books on Reality of Entertainment Business at Village Well Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join authors David Shienkopf and Leslie Jordan, to hear them discuss their new books: Village Idiot: A Manhattan Memoir, and Call me Kat and Will and Grace, respectively.
The authors will share their stories about living in New York City, what it’s like to be in the entertainment business for so long and how it has impacted their lives. Join us for an honest, yet necessary conversation on struggles with drugs and abuse and overcoming obstacles.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Village Well Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/17195
The Re/Connection Show at Tuesday Night Café – Online Event
Join the Tuesday Night Café Online for The RE/connection Show, presented by Tuesday Night project.
The first show of the 2022 season has the theme of re/connecition and is hosted by Johneric Concordia. Featuring:
UNION – a short film by FORM follows FUNCTION
Charlotte Nguyễn
Jeffrey Sun Young Park
Jenevieve Ting
Jess X. Snow
Ginto Seeds
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Please note – this is an exclusively online event! We miss you but to keep our staff and performers safe please do not drop-by the courtyard (even if you live nearby)!
NOTE: See site for link, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Tuesday Night Cafe
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Tuesday Night Café Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/510280740551830
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Lannie Stabile – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Lannie Stabile.
Lannie Stabile is a queer Detroiter A finalist for the 2019/2020 Glass Chapbook Series and semifinalist for the Button Poetry 2018 Chapbook Contest, she is usually working on new chapbook ideas, or, when desperate, on her neglected YA novel. She holds the position of Managing Editor at Barren Magazine and is a member of the MMPR Collective. She was thrice nominated for Best of the Net 2019.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Gary Janetti, with Casey Wilson, & Start Without Me at Hammer Museum – In-Person Event
Author, Family Guy writer and HBO star Gary Janetti, in conversation with author Casey Wilson, willpresent and discuss his story collection: Start without Me: (I’ll Be There in a MInute)..
The stories in this collection are hilarious, laugh out loud, true life stories about the small moments that add up to a big life.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, tickets, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Live Talks LA at Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3643 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/gary-janetti/
Da Poetry Lounge IG Live Open MIc Night – IG Live Event
Every Tuesday (except for 3rd Tuesdays and special events) Da Poetry Lounge holds open mic nights. At an open mic, all are welcome to share their poetry or sit in the audience.
See sites for details.
Where: DA Poetry Lounge
Date: Tuesday the 3rd (Check to Verify details).
Time: 9 pm – 11 pm
Address: IG Live (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbX26Z5lrTD/
SOM Tuesdays Open Mic at Di Piazza’s Pizza, Long Beach – In-Person Event
SOM Open Mic Tuesdays at Di Piazza’s are back! Come and share music, comedy, and poetry with us.
Where: Di Piazza’s Pizza (Check to verify)
Date: Tuesday the 3rd
Time: 9 pm – 12 am
Address: 5205 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, CA
Washington Irving Book Club & The Time Is Now, by Joan Chittister, at Washington Irving Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our Book Club, to discuss our next monthly selection, The Time Is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage, by author Joan Chittister.
In The Time Is Now, Sister Joan Chittister—a rabble-rousing force of nature for social justice and fervent proponent of personal faith and spiritual fulfillment—draws on the wisdom of prophets, both ancient and modern, to help us confront the societal forces that oppress and silence the sacred voices among us.
Pairing scriptural insights with narratives of the truth-tellers that came before us, Sister Joan offers a compelling vision for readers to combat complacency and to propel ourselves toward creating a world of justice, freedom, peace, and empowerment. This is spirituality in action; this is practical and powerful activism for our times.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Washington Irving Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday 4th
Time: 12 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/washington-irving-book-club-1
Glendale Community College Pride Week Event: Andres (Andy) Sanchez, They/He – A Continuing Journey at GCC Community Center – Online Zoom Event
Join us to hear poet and writer Andres (Andy) Sanchez (They/He) read from and discuss his poetry and prose collection, This Body.
His biography discusses the topics of coming out, the transition journey, the mental health challenges, childhood traumas, the difficulty of family/romantic relationships, and their journey to healing.
