Los Angeles Poet Society Call For Submissions
By Brian Dunlap
During this time of social unrest, the country visibly upset over the continued killing of innocent black men and wemen at the hands of police, the Los Angeles Poet Society has issued a submissions call for social justice poems. On Facebook they announced:
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Los Angeles Literature Events 6/01/20 – 6/07/20
All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Vroman’s Live: Stephen Haff & Kid Quixote at Crowdcast Online
Author Stephen Haff presents his book Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible. The author is the founder of Still Waters in a Storm, which serves Spanish speaking immigrant children in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Where: Crowdcast Online event (Register in advance)
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
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Recommended Los Ángeles Literature For Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
By Brian Dunlap
For Asain/Pacific American Heritage Month, Los Āngeles Literature is recommending books about Asian L.Á. written by Asians and books written by Asian Angeleños. This history of the city’s Asian American literature extends at least as far back as the 1920s, as historian Valerie J. Matsumoto chronicles in the chapter “Sounding the Dawn Bell: Developing Nisei Voices” from her book City Girls. Continue reading “Recommended Los Ángeles Literature For Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month”
Los Angeles Literature Events 5/25/20 – 5/31/20
All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Call for Submissions Deadline of May 28 for Hombre Lobo Online
Announcement by Viva Padilla of Call for Submissions: real stories about spooky experiences for online zine HOMBRE LOBO dryland.org/hombre-lobo.
Send these goths your story about your real spooky experiences to be published in on online zine. Link for submissions is given at FB site below.
Where: Online deadline/event
Date: May submissions period ends this week
Time: Present – May 28 at 1am
Address: Submissions announcement/event (see website link for information)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/233703604712555/
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Glorious Boy Amiee Liu
“Glorious Boy” is a tale of war and devotion, longing and loss, and the power of love to prevail. Historical fiction set as WW II intensifies. Continue reading Glorious Boy Amiee Liu
It’s Time to Take California Back from Joan Didion
The first lady of West Coast letters needs to share that honor with the Mexican diaspora
By Myriam Gurba
FROM: Electric Lit
Amado Vazquez, a Mexican botanist, named an orchid after Joan Didion. While that was a chic gesture, I don’t think of her as an orchid. I think of her as an onion. She’s very white, very crisp, and she makes people cry.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 5/18/20 – 5/24/20
NOTE: All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Lucy Smith & The Dirt, Reading & Q&A on Facebook Live Online
Join us for a Facebook Live online event with author Lucy Smith for a reading and Q&A of her memoir The Dirt: An illustrated, 100% Uncensored Memoir of a Girl with Mental Illness.
Where: Facebook Live Online
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 1 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: Facebook Live
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/678273102965759
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Open Letter To Los Angeles City Council Members From Los Angeles Literary Arts Organizations And Allies
FROM: PEN America
NOTE: Los Angeles Literature stands with PEN America Los Angeles and the L.A. literary comminity. Read on to find out why.
We write as a coalition of Los Angeles-based literary arts organizations and allies committed to supporting this city’s writers and literary professionals struggling amid the COVID-19 epidemic. We support the prioritization of health and safety measures until the crisis subsides, but request that you include writers and the literary community in forthcoming funding decisions related to recovery from the pandemic, recognizing the essential cultural and economic role they play in our city.
Literary History: The Fearless Invention of One of L.A.’s Greatest Poets
A new volume of quintessential L.Á. poet Wanda Coleman’s poetry, “Wicked Enchantment” and eidted by poet Terrance Hayes, has brought the Watts born poet into the spotlight. Continue reading Literary History: The Fearless Invention of One of L.A.’s Greatest Poets
Los Angeles Literature Events 5/11/20 – 5/17/20
NOTE: All Events Are Online/Vritual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Roots: Family History Project with VSU Bruins
The Roots; Family History Project is for those who want to share their Vietnamese and/or Southeast Asian-American stories or the stories of their parents, family or friends. You must fill out an interest form available online and a journalist will contact you to follow up.
Where: Online-Virtual event
Date: Monday the 11th & Tuesday the 12th
Time: 12 am – 12 am
Address: Online/Virtual event (see website link for information)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2522207648097351/
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