The primary purpose of “Untamed: Cultivating Collaboration in Arts, Activism, and Scholarship,” the launch event for the first edition of bozalta, is to further the formation of a bozalta community. This event will facilitate in-person conversations and encounters among our collective members, contributors, and UCLA readership. The target audience for this event includes UCLA undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. Continue reading “Event: Untamed: Cultivating Collaboration in Arts, Activism and Scholarship”

Cadence Collective Poetry Party Open Mic + Featured Poets

Come to hear the reading dynamo that is Richard and Robbi Nestor! Husband and wife poetry team are going to enchant us with their words on life’s lessons. You can bring some words of your own and share them in the open reading. Sign ups begin at 6:45. Richard Nester’s poetry has been published in numerous print journals including Ploughshares, Callaloo, Seneca Review, Sycamore Review and on-line in in The Courtland Review. His collection Buffalo Laughter (2014) Alabaster Leaves Press in Riverside. Robbi Nester lives and writes in Southern California. She is the author of a chapbook, Balance(White Violet, 2012) and a collection of poems, A Likely Story (Moon Tide, 2014). Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 5/11/15–5/17/15”

ALL INVOLVED, by Ryan Gattis (Ecco). This novel, set in Los Angeles in 1992, chronicles the six days of riots after the Rodney King verdict. The action takes place on the periphery, outside “active rioting sites” and official casualty counts. Continue reading “The New Yorker Briefly Reviews Ryan Gattis’ novel “All Involved” About Los Angeles’ 1992 Riots”

“Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond” edited by Los Angeles poet Suzanne Lummis is the most comprehensive poetry collection of L.A. poets including 112 poets spanning the history of Los Angeles poetry. However, a few too many key L.A. poets have been left out. Continue reading “Wide Awake Is The Most Comprehensive L.A. Poetry Anthology Yet”