We will also have a drawing for 10 copies of Andres’ book at the end of the event.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Glendale Community College- Student Center Room 212
Date: Wednesday 4th
Time: 12 pm
Address: GCC– Online (see site)
Website: https://www.glendale.edu/academics/special-programs/student-equity-programs/pride-week
Creative Writing Workshop: City of Cinema via LACMA – Online Event
This Creative Writing Workshop is inspired by works in the exhibition City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907, and participants will review images that captured Paris on the verge of becoming the first film capital—posters from the Folies Bergère, early film strips, photos of Paris at the turn of the century, and more—which will serve as prompts and inspiration for a variety of writing exercises. No writing experience necessary, just a willing pen and a curious mind. This event is led by Alicia Vogl Saenz and Chris Wells.
NOTE: See site for event link and details.
Where: LACMA
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 1 pm – 2;30 pm
Address: LACMA – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/
Chatsworth Branch Book Club & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, by Mark Haddon, at Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our Book Club, to discuss our next monthly selection, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, by author Mark Haddon.
This 2003 mystery novel by British author Mark Haddon is a modern classic about a boy with autism who is determined to solve the case of the murder of a neighbor’s dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world along the way.
NOTE: See site for event details. Email sstamm@lapl.org for the Zoom link.
Where: Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday 4th
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/chatsworth-book-club-3
Writing Trauma: Reyna Grande, with Joy Casto & Yxta Mya Murray, at UC Riverside 2022 Toma Rivera Conference – Online Event
Join the 2022 UCR Tomas Rivera Conference to hear the panel of authors discuss the topic of Writing Trauma. Three authors will share their inspirations and strategies when confronting hard truths, both historical and personal, in their writing:
Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home, and the story collection How Winter Began, as well as the memoir The Truth Book and the essay collection Island of Bones, which received the International Latino Book Award. She is also editor of the anthology Family Trouble and served as the guest judge of CRAFT‘s first Creative Nonfiction Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Senses of Cinema, Salon, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Brevity, Afro-Hispanic Review,and elsewhere. A former Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, she is currently the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Yxta Maya Murray is a novelist, art critic, playwright, and law professor. The author of nine books, her most recent are the forthcoming story collection, The World Doesn’t Work That Way, but It Could (University of Nevada Press, 2020), and the novel, Art Is Everything (TriQuarterly Press, 2021). She has won a Whiting Award, an Art Writer’s Grant, and has been named a fellow at the Huntington Library for her work on radionuclide contamination in Simi Valley, California.
Reyna Grande is the author of the bestselling memoir, The Distance Between Us, and the much-anticipated sequel, A Dream Called Home. Her other works include the novels, Across a Hundred Mountains, Dancing with Butterflies, and The Distance Between Us young readers edition. Her books have been adopted as the common read selection by schools, colleges, and cities across the country. She has two forthcoming books in 2022: A Ballad of Love and Glory, a novel set during the Mexican-American War, and an anthology by and about undocumented Americans called Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival and New Beginnings. Reyna has received an American Book Award, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award, and the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Writing about immigration, family separation, language trauma, the price of the American Dream, and her writing journey.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: UCR Tomas Rivera Conference
Date: Wednesday 4th
Time: 5 pm
Address: UCR – Online (see site)
Mystery Book Club & Still Midnight, by Denise MIna, at Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join our Mystery Book Club, to discuss our next monthly selection, Still Midnight(Alex Morrow Series, #1, by author Denise MIna.
In the first in a series, Alex Morrow investigates a murder, kidnapping, and impossible ransom in Glasgow, Scotland.
NOTE: See site for event details. Contact the branch for more information at 310.840.2142 or prncho@lapl.org.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-discussion-2
LitFest Pasadena Festival 2022: 2nd Day Events at Altadena Library – In-Person Events
Join the LitFest Pasadena Festival for the 2nd day of events, to be held at the Altadena Library.
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm:
The Macondo Writers Workshop
The Mocando Writers Workshop: A Homeland for Writers Making Change:
Macondo welcomes those with a passion for social justice paired with excellent writing. Come join us!
This panel presentation features: Pat Alderete, Cecilia Caballero, Rene Colato Lainez, and Juanita E. Mantz in conversation.
7:15 pm – 7:45 pm:
2022 Jonathan Gold Award Winner: Jean Gurerrero:
Presented by Laurie Ochoa and Jervey Tervalon
Jean Guerrero is currently an opinion columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She earned a 2018 Emmy Award as a KPBS investigative border reporter, was names 2019 “Journalist of the year” by the Society for Professional Journalists (San Diego), has had her reporting cited by Congress, and authored the books Crux: A Cross Broder Memoir and Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda.
