This week and next week, there will be no list of weekly events. Los Angeles Literature is taking its summer break. However, below is a list of several literary events happening around Greater Los Ángeles later this week.
Que Me Cuentas Presents: Cuentos En La Cantina Story Telling Open Mic Show – In-Person Event
They will have featured storytellers, and a few spots on their open mic list. This event promises to be a good time, so come grab a cocktail or a craft beer and enjoy this night with everyone. The hosts are Jaime Mayorquin and Jesenia Chavez.
Jaime Mayorquin is a poet who grew up in Maywood and attended East Los Angeles College.
Jesenia Chavez is a proud Chicanita, public-school teacher, writer, poet and storyteller. She has kept a diary since elementary school, and it is filled with witty observations on the life of a little Mexican girl in Southeast Los Angeles who keeps losing her chanclas. Her debut book of poetry is This Poem Might Save You (Me) (Alegría Publishing, 2022).
Where: LA Bufadora
Date: Thursday, the 28th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3470 E. First Street, Boyle Heights, CA 90063
Website: https://www.instagram.com
OC Latina Book Club at MAZ Café Con Leche – Coffee Shop – In-Person Event
Join a group of Latinas for a monthly book club! This month we are reading Badass Bonita by Kim Guerra. Come ready to discuss the book.
In Badass Bonita, Guerra tells a story of coming into her own power, and guides listeners through the process of finding their own. Rejecting what she was taught as a girl, she learned to use her voice and the more she listened to that inner niña, the more she unearthed her inner guerrera. Vowing never to be calladita again, she now teaches Latine women to find their voices, healing the stories and emotional wounds that have kept them silent.
Where: MAZ Café Con Leche
Date: Saturday, the 30th
Time: 10:30 am – 12 pm
Address: 608 North Lacy Street Santa Ana, CA 92701
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oc-latina-book-club-tickets-1485091381299?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Poetry Anthology Launch: Look What I Did About Your Silence At Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Join us at Village Well Books & Coffee for the launch of El Martillo Press’ newest poetry anthology, Look What I Did About Your Silence!
A robust lineup of poets joins to read in this multilingual event.
About the book:
Look What I Did About Your Silence is a multilingual anthology compiling contemporary poetry from the United States and Europe addressing the many ways poets contemplate and respond to the concept of silence: divine and interpersonal silences; as well as the silences in public spaces that allow for everyday injustices and great atrocities. Edited by Matt Sedillo, Edoardo Olmi, gábor g.gyukics and Loris Ferri. Cover art by Alessandro Giampaoli.
Look What I Did About Your Silence features poems by Lorna Dee Cervantes, Luis J. Rodriguez, Tongo Eisen-Martin, gábor g.gyukics, Loris Ferri, Edward Vidaurre, Matt Sedillo, Adam Feinstein, Lynne Thompson, Ewa Chrusciel, Alyesha Wise, Natasha Sardzoska, Yazmin Monet Watkins, Károly Bari, Edoardo Olmi, Cory “Besskepp” Cofer, Rich Ferguson, Susan Hayden, Silvia Rosa, Erzsébet Tót, Raffi Joe Wartanian, Angelo Mazzei “Di Poggio,” Roland Orcsik, Ludovica Lanini, Dafne Rossi, Ceasar K. Avelar, Iris De Anda, Natalie Sierra, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Vanessa Torres-Mayorga, Ellen Webre, Solomon Rino, Bernadette McComish, Frankie Hernandez and David A. Romero.
Look What I Did About Your Silence features poems in English, Italian, Hungarian, and Macedonian.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Saturday, the 30th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Boulevard #1b Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com
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