IF YOU DON’T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW: TALKING WITH JOSEPH RIOS
by B.A. Williams
From: The Rumpus
Joseph Rios’s debut collection, Shadowboxing: poems and impersonations, published last year by Omnidawn, is a middle finger to the institution in both form and content. This isn’t to say that Rios isn’t well-versed in tradition, as Rios steps into the ring exchanging blow after blow with poetic tradition. Rebellion bobs and weaves on each page. Rios throws combinations of playwriting, lyric, narrative, and experimental techniques that often have a Romantic ring to them.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 12/17/18 –12/23/18
Santa Monica Public Library
Join us at our Main Library Book Group to discuss the book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt. This event is for adults and seniors.
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In this book, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
Where: Santa Monica Main Library, 2nd Floor
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=26229
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‘The Poet Laureate of The Struggle: Why Matt Sedillo is Considered One of the Best Political Poets in America
by Astrid
From: L.A. Taco
Matt Sedillo is a Chicano poet, writer, creative director, and public intellectual called “the poet laureate of the struggle” by Dr. Paul Ortiz and “the best political poet in America” by investigative journalist Greg Palast. He has been featured in over 80 colleges and universities and various media outlets including All Def Digital, Los Angeles Times, and C-SPAN.
Los Angeles Literature Events 12/10/18 –12/16/18
Workshop: Writing From Experience at 1888 Center for the Arts
Please join us for the Creative Writing Workshop: Writing From Experience, which will give participants tips on how to write novels loosely based on their own experience, and turn real life events into compelling fictional narratives.
Helene is an Orange County novelist and the author of Diary of a 99%-er, and its sequel Back in OC: Almost Homeless.
NOTE: This workshop costs $30, and tickets can be purchased at website.
Where: 1888 Center for the Arts
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 115 N. Orange St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: http://1888.center/calendar/workshop-writing-from-experience/
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Living Room Floricanto: liz gonzález Dancing In the Santa Ana Winds
by Michael Sedano
From: La Bloga
Living room floricantos fill a home with gente and arte for a few memorable hours, the perfect way to celebrate friends, community, culture, a whole lot of good things. For liz gonzález, Saturday afternoon celebrated the publication of her recent collection, Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected.
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Accolades for Long Beach Poet Michelle Brittan Rosado
by Brian Dunlap
Michelle Brittan Rosado is a poet from Vacaville, CA who now lives in Long Beach. Her first full-length collection of poetry Why Can’t It Be Tenderness was published last month by the University of Wisconsin Press. In this collection she explores the themes of coming-of-age, mixed-race identity, diaspora, and cultural inheritance. However, Brittan Rosado has also recently received good news about her next collection of poetry.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 12/03/18 –12/09/18
Joshua Rivkin & Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly at Book Soup
Join us to hear Joshua Rivkin present his book, Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly. Upon first seeing Twombly’s remarkable room-size paintings, the author became obsessed with this mysterious artist and has now reconstructed his life based upon years of archival research and interviews. From his time at legendary Black Mountain College, to his canonization in a 1994 MoMA retrospective, this book presents a more personal and searching type of biography, and brings to life the story of a more complex artist than we’ve known.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/joshua-rivkin-discusses-and-signs-chalk-art-and-erasure-cy-twombly
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Author Conversation Series Gets Cable TV Debut
By Jason Boog
From: Publishers Weekly
Spectrum Networks has launched a weekly primetime show that airs author conversations for 1.5 million pay-TV subscribers in Southern California.
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Literary History: Playwright Wakako Yamauchi, Remembered For ‘And the Soul Shall Dance’
By Rafu Shimpo
From: Rafu Shimpo
Los Angeles Literature Note: This obituary of Wakako Yamauchi was published in August in L.A.’s Japanese newspaper Rafu Shimpo. Yamauchi was an important writer in the Nisei Literary community and beyond, especially in Los Ángeles, breaking out after WW II and Japanese internment. Related to the article published earlier this month titled “Literary History: Los Ángeles’ Nisei Literary Community Before WWII.”
GARDENA — Wakako Yamauchi, a renowned Nisei writer best known for her play “And the Soul Shall Dance,” passed away on Aug. 16 at her home in Gardena. She was 93.
She is remembered for depicting the struggles of Japanese immigrants and their children during the Great Depression and World War II, which she personally experienced.
Harsh, corporate-style dismissals have no place at ALOUD or the L.A. Library Foundation
by Louise Steinman and Maureen Moore and others
FROM: Los Angeles Times
To the editor: Library Foundation President Kenneth Brecher claims the ALOUD series was “stagnating”; we believe the 25-year record — to the present — of cultural and literary programming at the Los Angeles Public Library speaks for itself.
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