Los Angeles Literature Events 3/26/18 –4/01/18
Poets Reading on Oscar “Zeta” Acosta at Redwood Bar & Grill
Please join us for, Hunting the Brown Buffalo: Poets Read and Reflect on Oscar “Zeta” Acosta. Chicano Movement icon Oscar “Zeta” Acosta’s novels, Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and Revolt of the Cockroach People, are testaments to the movement’s focus on criminal justice, civil rights, cultural identity and affirmation, and discrimination.
Six writers read new work that reflects on his legacy and ask what his life and writing can teach us today. The reading will be followed by a screening of Phillip Rodriguez’s documentary, The Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo, at Civic Center Studio, 207 S. Broadway, Suite One, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
Featured readers include:
Adrian Arancibia is a co-founder of Taco Shop Poets, authored the collections, Atacama Poems and The Keeper/El guardador, and will release Poems of Exhaustion in 2018. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Miramar Community College.
Darren J. de Leon, is an award-winning poet, playwright, performance artist, radio journalist, taquero, DJ, teacher, and community activist. In 1995 he founded Los Delicados: Poetas del Sol, San Francisco’s avant garde leaders of the Latino Spoken Word scene.
Carribean Fragoza has published fiction and poetry, as well as arts/culture reviews and essays. Her chapbook, K-12 was published by Eohippus Labs, and she is co-director of the South El Monte art Posse (SEMAP).
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez is a poet and journalist. In 1994 he co-founded Taco Shop Poets. He’s been a reporter at NPR-affiliate KPCC 89.3FM in Los Angeles since 2000.
Joseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn). He is a VONA alumnus and a Macondo Fellow, and was named one of the notable Debut Poets by Poets & Writers Magazine for 2017.
Yesika Salgado is a Los Angeles-based Salvadoran poet who writes about her family, culture, and brown body. She is co-founder of the Latina feminist collective Chingona Fire and is an internationally recognized body positivity activist. Her first book, Corazon, was published with Not a Cult in fall of 2017.
FREE event! Register at Eventbrite link.
Where: Redwood Bar & Grill
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 6:30 pm: Meet for sidewalk performance on sidewalk on east side of Hill St, between 2nd and 3rd at 252 Hill St.
7 pm: Poetry Reading at Redwood Bar & Grill.
8:15 pm: Screening of documentary at Civic Center Studio.
Address: 316 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Artist Interview with Poet Laureate John Brantingham
From: Treehouse Arts
I first came across John Brantingham’s work when he sent in a poetry submission to TreeHouse Arts, which I quickly accepted (you can view that publication here). Obviously, I liked his work, but what truly caught my attention was that in his bio he mentioned that he spends summers “living off the grid in a tent in the High Sierra, teaching poetry and writing for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park.”
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Publishing News From The L.A. Literary Community
Erica Ayón and liz gonzález have book news to celebrate. Continue reading Publishing News From The L.A. Literary Community
Lamplight Poetry Reading Series Says Farewell
The following letter was posted to Lamplight’s Facebook page:
Dear poets and friends,
It is not without a sense of heaviness that we wish to announce that April 22nd, 2018 is the last session of the Lamplight Poetry Reading series. We have had the tremendous pleasure of servicing the Los Angeles poetry community for nearly 4 years and we both believe that it is now time for us to move on to newer horizons and projects for ourselves.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 3/19/18 –3/25/18
Presumed Incompetent Poetry Reading at Cal Lutheran University
Please join us for a poetry reading with Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, author and first editor of the revolutionary volume, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. She has written articles, poetry, collections, and encyclopedia entries. Her book, How Many Indians Can We Be, is forthcoming from Mango Press. She recently published The Runaway Poems with Finishing Line Press, and edited a collection of Chicana and Chicano literary criticism for the University of Arizona Press.
Where: Swenson Center 101, Cal Lutheran
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Address: 60 West Olsen Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Website: http://www.callutheran.edu/calendar/event/4160#event
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Three L.A. Poets Get Accepted to VONA/Voices
By Brian Dunlap
Earlier this week three L.A. poets, Irene Monica Sanchez, Angelina Sáenz and T. Sarmina got accepted into the prestigious VONA/Voices of Our Nation summer workshop at Realm Academy in Berkeley. The workshop is for emerging poets and prose writers-of-Color.
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Cyclical Time, Slaughter, and Colonial Violence in Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex
“Atomik Aztex” is formally and thematically challenging, implementing postmodern stylistics in conjunction with surrealism, Gonzo “journalism,” and the satirical. Foster also mixes “low-brow” and “high-art,” and popular consumer culture. Continue reading Cyclical Time, Slaughter, and Colonial Violence in Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex
Los Angeles Literature Events 3/13/18 –3/18/18
Artist Talk at Otis College of Art and Design
Please join us for a conversation with graphic designer and editor Benedikt Reichenbach, to discuss his thoughts and work as a book designer. He is now working on an English re-edition of Pier Polo Pasolini: Corpi e Luoghi, a book that today is still what a critic called it at the time of its publication in 1981, the most Paolininan book to date.
Where: The Forum, Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 11 am – 12:15 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/calendar/visiting-artist-lecture-benedikt-reichenbach
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Application Period Open For Jack Jones Literary Arts’ Second Annual Writing Retreat
From: Jack Jones Literary Arts
Jack Jones Literary Arts, located in Los Ángeles, is hosting its second annual writing retreat at Blue Sky Retreat, Taos, New Mexico. This two-week retreat will be held October 13- 27, 2018, and is open exclusively to women of color. Jenna Wortham joins us as our 2018 Writer-in-Residence.
Profile of a Modern-Day Poet in L.A.: Mike The Poet
by ASTRID
From: L.A. Taco
“Los Angeles is not Baywatch or the Beach Boys, it is getting carne asada tacos from a taco truck and bacon wrapped hot dogs at two in the morning.”
These are the words of Mike Sonksen, a poet, historian, activist, teacher, husband, and father better known as Mike the Poet. The nickname was given to Mike at the age of 23, by a friend who noticed he always carried a notebook. “You know Mike, you’re not Mike Sonksen, you’re Mike the Poet.”
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