Listen to political poet Matt Sedillo talk about politics and his poetry, the origins of his poetry career and everything in-between. Continue reading Step Off: Mowing Leaves of Grass – The Matt Sedillo Episode
As the year winds down, it’s another busy week in the Los Ángeles literary community. A mixture of online and in-person events, readings, a book club, open mics, workshops, and even a YA and kids event. Some local writers reading this week are: poets traci kato-kiriyama, Amanda Gorman, Thelma Reyna and Connie Williams, among other writers. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 12/06/21 – 12/12/21
An interview with poet, L.Á. native, tour guide, journalist and professor, Mike Sonksen. Continue reading Interlitq’s Californian Poets Interview Series: Mike Sonksen, Poet, Performer, Journalist, and LA Tour Guide, interviewed by David Garyan
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Quantum Book Club & Laura Dean via The Book Jewel – In-person YA Event
Please join Quantum Book Club to discuss our November selection, the graphic novel Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, by Mariko Tamki & Rosemary Verero-O’Connell.
This is a sweet, spirited tale of young love that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the healthy ones we need. This graphic novel won several awards for excellence.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: The Book Jewel – In-person Event
Date: Monday the 29th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.thebookjewel.com/events or https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/photos/595324735216001
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/29/21 – 12/05/21”
By chance and serendipity Michael Sedano ends up reading “…After…” by Carolina Rivera Escamilla. Continue reading After I Saw That Wall, I Read the Book
By Brian Dunlap
The first annual Sims Library of Poetry Bookfair took place on November 20. Authors and presses set up shop in the library’s courtyard selling books, selling poetry, making connections and building community. Promoting the most important aspects of literature: what makes us human; telling our own truths, our own narratives; bluntly speaking truth to power.
Continue reading “Bookfair, Sims Library of Poetry”
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Book Club Bonanza: Indigenous Voices via LAPL Teen Event – Online Event
Join Los Angeles Public Library for a Teen Book Club Bonanza reading and discussion of two indigenous voices and their books:
The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills, is a tale of lives that may be haunted by grieving. Shelley has inherited her family’s ability to catch ghosts in her hair and help them along, both animals and people. But what happens if we can’t have what we want – our loved one to stay?
A Girl Called Echo: Volume 1, by Katherine Vermette, features compelling illustrations and a female main character who is caught in the foster care system. She discovers her Metis heritage first-hand, while slipping back and forth through time.
NOTE: See site to for details. Email teens@lapl.org from your school email address at least one hour before the program to request the link.
Where: Los Angeles Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 4:30 pm – 6 pm
Address: LAPL Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-bonanza-indigenous-voices
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/22/21 – 11/28/21”
An interview with lawyer, activist and author, Natashia Deón, on her new novel “The Perishing,” set in 1930s Los Ángeles. Continue reading “The Perishing:”An Interview Between Natashia Deon and Meghana Mysore
Interview with budding local poet and Community Literature Initiative student, Tim Mackey. Continue reading Interview with Tim Mackey
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Moira First Press Reading Series: Jose Hernandez Diaz & Open Micvia Woodbury University/ Microsoft Teams & In-Person – Hybrid Event
Join Woodbury University for the next Moira First Press Reading & Open Mic event, offered both virtually and in-person, to hear featured artist, Jose Hernandez Diaz.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Fellow, and the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work has been published or featured in The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Los Angeles Times, LitHub, The Nation, Poetry, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has been a finalist for The Andres Montoya Prize, The Colorado Prize, The Akron Prize, and the National Poetry Series. Currently he is an Associate Editor a Frontier Poetry and a Guest Editor at Palette Poetry. He teaches creative writing online for Litro Magazine, Frontier Poetry, and other venues.
NOTE: See site to complete online RSVP form, to receive meeting link & details.
Where: Woodbury University – Hybrid Event
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 7500 Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91510
Website: https://www.moriaonline.com/first-press-reading-series
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/15/21 – 11/21/21”
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