Nancy Kricorian, with Talar Chahinian, & The Burning Heart of the World at Deisel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
The Burning Heart of the World tells the epic story of an Armenian family’s experience of war and exile, from the mountains of Cilicia and the streets of Beirut to contemporary New York City. Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale, this gorgeous novel offers rich historical knowledge and cultural insights that inform her characters making them jump off the page and into our hearts and minds.
Nancy Kricorian, who was born and raised in the Armenian community of Watertown, Massachusetts, is the author of four novels about post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience, including Zabelle, which was translated into seven languages, was adapted as a play, and has been continuously in print since 1998. Her essays and poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Guernica, Parnassus, Minnesota Review, The Mississippi Review, and other journals. She has taught at Barnard, Columbia, Yale, and New York University, as well as for Teacher & Writers Collaborative in the New York City Public Schools and for the Palestine Writing Workshop in Birzeit.
Talar Chahinian holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and lectures in the Program for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, where she is also Visiting Faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature. She has served as assistant editor of the Armenian Review (2010-2017) and is currently co-editor of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 990402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Nancy-Kricorian-March-31-Author-signing
NEW DATE: Kate Fagan, with Amanda Montell, & The Three Lives of Cate Kay at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Kate Fagen, in conversation with Amanda Montell, will discuss and sign, The Three Lives of Cate Kay.
in this electric, voice-driven debut novel, an elusive bestselling author decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past.
Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she’s one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn’t really exist. She’s never attended author events or granted any interviews. Her real identity had been a closely guarded secret, until now.
As a young adult, she and her best friend Amanda dreamed of escaping their difficult homes and moving to California to become movie stars. But the day before their grand adventure, a tragedy shattered their dreams and Cate has been on the run ever since, taking on different names and charting a new future. But after a shocking revelation, Cate understands that returning home is the only way she’ll be a whole person again.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/kate-fagan-and-amanda-montell
Vanessa Le, with Dahlia De La Vega, & His Mortal Demise: The Last Bloodcarver Duology at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
Vanessa Le, in conversation with Dahlia De La Vega, will discuss and sign her novel His Mortal Demise: The Last Bloodcarver Duology.
There will be a book signing to follow the discussion.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 3806 Main St., Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://www.therippedbodice.com/events-and-tickets
R.U.P.O. Open Mic at Back to the Grind in Riverside – In-Person Event
RUPO Open Mic is every Monday Night at Back to the Grind in Riverside.
Every Monday at 7 pm to 9 pm. Sign-ups are at 6:30 pm and in person only, $4 cash admission. See you then!
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Back to the Grind, Riverside
Date: Monday the 24th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 3575 University Ave. Riverside, CA 92501
Website: https://www.facebook.com/backtothegrind
Ron Currie, with Ivy Pochoda, & The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Ron Currie, in conversation with Ivy Pochoda, will discuss The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne.
When crime matriarch Babs Dionne’s youngest daughter is found dead, she will stop at nothing to uncover the truth—or get her revenge.
Your ancestors breathe through you. Sometimes, they call for vengeance.
Babs Dionne, proud Franco-American, doting grandmother, and vicious crime matriarch, rules her small town of Waterville, Maine, with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into Little Canada with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a Marine vet struggling with addiction.
When a drug kingpin discovers that his numbers are down in the upper northeast, he sends a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babs’s youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesn’t seem at all like a coincidence. In twenty-four hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs’s wrath.
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne is a gripping, propulsive, darkly funny thriller, with a ferocious matriarch at its bruised, beating heart. Award-winning author Ron Currie delivers an unforgettable crime saga about love, duty, and vengeance.
Ron Currie is the award-winning author of five novels. He has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Monday Night Fiction Workshop via Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – Online Zoom Event
This free Monday Night Community Writing Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a 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 an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial and Transnational Literatures at California State University Channel Islands, teaching courses on creative writing and contemporary African literatures. Raquel has published poetry in Africology and The Arrow; fiction in Enculturation, The Daily Palette, The Womanist, and Crux; and non-fiction in Little Village; and has done readings with the Ventura County Poetry project. Raquel lives for talking about all things about the craft and social meanings of literature!
Where: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – Online event
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-fiction-workshop-tickets-1300930631539
Anniversary Sale 2025 with the Palacios Family at Once Upon a Time – In-Person Event
The Palacios Family (Maureen, Jorge, Jessica, and Amelia) are the proud owners of Once Upon A Time Bookstore. They bought the store from the founder Jane Humphrey in 2003 after Jessica—then 9 years old—wrote a letter to the local newspaper asking for someone to save the bookstore. 22 years later, we have seen young readers being born and now going off to college!
Special storytime at 11 am.
See site for details.
Where: Once Upon a Time
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 10 am – 6 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/anniversary-sale-2025
Lit Angels: Healing Through Writing with Francesca Lia Block at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Let Francesca help you with all aspects of your writing!
Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry, and has written screenplay adaptations of her work. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association, and from the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, and PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY. Currently she teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension, Antioch University, Pocket MFA, and numerous workshops across the country. Francesca also edits LIT ANGELS, a literary journal available on Substack. Her latest novel is HOUSE OF HEARTS now out in paper ack. https://www.francescaliablock.com/
Note: Please RSVP at site.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd. #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/1885820250401
Virtual Book Club: The Heart of Winter at La Crescenta Library, LACL – Online Event
Join us for our weekly Virtual Book Club on Zoom. In April we will be discussing The Heart of Winter by Jonathan Evison. If you have like to get the link to join the virtual book club, please email mwiggins@library.lacounty.gov. For adults.
We will be discussing the following sections:
April 1—Reliable Pleasures—Pages 4 – 85—Bright White Corridor
Where: La Crescenta Library, LACL
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online Event (sees site)
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13216664
The Darkest Hour Book Club: The Best Lies at Agoura Hills Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Join participants to discuss The Best Lies by author David Ellis.
Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar with unthinkable skeletons in his family’s closet. He’s also a crusading attorney who seeks justice at all costs. When a drug dealer is found dead and Leo’s fingerprints are on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says. But he might be the FBI’s only shot at taking down the dealer’s brutal syndicate. Forced to walk a tightrope between an FBI agent and a crime boss, Leo’s trapped in a corner. But he has more secrets than anyone realizes, and a few more cards left to play.
Where: Agoura Hills Library, LACL
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 29901 Ladyface Ct., Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/12927506
A Reading and Discussion with Stephania Heim at Pomona College – In-Person Event
Stephania Heim is a poet, scholar, translator, editor, and educator. She is the author of Hour Book and A Table That Goes On for Miles and the translator of Geometry of Shadows: The Italian Poems of Giorgio de Chirico. She co-edited Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser and contributed to Midwinter Constellation. A recipient of a 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship, she was a 2022 fellow at the ViceVersa Italian-English workshop. Her work has appeared in Women in Concrete Poetry 1959-1979, Journal of Modern Literature, Post45, and more. A former poetry editor at Boston Review, she is a founding editor of Circumference: Poetry in Translation and holds degrees from Harvard, Columbia, and CUNY.
Event will be held at 4:30 PM PST in Crookshank 108 Ena Thompson Reading Room.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Pomna College, Crookshank 108, Ena Thompson Reading Room
Date: Tuesday, the 1st
Time: 4:30 pm – 6 pm
Address: 333 N. College Way, Claremont, CA 91711
Website: https://www.pomona.edu
Women and Books Book Club: The House Is on Fire at West Hollywood Library, LACL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Join participants to discuss The House Is on Fire by author Rachel Beanland.
This is a hybrid event and will be hosted in-person in the Community Meeting Room at West Hollywood Library as well as on Zoom. Please register at the link below to receive the link to the meeting via email.
https://library-lacounty-gov.zoom.us/meeting/register
Richmond, Virginia 1811. It’s the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia’s gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city’s only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that’s done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church.
On the night after Christmas, the theater is packed with more than six hundred holiday revelers. In the third-floor boxes sits newly widowed Sally Henry Campbell, who is glad for any opportunity to relive the happy times she shared with her husband. One floor away, in the colored gallery, Cecily Patterson doesn’t give a whit about the play but is grateful for a four-hour reprieve from a life that has recently gone from bad to worse. Backstage, young stagehand Jack Gibson hopes that, if he can impress the theater’s managers, he’ll be offered a permanent job with the company. And on the other side of town, blacksmith Gilbert Hunt dreams of one day being able to bring his wife to the theater, but he’ll have to buy her freedom first.
When the theater goes up in flames in the middle of the performance, Sally, Cecily, Jack, and Gilbert make a series of split-second decisions that will not only affect their own lives but those of countless others. And in the days following the fire, as news of the disaster spreads across the United States, the paths of these four people will become forever intertwined.
Where: West Hollywood Library, LACL
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13020584
Feminist Book Club: The Return of Ellie Black at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Participants will discuss The Return of Ellie Black: A Novel by Emiko Jean.
In this “page-turning suspense novel, shrewd character study, and captivating mystery” (Stephen King) Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call that Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods of Washington state—but her reappearance leaves Chelsey with more questions than answers.
It’s been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she’s been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings are rare in Chelsey’s line of work.
Then a glimmer: local teenager Ellie Black, who disappeared without a trace two years earlier, has been found alive in the woods of Washington state.
But something is not right with Ellie. She won’t say where she’s been, or who she’s protecting, and it’s up to Chelsey to find the answers. She needs to get to the bottom of what happened to Ellie: for herself, and for the memory of her sister, but mostly for the next girl who could be taken—and who, unlike Ellie, might never return.
Emiko Jean is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult and adult fiction. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Washington with her family.
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/feminist-book-club-return-ellie-black
Writing Workshop: Storytelling for Social Justice with Jessica M. Wilson via UCLA Extension – Online Zoom Event
Do you want to share your story?
Do you feel that you have seen a lot of unjust things that need to be heard and documented?
Consider enrolling for Storytelling for Social Justice–a 10 week online course, offered by the UCLA Extension, Writers’ Program.
This course is taught by LA Poet Society Founder, Activist, and Poet, Jessica M. Wilson.