7:45 pm – 8:45 pm:
To Change the World: Can Writing Truly Transform?
James Baldwin maintained that writing can indeed change the way people look at the world. Four leading California writers consider the transformative nature of language– on their readers and even themselves as creators—and whether literature can really advance social justice. Featuring:
Reyna Grande (A Battle of Love and Glory: A Novel and The Distance Between Us)
Rachel Harper (The Other Mother: A Novel)
Naomi Hirahara (Clark and Division: A Novel and Mas Arai Series)
Attica Locke (Heaven My Home, Bluebird, Pleasantville)
NOTE: See site for complete schedule, locations, and event details.
Where: Altadena Library Pleasantville,
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: 600 E. Mariposa St., Altadena, CA 91101
Website: https://litfestpasadena.org/schedule/
WeHo Reads: Explorations Beyond Borders: Road to Joy Reading via OCPL – Online Event
Join WeHo online, for the next event in our Road to Joy Reading Series” Explorations Beyond Borders, with readings by:
Lisbeth Coiman, author of I Asked the Blue Heron and Uprising/Alzamiento.
Myriam J. A. Chancy, author of What Storm, What Thunder
Teresa Mei Chuc, author of Invisible Light and Year of the Hare.
Sehba Sarwar, author of Black Wings.
NOTE: See site for details and Zoom link.
Where: WeHo Reads Event – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: WeHo Reads – Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1641370002863598
The Three Act Poem Writer’s Workshop with Matt Sedillo, Chicano Political Poet – In-Person Event
Please join The Three Act Poem Writer’s Workshop with Matt Sedillo, Chicano Political Poet.
Matt Sedillo is the author of Mowing Leaves of Grass and City on the Second Floor (Flower Song Press).
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Re/Arte centro literio
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 2014 ½ East Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Mid-Week Feast: Cooking & Poetry with Nancy Woo at Angels Gate Cultural Center – In-Person Event
Please join the Mid-Week Feast: Cooking & Poetry with Nancy Lynee Woo, a monthly series that combines cooking and writing. Each month we’ll be cooking and writing together via Zoom online, and we will follow one of the recipes in the anthology Feast: Poetry & Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner (Black Lawrence Press, 2015).
This month we feature a recipe called “Bananas Foster,” a dessert to honor our well-bring and come together in community. This is an all-levels cooking-inspired “free” writing class, so join us for some good food and poetry camaraderie, to nourish your body, mind and soul.
This edition of Midweek Feast is sponsored by WE RISE 2022: BY US, FOR US, a series of community-led events that support health and healing across Los Angeles County.
NOTE: See site for registration link, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Angels Gate Cultural Center
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Angels Gate – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/midweek-feast-tickets-325122097947?aff=erelexpmlt
Alex Pappademas, with Amy Nicholson, & Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Author Alex Pappademas, in conversation with Amy Nicholson, will discuss his biography, Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant: the Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible Icon.
The author is a cultural critic who attempts ot address Reeves’ unmatched allure and the big questions raised by his career arc, and reveals the lessons we can learn.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Poetry Night: Kim Dower & I Wore This Dress Today For You, Mom at Chevalier’s – In-Person Event
Poet and author Kim Dower, in conversation with poet and author Brian Sonia-Wallace, will read and discuss her work to celebrate Mother’s Day.
Kim Dower is the author most recently of I Wore This Dress Today For You Mom. This book is an anthology of her poems on being a mother–childbirth to empty nest–as well as being a daughter with all the teenaged messiness, drama and conflict, to finally caring for one’s mother suffering from dementia. Culled from her four collections as well as a selection of new work, these poems, heartbreaking, funny, surprising, and touching, explore the quirky, unexpected observations, and bittersweet moments mothers and daughters share.
