The Main Source
Amazon and rising rents killed the old Bohemia of the Beach Cities, but the spirit of the old Santa Monica survives at Angel City Books.
BY MAX BELL FROM: TheLAnd
If you want to understand the ceaseless gentrification of Santa Monica, just walk down Main Street.
Los Angeles Literature Events 4/01/19 –4/07/19
A busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops and more! Local authors reading this week include: Mike Sonksen, Rocio Carlos, George Hammons, Suzanne Lummis and Ryka Aoki, among others, Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events 4/01/19 –4/07/19
L.A. Is Lit: The Best Spoken-Word, Readings and Poetry in Town
By Falling James
FROM: L.A. Weekly
“It is the distillation of articulate animals calling to each other across a great gulf.”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Poetry as Insurgent Art”
Spoken word is more popular than ever these days, with a seemingly endless array of live performances that pop up in a wide variety of formats and settings in the Los Angeles area. But what used to be a mainly underground pursuit — in which obsessive wordsmiths parsed and divined the arcane properties, hidden meanings and cryptic allusions buried in each loaded syllable of oblique poetry before a small crowd of like-minded true believers — has long since turned into a fairly mainstream spectator sport.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 3/25/19 –3/31/19
Matt de la Pena & Superman: Dawnbreaker at Vroman’s Bookstore – YA Event
Join us to welcome author Matt de la Pena to present and sign his new DC Icons book for young readers, Superman: Dawnbreaker (DC Icons Series).
When the dawn breaks, a hero rises. Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger, better than everyone around him. But he wasn’t raised to show off, and drawing attention to himself can be dangerous. Plus, it’s not like he’s earned his powers… yet. Lately it’s been difficult to keep his heroics in the shadows, and before he can save the world, he must find a way to save Smallville.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, California 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/matt-de-la-peña-discusses-and-signs-superman-dawnbreaker
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Exclusive Preview: Octavia E. Butler’s Prescient Parable Books Get Gorgeous Reissue
Octavia E. Bulter’s two Paradble books, “Parable of the Sower” and “Parable of the Talents” are set to be rereleased. Continue reading Exclusive Preview: Octavia E. Butler’s Prescient Parable Books Get Gorgeous Reissue
Listing Literary Los Angeles: Part 1
By Mike Sonksen
FROM: Entropy
Documenting literary Los Angeles is my lifelong project. It started early in my childhood. I grew up going to bookstores across Los Angeles. From the early 1980s, I remember my dad driving us to the Bodhi Tree on Melrose. I remember going to Acres of Books in Long Beach and many other Used Bookstores now long gone. Most of them have been gone so long that I cannot even remember their names. (I still go to the Iliad in North Hollywood.)
Los Angeles Literature Events 3/18/19 –3/24/19
Poesia Narrativa: Write Narrative Poetry
Join California Poets in the Schools, teachers, Juan Cardenas and Jessica Wilson on a journey through narrative poetry. Write in your own voice and learn new ways to express yourself.
This 6 series workshop will include food, so get ready for some delicious learning, and connection building through creative writing.
Remember the smell of sizzling carne asada, the taste of calabasas con queso, the first time you made arroz, or papas.
Our senses deliver us into memory, and our memories will fuel our poems and our palates.
This workshop series is FREE and made possible by the Los Angeles Poet Society. www.lapoetsociety.org Register by emailing: losangelespoetsociety@gmail.com with your name, email, and phone number.
Where: Tía Chucha Central Cultural
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave, Unit A, Sylmar, California 91342
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/788178538206800/
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Fingers Crossed for the Endangered Literature Class
By Megan McNaughton
FROM: The Corsair
With her long purple dress, aqua hair, and strong spirit, Professor Bridgette Robinson walks into Santa Monica College’s (SMC) Drescher Hall 212, greets her English 1 class, and begins to read along to Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors’ novel “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.” She easily commands the attention of the room; her students sit on the edge of their seats listening.
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The Free Black Women’s Library Comes To L.A.
The Free Black Women’s Library has arrived in Los Ángeles. They are the L.A. chapter of The Free Black Women’s Library, founded in Brooklyn in 2015 by Ola Ronke Akinmowo. The aim of this library is to provide “a free, feminist pop-up library and book swap with Black women writers at the center,” as their mission states.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 3/11/19 –3/17/19
Moon Tide Press Reading Event at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us for a Moon Tide Press Reading by three authors:
Alexis Rhone Fancher, is the author of: How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies, Enter Here and Junkie Wife. Her photographs are published worldwide, and she is a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She is also poetry editor of Cultural Weekly.
Ron Koertge taught English and Creative Writing at Pasadena City College for 37 years. He has published more than 25 books of poetry and fiction, most recently: Vampire Planet, Yellow Moving Van, and Coaltown Jesus. He is also 2018 Poet Laureate of South Pasadena, California.
Lee Rossi is the author of four books of poetry: Darwin’s Garden, Wheelchair Samurai, Ghost Diary, and Beyond Rescue.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/moon-tide-press
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