Earn college credit, while telling your story. Seek justice for others, and learn more about the struggles our communities face.
SCHOLARSHIPS are AVAILABLE! Please visit the website for more information:
Classes begin on April 1. Enroll today!
NOTE: See UCLA Extension catalogue for cost and details.
Where: UCLA Extension Online
Date: Tuesday, the 1st (through June 3)
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHaVaD8uRLn/
The Darkest Hour Book Club: The Best Lies at Agoura Hills Library, LACL – Online Event
Join participants online to discuss The Best Lies by author David Ellis.
Leo Balanoff is a diagnosed pathological liar with unthinkable skeletons in his family’s closet. He’s also a crusading attorney who seeks justice at all costs. When a drug dealer is found dead and Leo’s fingerprints are on the murder weapon, no one believes a word he says. But he might be the FBI’s only shot at taking down the dealer’s brutal syndicate. Forced to walk a tightrope between an FBI agent and a crime boss, Leo’s trapped in a corner. But he has more secrets than anyone realizes, and a few more cards left to play.
Where: Agoura Hills Library, LACL
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/12927514
Book Launch: Celebrating UMMA with Sarah Ahn +Nam Soon Ahn with Bel Canto Books Off-site at Ambitious Ales, Long Beach – In-Person Event
Bel Canto Books is delighted to celebrate the book launch of Umma: A Korean Mom’s Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes by Sarah Ahn and Nam Soon Ahn. We will also have Chef Kyungbin (@min.kyungbin) popping up.
Sarah Ahn is ATK’s social media manager and the creator of the Ahnest Kitchen website. She records her experiences on Instagram and TikTok of living with her Korean immigrant parents, chronicling her mother’s cooking, grocery shopping trips, and more. Many of Sarah’s posts have gone viral with 10+ million views and they have sold grocery stores out of product. She has been featured on NBC News, ABC News, Yahoo News, and Good Morning America. Nam Soon Ahn learned to cook from her mother in Korea before immigrating to America in the 1990s. She owned and operated an Asian noodle restaurant for nearly a decade.
Kindly RSVP so we can plan accordingly.
Where: Bel Canto Off-site at Ambitious Ales, Long Beach
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 4019 Atlantic Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90807
Conchas y Café Bilingual Writing Zine Workshop via DSTL Arts – Online Event
Our Conchas y Café bilingual community writing workshop series is a 15-week virtual course that explores skills in poetry and other forms of creative writing. Writers of all skill levels are welcome to join.
The SPRING 2025 SEMESTER will culminate with the publishing of Conchas y Café Zine; Vol. 10, Issue 2.
The theme we will be exploring during this series and zine is the concept: “TBD.”
Days and Times: Tuesdays (weekly); 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
To enroll in our series, visit: https://classroom.google.com
Nuestra serie de clases bilingües comunitarias de escritura ‘Conchas y Café’ es un curso virtual de 15 semanas que explora técnicas poéticas y otras formas de escritura creativa. Autores de todo nivel técnico son bienvenidos a participar.
Where: DSTL Arts
Date: Tuesday the 1st (through May 6, 2025)
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.dstlarts.org/calendar
Bill Plunkett & The L.A. Story: Shohei Ohtani, The Los Angeles Dodgers, and a Season for the Ages at pages OFF-SITE at Culture Brewing Co. – In-Person Event
Join author Bill Plunkett, in conversation with Tom Hoffarth, of {pages} best-seller Perfect Eloquence. to talk about Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers, recapping the amazing 2024 season for the Japanese superstar that led to a World Series Championship. Tickets are $40 and include a copy of L.A. Story and one beer or soft drink.
Bill Plunkett covers the Dodgers beat for the Orange County Register and has written about baseball in Southern California for nearly 25 years, including a separate stint on the Angels beat. His work has appeared in Baseball America and Baseball Digest, and, and he is a frequent guest on MLB Network, ESPN, and SportsNet LA.
Tom Hoffarth is an Associated Press award-winning journalist with more than forty years of experience reporting in Southern California, focusing on sports and the media. He has written for the Southern California News Group, the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, Angelus News, National Catholic Reporter, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Sports Business Journal. He is a coauthor (with Tom Kelly) of Tales from the USC Trojans Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Trojans Stories Ever Told. Ron Rapoport worked as a sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times for more than twenty years and is the author of Let’s Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks and the editor of The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner (Nebraska, 2017).
Where: pages, a bookstore Off-site at Culture Brewing Co.
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 327 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/2025-04-01/baseball-books-beer-perfect-triple-play
Creativity Book Club: The Practice and What’s Behind the Blue Door at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Do you think of yourself as creative, or wish that you were? Do you get inspired by a book of reflections, or do you prefer an actual workbook with tasks and prompts? Do you wish you had more people to talk with about painting, poetry or pottery?
Here is the time and the place; you just need to be here with us.
About The Practice:
Creative work doesn’t come with a guarantee. But there is a pattern to who succeeds and who doesn’t. And engaging in the consistent practice of its pursuit is the best way forward.
Based on the breakthrough Akimbo workshop pioneered by legendary author Seth Godin, The Practice will help you get unstuck and find the courage to make and share creative work. Godin insists that writer’s block is a myth, that consistency is far more important than authenticity, and that experiencing the imposter syndrome is a sign that you’re a well-adjusted human. Most of all, he shows you what it takes to turn your passion from a private distraction to a productive contribution, the one you’ve been seeking to share all along.
With this book as your guide, you’ll learn to dance with your fear. To take the risks worth taking. And to embrace the empathy required to make work that contributes with authenticity and joy.
About What’s Behind the Blue Door?:
From the celebrated non-profit WriteGirl (where Amanda Gorman got her start) comes What’s Behind the Blue Door?, a creative writing journal designed to be your go-to guide for tapping into creativity and self-expression.
What’s Behind the Blue Door? features 75 galvanizing prompts, from memoir-esque questions to speculative fiction starters to poetry exercises, as well as 50 encouraging tips to bring your writing to the next level. Beautifully packaged with a handy ribbon marker and rounded edges with lay-flat binding for easy writing, and complete with full-color illustrations throughout, this guided journal will be a treasured companion for any writer, both beginner and seasoned pro alike.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd. #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/2195820250401
Open Mic Readings Every Tuesday at the Aftermath Bar, Sherman Oaks – In-Person Event
CALLING ALL WRITERS! Every Tuesday we’ll be having Open Mic Readings open to the public! Read your poems, fiction, and spoken word at our open mic reading EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT from 7 pm – 10 pm!
Read your poetry, fiction, spoken word, or lyrics.
Free event. 21+
Note: Please RSVP at site.
Where: The Aftermath Bar
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 14537 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDniBCVy64L/
Amy Gerstler and David Trinidad Present Their Books: Is This My Final Form? and New Playlist, respectively at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Amy Gerstler will present her new collection, Is This My Final From?
A poet renowned for her “wit and complexity” (Poetry Foundation) explores the endless evolution and malleability of life on earth in her most curious, inventive collection to date
Aren’t we all shape-shifters? Is any animal, vegetable, or mineral—even a commonplace object—what it seems to be at any given moment? Who isn’t juggling constant transformations, conflicting roles, changing loyalties, loves, perceptions, and selves, all while being pummeled by shifting devotions, emotions, and obsessions? Do even the dead continue to evolve in surprising ways?
Reveling in these questions, Gerstler’s latest protean poetry collection includes loose sonnets, shapely praise of Mae West, the lament of an actor who can’t shed his costume, dramatic monologues, whiffs of gender slippage, a love lyric to the bride of Frankenstein, and a ten-minute play.
David Trinidad will present his collection, New Playlist: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
The Sunless Sea Poetry Series & Open Mic with DeForest Wright at Qusqo Bistro & Gallery – In-Person Event (NEW LOCATION & TIME)
The Sunless Sea Poetry Series & Open Mic, hosted by DeForest Wright, has announced a change of location and starting time in West Los Angeles. Same day, the first Tuesday of the month, at 7 pm.
The Sunless Sea Poetry and Spoken Word Show is an open mic event performed at Qusqo Bistro on Santa Monica Blvd, near Barrington Ave., in California. Our concept of poetry is broad and collaborative, so we are open to musicians, comedians, visual artists and creatives in any other medium and genre. We encourage everybody to share their art and influences here and in person at the show. We also encourage promotion, networking, and collaboration. Enjoy!
Qusqo Bistro and Gallery is located at:
11633 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025
Where: Qusqo Bistro & Gallery
Date: Tuesday, the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 11633 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1699147113818899/
The Virtual Cobalt Series & Open Mic: Rick Lupert & Guest Debby Segal – Online Zoom Event
Cobalt Poets Reading & Open Mic and host Rick Lupert welcomes guest Debby Segal to read and discuss her work.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday, the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt
Tuesday Night Café: Open Mic Season Opener in Little Tokyo – In-Person Event
Tuesday Night Cafe is an Asian American public arts and performance series in Los Angeles founded in 1999. The show features a curated program of visual and performing artists.
It’s year 27. Come kick it off with us in the courtyard!! We’ve got an incredible lineup and a lot to say about the year ahead. Bring a friend, bring a crew, no tickets required, see you there.
Featuring: Charlotte Nguyen, m.a.i., jonnychang, and resident host johneric concordia.
Where: Tuesday Night Project at Union Center for the Arts
Date: Tuesday, the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: https://www.facebook.com
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic Night at Greenway Court Theatre – In-Person Event
The nation’s largest weekly spoken word Open Mic event is 26 years strong. DPL is a community space for every poet to be heard. They provide a platform to celebrate poetry while using it as the foundation for creativity, innovation, and expression across an array of media outlets.
L..A. Get Down Festival held in month of April. SEE: https://www.instagram.com/p/DG6uLnTypLM/?hl=en
$10 donation. Do NOT line up prior to 7:30 pm Free parking adjacent to the theater.
Masks are encouraged. All ages are welcome.
