Alma Rosa Rivera: Building Bridges In The Poetry World Between Brown Love, Motherhood, And Politics
By Astrid
FROM: LA Taco
Alma Rosa Rivera is a bespeckled, Mexican American poet, mom, and wife who says she doesn’t like to “water down” her brownness. From the hot deserts in Santa Clarita to heavy smog and neon signs in Koreatown, Alma is representing brownness in all its glory.
Business Beat: Fourth Street Turns Page With New Bookstore
By Ashleigh Ruhl
FROM: The Grunion
A new bookstore is turning the page on Fourth Street’s Retro Row.
Page Against the Machine (or PATM) opened earlier this month in a narrow but bright retail space at 2714 E. Fourth St., the sleekly remodeled home of what was formerly Seventh Wave surf shop. Continue reading “Business Beat: Fourth Street Turns Page With New Bookstore”
Endeavor: An Interview with Cynthia Guardado
An interview with Fullerton College Professor and Poet, Cynthia Guardado. She discusses her book “Endevor,” a book about the experiences of women of color in America. Continue reading Endeavor: An Interview with Cynthia Guardado
Los Angeles Literature Events 4/22/19 – 4/28/19
Colin Dayan & In the Belly of Her Ghost at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Colin Dayan, author of In the Belly of Her Ghost. The author has one of the most original minds in America and also one of the fiercest. Here for the first time she turns her rigorous intellect toward her vexed relationship with her mother, and subsequent suffering. Plus, she does so with her usual uncompromising clarity in a book that is not exactly an easy read, but one that’s hard to put down, according Madison Smartt Bell.
Colin (Joan) Dayan is the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University, and the author of: Haiti, History, and the God, The Story of Cruel and Unusual, The Law Is a White Dog, and With Dogs at the Edge of Life. her memoirs of growing up in Georgia have been published in The Yale Review, Southwest Review, and LARB, among others.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 7 am
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90008
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks/event/colin-dayan
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Read Why This Open Mic Never Disappoints
By Arlene Mateo
FROM: pspoets
Sideshow Bookstore has a lot to offer, little nooks and shelves of great reads and highly recommended staff picks, it’s the place you find instant comfort in. Tony, the owner, has undeniably created a meaningful respite for all Angelenos.
Los Angeles Literature Events 4/16/19 – 4/21/19
Red Hen Press 25th Anniversary Poetry Reading at the Annenberg Beach House
Please join us to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Red Hen Press with a poetry reading event featuring four Red Hen Press poets:
Katherine Coles is a poet and educator who served from 2006-2012 as Utah’s third poet laureate, and currently serves as inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute and the co-director of the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature.
Matty Layne Glasgow is the author of the poetry collection, deciduous queen, selected by Richard Blanco as the winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award and forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2019.
Kim Dower is the author of four poetry collections, all from Red Hen Press: Air Kissing on Mars (2010), Slice of Moon (2013), Last Train to the Missing Planet (2016), and her new book, Sunbathing on Tyrone Powers’ Grave (2019).
Jessy Randall is the author of the poetry collections: Suicide Hotline Hold (2016), There Was an Old Woman (2015), Injecting Dreams into Cows (2012), A Day in Boyland (2007).
The readings will be accompanied by jeweler Nicole Foos’ talk on “Stories from Stones.”
Where: Annenberg Beach House
Date: Tuesday the 16th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Highway, at Beach House Way, Santa Monica, CA 90402
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Pocha and Proud: An Interview With Sarah Borjas
Brenda Delfino interviews Sara Borjas FROM: LARB
Poems can be windows. They can also be doors. These are truths to prescribe to while reading Sara Borjas debut poetry collection Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff. A window can work as an enterence, can mirror the reflection of someone familiar. In her poem “Lies I Tell,” previously published by the Academy of America Poets, Borjas writes,
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Watts Poetic
In 1967, the Watts Prophets arose from the ashes of the Riots to offer a voice for the voiceless. Over a half-century later, Amde Hamilton is still creating change.
By Sam Ribakoff
FROM: TheLAnd
There used to be a lot more trees on this stretch of 103rd Street, but most of them were cut down so police helicopters could watch Watts’ residents from the sky. Amde Hamilton, 78 years old, still moves down these streets that he grew up on with a glide you can imagine him having in the late ‘60s, when he formed the Watts Prophets with Otis O’Solomon and Richard Dedeaux.
CSUSB Creative Writing Team Explores Unique, Diverse Voices
By Inside CSUSB
Through various events, journals and workshops, the creative writing team in the Cal State San Bernardino Department of English works hard to highlight and celebrate the diverse voices of the campus community.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 4/08/19 – 4/14/19
Maria Ure & Story Time in Spanish at Pages Bookstore – Kids Event
Join us to hear Maria Ure, founder and director of Spanish in Action, for a Story Time in Spanish. Her approach is radically different from teaching methods commonly seen in school settings, as she personally sits down with the kids and delivers her lessons through song. It’s her innate gift for teaching and ability to create beautiful songs for each lesson that set her apart as a teacher and as a school.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave, Manhattan Beach, California 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/story-time-spanish-april-8th
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