Voices From Leimert Park and Voices From Leimert Park Redux
By Brian Dunlap
NOTE: This is the third book in Los Angeles Literature’s Black History Month series highlighting the L.A. literature written by black authors.
There are two poetry anthologies that capture the black literary talent from the headquarters of black creativity in Los Ángeles, The World Stage in Leimert Park. The anthologies, Voices from Leimert Park and Voices from Leimert Park Redux, were published 11 years apart in 2006 and in 2017. They both capture the stories, ideas and perspectives of black Los Ángeles and beyond in a myriad of poetic forms and angles.
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Black Indian: A Memoir by Shonda Buchanan
Literary editor of of Los Ángeles based Harriet Tubman Press, Shonda Buchanan announced the release of her next book Black Indian: A Memoir, will be released by Wayne State Press in August. She is also an award-winning poet and educator. She is the author of Who’s Afraid of Black Indians? and Equipoise: Poems from Goddess Country and editor of two anthologies, Voices from Leimert Park and Voices from Leimert Park Redux.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 2/25/19 – 3/03/19
An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates at Claremont McKenna College
Join us for Readings and Reflections: An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates, when the award-winning writer, essayist, poet, and novelist will read from her works, including Hazards of Time Travel (2018), and share personal reflections.
Joyce Carol Oates is a writer of more than 40 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry and nonfiction. She won the National Book Award for her novel them (1969), and two novels and two short story collections were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has taught at Princeton University since 1978 and is currently Professor Emerita in the Program in Creative Writing.
Where: Marian Miner Cook Anthenaeum, Claremont McKenna College
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: 385 East 8th St., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: http://events.cmc.edu/event/readings
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Exhibit Honoring Late Writer Michele Serros Opens at California State University, Channel Islands
By Tracy Lehr
FROM: KEYT
Oxnard-born poet and writer Michele Serros left some of her prized possession to California State University, Channel Islands. They went on display on Valentine’s Day, her favorite holiday.
Fall In Love With Yesika Salgado: Silver Lake’s Fat, Fly, Salvadoran Poet
by ASTRID
FROM: LA Taco
Mangoes fill Yesika Salgado’s poetry in the same way Jacaranda trees blossom throughout her hometown in Silver Lake. She is a poet and activist emerging as the Sentimental Boss Bitch many have come to know and adore for gaslighting toxic masculinity on Instagram with heartfelt poems and screenshots.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 2/18/19 –2/24/19
Eboo Patel: Author of the 2018 LMU Common Book at LMU
Join LMU students, faculty and staff as we welcome author, educator, and interfaith leader Eboo Patel to talk about his book Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America. This event is free and open to everyone in the LMU community.
Eboo Patel is a leading voice in the movement for interfaith cooperation and the Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a national nonprofit working to make interfaith cooperation a social norm. He is the author of: Acts of Faith, Sacred Ground, Interfaith Leadership, and Out of Many Faiths. Eboo served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council and is an expert on the topic of religious pluralism. For over fifteen years he has worked on and with many organizations to help realize a future where religion is a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division.
Where: Life Sciences Building Auditorium, Loyola Marymount University
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://cal.lmu.edu/event/eboo_patel_author_of_the_2018_lmu_common_book#.XGC7YFxKiUk
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In The Not Quite Dark
NOTE: This is the second book in Los Angeles Literature’s Black History Month series highlighting the L.A. literature written by black authors.
The story collection In The Not Quite Dark by Los Ángeles native Dana Johnson is about race, specifically blackness, gentrification, love and class in L.A. Many of these stories take place downtown and weave the city’s history into their narratives.
A Storied Los Angeles Club for African American Women Looks to the Future
by Lynell George
FROM:
It doesn’t take much to envision a certain wide stretch of Los Angeles’ West Adams Boulevard in its early 20th century glory—when traffic floated by at a genteel pace and carefully spaced rows of stately homes peeked out from sumptuous gardens. Taken together, it embodied the sweet dream of the West.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 2/11/19 –2/17/19
The 42nd Annual Writers Week Conference at UC Riverside
Join us for the second week and first full-day of events of the annual Writers Week at UCR, the longest-running, free literary event in California, featuring renowned authors of the day alongside those at the start of promising careers. Tom Lutz is Writers Week director.
All events are free and open to the public, and parking is free (permits available at the Kiosk).
11 am: Aimee Bender is the author of five books of fiction, including The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, and most recently The Color Master. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at USC.
1 pm: Arthur Sze is the author of ten books of poetry, including the forthcoming Sight Lines from Copper Canyon Press in 2019. He is also a translator and released The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese in 2001. He is professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and was first poet laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives.
2:30 pm: Yxta Maya Murray is a novelist, art critic, and law professor at Loyola Law School. Her latest, Advise and Consent, will be published this year by LARB Books.
4 pm: Quincy Troupe (Steven Minot Lecturer)
Where: UC Riverside, CHASS Interdisciplinary Building, South-
Screening Room, INTS 1128
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 11 am – 5 pm
Address: 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521
Website: http://writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule/
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Pomona Valley Review Call For Submissions
By Brian Dunlap
The Pomona Valley Review (PVR) is now open for submissions for its 13th issue. Submitters will be contacted in July with decisions. PVR 13 is scheduled for an early August publication.
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