By CNN Opion
FROM: CNN.com
El Paso. Dayton. Odessa. Pittsburgh. Parkland. Santa Fe. Newtown.
Policymakers debate arming teachers. Parents buy bulletproof backpacks. So many adult Americans fret over a generation – more than a generation, before all is said and done – of students raised to know the run-hide-fight of active shooter drills.
Continue reading “The Children of ‘Generation Lockdown’ Speak”
Viramontes’ passion for bringing erased communities to the forefront of literature and history has materialized into several acclaimed literary works.
By Jackie Swift
FROM: research.cornell.edu
Helena María Viramontes, English, brings people and places erased from history to life again. For years, she has focused her lens on the Latino experience in the United States, writing award-winning fiction that draws from her own heritage as a Chicana from Los Angeles. In her latest novel-in-progress, The Cemetery Boys, she explores the experiences of three generations of East Los Angelenos mired in three different wars. During this exploration, she highlights the mix of ethnicities and marginalized communities that flourished and then faded away in the California of the early-to-mid twentieth century.
Venice’s beloved Small World Books is turning 50 years old in September, making it the oldest general bookstore in Los Angeles.
By Venice Paparazzi
FROM: venicepaparazzi.com
Join in on the anniversary fun on Sept. 12th!
Here is a history on Small World Books!
Venice’s beloved Small World Books is turning 50 years old in September, making it the oldest general bookstore in Los Angeles.
Continue reading “Congrats to Venice’s Small World Books on 50 years!”
By Ivan Salinas
FROM: The Daily Sundial
Every Tuesday evening Luis Antonio Pichardo hosts the Conchas y Café workshop at the Chicano Resource Center in East Los Angeles, open for adults interested in developing skills through the arts. During a recent meeting, the evening workshop began with discussing a quote by German playwright Bertolt Brecht: “In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of inhumane humanity, nothing should appear natural.” The group shared their thoughts casually like friends having breakfast with conchas and coffee, but the gossip was focused on their experience living in “times of disorder.”
By Brian Dunlap
The latest release from local L.A. press Los Nietos is Long Beach poet Thomas R. Thomas’ collection Star Chasing. The collection explores the themes of childhood, marriage, death and the gods of America that Donna Hilbert blurbs “chronicles [life] in tract-house Southern California.” These poems, as author Scott Noon Creley notes, are written with “minimalist lines.”
by Brian Dunlap
VAGABOND is pleased to announce the SMALL PRESS BOOK FESTIVAL, to take place on Saturday, September 21, 2019, 11am – 4:30pm, held at the Wende Museum of the Cold War (10808 Culver Blvd. Culver City, CA 90230).
By Brian Dunlap
This summer two local literary journals—Pomona Valley Review and Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central L.A.—released their latest issues.
Continue reading “Two Local Literary Journals Have A Summer Release”
By Brian Dunlap
There was poetry in all parts of Los Angeles this past Saturday, July 13. Not unlike most days in the city, where there are literary events on the Westside, downtown, Long Beach, even out at Cellar Door Books in Riverside. First, I was at a reading at the Venice Library, then drove to the Merry-Go Round at Griffith Park for more. The first a part of the joint Mar Vista Artwalk/Venice Art Crawl. The second, the 6th Annual The Poetry Circus.
By Michael Schaub
FROM: L.A. Times
The Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser & Wirth Publishers announced the panelists who will discuss literature, art and activism at LitLit, the Little Literary Fair, which will debut this weekend in L.A.’s Downtown Arts District. The city’s newest book festival, to be held at the Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles arts complex, will host four panels on July 20 and 21 as part of its programming, which will also include more than 20 exhibitors from L.A. and other cities on the West Coast.
Accomplished local poet, teacher and mentor, Holly Prado, passed away on June 14th in West Hills. Her impact on the community, contributing to workshops, readings, and literary salons, along with her deeply introspective, mystical, and often spiritual poetry, will be remembered. Continue reading Passing of A Los Ángeles Poet Holly Prado
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