Los Angeles Literature Events 9/18/17 –9/24/17
Bilingual Poetry Writing Workshop at Baldwin Hills Library
Check out this FREE Poesia/Poetry Bilingual Poetry Workshop, offered by DSTL Arts.
You will learn how to use your five senses to paint a picture using only words, and you’ll leave with a poem ready to recite. This workshop will be presented in English and in Spanish, and participants are encouraged to write in their preferred language.
Where: Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 12:30 – 2 pm
Address: 2906 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
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Poets & Allies for Resistance at Sidewalk Café 
In this Podcast From Blog Talk Radio Los Angeles poet Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo talks about an exciting new adventure she is undertaking taking this month. Bermejo was selected for the first ever National Parks Poetry Residency in partnership with National Parks Arts Foundation, Poetry Foundation, and Gettysburg National Military Park. Starting September 15th she’ll be living in a log cabin in Gettysburg for three weeks writing resistance poetry.
LOS ANGELES — On my way to Drunken Masters earlier this month in downtown Los Angeles, I imagined the reading series would be a sort of scaled-down American Idol: several writers present their work to a group of sauced professionals in the same genre who provide instant feedback and critique. The relevance and quality of feedback depends, however, as much on each master’s wisdom as their capacity to hold liquor. And, unlike the talent show, Drunken Masters isn’t a tournament, so there’s no voting or elimination. The distinction creates an event that feels like an inclusive and informal (very informal) writing workshop, minus the school desks and bad lighting.
This Summer, poet, girls’ rock band camp counselor and Humanities and Sciences faculty member Rocío Carlos participated in a panel, 
In this 65-minute interview, writer Luis Rodriguez discusses his nine lives, going from being a barely pubescent gang member in East LA and the San Gabriel Valley, to being shot at, doped up and finding redemption through the arts, literature and his own writing. After all this, he sets an example to others facing the same temptations and challenges that he faced.
Join us to hear T. Jefferson Parker discuss and sign The Room of White Fire, a stirring new thriller from the bestselling and award-winning author, who is admired by fans of Michael Connelly and C.J. Box. In this new book a P.I. must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by war, dangerous, and on the run. Roland Ford—a former cop, then a marine, and now a private investigator—is good at finding people. But when asked to locate Air Force veteran Clay Hickman, he realizes he’s been drawn into something deep and dark. Why does a shroud of secrecy hang over Hickman’s disappearance, and why is Ford getting a different story from everyone involved? What begins as just a job becomes a life-or-death obsession for Ford, forcing him to contend with chilling questions about truth, justice, and the American way.
