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Las Lunas Locas
A COMMUNITY OF SELF-IDENTIFYING L.A. WOMYN WHO WRITE, RIGHT AND RITE. HEAR THEM READ. Continue reading Las Lunas Locas
At Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
ANTHOLOGY OF LOS ANGELES POETS. Continue reading At Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Words or Water: An Interview With Nuyorican Poet LiYun Alvarado
By Suset Laboy
From: Centro Voices
The warmth and exuberance of LiYun Alvarado, whose name combines those of her parents, is captured in her seamless ability to jump from Spanish to English. Her ability to code-switch also comes with a knack for combining sweet humor and deep emotion in her poetry. Hers is a poetry that lives in the intersections, that hurts and heals at once.
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All That and a Bag of Poetry: Creative Writing with 5th Graders at Gulf Elementary
by Olga García Echeverría
From: La Bloga
Once a week, I venture south on the 110 towards San Pedro. My destination: Gulf Elementary School in Wilmington, California. My mission: creative writing workshops with 5th graders.
On the days I visit the 5th graders, I rise before the roosters crow. I sip on strong coffee in the shifting morning light. I pack energy snacks and a hearty lunch. It’s an hour-plus drive from my home to Wilmington. On some parts of the commute, traffic clears and I fly. On others, the highway’s arteries are clogged. I nudge forward like a slug, past downtown, the 10, the 105, the 405.
Los Angeles Literature Events 4/25/16 – 5/01/16
Youth Poet Laureate Workshop at Memorial Branch, LAPL
Are you a poet or spoken word artist between the ages of 13 and 19?
In honor of National Poetry Month, the library is hosting workshops to help take your poetry to the next level and enter the Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate Contest (which offers the chance to win a book deal and more).
During this second workshop we will work on building your poetry portfolio and resume, along with instructions on entering the contest for those who are interested.
Where: Memorial Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: 4625 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90019
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/youth-poet-laureate-poetry-workshop-0
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REVIEW: BIRD FLOAT, TREE SONG: DIS•ARTICULATED POEMS BY LOS ANGELES POETS
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From: Cultural Weekly
I heard once from the author Elaina Ellis that we are “poem-makers.” Making poems, yes, that speaks directly and with bright accent to the task of the collection Bird Float, Tree Song: dis•articulated poems by Los Angeles poets, edited by Terry Wolverton, a collaboration of poets exploring the exercises of “dis-articulation.”
By definition, the dis-articulationists’ task is “…to take apart a body, or rather a skeleton, to separate the joints.” Wolverton tells us, “I borrowed the term because I am taking apart bodies of writing—the passages of fevered writing— and separating them into their component parts of speech, nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.” Comprised of a sampling of exercises Wolverton completed with LA poets, the dis-articulation project demonstrates the process of engaging four writing prompts a partner gives, writing, then, with “fever,” taking the “fevered writing” and separating it into its parts (parts of speech), and then sharing these to allow newness to emerge in poem drafts.
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Bird Float, Tree Song: dis•articulated poems by Los Angeles poets
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From: Cultural Weekly
Most of the time a poet begins with an idea rooted in an experience, a memory, a feeling, or a response to something we’ve encountered in the world.. Then we set out to search for the right words—the best words, the best form—to capture that elusive, yet pressing idea.
But sometimes for poets, that process can break down. Ideas feel wedged in a familiar rut, language and images start to seem repetitive. We may fear we’re not surprising anyone, even ourselves. We grow tired of our minds and search for ways to reactivate, even transform our thought process when we sit down to write.
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Slam in the Stacks at Bethune Regional Brach, LAPL
Slam in the Stacks is expression through poetry performance, offered in a two-part combined writing workshop and performance workshop. Turn your passion into words, rhymes, and rhythms. Learn from Writ Large Press writers how to compose your work into a final piece.
It starts off with performances by: Peter J. Harris, Gia Scott-Heron, Rebecca Gonzales, Mike Sonksen, and Ashaki M. Jackson. It will be followed by Slam in the Stacks Writing Workshop on Wednesday the 20th and Slam in the Stacks Performance Workshop on Friday the 22nd. This will be followed by events at the Mark Twain Library in Vernon.
Some of the other poets and artists that will be taking part include: Donny Jackson, Conney Williams, F. Douglas Brown, Rachel McLeod Kaminer, Rocio Carlos, Teka Lark, Iris De Anda, Traci Akemi Kato-Kiriyama, Jen Hofer, Vickie Veriz, Sesschu Foster, Karineh Mahdessian, etc., etc.
NOTE: Must attend Writing Workshop to participate in Performance Workshop.
Where: Exposition Park, Bethune Regional Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 18th
Times for 3 events:
Poetry: 4 pm -5:30 pm on MONDAY the 18th;
Writing Workshop: 4 pm -5:30 pm on WED the 20th;
Performance Workshop: 3 pm –4:30 pm on FRI the 22nd.
Address: 3900 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90062
Website: http://www.lapl.org/branches/exposition-park or http://grandperformances.org/Poetry or https://www.facebook.com/events/1703319309925624/
The Word at Large EP: 3
The World at Large podcast has now uploaded episode 3. From This is the City and and L.A.’s own Writ large press. They are a podcast about the art of poetry, storytelling and the creative life of Los Angeles. For episode 3, they return to the Instant from the Ham and Eggs Tavern. This episodes readers are:
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