Where: Greenway Court Theatre
Date: Tuesday, the 1st
Time: 9 pm – 11 pm
Address: 544 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLUBSRPCFb/ or https://www.dapoetrylounge.com/
Book Party Book Club: Thursday Murder Club at San Dimas Senior Center, LACL – In-Person Even
Held the first Wednesday of each month at the San Dimas Senior Center, 201 E Bonita Ave. This month’s selection is Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman. Copies are available for check out at the circulation desk. For Adults.
This month’s selection is Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman. In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The friends might be septuagenarians, but they are cleverer than most. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it’s too late?
Where: San Dimas Senior Center, LACL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Address: 201 E. Bonita Ave., San Dimas, CA 91773
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/12375452
Afternoon Book Club: The Great Divide at Westlake Village Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Join us for the discussion of The Great Divide by Christina Henriquez. For adults.
Where: Westlake Village Library, LACL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: 31220 Oak Crest Dr., Westlake Village, CA 91361
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13166093
Book Club: The Doll House at Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Join us to discuss The Doll House: A Novel by Fiona Davis (2016) 289 pages. Davis pulls the readers into the lush world of New York’s Barbizon Hotel for Women, where in the 1950’s a generation of aspiring models, secretaries and editors lived while working their way to success. Come and join us for invigorating discussion.
Where: Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: 21052 Devonshire St., Chatsworth, CA 91311
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/chatsworth-book-club-doll-house
Poets Café via KPFK 90.7 FM – Live On-Air Event
Poets Café celebrates Poetry. This program is a weekly half-hour literary arts discussion and reading program featuring guest authors and their works.
Poetry From Around the World is a segment of this series offered monthly on the 2nd Monday of the month on KPFK Los Angeles 90.7 FM.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: KPFK 90.7 FM
Date: Wednesday, the 2nd
Time: 2 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: On-air Event (live)
Website: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/poets-cafe/
Afternoon Book Club: The Great Divide at Westlake Village Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Join Mystery Book Club participants for the discussion of God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
For adults.
Where: Agoura Hills Library, LACL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 29901 Ladyface C.t, Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13069689
Author Talk: Jodi Picoult & By Any Other Name via Virtual Event, LACL – In-Person Event
Join a virtual discussion with author Jodi Picoult of her newest novel, By Any Other Name.
In 1581, Emilia Bassano—like most young women of her day—is allowed no voice of her own. But as the Lord Chamberlain’s mistress, she has access to all theaters in England and finds a way to secretly bring her work to the stage. And yet, creating some of the world’s greatest dramatic masterpieces comes at great cost: by paying a man for the use of his name, she will write her own out of history.
In the present, playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. Although the challenges are different four hundred years later, the playing field is still not level for women in theater. Would Melina—like Emilia—be willing to forfeit her credit as author, just for a chance to see her work performed?
Told in intertwining narratives, By Any Other Name is a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire that asks what price each woman is willing to pay to see their work live on—even if it means they will be forgotten. Register now to join the wondrous conversation!
Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, including By Any Other Name, Mad Honey (co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan), Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.
Where: Virtual Program, LACL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/12950796
Classics Book Club: A Room of One’s Own at East Los Angeles Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Join a discussion of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. For adults.
In one of the most entertaining and brilliant essays ever written on the importance of freedom for women, Woolf brings her literary imagination and defiant wit to bear on the relationship between gender, money, and the creation of works of genius.
Copies of the book will be available at the circulation desk. The program will take place in the Chicano Resource Center. Space is limited to ten participants, so pick up your copy soon!
Where: East Los Angeles Library, LACL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 4837 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90022
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13222702
National Poetry Month: Poetry Zineat Hollydale Library, LACL – In-Person Teen Event
Celebrate National Poetry Month by creating your own poetry zine! Be a poet, illustrator, and publisher all in one with a DIY mini-magazine reflective of you. We’ll supply the materials; you supply the inspiration! For teens ages 13 – 17.
Where: Hollydale Library, LACL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 12000 Garfield Ave., South Gate, CA 90280
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13289621
Social Justice Book Club via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Check out the book of the month at your local library and bring your thoughts and feelings to the conversation. Books can transform the way we look at the world. Join children’s librarians from the Library to discuss kid-friendly books related to topics of social justice. This is an all-ages book club for the whole family.
We will be reading the following books:
April 2: Rainbow Weaver = Tejedora del arcoíris by Linda Elovitz Marshall
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/social-justice-book-club
Be the Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop with James Coats – Online Event
Be the Change, a Social Justice Writing Workshop, is held every 1st Wednesday of the month and led by poet and author James Coats.
Workshop is free: name your own price.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event Zoom ID: 826 5843 0669 Password: justice
Website: N/A
History Book Club: Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Participants will discuss Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang.
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Reading in Bed with Jessica: L.A. Poet Society via 101.5 FM – Live On-Air Event
Reading in Bed with Jessica hosts poets and writers in conversation and is aired weekly on 101.5 FM.
Jessica Wilson Cardenas is the founder of the Los Angeles Poet Society.
Guests: TBA
This program is offered weekly on radio in Los Angeles 101.5 FM.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: 101.5 FM
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: On-air Event (live at 101.5 FM)
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/events
Mystery Book Club: God of the Woods at Agoura Hills Library, LACL – Online Event
Mystery Book Club Virtual meeting God of the Woods by Liz Moore. For adults.
To attend this meeting virtually, contact Nina Hull at 818-889-2278 or nhull@library.lacounty.gov
Where: Agoura Hills Library, LACL
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13069694
Carol Liefer and Rick Mitchell, & How to Write a Funny Speech for a Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Graduation & Every Other Event You Didn’t Want to Go to in the First Place at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Carol Liefer and Rick Mitchell will discuss How to Write a Funny Speech for a Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Graduation & Every Other Event You Didn’t Want to Go to in the First Place.
This book will teach you how to write the perfect speech so you can look awesome, make people laugh, speak from the heart without being corny, and get back to the party.
The book is practical and funny with solid tips you can use right away, annotated sample speeches to show you what works and why, a crash course in public speaking and comic delivery, and plenty of jokes along the way to keep it fun.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Book Launch: Myah Ariel, with Laura Ling Brown, & No Ordinary Love at Reparations Club – In-Person Event
Myah Ariel, in conversation with Laura Ling Brown, will discuss and sign her novel No Ordinary Love.
A PR relationship between a pop superstar and a pro-athlete bad boy turns into so much more in this swoony romance from the acclaimed author of When I Think of You.
Ella Simone’s popstar life is what dreams are made of. Her eight year marriage to renowned music producer, Elliot Majors, has helped garner the hits, awards, and adoring fans to prove it. But when Ella tires of Elliot’s many infidelities, she decides to fight for her independence despite the ironclad prenup that threatens her career. To help her case, Ella is under strict orders to stick to The Plan: no headlines, no rumors, no rocking the boat. But this strategy is thrown a curveball after an awards show wardrobe snafu and quick rescue by Miles Westbrook, MLB’s most eligible player, sends the tabloids into a frenzy. Amid tricky divorce proceedings, Ella’s magnetic connection with the charismatic pitcher might just be her downfall. Now the pressure is on to turn a scandal into an opportunity and give their teams what they want: a picture-perfect performance that will shore up both Ella and Miles’ reputations. But as the lines between reality and PR begin to blur, Ella will either stick to the choreographed life she knows so well, or surrender to a love that could set her free.
Myah Ariel is the author of debut contemporary romance WHEN I THINK OF YOU (Berkley ’24). Her early love of movies led her from Arkansas to New York City where she earned a BA in cinema studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She also holds an MA in specialized journalism for the arts from USC Annenberg. For several years Myah worked across multiple roles in the film and entertainment industry before pivoting to work in academia. As a medical mom and a hopeless romantic, Myah is passionate about inclusive love stories.
Lauren Ling Brown is the best-selling author of Society of Lies (a Reese’s Book Club pick) who received a BA in English literature from Princeton University and MFA in film production with a focus in screenwriting from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where she works as a film editor.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Reparations Club
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 3054 South Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Max Monroe & What I Should Have Said at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
Max Monroe will discuss and sign his novel What I Should Have Said.
There will be a book signing to follow the discussion.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 3806 Main St., Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://www.therippedbodice.com/events-and-tickets
RECESS Open Mic is at SIPA HQ, Palms Up Academy – In-Person Event
RECESS Open Mic is at SIPA HQ on Wednesdays.
This dynamic open mic is the most accessible public program in the Palms Up Academy curriculum and manifests their mission statement in a physical (and digital) space.
Join them at the intersection of Historic Filipino town & The World: Search to Involve Pilipino Americans.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, cost, guidelines, and details.
Where: SIPA HQ
Date: Wednesday, the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm (Doors at 6:30; Open Mic at 8 pm)
Address: 3200 W. Temple St., Ste. 100, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://www.palmsupacademy.com
At Skylight: Sophie Kemp, with Alissa Nutting, & Paradise Logic at Skylight – In-Person Event
Sophie Kemp, in conversation with Alissa Nutting, will discuss Paradise Logic.
A hilarious, surreal, and devastating journey into the mind of Reality Kahn, a young woman on a quest to be the greatest girlfriend of all time.
It was decreed from the moment she was born. Twenty-three-year-old Reality Kahn would embark on a quest so great, so bold. She would become the greatest girlfriend of all time. She would be a zine maker, an aspiring notary, the greatest waterslide commercial actress on the Eastern Seaboard. She would receive messages from the beyond in the form of advice from the esteemed and ancient ladies magazine, Girlfriend Weekly.
When she attends a party in Gowanus at a punk venue known as “Paradise,” Reality meets Ariel, who will become her boyfriend. She bravely works for his everlasting affection and joins a clinical trial created by Dr. Zweig Altmann to help her become a more perfect girlfriend. She stars in a new commercial. She learns how to become an indelible host. But Reality will also learn that sheer will and determination, and a very open heart, are not always enough to make true love manifest.
Sophie Frances Kemp was born in 1996 in Schenectady, New York. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Granta, The Paris Review, Vogue, GQ, Pitchfork, and The Baffler, among others. She received her MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she now teaches in the writing program. She lives in Brooklyn.
