Los Angeles Literature Events: 02/08/21 – 02/14/21
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Glennon Doyle & Unfinished via LiveTalks-LA – Online Event
Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event to hear Priyanka Chopra Jonas, in conversation with author Glennon Doyle (Love Warrior). discuss her memoir, Unfinished.
Award-winning actor and producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas, wife of musician Nick Jonas, offers a thoughtful and revealing memoir reflecting on her journey of self-discovery. This remarkable life story rooted in two different worlds covers her nomadic early years, her Miss World pageant, her 20-year career as an actor and producer, and her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, to her marriage and family life.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event, so check site ofr details.
Where: LiveTalks-LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/priyanka-chopra-jonas/
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F. Douglas Brown on The Chill at Wills Podcast
by Brian Dunlap
F. Douglas Brown is equally a poet and educator, teaching English and African American poetry at Loyola High School in Los Ángeles. He pushes his students to think critically about the themes and ideas found in the literature he assigns and how they relate to issues relevant to their lives. Brown has even created a Pedagogy of Protest Reading List that includes The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Dubois, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness in the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison and any of the Black Arts Movement poets like Amiri Baraka and Gwendolyn Brooks, to connect how literature is used to connect the personal with the political as seen in African American literature and in Black lives.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 02/01/21 – 02/07/21
Behind the Book: Blake Hill-Saya via CalTechLive, Beckman Auditorium– Online Event
Join author Blake Hill-Saya for a discussion of her biography of her great-great grandfather, Arron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator and Founder of Durham’s Black Wall Street, in this new CalTech Behind the Book event. The author will be interviewed by Monique Thomas, Program Coordinator in the CalTech Center for Inclusion & Diversity.
Blake Hill-Saya is a classical musician and creative writer living in Los Angeles. Born the biracial child of two literature professors, she is the CEO of Tenacity Communications in Los Angeles.
This new series presents conversations with authors who explore the intersection of arts, science, and society through the lens of their family histories. Behind the Book events are free and open to the public. Vroman’s Bookstore is a partner for the series and has copies of the books available for purchase.
Where: CalTechLive – Behind the Book – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/400571634378851
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SanTana Poets y Mas
By Brian Dunlap
SanTana Poets y Mas started a few minutes late. Connecting through Instagram Live. A rainy day in Southern California, during the pandemic. I was tuning into the middle of the 3rd Anniversary LibroMobile Literary Arts Festival. Local SanTana poets shared their work, beginning with Donato Martinez, a professor of English at Santa Ana College.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/25/21 – 01/31/21
Another week of live streamed literary events in L.Á. Readings sponsored by local bookstores like Book Soup, Vroman’s and Once Upon A Time. Open mics, book clubs, a couple of kids events and workshops, among other events. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/25/21 – 01/31/21
Gerald Locklin, CSULB teacher, writer, poet, dies at 79
By Rich Archbold
FROM: Long Beach Press-Telegram
Gerald Locklin, a legendary local teacher, writer and poet who helped shape the literary landscape of Southern California for decades and was friends with the better-known Charles Bukowski, died from coronavirus-related complications Sunday, Jan. 17, said his son, Zachary Locklin. He was 79.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/18/21 – 01/24/21
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
2021 MLK Day Celebration via California African American Museum (CAAM) – Online
Celebrate Marin Luther King Jr. Day immersed in music, culture, and community. This year’s virtual festival highlights MLK’s dedication to labor and workers’ rights, and these movements’ continued importance today.
See site for complete schedule, including a 2:30 pm event: Family Storytime and Poetry Workshop with author Alice Faye Duncan reading her children’s book, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop, followed by a haiku writing workshop.
Where: CAAM – Online Facebook event (see site)
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 10 am – 3:30 pm
Address: CAAM – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/190941376010094/
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Literary Arts Festival Spotlights Local and Visiting Artists of Color
By Vera Casaneda
FROM: TimesOC
When author Sarah Rafael García’s LibroMobile began taking up space in a Santa Ana back alley off 4th and Spurgeon streets, the purpose was to cultivate diversity through books. The past year has been about how to take up space online to survive.
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L.Á. Native To Be Presidential Inaugural Poet
By Brian Dunlap
Poet and L.Á. native Amanda Gorman will be President Elect Joe Biden’s Inaugural poet Wednesday. She made history by being named the first ever Youth Poet Laureate of Los Ángeles, then became the first-ever Youth Poet Laureate of the United States.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/11/21 – 01/17/21
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club, hosted by Dan Lopez, reads fiction in Spanish, books by great contemporary writers in their native language, via Zoom.
This month’s selection is El libro de Eva, from Carmen Boullosa, a sweeping feminist reinterpretation of the book of Genesis.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events or https://www.facebook.com/events/779943102595170
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