Brian Sonia-Wallace is the current Poet Laureate of West Hollywood and the author of The Poetry of Strangers.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Chicano Theatre and Identity: A Conversation with Dr. Jorge Huerta and Luis Valdez at El Camino College – In-Person Event
Chicano scholar, author, and theater director, Dr. Jorge Huerta will engage in dialogue with renowned Chicano playwright and film director, Luis Valdez, whose works include the play Zoot Suit and the film La Bamba.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: El Camino College – Haag Recital Hall
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance, CA 90506
Website: https://www.elcamino.edu/events/chicano-culture/
At Skylight: Jessie Klein, with Casey Wilson, & I’ll Show Myself Out at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author Jessie Klein, in conversation with writer Casey Wilson, will discuss her book, I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood.
In the author’s second collection, she explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around otherhood, and explore the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. This is an incisive, moving and often uproarious book.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-jessi-klein-presents-ill-show-myself-out-casey-wilson
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 4th
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 4th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7x7la-selected-artist-writer-collaborations-tickets-324299387197
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry & Darth Mitchell 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 an Open Mic reading. Tonight’s featured artist is Darth Mitchell.
May the 4th be with you. Bring your Star Wars and space geek poems to the Ugly Mug!
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
Date: Wednesday the 4th
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/712792716835167
Tell Your Story: Memory Café via Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Tell Your Story Memory Café online, where you will find a comfortable social gathering for older adults to connect, socialize, and build support networks,
You will have an opportunity to preserve memories that emerge from our conversations. This is a six-session series, and attending all sessions is required.
NOTE: See site for link, RSVP, and event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Thursday 5th
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: LAPL – Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/memory-cafe
Drawn + Quarterly Live & Skylight Presents: Jessica Campbell, with Nicole Georges, & RAVE via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Author Jessica Campbell, in conversation with Nicole Georges, will present her graphic novel, RAVE, a queer coming-of-age story, complete with secret cigarettes, gross gym teachers, and a lot of church.
The author uses frankness and dark humor to articulate Lauren’s burgeoning crisis of faith and sexuality. She captures teenage antics and banter with astute comedic style, simultaneously skewering bullies, a culture of slut-shaming, and the devastating impact of religious zealotry.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Skylight Online (see site)
Reyna Grande & Julissa Arce in Conversation at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes – In-Person Event
Reyna Grande and Julissa Arce, will be in conversation and present their novels: A Ballad of Love and Glory and You Sound Like a White Girl, respectively.
Enjoy an evening of engaging conversation with authors Reyna Grande and Julissa Arce, moderated by Yarel Ramos from Univision. Reyna is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. She’ll discuss her newest novel, A Ballad of Love and Glory. Julissa, who left behind a Wall Street career is an outspoken advocate for immigrants, will present her latest work, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 501 N. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Cassidy Lucas & The Last Party at Vroman’s Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join author Cassidy Lucas (pen name of duo Julia Fiero and Caeli Wolfson Widger) to hear her present The Last Party: A Novel.
This novel is about Los Angeleno Dani Sanders, whose 59th birthday seems like one more disappointment. Her career has stalled, her nineteen-year-old daughter with developmental issues is regressing, and Dani’s ex-husband Craig, a fertility doctor worshipped by Hollywood’s elite, is forever upending her life. Though she doesn’t feel much like celebrating, she can’t say no when her best friend Mia Markle, a flamboyant and strong-willed actress, insists on planning a “creative” birthday weekend in the wild, wealthy bohemian enclave of Topanga Canyon.
Then one of her friends goes missing, another disappears, and she seems to be abandoned by the people who love her most. Or have they somehow been taken from her?
NOTE: See site for guidelines and event details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website https://www.vromansbookstore.com/upcoming-events
Future Now: Featured Poets & Open MIc at Re/Arte Centro Literio – Online & In-Person Event
Please join Future Now, either online or in-person, for an Open Mic and to hear features:
Moncho Alvarado, is a sister-in-residence in air, a Cihuayollotl trans woman Xicanx poet, translator, visual artist, and educator. She is the author of Greyhound Americans (Saturnalia Books 2022), which was the winner of the 2020 Saturnalia Book Prize, selected by Diane Seuss. She has been published in Meridian, Foglifter, Lunch Ticket, 2018 Emerge Lambda Fellows Anthology, Poets.org, and other publications. She is a recipient of fellowships and residencies from The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Lambda Literary, Poets House, Troika House, the Summer Seminar at Sarah Lawrence College, and won the Academy of American Poet’s John B. Santoianni award for excellence in poetry. She is a Pushcart nominated and has been awarded the Thomas Lux Scholarship for dedication to teaching, demonstrated through writing workshops with youths in Sunnyside Community Services in Queens, New York.
