“Oh how so East L.A.”: The Sound of 80s Flashbacks in Chicana Literature
Through the literary soundscapes created by a new generation of Chicana authors such as Estella Gonzalez, Verónica Reyes, and Raquel Gutiérrez, the 1980s becomes an important site for hearing new Chicana voices, stories, histories, representations, in particular of Chicana lesbians. Continue reading “Oh how so East L.A.”: The Sound of 80s Flashbacks in Chicana Literature
REVIEW: THE INLAND EMPIRE IN PHOTOGRAPHS AND ESSAYS
by Erin Michaela Sweeney
From: Terrain.org
Napa, California–based artist known for multimedia installations, public art, photography, printmaking, and sculpture, Lewis deSoto revisits Southern California’s Inland Empire, where he lived the first half of his life. From his creative toolbox, deSoto grabs an old standby—his photographic lens—to articulate the 21st century present of the Inland Empire. He overlays the visuals with written filters of his narrative past to produce Empire: Photographs and Essays.
Though the subtitle lists photographs before essays, his personal history gives the volume its geographical structure and soul. He shares vivid memories, granting readers a chance to visit times and places, even certain mental spaces, of his Inland Empire universe from 1954 to 1981.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 10/23/17 –10/29/17
South of Pico Art Talk at California African American Museum
Please join us to hear In Conversation: Kellie Jones, esteemed author, curator and associate professor at Columbia University, discussing and signing her new book, South of Pico, in conversation with CAAM deputy director and chief curator Naima J. Keith. The book examines how artists in the 1960s and 1970s in LA’s black communities created a vibrant, productive and engaged arts scene, and speaks to the dislocation of migration, the city’s urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility. This event is presented in conjunction with Art + Practice.
Note: This is a FREE ticketed event and you must RSVP through Eventbrite link at website.
Where: California African American Museum (CAAM)
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 401 W. 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://caamuseum.org/programs/current/in-conversation-kellie-jones-and-naima-j-keith
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Magical Realism Transforms Los Angeles in ‘Tropic of Orange’
On Karen Tei Yamashita’s iconic LA novel.
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From: chireviewofbooks.com
In support of their publication of Karen Tei
Yamashita’s new work of nonfiction, Letters to Memory, Coffee House Press has reissued three of Yamashita’s novels in beautiful new jackets: Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Brazil-Maru, and Tropic of Orange, which is the subject of this review. Originally published in 1997 and already considered a canonical L.A. novel, its eclectic and feverish prose still speaks with a freshness on contemporary concerns around migration, identity, globalization and apocalypse.
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New Writers Retreat: The Joshua Tree Experiential Arts and Writing Retreat
Los Angeles poet Ariel Fintushel has founded the The Joshua Tree Experiential ARTS and WRITING Retreat. It kicks off this year. Get out of LA for a 3-day arts and writing retreat featuring bonfire readings by desert dwellers Ruth Nolan and L.I. Henley. Curated workshops like Altered States and Psycho-Spiritual Legacies of the Desert and High Noon Ceremony lead participants through the natural landscape to … Continue reading New Writers Retreat: The Joshua Tree Experiential Arts and Writing Retreat
Voices From Leimert Park Redux: Celebrating The Diverse Voices of Los Angeles
From: EUR/Electronic Urban Report
Los Angeles – Several hundred people gathering in Leimert Park Village in front of the iconic Vision Theater, Saturday, October 14, 2017.
The diverse crowd gathered on this beautiful day in Southern California to celebrate the first book launch from TSEHAI’s imprint, the Harriet Tubman Press: Voices from Leimert Park Redux: a Los Angeles Poetry Anthology.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 10/16/17 –10/22/17
Ron Chernow and Grant at Vroman’s Bookstore (off-site)
Please join us to hear the Pulitzer Prize winning author for Hamilton, Ron Chernow, discuss and sign Grant, his newest masterful biography, about Ulysses S. Grant’s life as a general and president, whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. In conversation with USC professor and author William Deverell, Chernow offers this sweeping and dramatic portrait, that finds the threads that bind the disparate stores together, and makes sense of all sides of Grant’s life, contradictions, and accomplishments.
Note: This is a ticketed event through Eventbrite link. Tickets include admission for two and one copy of Grant. (Price is approx. cost of one book.)
Where: All Saints Church (with Vroman’s Bookstore)
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101
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‘Sunday Jump’ brings performance art, open mic to Historic Filipinotown LA
by Florante Peter Ibanez
From: Inquirer.net
LOS ANGELES — The team of “SteEdy” (Stephanie & Eddy) welcomed an audience of about 50 millennials to the monthly pop-up arts open mic event called “Sunday Jump” on, well, Sunday, October 1.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 10/10/17 –10/15/17
Poetry Open Mic at Westwood Library, LAPL
Come to share your masterpiece, or just to listen and enjoy!
Bring your recent work. Bring your favorite work. Bring work by someone else you really like. Then, take away inspiration for new work!
Hosted by Wyatt Underwood
Where: Westwood Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-2
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FIERCE AS FUCK THE FUTURE OF POETRY IS BROWN & QUEER
THE FUTURE OF POETRY IS BROWN & QUEER
by Soraya Membreno
From: bitch media
Despite what National Hispanic Heritage Month would have you think, Latinx writers exist year-round! And despite what headlines like “Poetry is going extinct, government data show,” predict, this is a moment of poetic renaissance and poets of color are paving the way.
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