Los Angeles Literature Events 3/19/18 –3/25/18
Presumed Incompetent Poetry Reading at Cal Lutheran University
Please join us for a poetry reading with Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, author and first editor of the revolutionary volume, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. She has written articles, poetry, collections, and encyclopedia entries. Her book, How Many Indians Can We Be, is forthcoming from Mango Press. She recently published The Runaway Poems with Finishing Line Press, and edited a collection of Chicana and Chicano literary criticism for the University of Arizona Press.
Where: Swenson Center 101, Cal Lutheran
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Address: 60 West Olsen Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Website: http://www.callutheran.edu/calendar/event/4160#event
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Three L.A. Poets Get Accepted to VONA/Voices
By Brian Dunlap
Earlier this week three L.A. poets, Irene Monica Sanchez, Angelina Sáenz and T. Sarmina got accepted into the prestigious VONA/Voices of Our Nation summer workshop at Realm Academy in Berkeley. The workshop is for emerging poets and prose writers-of-Color.
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Cyclical Time, Slaughter, and Colonial Violence in Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex
“Atomik Aztex” is formally and thematically challenging, implementing postmodern stylistics in conjunction with surrealism, Gonzo “journalism,” and the satirical. Foster also mixes “low-brow” and “high-art,” and popular consumer culture. Continue reading Cyclical Time, Slaughter, and Colonial Violence in Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex
Los Angeles Literature Events 3/13/18 –3/18/18
Artist Talk at Otis College of Art and Design
Please join us for a conversation with graphic designer and editor Benedikt Reichenbach, to discuss his thoughts and work as a book designer. He is now working on an English re-edition of Pier Polo Pasolini: Corpi e Luoghi, a book that today is still what a critic called it at the time of its publication in 1981, the most Paolininan book to date.
Where: The Forum, Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 11 am – 12:15 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/calendar/visiting-artist-lecture-benedikt-reichenbach
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Application Period Open For Jack Jones Literary Arts’ Second Annual Writing Retreat
From: Jack Jones Literary Arts
Jack Jones Literary Arts, located in Los Ángeles, is hosting its second annual writing retreat at Blue Sky Retreat, Taos, New Mexico. This two-week retreat will be held October 13- 27, 2018, and is open exclusively to women of color. Jenna Wortham joins us as our 2018 Writer-in-Residence.
Profile of a Modern-Day Poet in L.A.: Mike The Poet
by ASTRID
From: L.A. Taco
“Los Angeles is not Baywatch or the Beach Boys, it is getting carne asada tacos from a taco truck and bacon wrapped hot dogs at two in the morning.”
These are the words of Mike Sonksen, a poet, historian, activist, teacher, husband, and father better known as Mike the Poet. The nickname was given to Mike at the age of 23, by a friend who noticed he always carried a notebook. “You know Mike, you’re not Mike Sonksen, you’re Mike the Poet.”
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Unstoppable Women: A Poetry Contest
Los Angeles Literature Events 3/05/18 –3/11/18
Evening Book Club & How to Stop Time at Pages Bookstore
Please join us for our Evening Book Club Discussion of How to Stop Time, by Matt Haig. Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he’s been alive for centuries. He has lived history, with many famous people, but now he just wants an ordinary life. This book tells a love story across the ages, about a man lost in time who ties to find himself and try to find happiness.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/evening-book-club-discussion
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Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo Reads“Antígona González” By Sara Uribe
From: THE SUNDRESS BLOG
Anna: Can you tell me a little bit about Antígona González?
Xochitl: Antígona González is a book of poetry from Mexican poet Sara Uribe and translated by John Pluecher that uses the classic Greek tragedy, Antigone by Sophocles, as a container to speak about the disappeared of Mexico. In the classic, Antigone is a princess that breaks her uncle’s edict in order to bury her brother Polynices after he has been declared a traitor and his dead body abandoned in the desert. In Antígona González, “Polynices is identified with the marginalized and disappeared,” while Antígona represents the sisters searching for their disappeared brothers: “I didn’t want to be Antigone / but it happened to me.”
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A Night In Conversation With Peter J. Harris
By Brian Dunlap
Laughter spilled from the crowd as stories and memories rose from the stage.
It was a Saturday night at the nearly full theater at Beyond Baroque. Peter J. Harris answered journalist Rex Weiner questions, recounting reading with Lucille Clifton as a young writer, writing The Black Man of Happiness as he faced foreclosure, his time spent attending the Anansi Writers Workshop at the World Stage after moving to L.A. in the early ‘90s. It was gripping, informative, accidently instructive, but most of all the talk revealed one versions of a writer’s life. It revealed a happy black man.
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