Los Angeles Literature Events 5/16/16 – 5/22/16
Ryan Quinn at Book Soup
Author Ryan Quinn discusses and signs The Good Traitor, the story of a crisis in the American intelligence community, when the US ambassador to China is killed in a suspicious plane crash, just days after a news article links Chinese spies to US business interests. Investigations lead to hackers, complications, and geopolitical conspiracies that challenge the world’s two superpowers.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/ryan-quinn-discusses-and-signs-good-traitor
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ALEXIS ESPINOZA: “TRAGEDIES”
Another installment of Mike Sonksen’s series “Tomorrow’s Voices Today”
From: Cultural Weekly
Alexis Espinoza is a high spirited student of passion. From painting, to writing, to photography, he indulges himself in whatever form of art he’s partaking in. An aspiring psychologist, he aims to get to know the human mind closer, and use this to help others. Through his art he is able to explore his own mind and translate the untranslatable into a physical spectacle.
Tragedies
After Walt Whitman
WHY! Who makes much of a tragedy?
As to me, I know nothing else but tragedies,
Whether I walk the streets of Los Angeles,
Or peer upon caprice projects and ghettos, kids up to no good hustling up and down their neighborhood,
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Los Angeles Literature Events 5/09/16 – 5/15/16
A Different Kind of Daughter at Chevalier’s
Author Maria Toorpakai tells of her harrowing journey to play the sport she knew was her destiny, first living as a boy and roaming the violent back alleys of Peshawar, and rising to become the number one female squash player in Pakistan. In A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Site, Maria describes how squash went from being a salvation to a death sentence, and how she moved halfway across the globe to pursue her dream.
Where: Chevalier’s Books
Date: Monday the 9nd
Time: 7:15 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com
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‘You will lose yourself’: the rituals of grief in the poetry of Ashaki M. Jackson
From: Prairie Schooner
The Prairie Schooner Book Prize is now open! In honor of the 2016 Book Prize season, Book Prize Coordinator Katie Schmid Henson will interview authors about the process of constructing a manuscript and bringing it to publication. This week, Katie interviews brilliant poet and Prairie Schooner contributor Ashaki M. Jackson about grief rituals, submission rituals, and her two forthcoming chapbooks.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 5/02/16 – 5/08/16
Writing Our Future at ALOUD
Our third annual gathering of students from five Southland graduate writing programs—CalArts, Otis College, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and USC—will read and share recent work and tune our ears to the future of language and writing.
These emerging writers include: Emily Ansara Baines, Bridget Chiao Clerkin, Emily Dorff, Alex Dupree, Howard Ho, Cecilia Latiolais, Niko Nelson, Benjamin S. Sneyd, Casey Taylor, and Jacqueline Young. RSVP to ensure seating. Check site for details and stand by policy.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 7:15 pm
Address: 630 West 5h St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://www.http://lfla.org/event/writing-our-future/
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The Chiron Review at Gatsby Books
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.
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