Alissa Nutting is a novelist, screenwriter, and showrunner, most recently of the Adult Swim & MAX animated series Teenage Euthanasia and the MAX original comedy Made For Love based on her New York Times Editor’s Choice novel of the same name.
Where: Skylight
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-sophie-kemp-presents-paradise-logic-w-alissa-nutting
Nia Imara & Painting the Cosmos at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Nia Imara will discuss Painting the Cosmos: How Art and Science Intersect to Reveal the Secrets of the Universe.
A stunning portrait of our vast, dynamic, and mysterious universe…as seen through the lenses of astronomy and art.
What is our place in the universe? Where do art and science overlap? How can we use these disciplines to better understand the universe…and how do they help us to shape our reality? In Painting the Cosmos, astrophysicist and visual artist Nia Imara combines these perspectives to comprehensively illustrate the history of the universe and our position in it.
In this eye-opening and accessible book, Imara asks pivotal questions and explores humanity’s ever-evolving view of nature. Richly illustrated with spectacular full-color images of our universe and beautiful work from creators around the world—particularly the often-neglected work of women and Black artists—this one-of-a-kind book unites the realms of art, science, and culture to create a dynamic portrait of the cosmos.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Wednesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
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.
- 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm — Formal workshop;
- 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm — TBA;
- 9:05 pm – 10:00 pm — 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@gmail.com or call (323) 293-2451.
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday, the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.instagram.com/anansiwritersworkshop/ or https://www.facebook.com
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with Tom Laichas at Beyond Baroque – Online Event
The West Coast’s longest-running free poetry workshop is offered by Beyond Baroque on Zoom and welcomes new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Please be prepared to share one poem. This workshop will be hosted via the Zoom video-conferencing platform. Please be prepared to share one poem.
Please spend some time before the workshop learning how to share documents via Zoom. It will keep the session moving if you’re able to make your poem viewable quickly and easily. An instructive video is available at the site.
The workshop can sometimes reach high levels of attendance, which means not everyone will get a chance to read every session.
Tom Laichas is author of four books of poetry, including Three Hundred Streets of Venice California (FutureCycle Press, 2023) and the forthcoming Landscapes From An American Afterlife (The Los Angeles Press, 2025). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Plume, BarBar, The Los Angeles Times, the Irish Times, The High Window Review (UK), and elsewhere. He is the winner of poetry prizes from Jabberwock Review, Puerto del Sol, and Prime 53, and has been shortlisted in competitions sponsored by The Moth (Ireland), Aesthetica, Arts & Letters, New Letters and Gunpowder Press. He lives with his family in Venice, California.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets, and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Date: Wednesday, the 2nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wednesday-night-poetry-workshop-tickets-1303011144409
Poetry Nights with East Los Soul at East Los Angeles Rising Youth Club – In-Person Event
East Los Soul presents Poetry Nights every Wednesday from 8 pm – 9:45 pm at East L.A. Rising Youth Club. Poetry starts at 8:15 pm.
This week’s event is titled Ghosts & Echoes,
Hosted by John White, with vibes by DJ Hennytee.
Where: East Los Angeles Rising Youth Club
Date: Wednesday, the 2nd
Time: 8 pm – 9:45 pm (Doors at 7:30)
Address: 324 N. McDonnell Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90022
Website: https://www.instagram.com/eastlossoul/ or https://www.bgcela.org/
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry with Ben Trigg and Guest G. Murray Thomas at The Ugly Mug – In-Person Event
Host Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug on Wednesday Nights and the feature is G. Murray Thomas.
For thirty years, G. Murray Thomas was an active participant in the Southern California poetry scene, as a writer, performer, reading host, promoter, editor, and publisher. He published four books, Cows on the Freeway (iUniverse) and My Kidney Just Arrived (Tebot Bach), both full length poetry collections, and Paper Shredders (iUniverse) and News Clips and Ego Trips (Write Bloody), anthologies of others’ writings. In 2018 he moved back to upstate New York to care for his aging parents. His latest book, Living the Sundown (Moon Tide Press), covers that experience
$4 cover fee, cash only
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: The Ugly Mug, Orange
Date: Wednesday, the 2nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/997883755170935
Lit Angels: Heal Through Writing with Francesca Lia Block at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Let Francesca help you with all aspects of your writing!
Do you want to write professionally or for personal satisfaction and healing but aren’t sure where to start and need some inspiring tips and support? Do you have a project that needs revision? Are you feeling stuck creatively? Join acclaimed author and writing instructor Francesca Lia Block for a discussion of her 12 Questions followed by free writing and Q&A. Come be a part of the supportive Lit Angels writing community.
Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry, and has written screenplay adaptations of her work. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association, and from the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, and PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY. Currently she teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension, Antioch University, Pocket MFA, and numerous workshops across the country. Francesca also edits LIT ANGELS, a literary journal available on Substack. Her latest novel is HOUSE OF HEARTS now out in paper back. https://www.francescaliablock.com/
About Lit Angels Writing Studio:
There are so many fitness classes available for the body, but what are you doing to exercise your creative mind?
Lit Angels offers classes that provide just that—a fun and freeing way to work out the creative muscles and eliminate the stumbling blocks that might be holding you back, not only in your writing, art, or performance projects, but in all areas of your life—uplifting and refreshing your mind and soul, improving relationships, work, and your outlook on the future. Taught by top-level working professionals, Lit Angels classes cultivate community and connection, something we all desperately need in these challenging times.
Come make some magic at the Village Well! All genres and levels are welcome!
Reserve your tickets on EVENTBRITE!
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd. #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/1880320250403
Book Club: Nightwatching at Hermosa Beach Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Participants will discuss NIghtwatching by Tracy Sierra. For adults.
Where: Hermosa Beach Library, LACL
Date: Thursday the 27th
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Address: 550 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13070013
Got Poetry? with April Halprin Wayland at Manhattan Beach Library, LACL – In-Person Teen Event
This National Poetry Month, we invite teens of all experience levels to join this workshop from award-winning poet April Halprin Wayland, a UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Outstanding Instructor of the Year. Free autographed book! For ages 12 – 18.
Where: Manhattan Beach Library, LACL
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 4533 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13084168
Monthly Open Mic Night at Central Library, Anaheim – In-Person Event
Open to performers and spectators of all ages. Poets, singers, songwriters, storytellers, dancers, and listeners are welcome. The program will include a featured reading by a published poet or musician. A sign-up sheet will be provided at the event for performers to register to participate. Each performer will be allotted 4-6 minutes, depending on the number of sign-ups.
Visit Anaheim.net/APLADA or call 714-765-1700 at least 72 hours in advance ADA accommodations are needed.
Where: Anaheim Central Library
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: 500 W. Broadway, Anaheim, CA 92805
Website: https://www.anaheim.net/Calendar.aspx?EID=37648&month=4&year=2025&day=3&calType=0
Malibu Library Speaker Series: Bill Weir & Life As We Know It (Can Be) at Elkins Auditorium, Pepperdine University – In-Person Event
The Malibu Library Speaker Series and Pepperdine University present CNN correspondent Bill Weir, speaking as part of Pepperdine’s 2025 Climate Calling Conference. Climate Calling is a conference dedicated to exploring climate change, its consequences, and our moral calling to respond to growing concerns about the future of our planet. The conference is led by a group of Pepperdine faculty members from diverse disciplines.
Bill Weir is an anchor, writer, producer, and television host. In his first book, Life as We Know It (Can Be): Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World, published in April 2024, he implores local communities to prepare for the future by remaining united with one another and the natural world.
Weir became CNN’s first chief climate correspondent in 2019, having spent six years at the network following a decade of award-winning journalism at ABC News. He was the creator and host of CNN’s original series “The Wonder List with Bill Weir.” With Weir’s distinctive storytelling style and a focus on our connected planet, the series highlighted people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of seismic change.
NOTE: Details and RSVP at website link.
Where: Elkins Auditorium at Pepperdine University
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 24255 Pacific Coast Hwy., Malibu, CA 9026
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13138868
A Poetry Reading with CD Eskilson at Pitzer College – In-Person Event
CD Eskilson (PZ ’18) is a trans nonbinary poet, editor, and literary translator. Their work appears in Kenyon Review, The Offing, Pleiades, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, and others. They are a recipient of the C.D. Wright / Academy of American Poets Prize and have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Their debut poetry collection, Scream / Queen, is forthcoming from Acre Books in 2025. Modern Woman, CD’s translation of Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran’s groundbreaking 1916 poetry collection, will be published by World Poetry Books in 2026.
Event will be held at 5:30 PM PST in Broad Center Performance Space.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Pitzer College, Broad Center Performance Space
Date: Tuesday, the 3rd
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: 1050 N. Mills Ave., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: https://claremontcreativewriting.com/
Heart & Hand with Dr. David Yeager, Author of 10 To 25 via Virtual Program, LACL
Join LA County Librarian, Skye Patrick, for an inspiring, encouraging conversation with Dr. David Yeager, the author of 10 TO 25: The Science of Motivating Young People.
Dr. Yeager will be discussing his research into the most effective ways to communicate with and motivate the young people in your lives, be they family, friends, or coworkers.
Starting around age 10, the brain begins to crave socially rewarding experiences such as pride, admiration, and respect, and to become highly averse to social pain, such as humiliation or shame – and this carries on into their mid-twenties! Dr. Yeager’s research can teach us how to effectively tap into that craving by adopting a leadership style that’s attuned to young people’s need for status and respect – what he calls the “mentor mindset.” Young people in this age group are poised to learn, grow, and accomplish incredible things—if only we can tap into the basic neurobiological systems that drive their motivation and behavior.
Where: Los Angeles County Library, LACL
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/12501974
Book Talk: Michael Hiltzik, with Bill Deverell, & Golden State: The Making of California at Chevalier’s – In-Person Event
Join Michael Hiltzik, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and business columnist for the Los Angeles Times, for a conversation about his latest book, Golden State: The Making Of California. Joining Hiltzik will be Bill Deverell, a historian of the 19th and 20th century American west and professor at USC.
Golden State is a definitive new history of California—from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state’s meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark of progressivism—and of its indelible mark on the United States and the world.
