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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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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