Here is Los Angeles Poet-professor Cynthia Guardado reading a poem from her debut poetry collection Endeavor, out this Wednesday from World Stage Press. ENDEAVOR is a collection of poetry about survival. It is centered around women, and also details the horrors of alcoholism, oppression, and violence. This collection highlights extreme circumstances by refusing to stay silent and therefore each poem pushes the reader to face the … Continue reading L.A. Poet Cynthia Guardado Reads

Soliloquy Slam at Los Feliz Branch Library

Join us for a family activity as we create and perform! Kids and teens and families are encouraged to write a soliloquy, perform a piece of Shakespeare, or create art based on a favorite Shakespearian moment! Submissions will be displayed with permission.

Special prizes will be given for participating. For more information, email losfelizsoliloquyslam@gmail.com.

Where: Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL

Date: Monday the 16^th                      

Time: 12 pm

Address: 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027

Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/soliloquy-slam

Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 1/16/17 –1/22/17”

The following is the text from the Angel City Review’s Facebook post announcing their open for submissions:

Hello All, thank you for everyone who has read, submitted, and otherwise contributed to Angel City Review thus far. Over the past two years we have worked hard to build a journal that is inclusive, open, and representative of the actual community that we live in.

Cynthia Garrrett at Book Soup

Join us as Cynthia Garrett discusses and signs Prodigal Daughter: A Journey Home to Identity. In this candid , raw and challenging look at how identity gets lost in today’s modern world, TV personality and evangelist Cynthia Garrett shares an incredible, red-carpeted journey through her life, and we meet a faith that is inclusive and unifying, with love triumphing over hate.

Where: Book Soup

Date: Monday the 9^th                        

Time: 7 pm

Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069

Website: http://www..booksoup.com/event/cynthia-garrett-discusses-and-signs-prodigal-daughter-journey-home-identity

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at Sidewalk Café, Pasadena

Join us for our monthly poetry event focusing on social justice issues, this month featuring: Ka’lynn Youngblood and AK Toney.

Bring 1-2 poems about social justice or come and listen!

Hosted by: Khadija Anderson.

Where: The Sidewalk Café

Date: Monday the 2^nd                       

Time: 7 pm (6:45 open mic sign-up)

Address: 2057 N. Los Robles (at Woodbury), Alta/Pasadena, CA 91104

Website: http://www.facebook.com/groups/792556747483331/

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By  Mike Soksen

From: KCET.org

In early 2017, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) will be announcing our city’s next official Poet Laureate. Dating back over a century, there is an illustrious poetic tradition in Los Angeles, which the Poet Laureate is expected to propagate.

According to the DCA’s website, the seven objectives of the program are to:

Zine-Making Workshops at Central Library

Join us to work on the DIY art of writing poetry, drawing mini-comics, collaged illustration, self-publishing, and making zines.

Where: Teen’Scape, Central Library

Date: Monday the 12^th                      

Time: 4 pm – 6 pm

Address: 630 W. 5^th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071

Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/zine-making-workshops

Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 12/12/16 –12/18/16”

by Ellie Robins
From: L.A. Times

If you chart the history of dream writing, you get a map of ideas about fate and individual agency through the ages.

With a few notable exceptions, the ancients and medieval Europeans saw dreams as divine messages; spaces in which you might learn about the destiny assigned to you. In Native American cultures too, dreams have been a means of transcending the individual and connecting with the spiritual world.

Continue reading “In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz’s ‘Bruja’ is vivid and dark”

Angel City Review, a journal dedicated to the literary voices of Los Angeles, has just released its 4th issue. This issue of Angel City Review contextualizes writing in terms of the difficult times we live in. In the “Forward” written by Lead Editor John Venegas, writing hones in on the job of “poets and writers [who] continue to ask difficult questions, respond to those questions, keep alive the humanity that often seems lost, and retain hope.” In these times of Trump, where one group of people hate another group of people they do not even know or have never met, what can writing do when it asks and confronts difficult questions? It allows readers “to engage with and experience what it is like to live a life that is not your own.” In other words, writing allows the reader to step in someone else’s shoes.

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Anne Rice at Barnes & Nobel Bookstore

Join us to hear author Anne Rice, in conversation with Christopher Rice, discuss and sign her new book, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (Vampire Chronicles Series #12). From Anne Rice, the conjurer of the bestselling series, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power, an author discussion and signing.

This is a wristband event. For event guidelines please visit the store’s facebook page at www.facebook.com/BNEventsGrove or call the store at: 323-525-0270.

Where: Barnes & Nobel Bookstore, The Grove

Date: Monday the 5^th                        

Time: 7 pm

Address: 189 The grove Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90036

Website: http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780061816140-0

Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 12/05/16 –12/11/16”