California has long reigned as the land of plenty, a place where the sun always shines and opportunity beckons. Even prior to its statehood in 1850, it captured the world’s imagination. We think of bearded prospectors lured by the promise of gold; we imagine its early embrace of immigrant labor during the railroad boom as prologue to its diverse social fabric today. But what lies underneath the myth is far more complicated.
Thanks to extensive research by Michael Hiltzik, one of our longstanding voices on California, Golden State uncovers the unvarnished truth about the state we think we know well. From Spanish incursions into what became known as Alta California to the rise of Big Tech, the history of California is one of stark contradictions. In rich, previously overlooked detail, we see its earliest statesmen wreak havoc among native peoples while racing to draft their own constitution even ahead of statehood. Gold-hungry settlers venture into the Sierra foothills only to leave with little, while a handful of their suppliers turn themselves into millionaire railroad magnates. Wars erupt in the name of water as Los Angeles booms, and early efforts to tame the vast landscape create a haven for fossil fuel extraction and environmental conservation alike. Hollywood politicians stoke fear, contributing to a centuries-long tradition of anti-Asian violence, and, remarkably, legal redlining and free higher education take root together.
Golden State brings a fresh critical eye to the origins of the state against which the rest of the country measures itself. From its very start, the author shows, the story of the United States was written in California.
Where: Chevalier’s
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., CA 90004
Inlandia Celebrates: National Poetry Month and National Autism Acceptance Month at Riverside Main Library – In-Person Event
Join us for the “Autism and the Poetic Voice” reading and conversation.
Featuring readings and conversation with: Chad Sweeney and Tiffany Elliot in the library community room.
Chad Sweeney is a poet and translator. He is the author of six books of poetry, Little Million Doors (Nightboat Books, winner of Nightboat Prize, 2019), Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James Books), Arranging the Blaze (Anhinga Press), White Martini of the Apocalypse (Marick Press), Wolf’s Milk: the Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney (Forklift Books, bilingual Spanish/English) and An Architecture (BlazeVOX Books), and two books of translation, The Art of Stepping Through Time, the selected poems of Iranian dissident poet, H.E. Sayeh (White Pine Press, with Mojdeh Marashi) and Pablo Neruda’s final book, The Call to Destroy Nixon and to Advance the Chilean Revolution (Marick Press, 2019).
Tiffany Elliot N/A
Where: Riverside Main Library
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 3900 Mission Inn Ave. Riverside, CA
Website: https://inlandiainstitute.org/category/events/
Julia Barz, with Amanda Montell, & The Last Session at Deisel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Julia Barz, in conversation with Amanda Montell, will discuss The Last Session.
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat, comes a white-knuckled locked-room thriller about a social worker who, after coming face-to-face with her dark past, must infiltrate a mysterious wellness center in the deserts of New Mexico.
Julia Bartz is the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Session and The Writing Retreat, a practicing therapist, and a creative coach. Her fiction writing has appeared in the South Dakota Review, InDigest Magazine, and more. She lives in Brooklyn.
Amanda Montell is a writer and linguist from Baltimore. She is the author of the acclaimed books Wordslut, Cultish, and The Age of Magical Overthinking. Along with hosting the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, and more. She holds a degree in linguistics from NYU and lives in Los Angeles with her partner, plants, and pets.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 990402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Julia-Bartz-Amanda-Montell-Author-signing
TICKETED EVENT: David Sheff, with Tosh Berman, & Yoko: A Biography Off-site at Beverly Hills Library – In-Person Event
David Sheff, in conversation with Tosh Berman, will discuss Yoko: A Biography.
An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy.
John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world’s most famous unknown artist. “Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.” She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity, and, often, a villain—an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist, and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon/Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko’s part has been missing—hidden in the Beatles’ formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono’s life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centerstage.
Yoko’s life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. Yoko spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her harrowing experience as a child during the war, her arrival in avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo, and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism, and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless, and cynical microscope as she was falsely vilified for the most heinous cultural crime imaginable: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history.
This book was nearly a half-century in the making. In 1980, David Sheff met Yoko and John when Sheff conducted an in-depth interview with them just months before John’s murder. In the aftermath of the killing, he and Yoko became close as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and betrayals, and went on to create groundbreaking art and music while campaigning for peace and other causes. Drawing from his experiences and interviews with her, her family, closest friends, collaborators, and many others, Sheff shows us Yoko’s nine decades—one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived.
Yoko is a harrowing, moving, propulsive, and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono’s reputation but elevates it to iconic status.
This is a ticketed program through Eventbrite and will take place at the Beverly Hills Public Library, 444 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Book Soup Offsite at Beverly Hills Library
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 444 N. Rexford Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/david-sheff-2025
Book Launch and ACOTAR Trivia Night: Chelsea Cole, with Dani Fusaro, & A Feast of Thorns and Roses at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
This LA book event features Chelsea Cole and Dani Fusaro to discuss her novel A Feast of Thorns and Roses.
This is a ticketed event with food and drink included;
Everyone is welcome. RSVP required.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 3806 Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
At Skylight: Carolyn Huynh, with Liza Palmer, & The Family Recipe: A Novel at Skylight – In-Person Event
Carolyn Huynh, in conversation with Liza Palmer, will discuss The Family Recipe: A Novel.
This is a stunning family dramedy about estranged siblings competing to inherit their father’s Vietnamese sandwich franchise and unravel family mysteries.
Duc Tran, the eccentric founder of the Vietnamese sandwich chain Duc’s Sandwiches, has decided to retire. No one has heard from his wife, Evelyn, in two decades. She abandoned the family without a trace, and clearly doesn’t want anything to do with Duc, the business, or their kids. But the money has to go to someone. With the help of the shady family lawyer, Duc informs his five estranged adult children that to receive their inheritance, his four daughters must revitalize run-down shops in old-school Little Saigon locations across America: Houston, San Jose, New Orleans, and Philadelphia—within a year. But if the first-born (and only) son, Jude, gets married first, everything will go to him.
Each daughter is stuck in a new city, battling gentrification, declining ethnic enclaves, and messy love lives, while struggling to modernize their father’s American dream. Jude wonders if he wants to marry for love or for money—or neither. As Duc’s children scramble to win their inheritance, they begin to learn the real intention behind the inheritance scheme—and the secret their mother kept tucked away in the old fishing tackle box, all along.
The Family Recipe is about rediscovering one’s roots, different types of fatherly love, legacy, and finding a place in a divided country where the only commonality among your neighbors is the universal love of sandwiches.
Carolyn Huynh loves writing about messy Asian women who never learn from their mistakes. Her debut book, The Fortunes of Jaded Women was a Good Morning America book club pick and is being adapted for television by Heyday Studios and Universal. Her sophomore book, The Family Recipe, comes out in 2025. When she’s not writing, Carolyn daydreams about having iced coffee on a rooftop in Ho Chi Minh City.
Two-time Emmy nominated, internationally best-selling tea enthusiast who gets to write for Marvel sometimes, Liza Palmer lives in Los Angeles where 95.3% of people call her Lisa. Her tenth novel, Young Fools, will be out Fall, 2025.
Where: Skylight
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-carolyn-huynh-presents-family-recipe-w-liza-palmer
Ticketed Event: Patty Callahan Henry, with Julia Whelan, & The Story She Left Behind at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Inspired by a true literary mystery, New York Times bestselling author of the mesmerizing The Secret Book of Flora Lea returns with the sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both.
In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beautiful mother.
By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother’s lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother’s vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London’s most deadly natural disasters—the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson’s family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind.
The Story She Left Behind is a captivating novel of mystery and family legacy that captures the profound longing for a mother and the evergreen allure of secrets.
Patti Callahan Henry is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of several novels, including Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the recipient of the Christy Award, the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year Award, and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year. She is the cohost and cocreator of the popular weekly online live web show and podcast Friends and Fiction. She lives in Alabama and South Carolina with her family. Find out more at PattiCallahanHenry.com.
NOTE: See site https://vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-04-03/ticketed-patti-callahan-henry-conversation-julia-whelan-discusses-and-signs-story for details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
LiveTalks LA Presents: Scott Berry Kaufman, with Mark Manson, & Rise Above: Overcome a Victim Mindset, Empower Yourself, and Realize Your Full Potential at Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
An empowering call to reject the victim mindset and become the hero of your life, by the renowned psychologist and host of The Psychology Podcast.
In this empowering book, psychologist Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman unpacks the dangerous myths and misleading buzzwords swirling around the popular imagination—revealing the truth about managing our emotions, the double-edged sword of self-esteem, the surprising gifts of sensitivity, and, ultimately, the power each of has to overcome challenges and to shape the course of our own lives.
Rise Above speaks to what ails us, offering not just empathy, insight, and a dose of humor, but also actionable solutions to own your life and reach your full potential.
Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive psychologist who is among the most cited scientists in the world for his groundbreaking research on intelligence, creativity, and human potential. He is the host of The Psychology Podcast, which has received more than 30 million downloads and is frequently ranked the #1 psychology podcast in the world. Dr. Kaufman’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and Harvard Business Review, and he is the author of ten previous books, including Transcend, Wired to Create, and Ungifted.
Mark Manson is a three-time New York Times Bestselling author. His most well-known work is The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, the mega-bestseller that reached #1 in fourteen different countries. He also runs one of the largest personal growth creator brands in the world. Often described as “self-help for people who hate self-help,” Mark’s contrarian approach to personal development has struck a chord with people around the globe, amassing an audience of millions. With more than 15 million yearly blog readers and 1 million subscribers on MarkManson.net, Mark has become one of the largest and most successful independent publishers in the world. His YouTube channel, where he broadcasts documentary-style videos for over 2.5 million engaged global viewers, grows daily. And his The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast, doles out Mark’s no-BS brand of life advice on a weekly basis to hundreds of thousands of listeners. Mark’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, Forbes, The BBC, CNN, and Vox, among many others.