Victoria Martinez-Andrade: She writes to live and die in peace.
Alicia Viguer-Espert: Growing up in Valencia, Spain, light, color and the sea were the constant surroundings in Alicia Viguer-Espert’s life. Raised in a bilingual household, she began writing in English in 2017. She is the winner of the 2017 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Book Contest for her book Holding a Hummingbird. She has read her poems at numerous venues within the greater LA. as a featured poet. Her work has been published in Colorado Boulevard, Lummox Anthologies, Altadena Poetry Review, ZZyZx Intersections, Spectrum Publications among others. She’s a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee.
NOTE: See site for link, event details.
Where: Future Now Readings & Open Mic – Hybrid Event
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: In-Person & Online via Zoom (see site)
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Tonalli Thursday: Featured Poet & Open Mic via LAPS Online – Online Zoom Event
Please join Tonalli Thursdays every 1st Thursday of the month to hear featured guest poets and Open Mic readers.
This month’s featured poet is LA Poet Society’s own Jessica Wilson Cardenas, and the event will be hosted by Sandy Shakes.
NOTE: See site for link, event details.
Where: Tonalli Thursdays Open Mic – Online LAPS Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online via Zoom (see site)
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/events
TNM: HUMAN ZOOM-IN with Shari Foos via The Narrative Method – Online Zoom Event
Please join Shari Foos every Thursday for The Narrative Method: Human Zoom-In to expand perspectives through storytelling and real connections.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, event details.
Where: Shari Foos TNM Workshop – Online Zoom event
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 7 pm – 8:15 pm
Address: Online via Zoom (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/569872067714514/
Fos–Thursday & FOST Artistic Collective Present: Freedom of Speech Open Mic with Sabor y Cultura Café – In-Person & 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 cost, event details.
Where: Freedom of Speech (FOS) Open Mic – In-Person & Online IG event
Date: Thursday the 5th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 665 N. Heliotrope Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ or https://www.instagram.com/p/CbQpRzPv5qe/
At Skylight: Michelle Huneven, with Mona Simpson, & Search: A Novel at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author Michelle Huneven, in conversation with author Mona Simpson, will present and discuss her latest book. Search: A Novel, a sharp and funny story of a congregational search committee, told as a memoir with recipes.
Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Just as she’s finishing the book tour for her latest bestseller, Dana is asked to join the church search committee for a new minister. Under pressure to find her next book idea, she agrees, and resolves to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes, about the experience. That memoir, Search, follows the travails of the committee and their candidates—and becomes its own media sensation.
This wry and wise tale will speak to anyone who has ever gone searching, and James Beard Award–winning author Huneven’s food writing and recipes add flavor to the delightful journey.
Michelle Huneven is the author of four novels: Round Rock, Jamesland, Blame, and Off Course. Her books have been New York Times Notable Books and finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a James Beard Award for feature writing with recipes, and received her master’s in fine arts from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She teaches writing at University of California, Los Angeles.
Mona Simpson is the author of seven novels, including Anywhere but Here, My Hollywood, and Casebook. Her short stories have been widely anthologized. Her awards include a Whiting Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Prize, a Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and a Literature Award from the American Academy. Her novel Off Keck Road was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award. Her new novel, Commitment, comes out next Spring.
NOTE: See site for book purchase and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-michelle-huneven-presents-search-mona-simpson
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Reading Series, with host Cynthia Alessandra Briano, via Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Join First Fridays at Rapp Saloon Open Mic & Featured Readers, offered every 1st Friday of the month by host Cynthia Alessandra Briano.
Our featured guest poets and artists this month TBA
Share your voice at the Open Mic, where there is a time limit of 4 minutes max. Sign-ups are at 8:15 pm. Zoom ID posted 3 hours prior to event.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Date: Friday the 6th
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom event
Book Club for Adults: The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing via Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – Online Kids Event
Please join us to participate in our Book Club discussion of The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, by Olivia Laing.
