Last Sunday’s reading and conversation, “Places We Call Home: Exile, Change and Collective Futures,” at Avenue 50 Studio, featured local poets William Archila, Cynthia Guardado, and Janel Pineda. Together, they explored how U.S. neocolonialism continues to shape the Salvadoran American experience—and the poets who write powerfully about it. Continue reading Places We Call Home
Writer and storyteller Ashton Cynthia Clarke lived in Altadena for 24+ years. Then, on January 7, the Eaton Fire broke out in the San Gabriel Mountain foothills behind her home. This is her story about her life in Altadena and how she was affected by the devastating wildfire. Continue reading A Writer’s Life in Altadena: In the Line of Arts and the Eaton Fire
The first Community News of 2025 and so much has already happened in the Greater Los Angeles literary community in these first three months. The devistating Eaton and Palasades FIres that began the year to the 4th Annual Culver City Book Festival to Pomona introducing a new poet laureate and their first youth poet laureate to a new independent bookstore opening in Echo Park and more. Let’s get caught up. Continue reading Community News
Los Angeles Literataure’s 9th Annual Los Angeles Writers Publish list, 2024 edition. Though this isn’t everyone who’s published in the Greater Los Angeles Literary community in 2024, it’s a large swath of the community. Congratulations to all the local writers who’s published in 2024! And may everyone in the community find even more publication success in 2025! Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2024
Since the last community news in June, a lot has happened in the literary community. Avenue 50 Studio has had issues with its landlord, authors published books, poetry slams have occurred and more. Continue reading Community News
At the close of October, the Greater Los Angeles literary community mourned the loss of Peter J. Harris, a cherished mentor, poet, and father. Poet Donny Jackson reflects on his relationship with Harris and the profound impact he had on his life and work. Continue reading It Isn’t Proper: An Attempted Tribute to Peter J. Harris
Crossroads student Liv Amiri wrote this article about being a literary educator in Southern California amid the book banning, educational censorship and the rise of AI that has exploded across the country since the pandemic. Continue reading Book Bans and Artificial Intelligence: Why Being a Literary Educator in Southern California is Both Easier and Harder Than Ever Before
A change has come to Pomona’s venerable women and people of color-focused Café con Libros Press bookstore with Pomona native and writer Natalie Sierra taking over. What’s in store for the bookstore going forward? Continue reading In Pomona’s Arts Colony, Café con Libros Press is Changing Leadership, but Remains in Good Hands
With the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Ángeles, how can the Greater Los Ángeles literary community come together and present itself to the world? Continue reading Letter From the Editor: Literary Community and the Olympics
The Cultural Olympiad came to a close on September 7th at the Central Library Downtown. The exchange of poetry between Paris and Los Ángeles signaled the hand off of culture between the two world cities. Continue reading Cultural Olympiad: Paris to Los Ángeles
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