Where: Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3200 Motor Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90034
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/scott-barry-kaufman-with-mark-manson/
How a Book Changed My Life Student Essay Contest: Letter to an Author at Diamond Bar Library, LACL – In-Person Teen Event
If you’re a book lover, you’ve likely read something, fiction or non-fiction, classic or contemporary, that has left its mark on you. Now’s your chance to express your appreciation to the author with an essay in the form of a letter.
In this letter, you’ll describe how the author’s work has altered your worldview or personal life. Who knows—the author may even read it!
Don’t miss out on the opportunity.
Three (3) winners will be chosen and will each be awarded $300.
Pick up an entry form at Diamond Bar Library or download a form here. You can submit the completed entry form and essay by dropping it off or mailing it to Diamond Bar Library.
The deadline for submission is April 15, 2025. Winners will be announced on April 26, 2025.
Prizes: $300 (3)
Contest Rules:
* Open to students ages 13-18
* Entries must be 1,000 words or less
* Must be mailed or dropped off at Diamond Bar Library
* All entries become the property of LA County Library
* A completed entry form must accompany all essay submissions
Sponsored by the Diamond Bar Friends of the Library
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Diamond Bar Library, LACL
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: All Day (see site)
Address: 21800 Copley Dr., Diamond Bar, CA 91765
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event
Pajama Storytime at Once Upon a Time, Montrose – In-Person Kids & Family Event
Our most popular story time is ready to delight and dazzle! This is also the prime time to see Pippi Longstocking, our bookstore cat in action.
Open to all ages. Free to attend.
There is a large FREE parking lot off Florencita Dr. as well as metered parking along Honolulu Ave. and Montrose Ave.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time, Montrose
Date: Friday, the 4th
Time: 9:30 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website:https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event
Book Club: A Psalm for the Well Built at Claremont Helen Renwick Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Join participants to discuss A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers.
The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she’s given a name and location by her boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there’s to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle is the job. Adults.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Claremont Helen Renwick Library, LACL
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 pm
Address: 13800 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada, CA 90638
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13192446
Bilingual Storytime at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Kids Event
Hora de cuentos bilingüe! Exponer a tus hjijos a varios idiomas es de gran beneficio para su aprendizaje y desarrollo, y qué mejor que hacerlo en esta divertida actividad en donde leeremos un maravilloso cuento en inglés y en español.
Bilingual Storytime! Exposing your children to multiple languages is highly beneficial for their learning and development, and what better way to do it than through this fun activity where we will read a wonderful story in both English and Spanish.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd. #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/2070820250404
In-Person Signing: Martina Calvi & The Art of Memory Collection at Chevalier’s – In-Person Event
Our Scrapbooking with Martina event sold out in MINUTES!!! Since we are a tiny store, we can only accommodate a certain number of people inside for the workshop. But don’t worry! Martina will be signing copies of her book THE ART OF MEMORY COLLECTING at Chevalier’s Books on Friday, April 4th from 4:00pm until 5:00pm. You can get your copy signed by Martina IN PERSON!
We’ll have copies at the store, but you can reserve your copy in advance now.
The free RSVP does not guarantee entry, and signing will be first come, first served.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Chevalier’s
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Book Launch: Morgan DeBaun, With Yvonne Orji, with Kristen Dwyer, & Rewrite Your Rules at The Rep Club Off-site at NeueHouse Hollywood – In-Person Event
Join us for a book launch discussion with author and Blavity & Afrotech founder/CEO Morgan DeBaun, in conversation with writer & actress Yvonne Orji, to discuss Rewrite Your Rules: The Journey to Success in Less Time with More Freedom.
This is a transformative guide to leaving “hustle culture” behind to create a more sustainable, balanced definition of success.
Morgan DeBaun is the founder and CEO of Blavity Inc., a revolutionary media and tech company serving multicultural consumers. A serial entrepreneur, small business advisor, and corporate board advisor, DeBaun has become one of the most prominent figures in both the modern DE&I tech landscape and consumer marketing world. DeBaun is an icon for a generation of entrepreneurs and ambitious professionals looking to find sustainable success and balance in a world that values the hustle and grind over everything.
Yvonne Orji is an Emmy-nominated Nigerian American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and author.
Orji gives a knockout performance as Issa Rae’s best friend and fan favorite, “Molly” on the HBO comedy series, INSECURE. Her stellar work on the show’s fourth season garnered her an Emmy Nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her debut book, Bamboozled by Jesus: How God Tricked Me Into the Life of My Dreams, was released by Hachette Book Group and has surpassed 100,000 books sold.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Rep Club Off-site at NeueHouse Hollywood
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm (Doors at 6 pm)
Address: 6121 Sunset Blvd,, Los Angeles, CA 90028
LA Book Event: Gretchen Schreiber, with Kristen Dwyer, & All the Stars Align at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
This LA book event features Gretchen Schreiber, in conversation with Kristen Dwyer, to discuss her novel All the Stars Align.
Everyone is welcome. RSVP required.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 3806 Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
At Skylight: Kyle Edwards, with Jean Chen Ho, & Small Ceremonies at Skylight – In-Person
Kyle Edwards, in conversation with Jean Chen Ho, will discuss Small Ceremonies.
A poignant and heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg, Manitoba’s North End, illuminating what it’s like to grow up in the heart of an Indigenous city
Set in Winnipeg’s North End, at the border of Canada’s eastern woodlands and central prairies, Small Ceremonies follows a community both at the edge of the world and at the center of something much larger than itself. As its richly drawn characters navigate the thrilling independence of adulthood and the loss of innocence that accompanies adolescence, one can’t help but root for Tommy and his community, even as Tommy wrestles with his place in it.
Kyle Edwards grew up on the Lake Manitoba First Nation and is a member of the Ebb and Flow First Nation. A graduate of Ryerson University, he has worked as a journalist for Native News Online, ProPublica, and Maclean’s, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Stanford Universities. He has won two National Magazine Awards for his reporting and was named Emerging Indigenous Journalist by the Canadian Association of Journalists in 2019. He is currently a Provost Fellow at the University of Southern California.
Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022, longlisted for the Story Prize, and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vulture, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Electric Literature. Her fiction, essays, and criticism appear in New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications. She teaches creative writing at Chapman University and the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from USC, and an MFA from UNLV. She was born in Taiwan and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Where: Skylight
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-kyle-edwards-presents-small-ceremonies-w-jean-chen-ho
Ticketed Event: Patty Callahan Henry, with Julia Whelan, & The Story She Left Behind at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Inspired by a true literary mystery, New York Times bestselling author of the mesmerizing The Secret Book of Flora Lea returns with the sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both.
In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington’s magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beautiful mother.
By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother’s lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother’s vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London’s most deadly natural disasters—the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson’s family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind.
The Story She Left Behind is a captivating novel of mystery and family legacy that captures the profound longing for a mother and the evergreen allure of secrets.
Patti Callahan Henry is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of several novels, including Surviving Savannah and Becoming Mrs. Lewis. She is the recipient of the Christy Award, the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year Award, and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year. She is the cohost and cocreator of the popular weekly online live web show and podcast Friends and Fiction. She lives in Alabama and South Carolina with her family. Find out more at PattiCallahanHenry.com.
NOTE: See site https://vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-04-03/ticketed-patti-callahan-henry-conversation-julia-whelan-discusses-and-signs-story for details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Thursday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Alwyn Hamilton, with Victoria Aveyard, & The Notorious Virtues at Vroman’s – In-Person YA Event
Bestselling Rebel of the Sands author Alwyn Hamilton is back with a glittering fantasy thriller about a glamorous media darling, a surprise heiress, and the magical competition of a lifetime. She will discuss her new book with Victoria Aveyard.
This gorgeous hardcover first edition features emerald hued edges, creating a lush look for this stunning fantasy.
At sixteen, Honora “Nora” Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in all of Walstad. Her family controls all the money—and all the magic—in the entire country. But despite being the center of attention, Nora has always felt like an outsider. When her mother is found dead in an alley, the family throne and fortune are suddenly up for grabs, and Nora will be pitted against her cousins in the Veritaz, the ultimate magical competition for power that determines the one family heir.
But there’s a surprise contestant this time: Lotte, the illegitimate daughter of Nora’s aunt. When Lotte’s absent mother retrieves her from the rural convent she’d abandoned her to, Lotte goes from being an orphan to surrounded by family. Unfortunately, most of them want her dead.
And soon, Nora discovers that her mother’s death wasn’t random—it was murder. And the only person she can trust to uncover the truth of what happened is a rakish young reporter who despises everything Nora and her family stand for.
While the dangers of the Veritaz competition threaten each of the Holtzfall girls, and the stark class differences turns political outrage to terrifying violence—the new cousins must fight to stay alive, no matter what.
Incredible tests, impossible choices, and deadly odds await both girls. But there can only be one winner.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Friday the 4th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
A Night of Poetry with Mystic Boxing Commission at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Join us for a show that packs a punch! The Mystic Boxing Commission has published hundreds of poets and writers, including 150 unique “Sparring Artists” in the recent Annual 2 of The Sparring Artists anthology of Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts.
Join Mystic Boxing Commission editors S.A. Griffin and Richard Modiano as they celebrate several of these creative wordsmiths including Sasha Brenner, Rich Ferguson, Kathleen Florence, Michael C Ford, Nelson Gary, Adelaide Jarnot, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, K.R. Morrison, Kennon B. Raines, Jeanne Marie Spicuzza, Dig Wayne, Daniel Yaryan & surprise special guests! Special Guest Michael C Ford and several other renowned “mystic boxers” will appear. For a complete list, go to http://www.sparringartists.com.
Ticket purchase is required. No one will be turned away for lack of funds! Tickets will be available at the Beyond Baroque bookstore on the day of the event, but we recommend registering in advance through Eventbrite. Masks are encouraged while inside our center.
Livestream: If you can’t join us in-person the event will be livestreamed on Beyond Baroque’s YouTube channel at the scheduled time of the event.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday, the 4th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90291
LA Get Down Festival 2025 at Greenway Court Theatre – In-Person Event
The LA Get Down Festival is an annual event held during National Poetry Month celebrating hip-hop and spoken word, featuring performances, workshops, and poetry slams. It begins on the 4th and continues every Friday – Sunday in the month of April.
