PoetryLA Interview With Sarah Thursday
From: Poetry.LA
The most recent interview by Poetry.LA. is of Long Beach Poet Sarah Thursday. She is also the founder/publisher of Sadie Girl Press, which she founded in 2014 to create “print form collections of poetry, art, and beyond,” as the presses website states. As self-declared “poetry advocate,” she hosts readings series, leads workshops, organizes literary events, and promotes poets by publishing their work in chapbooks, anthologies. Her most recent chapbook is Seventeen Poems Not About a Lover from Arroyo Seco Press.
Love is the Message
By Jason Toney
From: misterjt.com
I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE LOS ANGELES.
— JONATHAN GOLD
We were standing in the non-fiction, cultural studies aisle of Book Star on Ventura Boulevard when a woman came around the corner and sternly said, “No laughing!” We blushed and then, she smiled.
“Sometimes when I do that, it’s to teenage couples that are smooching in the stacks,” she explained. I revealed that just before we had been looking at “adult books” like 101 Sex Positions and, yes, laughing like school children that were getting away with something.
Los Angeles Literature Events 7/23/18 –7/29/18
Courtney Fletcher & The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm at Arroyo Seco Regional Library – Kids Event
Please join us for our Summer Author series and meet illustrator Courtney Fletcher, who will present The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm. She is the talented illustrator of popular children’s picture books like The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm by LeVar Burton and Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs by Susan Schaefer Bernardo. You can meet her this summer at this event, and might be the lucky winner of a free copy of the book.
Where: Arroyo Seco Regional Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 6145 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/summer-author-meet-courtney-fletcher
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Los Angeles Literature Events 7/16/18 –7/22/18
Regina Louise & Someone Has Led This Child to Believe at Vroman’s Bookstore
Author Regina Louise joins us to present, discuss and sign her new book, Someone Has Led This Child to Believe: A Memoir. This is the story on what happens after the events outlined in Somebody’s Someone, and covers her beleaguered adolescent years and her eventual departure for the system as she aged out and tired, against all odds, to pursue her dream of a college education. The story of her adult life culminates with her being reunited with the woman closet to her during her fragmented childhood—and whose long effort to adopt Louise finally came to fruition.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
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Lambda Literary Celebrates LGBTQ Books and Writers
by Catherine Womack
From: L.A. Times
In 1995, Sue Landers needed a job. The 24-year-old was pursuing her MFA in poetry at George Mason University in Washington, D.C., and needed to support herself while she was in school.
She was also a recently out queer woman.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 7/09/18 –7/15/18
Bilingual Poetry Workshops at Tia Chucha’s Bookstore
Join us for the second in a series of Bilingual Poetry Workshops, to be held on Mondays, July 2 to August 13, from 4 pm – 6pm, for ages 12 and up, with poet/teacher Juan Cardenas from CA Poets in the Schools, sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine.
Explore your cultural narrative by allowing your sense to guide you and recall your past experiences. Food will play a big role in this class, and other topics include: Codeswitch, Voice and Diction, Stream of Consciousness, Narrative, Slam, and more.
Where: Tia Chucha’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave., Unit A, Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/221723651771115/
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Los Angeles Literature Events 7/02/18 –7/08/18
Cara Black & 
at Vroman’s Bookstore
Author Cara Black joins us to present, discuss and sign her new book, Murder on the Left Bank. This mystery concerns a confession by an aging accountant of how he helped dirty cops launder stolen money for over fifty years. But after his murder, his records are stolen, and the investigations lead across the Left Bank to the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees, to the ancient royal tapestries, and to the modern art galleries.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/cara-black-discusses-and-signs-murder-left-bank
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For Writer liz gonzález, a Taco Best Describes her Creative Self
Long Beach-based writer liz gonzález has a simple and surprising answer when you ask her to describe her creative self. “Taco.” It took me a second to absorb her answer. “Taco?” I asked.
“The taco with, of course, my culture Mexican…and it would be a vegetarian taco with pinto beans de la olla…and then with some other things that aren’t considered Mexican.”
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Los Angeles Literature Events 6/25/18 –7/01/18
Carola Lovering & Tell Me Lies at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Carola Lovering discuss and sign Tell Me Lies. This novel tells the story of Lucy and Stephen, who meet at a small California college, and it unfolds by alternating between their two voices, following their connection through college life and post-college life in New York City. This keenly intelligent and resonant story chronicles the exhilaration and dilemmas of young adulthood, and the difficulty of letting go, even when you know it’s time..
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/carola-lovering-discusses-and-signs-tell-me-lies
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Seth Greenland: The Hazards of Good Fortune
The Hazards of Good Fortune, Los Ángeles based writer and screenwriter Seth Greenland’s new novel, will be released August 21, 2018 by Europa Editions. It’s a story of interconnecting lives, in which generations, races, and religions converge and conflict. Until August you can read his fifth novel the old-fashion way: as a serialization online at The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).
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