A Night of Community and Celebration
By Brian Dunlap
Poets and book lovers braved L.A.’s rush hour traffic. It was a Thursday. February 27th. The destination was Diehl Marcus & Company in Hollywood, a Curio Dealer and Event Space of finely curated antiques, home decor and accessories from around the world. The crowd arrived for Ingrid M. Calderon-Collins’ release party for her poetic memoir Let The Buzzards Eat Me Whole.
Los Angeles Literature Events 3/09/20 – 3/15/20
Atelier Manferdini & Portraits and Landscapes at SCI-Arc College & University
Join us for the Los Angeles launch of Portraits and Landscapes. The monograph collects the work created by Atelier Manferdini during the last six years of design activity. The projects are divided into two large families of explorations, Landscapes and Portraits.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website link for details.
Where: SCI-Arc College and University
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 960 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://www.facebook.com//events/497164191219425
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Local Publisher Jamii Publishing to Release Anthology “Accolades”
By Brian Dunlap
Local press Jamii Publishing will release the Women Who Submit (WWS) anthology Accolades edited by Rachael Warecki and Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera. They will debut the book at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in San Antonio.
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Two Interviews With Viva Padilla and Nikolai Garcia of Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central Los Angeles
Two interviews with two Los Ángeles poets, VIva Padilla—Órale Boyle Heights—and Nikolia Garcia—The Badass Bookworm Podcast. Continue reading Two Interviews With Viva Padilla and Nikolai Garcia of Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central Los Angeles
Los Angeles Literature Events 3/02/20 – 3/08/20
Christine Carter & The New Adolescence at Polytechnic School, Pasadena
Adults in the Poly community and in the greater L.A. area are invited to hear highly acclaimed speaker, sociologist, and author Christine Carter, Ph.D., who will discuss her book, The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website link for details.
Where: Polytechnic School
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 1030 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91106
Website: http://www.facebook.com//events/519993178641291
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Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon and Colson Whitehead Among L.A. Times Book Prize Finalists
By Margaret Wappler
FROM: L.A. Times
Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon, Attica Locke, Michael Connelly and Colson Whitehead are among the finalists for the 40th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes announced Wednesday, with crime novelist Walter Mosley named as the winner of the 2019 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement.
Elinor’s ‘Riveted’ Joins Long Beach Storytelling Wave Waiting For You To Drop In
By Nancy Lynée Woo
FROM: Long Beach Post
If you haven’t caught it yet, there’s a storytelling wave barreling through our city, one that’s been surging and swelling for more than a decade. Though I’m a poet and tend to be too distracted by shiny metaphors to bother with linear narrative, the storytelling scene in Long Beach is definitely worth caring about.
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Victoria Chang On The Self And Its Many Deaths
By Peter Mishler
FROM: Lit Hub
For the next installation in our interview series with contemporary poets, Peter Mishler corresponded with Victoria Chang. Victoria Chang’s books include OBIT (April 2020), Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle. Her children’s picture book, Is Mommy?, was illustrated by Marla Frazee and published by Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster. It was named a New York Times Notable Book. Her middle grade novel Love, Love will be published by Sterling Publishing in 2020. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and a Lannan Residency Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles and is the program chair of Antioch’s Low-Residency MFA Program.
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Applications Starting For New Long Beach Youth Poet Laureate Program
By Staff Report
FROM: Signal Tribune
The new Long Beach Youth Poet Laureate (LBYPL) program is being formed by The Long Beach Public Library and the Arts Council for Long Beach in order to provide local kids with literary arts, civic engagement and performance opportunities.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 2/24/20 – 3/01/20
Father Gregory Boyle at Cal State University Los Angeles
Activist priest Father Greg Boyle will discuss his latest book, Barking at the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship. A book signing will follow the discussion. The Mind Matters Champion Award recipients will be announced during the event.
Where: CSULA, Golden Eagle Ballrooms
Date: Monday the 24th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 5151 State University Dr., Los Angeles, CA 91711
Website: http://www.calstatela.edu/event/mind-matters-speaker-series-rev-gregory-j-boyle
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