Where: LA Get Down Festival
Date: Friday, the 4th – Saturday, the 26th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 544 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: https://greenwaycourttheatre.org/2025-la-get-down/
SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music Event at Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center – In-Person Event
SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music is offered every 1st & 3rd Friday of the month and hosted by Loranzo Frank.
Featured guests: TBA
Tickets at Eventbrite.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center
Date: Friday, the 4th
Time: 8 pm – 12 am
Address: 4305 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.depoet.info/swaam
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Reading Series & Open Mic with host Cynthia Alessandra Briano at Rapp Saloon, Santa Monica – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
First Fridays at Rapp Saloon: Open Mic & Featured Readers, will be this week, and is offered every 1st Friday of the month by host Cynthia Alessandra Briano.
First Friday: Cynthia Alessandra Briano
Second Friday: Russell Greene
Third Friday: Elena Secota
Fourth Friday: Jim Bolt
Fifth Friday: James Evert Jones
This is a hybrid event, live in-person while offering a Zoom option for our performers and guests.
Our featured guest poets and artists this month TBA.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Rapp Saloon at HISUA – In-Person & Online Event
Date: Friday, the 4th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 1436 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.facebook.com/RappSaloonReading or https://www.instagram.com/rappsaloon/?hl=en
Western Edge Writers at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL Library – In-Person Event
Writers and aspiring writers, join us for a group that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir.
Please email eaglrk@lapl.org for the writing prompt.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 10 am
Address: 5027 Caspar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-1
Writing Workshop: Feng Shui Poetry with Jen Cheng (FREE via UCLA Extension 731.4) – Online Live Event
Writers and aspiring writers may take a FREE online workshop to learn about Feng Shui Poetry, a form created by West Hollywood Poet Laureate Jen Cheng as a way to write poetry with a new perspective through a lens of Feng Shui Principles. We can transform quiet whispers into loud feeling or into something actionable.
The five elements—Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood—are a way to meditate on your message.
No experience necessary. Come with curiosity.
Register at # 402348 in UCLA Extension catalogue.
Where: UCLA Extension Online
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 10 am – 12 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHkt33jOnia/?hl=en
Book Launch: Christina Perri and Joy Hwang Ruiz & A Thousand Years at Children’s Book World – In-Person Kids Event
Join us for a debut picture book celebration of A Thousand Years, from multi-platinum singer/songwriter, Christina Perri and illustrator Joy Hwang Ruiz.
Christina Perri teams up with New York Times bestselling illustrator Joy Hwang Ruiz to turn her hit song “A Thousand Years” into a tender picture book on motherhood.
I have spent every day waiting for you.
Darling, don’t be afraid.
I have loved you for a thousand years.
I’ll love you for a thousand more.
In this ode from parent to child, Christina Perri teams up with New York Times bestselling illustrator Joy Hwang Ruiz to turn her hit song “A Thousand Years” into a tender reminder that a mother’s love is forever.
Christina Perri is a multi-platinum singer-songwriter who earned critical acclaim and an increasingly fervent fan following since her 2011 debut, Lovestrong. She’s released two lullaby albums and has more on the way.
Joy Hwang Ruiz enjoys capturing the magical and fleeting moments of parenthood as she tries to figure out what it’s all about. Her illustrations celebrate love in families and embrace inclusivity. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Southern California.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 10580 1/2 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: https://www.childrensbookworld.com/event
Saturday Morning Book Discussion at Palms – Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL Library – In-Person Event
We continue to choose books from the annual The New York Times Notables list. Drop by for great conversation, good company, & coffee!
Copies available at reference and online via hoopladigital &/or Libby.
April 5 – You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrigue; trans. Natasha Wimmer
Where: Palms – Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 11 am
Address: 2920 Overland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/saturday-morning-book-discussion
Teen Book Discussion: Ghost at View Park Bebe Moore Campbell Library, LACL – In-Person Event
For March we will read the graphic novel Ghost by Jason Reynolds. For teens.
LA County Library’s Probation Outreach unit is excited to present Ghost, a graphic novel by Jason Reynolds. Teens can read and keep this special book and then join us in discussing it. Paperback copies of the book are available while supplies last.
This program is held in partnership with the County of Los Angeles Probation Department and is funded through the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act (JJCPA). It requires the collection of data on program participants.
Where: Norwalk Library, LACL
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 12350 Imperial Hwy., Norwalk, CA 90650
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13040260
Middle School Book Club: Extra Normal at Agoura Hills Library, LACL – In-Person MG Event
For March we will read and discuss Extra Normal by Kate Alice Marshall. For ages 11-14.
Where: Agoura Hills Library, LACL
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 11 am – 12
Address: 29901 Ladyface Ct., Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/12982832
Drag Story Hour at West Hollywood Library, LACL – In-Person Event
Join us for a fun drag storytime with the fabulous Queen Angelina reading stories that promote diversity and inclusion! Co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood through WeHo Arts. For children of all ages.
Where: West Hollywood Library, LACL
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/13218378
Neurodiverse Storytime with David Isaacson at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Join us every Wednesday and Saturday for a storytime among the cozy stacks at Village Well!
We’re partnering with The Miracle Project, a fully inclusive theater, film, and expressive arts program focused on building communication, self-esteem, and life skills for neurodivergent and disabled individuals. Through shared experiences with peers and volunteers, individuals with diverse backgrounds, communication styles, and abilities find their voice, develop their talents, and rehearse for life.
Guest speaker David Isaacson (Atypical, Love on the Spectrum) will join us to read his favorite books about animals!
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., 1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/2468420250405
Pasadena Conservatory of Music: Musical Storytime with The Bunny Rabbit Show at Vroman’s – In-Person Kids & Family Event
Join us to hear the Pasadena Conservatory of Music: present a Musical Storytime with The Bunny Rabbit Show, a board book by author Sandra Boynton.
Caregivers and children aged 3-9 will enjoy story, craft activities, creative movement, and a mini-concert!
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Kids Graphic Novel Book Club: Haru, Book 1: Spring at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Participants will discuss: Haru, Book 1: Spring by author Joe Latham.
Haru, a small bird who dreams of flying, and their best friend Yama, a talkative boar, are used to being in the shadows. But when Yama finds a strange artifact that causes sinister effects, the two are swept into an epic journey to destroy the artifact and save the world.
In The Valley, best friends Haru and Yama both dream of leaving as they’re bullied at school, frustrated at home, and struggling to figure out who they are. One day, a powerful artifact connects itself to Yama, and they discover that they’ll have to journey to The Beacon in search of answers.
Created by artist Joe Latham, this beautifully illustrated graphic novel series is a coming-of-age tale that spans the changing of seasons. Beginning in spring and ending in spring—the cycle complete. A story of heart, growing up, and the sacrifices we make for those we love, Haru is perfect for middle-grade readers.
Joe is a Human Person, based in Bristol (UK). He makes comics, illustrations and designs for other humans. In his own words, he is “a tall nerd” and he plays the drums. He also likes to hang out with his cat. He uses Instagram and Twitter to post project updates and artwork.
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/kids-graphic-novel-book-club-haru-book-1-spring
Hooray for Hollywood! Novels Set in “Tinsel Town” at West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join us as we welcome Kate Maruyama and Marjorie McCown as they discuss Hollywood, past and present, and their novels set in “tinsel town.”
Copies of Alterations, Final Cut, and Star Struck will be available for purchase by North Figueroa Bookshop. Both authors will be available to sign copies of their books after the talk.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 19036 Vanowen St., Reseda, CA 91335
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/hooray-hollywood-novels-set-tinsel-town
Book Launch: Juan Amador & Pimping My Trauma at Sims Library of Poetry – In-Person Event
Join us for the book launch celebration for Juan Amador and his debut collection, Pimping My Trauma, published by Riot of Roses Press.
Special featured poets TBA soon.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 2702 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHu86jtuk4N/
Book Launch & Exhibition Conversation, Exhibition & Closing: Ansel Krut & 26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Ansel Krut will have a book conversation and celebration of the exhibition closing at Beyond Baroque titled 26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images.
26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images is just that, a collection of unlikely single words put together with unrelated images as a single volume. In the book, which is modeled on an old-fashioned ABC primer, Krut takes 26 randomly chosen words and matches them to his own drawings without assigning any obvious correlation between the word and the image. Readers are left to explore the slipperiness of language and unlock the coded language buried in both the sound of words and in the way drawings are made.
Ansel Krut was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1959. He studied medicine for 2 years before switching to Fine Art and he graduated with a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1982. After a scholarship to the Cite des Arts in Paris he completed an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in London. He was the Abbey Major Scholar in Painting at the British School at Rome in 1986/87 and then stayed on in Italy for a subsequent 3 years, returning to London in 1990. He now lives and works in London.
Krut was a visiting lecturer at the RCA from 2006 to 2014 and he has taught at many other art colleges throughout the UK. He was an artist-lecturer at the National Gallery in London from 2004 to 2012.
Richard Nielsen is an artist, activist, painter, photographer and printmaker, with a background in lithography and etching. Nielsen’s painting practice is informed by his exploration in the expanded fields of printmaking and analogue photography. From 2011 to 2022, Nielsen was the founder and Master-printer for Untitled Prints and Editions which offer printmaking collaboration to artists from around the world. As well as his personal painting practice, Richard Nielsen has been a close collaborator and life partner to Lauren Bon and her Metabolic Studio since 2007.
Where: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center & Mike Kelley Gallery
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Poetry Writing Workshop via Saturday Afternoon Poetry – Online Event
Join us for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by RUADH (Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines including the subject of or at least mentioning point or up for Four Feathers Press online edition: Point Up by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, April 18th).
Don Kingfisher Campbell hosts and curates these events.
Where: Saturday Afternoon Poetry
Date: Saturday, the 5th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event (see site)
Website: https://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
E.A. Hanks, with Aaron Blayaert, & The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road at Diesel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Julia Barz, in conversation with Amanda Montell, will discuss The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road.