Please e-mail mpanzera@lapl.org for the Zoom login information.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-2
Treehouse & Punk Rock Marthas Present: Cory Silverberg & Fiona Smyth, & You Know, Sex at Skylight Bookstore – Online Middle Grade Event
Author Cory Siverberg, in conversation with illustrator Fiona Smyth, will present and discuss their middle grade children’s book, You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty and Other Things.
In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty—hormones, reproduction, and development—but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being.
NOTE: See site for link, book purchase and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 77h
Time: 11 am
Address: Skylight – Online (see site)
Virtual Storytime with Cynthia Cliff & The Wild Garden at Skylight Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Author Cynthia Cliff will present and discuss her children’s book, The Wild Garden.
In he village of Mirren, a tidy community garden is carefully organized and tended by the townspeople. On the other side of the garden wall is a wild patch of land– a jumble of trees, a pond, and tall grassy places. While the garden is cared for in different ways throughout the seasons, Jilly and her grandfather like to visit the wild place, foraging for mushrooms, asparagus, and nuts, and watching the insects, birds and other animals. When the townspeople decide they need a bigger garden, they make plans to expand beyond the wall into the wild place. Worried about what will happen to their special piece of nature, Jilly and her grandfather come up with a plan, inviting the townspeople to discover a new kind of gardening. Their plan works and the wild place and the community garden merge harmoniously.
NOTE: See site for link, book purchase and details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 77h
Time: 11 am
Address: Vroman’s – Online (see site)
LitFest Pasadena Festival 2022: 3rd Day Events at Red Hen Press – In-Person Events
Join the LitFest Pasadena Festival for the 3rd day of events, to be held at various downtown Pasadena locations, including Red Hen Press.
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm:
The Future of Publishing:
Learn from local and internationally renowned publishers about the future of publishing, how to be a literary citizen, and how to get published. Julia Callahan of Independent Publishers Group will moderate this panel of different perspectives, including:
Leland Cheuk, with 7.13 Books;
Tobi Harper, with Red Hen Press;
Neelnajana Banerjee, from Kaya Press;
Eric Moraga, form Moon Tide Press;
Carrie Paterson, with Dopplehouse Press.
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm:
The Craft of Writing: A Genre Panel Discussion
Join local Los Angeles-based authors in a riveting discussion on the craft of writing, Red Hen Press Media Manager Monica Fernandez will be moderator of this cross-genre panel, which includes:
Dr. Kate Gale, with Monica Fernandez, the craft of writing across genres
Deborah A Lott, memoirs;
Pete Hsu, short stories;
Namrata Poddari, non-fiction/essays;
Charles Harper Webb, fictional novels.
4:00 pm – 5:15 pm:
The Craft of Writing Workshop
This generative writing workshop features leaders in their genres:
Kate Gale, representing poetry;
Deborah A. Lott, representing memoirs;
Charles Harper Webb, representing novels;
Pete Hsu, representing short stories.
You may ‘select” which class to go to and receive personal instruction and inspiration.
5:30 pm – 6:45 pm:
Local Authors from Local Presses Reading
Join us to hear readings form incredible authors published by local presses! Featuring:
Jackson Bliss, published by 7.13 Books;
Gustavo Hernandez, published by Moon Tide Press;
Claire Phillips, published by Dopplehouse Press;
Katherine Trejo and Scott Martin-Rowe, co-published by Lil-Libros;
Charles Harper Webb, published by Red Hen Press.
Moderator: Tori Harper.
NOTE: See site for complete schedule, locations, and event details.
Where: Red Hen Press
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 1 pm – 7 pm
Address: 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103
Website: https://litfestpasadena.org/schedule/
The Big Read: A Conversation with Boreth Ly and Phung X. Huynh via Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join us to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and The Big Read, for an intergenerational panel discussion on the conflict in Cambodia, how it affected Cambodians and refugees, and the role of arts and culture in the healing process.
Boreth Ly is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Art History and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, and co-editor with Nora A. Taylor of Modern and Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia (2012). Ly employs multidisciplinary methods and theories and has published widely on the arts and cinema of Southeast Asia and its diaspora.
Phung X. Huynh is a Los Angeles-based artist and educator whose practice includes drawing, painting, public art, and community engagement. Her work explores cultural perception and representation. Her work of drawings on pink donut boxes explores the complexities of assimilation and cultural negotiation among Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees who have resettled in the United States.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 2 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Carleton Eastlake & Monkey Business at Diesel Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Carleton Eastlake present and sign his novel, Monkey Business.
