Victoria Chang’s Correspondence with Grief
Writer Victoria Chang writes about grief and loss in her new book “Dear Memory.” Continue reading Victoria Chang’s Correspondence with Grief
Author: Brian Dunlap
Brian Dunlap is a native Angeleño capturing the city’s stories hidden in plain sight. He’s the author of the chapbook Concrete Paradise (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and the winner of a Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize from december magazine judged by former Los Ángeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez. He's also the Editor-in-Chief of Los Angeles Literature, an independent online magazine covering the Greater Los Ángeles literary community.
Literary History: Jim Murray, Literary Sportswriter
Los Angeles Literature spotlights the literary history of former Pulitzer Prize winning, Los Angeles Times sportswriter, Jim Murray. He captured the sports stories of L.Á. for 37 years. Continue reading Literary History: Jim Murray, Literary Sportswriter
Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/08/21 – 11/14/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Gina Shock, with Belinda Carlisle & James Duke Mason, & Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Gos via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Go-Gos drummer Gina Shock, in conversation with Belinda Carlisle & James Duke Mason, present and discuss her book, Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Gos.
The Go-Gos were the first all-female rock band to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made in Hollywood is drummer Gina Shock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photos and memorabilia collected bver her 40-year career.
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Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online Event
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The Shore Interview #21: Nancy Lynée Woo
Interviewed by Taylor N. Schaefer
FROM: The Shore
TNS: In your poem “S.O.S With Warble and Cell Tower,” you utilize large shifts in tone and rhetorical position— from call for help to call to action— from dream imagery to concrete reality. How did you come to these craft choices in the poem?
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The Body Horror of Being a Woman
Carribean Fragoza’s domestic surrealist stories in Eat the Mouth That Feeds You are about Chicanas navigating the grotesque and the mundane
By Leticia Urieta
FROM: Electric Literature
Speculative, surreal stories can be doorways to imagine both what is possible and the effects of trauma and change on the most vulnerable people. Speculative storytelling is expansive, incorporating horror, science fiction, and surrealism to help readers tackle what we are most unwilling to see, highlighting how systemic oppression can break open and create new realities.
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Words On A Wire—David Romero
Hosted by Tim. Z. Hernandez FROM: KTEP—El Paso, Texas
In this episode of Words on a Wire host, Tim Z. Hernandez interviews poet David A. Romero.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/01/21 – 11/07/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Dia De Los Muertos Exhibition: Everything Connected: Land, Body, Cosmos at Self Help Graphics & Art – On-Site Event
Join Self Help Graphics for our Dia De Los Muertos Exhibition, Everything Connected: Land, Body Cosmos, curated by 2921 Commemorative Print Artist, Miyo Stevens-Gandara. This in-person exhibition pairs nine visual artists (music, theory, poetry) to develop a body of work around the idea that everything is connected— nothing in the world exists on its own: our existence, community, environment, health and well-being, cultural practices, and the planet.
Participants can view the artwork in person and experience the audio piece through QR codes, A small self-published catalog will be available. The public may view the exhibition by appointment on Eventbrite, or drop in for guided tours daily at 12:30 pm and 2:00 pm.
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Where: Self Help Graphics & Art – Online Event
Date: Monday the 1st (runs through November 24, 2021)
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Address: 1300 E. 1st. Street, Los Angeles, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/535313880889086/
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Episode 31: Brian Sonia-Wallace
FROM: LAPL.org
The Poems on Air Podcast is a weekly reading of poetry by Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson.
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‘Always Running’ Author Luis Rodriguez Talks to 600 Pomona Teens
By David Allen
FROM: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
First the marching band performed a few rousing numbers. Then writer Luis J. Rodriguez took the stage in Pomona’s Garey High quad Friday morning, Oct. 22, to tell 600 students about marching to the beat of a different drummer.
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‘Dear Memory’ digs into the shame accompanying immigrant silence
By Rachel Martin and Reena Advani
FROM: Morning Edition
In her new book, Chinese American poet Victoria Chang writes, “Shame never has a loud clang. The worst part of shame is how silent it is.”
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