In The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road former Vanity Fair staffer and New York Times contributor E. A. Hanks offers a beautifully written, deeply felt memoir recounting the solo, cross-country journey she made along Route 10 across the American southwest: a mission to uncover both what harrowing violence may or may not have happened to her late mother, but also, to look within and discover who she herself is—where her mother ends and she begins. Writing with a blend of memoir, road narrative, travelogue, and true crime, E.A. Hanks joins the ranks of Joan Didion, Dani Shapiro, and Ariel Levy as she tackles themes of inheritance, family legacies and secrets, mothers and daughters, and a changing national landscape. In her trusted loaded-up minivan “Minnie,” Liz Hanks (daughter of Tom Hanks and Susan Dillingham), follows the same route as a long-ago road trip with her mother to better understand the complicated woman who gave her life. Along the way, as she follows her mother’s diaries and her own recollections of the route, she begins to uncover secrets—some unexpectedly wonderful, and others darker and more violent than she ever imagined—that bring more questions than answers.
From the quiet expanses of White Sands National Park to the bustling streets of New Orleans, and the Texas-Mexico border to the swamps of the Florida panhandle, Liz interacts with the amazing breadth and diversity of the people that call these places home. Reckoning with the past, the present, her memories, and herself, Hanks brings us along a beautiful voyage towards understanding how the stories we tell about the places we’re from ultimately become the stories we tell about the people we are. Similar in scope and breadth as Wild by Cheryl Strayed, with the observational qualities of Joan Didion and the reverence for people and place of Peter Mayer, THE 10 is a patient, beautiful and contemporary work of wanderlust and research combined.
E.A. Hanks lives in Los Angeles, California. Formerly a staffer at Vanity Fair, she has contributed to Time, The Guardian, The New York Times, and others.
Aaron Bleyaert is a two-time Emmy award winning producer behind the hit podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend and the Max travel show Conan O’Brien Must Go. He also wrote the hyper viral short film How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps, which screened at Cannes, Sundance, and festivals worldwide.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 990402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/E-A-Hanks-April-5-5pm-Author-signing
Pondwater Society Reading and Open Mic Event at Private Residence – In-Person Event
Joanne Qualley Baines hosts the Pondwater Society Reading and Open Mic every 1st Saturday of the month.
We paint, we write, we read, we create things, we talk, we listen.
Sometimes we make things out of concrete that are too big for us to move and so the things stay where they are. One time we filled up our swimming pool with fishes and water lilies and cattails. Another time Eddie was building a little house out at the back of the property and the water was turned off back there and so he used water from the pond to mix the cement and so now that is the PondWater Estate.
NOTE: Check site to verify event as features and details are announced.
Where: Pondwater Society
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 16504 E. Masline, Covina, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PondWater/
Shy But Flyy & Guests at The Queen Mary Observation Bar, Long Beach – In-Person Event
Shy But Flyy hosts an event with Joe Marty, Stony Gurrola, Matt Olson LIVE at the Queen Mary Observation Bar.
Visit queenmary.com for rsvp and tix! Special guests and full band.
NOTE: Check site for cost and details.
Where: Shy But Flyy Live at the Queen Mary
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California 90802
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHyWUmjpG2B/ or https://www.queenmary.com/social-events.htm
Griot Café Open Mic & Poetry at Shades of Afrika, Long Beach – In-Person Event
Griot Cafe Open Mic and Poetry.All ages. Hosted by Sistah Shy and Samuel Rain.
$5 Cover & bring a friend – Save $2. {$5.00 for 1st person and $3.00 for each addl. friend after that}
More info at https://shadesofafrika.com/griot-cafe-open-mic-poetry/
Where: Griot Café at Shades of Afrika, Long Beach
Date: Saturday the 5th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1001 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90802
Website: https://www.lbpoetry.com/
Melrose Trading Post Event & L.A. Poet Society at Greenway Arts Alliance at Melrose Trading Post at Fairfax H.S. – In-Person Event
The Melrose Trading Post is a pioneering arts-based marketplace held every Sunday at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, CA with 275 local creative small business vendors, delicious food booths and local live music.
MTP was founded in 1997 with a mission to champion small businesses, art and community. The market funds Greenway Arts Alliance’s arts education programming and provides employment and leadership development opportunities for students at Fairfax High School.
JOIN us in space R18 each Sunday, from 11 am – 5 pm.
All poems are donation based, so you name your price.
NOTE: Check every Sunday for story time and reading events
Where: Melrose Trading Post, Greenway Main Stage at Fairfax HS
Date: Sunday, the6th (Every Sunday)
Time: 10 am – 5 pm (market); 11 am – 5 pm (poets on demand)
Address: 7850 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046
Website: https://www.instagram.com
Growth Club Presents: Mindful Mornings Journaling Workshop at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Join us every First Sunday of the month for a journaling workshop.
Designed for those who seek to slow down and find clarity in the chaos of everyday life. We’ll guide you through prompts that inspire deep introspection and personal growth. Whether you’re a seasoned journaler or new to the practice, this event is a safe place to express your thoughts, set intentions and uncover the wisdom within.
- Connect with like-minded individuals in a warm and supportive environment.
- Reflect on your thoughts and emotions through guided journaling.
- Grow as you discover new insights and perspectives that can help you navigate your journey.
Bring your favorite journal and a pen and be ready to dive into an enriching experience that nurtures your mind, body, and soul.
Reserve your tickets on EVENTBRITE! $10
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., 1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events
Mystery Book Club at West Los Angeles Regional Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
We meet on the first Sunday of each month to discuss a mystery, thriller, or suspense book picked by the group. For current titles, please contact the West LA Library at westla@lapl.org or 310-575-8323.
Where: West Los Angeles Regional Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Sunday, the6th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 11360 Santa Moncia Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-1
Ticketed In-Store Signing: Mike Campbell & Heatbreaker at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Mike Campbell will sign Heartbreaker, a fast-paced, tender-hearted rock ‘n’ roll memoir for the ages,
Heartbreaker is part rags-to-riches story and part raucous, seat-of-the-pants adventure, recounting Campbell’s life and times as lead guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Mike Campbell was the lead guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the band’s inception in 1976 to Petty’s tragic death in 2017. His iconic, melodic playing helped form the foundation of the band’s sound, as heard on definitive classics like “American Girl,” “Breakdown,” “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” “Learning to Fly” and “Into the Great Wide Open.”
Together, Petty and Campbell wrote countless songs, including some of the band’s biggest hits: “Refugee,” “Here Comes My Girl,” “You Got Lucky” and “Runnin’ Down a Dream” among them.
Campbell emerged—from a hardscrabble childhood on the north side of Jacksonville, often just days ahead of homelessness, raised by a single mother struggling on minimum wage. After months of saving, his mother bought him a $15 pawnshop acoustic guitar for his sixteenth birthday. With a chord book and a transistor radio, Campbell painstakingly taught himself to play.
When a chance encounter with a guidance counselor inspired him to enroll in the University of Florida, Campbell—broke, with nowhere else to go and the Vietnam draft looming—moved into a rundown farmhouse in Gainesville, where he met a 20-year-old Tom Petty. They were soon inseparable. Together they chased their shared dream all the way to Los Angeles, where Campbell would meet his destiny, and the love of his life, Marcie.
Heartbreaker is Mike Campbell’s heartfelt portrait of one throwaway kid’s lifesaving love of music and the creative heights he achieved through luck, collaboration, humility and extraordinary talent.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/mike-campbell
Drifter Zine Launch: Readings at Stories Books & Café – In-Person Event
Featured readings from:
Jesus Cortez, Genesis Perez, Rhiannon Cielos Chavez, Paisley, Alyssa Flores-Tirado, Facundo Rompehuevos, Mark Timothy Hayward, and Dominic Xalli Anaya Gulaya.
Where: Stories Books & Café
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://storiesla.com/events
Queer Romance Book Club: Rules for Ghosting at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
April’s Queer Romance Book Club participants will discuss Rules for Ghosting by author Shelly Fay Shore.
This book club is led by bookseller Grace and it reads widely across the romance genre featuring LGBTQ authors.
Everyone is welcome.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 3806 Main St., Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://www.therippedbodice.com/events-and-tickets
Dazed and Confused Poetry Club at The Glendale Room – In-Person Event
The Dazed and Confused Poetry Club (Poetry Reading and Open Mic) is held every 1st Sunday and hosted by Fernando Funes.
Producer Fernando A. Funes has brought together some of his favorite poets for a special one-night celebration of lines, rhymes, verse, and poetry!
Sunday, April 6th Lineup:
Samantha Jane (Headliner), Karma, Taylor Elaine Bell, Catherine Schuler, Nikolai Garcia, Jennifer Rodriguez.
And we got an open mic!
As always, this show is in the spirit of your high school poetry club—we celebrate angst, melancholy, unbridled joy, and every emotion your adolescent self could ever feel! Bring your high school self and share those ink and pencil lines from your tattered and frayed and dog-eared notebooks!
How to Sign Up for The Open Mic:
1). DM Fernando A. Funes on Instagram
Or
Come up to him at the show and get on the list
2). You’ll get 2-3 poems or 5 minutes
3). So get on the open mic list and share your work!
You can follow Fernando A. Funes on IG @fernandoafunes
Tickets are $5
Meet Your Host:
Fernando A. Funes is a writer-performer who produces shows in Los Angeles including Duo It Again at The Lyric Hyperion on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7:30pm, hosted by his duo improv team, FernGully, along with Kristen Gull of Nuisance. He also produces The Duplex, Fernando Funes’ Long Form and Short Form Supreme, and The Dazed & Confused Poetry Club. He is on the Pack House Improv team Nuisance and the Pack House Sketch team, Popwich. He is a member of The Company of Angels. His short film, “The American Dream” has been featured in over 43 film festivals, including the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival. He writes a poem for every day of the year. He’s very excited about his first poetry collection, Working Class PTSD, or How I Learned to Code Switch + Love Poems. You can follow Fernando on Instagram @fernandoafunes
Where: The Glendale Room
Date: Sunday the 6th
Time: 8:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1276 Artsakh Ave., Glendale, CA 91206
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