A conflicted TV writer on location in Florida becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman at a nightclub when she upends everything he thought he understood about life, limerence, bonded love, power, creativity, paintball combat, and what psychologists and philosophers refer to as the Hard Problem of human consciousness. Monkeys — and parrots — do play a role. As does Chairman Mao. And, in a cameo appearance, NASA. It is in no way autobiographical.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – in the Courtyard
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/carleton-eastlake
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Workshop by DKC – Off-Site In-Person Event & Via Zoom
Join us at Saturday Afternoon Poetry off-site for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL (Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines for Spectrum Online Edition: May Flower by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, May 21st)
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Kingfisher’s Back House & via ZOOM portal online
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 1313 Edgewood Drive, Alhambra, CA
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Beth Marquez & Daniel McGinn Reading at Pondwater Society – In-Person Event
Please join the Pondwater Society for an evening of poetry with Beth Marquez & Daniel McGinn, with musical guest the Danny Carbone Experience.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: The Pondwater Society
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 16504 E. Masline St., Covina, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/joanne.qualey.baines
Katya Apekina, Kathy Fish, Kij Johnson, Lisa Locascio, Ilana Masad, Silvia Park, and David Ulin.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm: Readings at 7 pm.
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90201
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7x7la-selected-artist-writer-collaborations-tickets-324299387197
Shane Murray & 90s Poetry Book Launch at Sims Library of Poetry – In-Person Event
Please join Sims Library of Poetry to hear Shane Murray present 90s Poetry Book: 90s Hio Hop and R&B Songs Turned into Poetry.
From poetry, to fashion, to sketches, to photos. This book is all about paying homage to a great era of music. This book is a time capsule of the 90s era, where you could relive where you were and what you were doing at the time some of these songs were composed and you can enjoy the vibe of the poetry being presented.
NOTE: See site for costs, event details. Book available for pre-order.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry
Date: Saturday the 7th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 2702 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043
Dave Lopez & It’s a Great Life if You Don’t Weaken at Village Well Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear veteran LA news reporter Dave Lopez present his newest book, It’s a Great Life if You Don’t Weaken, about the trials ad triumphs of his over 50 year-career in front of the camera,
This is an inspirational tale of faith, family, and the news from a true LA native. Set against the backdrop of every major story of the last half- century—from Vietnam War protests to the O.J. Simpson trial to countless politicians behaving badly—this story is a vivid remembrance of a life well lived, both on and off camera.
Where: Village Well Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 8th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/17090
Second Sunday Poetry Series & Open Mic at The Studio Theatre at St Denis Building – In-Person Event
Join host Alex M. Frankel for the Second Sunday Poetry Reading Series and Open Mic event at the Studio Theatre.
Today’s featured poet is Christine Jordan, a poet and performer who started life as a dancer. She has been half of a writing/storytelling team called Story Chicks with Terri MartinLujan since 2014. They have performed in many traditional and non-tradition spaces all over LA and beyond. Riffing on the combined tales of their rural childhoods in the 1950’s and 60’s CE & Terri now have four full-length shows hatched out into the world. Her strictly solo poetry performance outings also include ‘At Home With the Aliens, tales of cleaning stuff up’ and ‘Model Behavior’ a romp of a show relating her exploits as a runway model way back from 1977 to 1987. All this to prove one can always live to tell the tales!
NOTE: Masks and vaccinations are required. See Site for details.
Where: Studio Theatre at St. Denis Building (near Universal Studios)
Date: Sunday the 8th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 3433 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles, CA 90068
Website: https://www.secondsundaypoetry.com/index.html
NDA Autofiction: Anthology Reading with 4 Guest Readers at Stories Books & Café – In-Person Event
Join us for the NDA Autofiction Reading inspired by the forthcoming anthology from Archway Editions, with guest readers:
Dodie Bellamy, (Bee Reaved)
Chris Molnar, (Archway Editions)
Kathryn Scanlon, (The Dominant Animal)
Leah Sophia Dworkin, (BOMB Magazine)
NOTE: See Site for guidelines and details.
Where: Stories LA Books & Cafe
Date: Sunday the 8th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://storiesla.com/events
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