More Publishing News From the Los Angeles Literary Community
Los Angeles poet F. Douglas Brown recently announced the publisher for his next poetry collection. Continue reading More Publishing News From the Los Angeles Literary Community
Voices of the City: Robin Coste Lewis’ Fierce and Arresting Poetry has its Roots in Compton
The white fence is new but the tree she planted as a child still stands in front of the wood house, now stucco, pale yellow and cracked, forgotten Christmas lights hanging from its eaves. She laughs.
Time sucks her back, the way it does, and she talks about backyard camping, cockfights and how men dressed up in suits after dinner and strolled through Compton until way after dark, imagining what they might have become if they were another color. Not black.
Three Laureates, One Centro
Meet and Greet 3 Laureates & A New USC El Centro Chicano
by Michael Sedano
From: Labloga.blogspot.com
After the closing of the 2010 reunion floricanto at USC, Mary Ann Pacheco, Alurista, and I had dinner at LA’s iconic The Pantry. The pair had organized the original 1973 Festival de Flor y Canto and edited the anthology. Mary Ann surprised the heck out of me with a revelation from back then.
Los Angeles Literature Events 10/02/17 –10/08/17
Memoir Writing Workshop at 
, LAPL
Would you like to write your own memoir? Instructor Erika Fernbach is offering a free, two session course to get you started. It is recommended that you attend both sessions.
Don’t forget to bring paper and pen—or your computer!
Where: Sherman Oaks Martin Pollard Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 2:30 pm – 4 pm
Address: 14245 Moorpark St., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/memoir-writing-workshop
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Los Angeles Literature Events 9/25/17 –10/01/17
Robert Lustig at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Come to hear Robert Lustig read and discuss his book, 
. Lusitg delves into why we can’t seem to put down our phones, coffees or sodas, and how we got here in the first place. Spoiler Alert: Marketing, big business, technology, and capitalism all play pivotal roles.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/robert-lustig
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Available October 14, 2017: Voices From Leimert Park Redux
On October 18, the new Los Angeles literary anthology Voices from Leimert Park Redux: A Los Angeles Poetry will be released. That same day there will be a release party at The Vision Theatre in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Come out to hear and support the important stories from this historically Black Los Angeles neighborhood. The anthology is a symphony of diverse voices … Continue reading Available October 14, 2017: Voices From Leimert Park Redux
Los Angeles Literature Publishing News
Los Angeles poet Kelly Grace Thomas announced today that her manuscript BOAT/BURNED has been accepted by YesYes Books.
As she said in her face book post, “My DREAM press!!!! So excited for this new chapter.” Los Angeles Literature couldn’t be happier either.” She is the 2017 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Kelly also works to bring poetry to unserved youth as the Manager of Education and Pedagogy for Get Lit: Words Ignite. She is the co-author of Words Ignite: How to Explore, Write, and Perform Classic and Spoken Word Poetry and helped develop Get Lit’s UC approved year-long curriculum.
Los Angeles Literature Events 9/18/17 –9/24/17
Bilingual Poetry Writing Workshop at Baldwin Hills Library
Check out this FREE Poesia/Poetry Bilingual Poetry Workshop, offered by DSTL Arts.
You will learn how to use your five senses to paint a picture using only words, and you’ll leave with a poem ready to recite. This workshop will be presented in English and in Spanish, and participants are encouraged to write in their preferred language.
Where: Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 12:30 – 2 pm
Address: 2906 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Website: Facebook Page
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“There’s a Nazi in the White House”- Chiwan Choi
An interview with one of America’s greatest living poets, Chiwan Choi.
By By Ed Lin
From: Giant Robot Media
Chiwan Choi is a one of our country’s greatest living poets.
I’m not saying this lightly. His work has an immediacy of a cereal jingle and also the permanence of haunted childhood memories.
Don’t take my word for it. The New York Times recently featured a poem from Choi’s third book, The Yellow House (2017, Civil Coping Mechanisms). His other books include Abductions (2012, Writ Large Press) and The Flood (2010, Tia Chuca Press).
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Los Angeles Literature Events 9/11/17 –9/17/17
Edward J. Larson at Santa Monica College
Join us to hear renowned author, professor, lawyer, and 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson read from his work and studies. Larson is the author of Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion.
Where: HSS 165, Santa Monica College
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 11:15 am
Address: 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://smc.edu/AboutSMC/Pages/Events.aspx
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