by Florante Peter Ibanez
From: Inquirer.net
LOS ANGELES — The team of “SteEdy” (Stephanie & Eddy) welcomed an audience of about 50 millennials to the monthly pop-up arts open mic event called “Sunday Jump” on, well, Sunday, October 1.
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Poetry Open Mic at Westwood Library, LAPL
Come to share your masterpiece, or just to listen and enjoy!
Bring your recent work. Bring your favorite work. Bring work by someone else you really like. Then, take away inspiration for new work!
Hosted by Wyatt Underwood
Where: Westwood Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-2
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THE FUTURE OF POETRY IS BROWN & QUEER
by Soraya Membreno
From: bitch media
Despite what National Hispanic Heritage Month would have you think, Latinx writers exist year-round! And despite what headlines like “Poetry is going extinct, government data show,” predict, this is a moment of poetic renaissance and poets of color are paving the way.
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Los Angeles poet F. Douglas Brown recently announced the publisher for his next poetry collection. Continue reading More Publishing News From the Los Angeles Literary Community
The white fence is new but the tree she planted as a child still stands in front of the wood house, now stucco, pale yellow and cracked, forgotten Christmas lights hanging from its eaves. She laughs.
Time sucks her back, the way it does, and she talks about backyard camping, cockfights and how men dressed up in suits after dinner and strolled through Compton until way after dark, imagining what they might have become if they were another color. Not black.
Meet and Greet 3 Laureates & A New USC El Centro Chicano
by Michael Sedano
From: Labloga.blogspot.com
After the closing of the 2010 reunion floricanto at USC, Mary Ann Pacheco, Alurista, and I had dinner at LA’s iconic The Pantry. The pair had organized the original 1973 Festival de Flor y Canto and edited the anthology. Mary Ann surprised the heck out of me with a revelation from back then.
Memoir Writing Workshop at 
, LAPL
Would you like to write your own memoir? Instructor Erika Fernbach is offering a free, two session course to get you started. It is recommended that you attend both sessions.
Don’t forget to bring paper and pen—or your computer!
Where: Sherman Oaks Martin Pollard Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 2:30 pm – 4 pm
Address: 14245 Moorpark St., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/memoir-writing-workshop
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Robert Lustig at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Come to hear Robert Lustig read and discuss his book, 
. Lusitg delves into why we can’t seem to put down our phones, coffees or sodas, and how we got here in the first place. Spoiler Alert: Marketing, big business, technology, and capitalism all play pivotal roles.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/robert-lustig
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On October 18, the new Los Angeles literary anthology Voices from Leimert Park Redux: A Los Angeles Poetry will be released. That same day there will be a release party at The Vision Theatre in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Come out to hear and support the important stories from this historically Black Los Angeles neighborhood. The anthology is a symphony of diverse voices … Continue reading Available October 14, 2017: Voices From Leimert Park Redux
Los Angeles poet Kelly Grace Thomas announced today that her manuscript BOAT/BURNED has been accepted by YesYes Books.
As she said in her face book post, “My DREAM press!!!! So excited for this new chapter.” Los Angeles Literature couldn’t be happier either.” She is the 2017 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Kelly also works to bring poetry to unserved youth as the Manager of Education and Pedagogy for Get Lit: Words Ignite. She is the co-author of Words Ignite: How to Explore, Write, and Perform Classic and Spoken Word Poetry and helped develop Get Lit’s UC approved year-long curriculum.
