Lynell George Sings Los Angeles
Lynell George writes about Los Ángeles, its changing landscape, rooted in personal experience.
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Behind The Editor’s Desk: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
by Women Who Submit
From: Women Who Submit
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal just signed on as nonfiction editor at LA’s own Gold Line Press. She’s an innovative poet who isn’t constrained by genre; her work is electrifying, form-melting, challenging. I asked her about Gold Line’s upcoming chapbook contest and her work as an editor.
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Matt Sedillo, Creative Writing Workshops, LitFest Pasadena and Teaching Artists
by Brian Dunlap
A lot has happened in Los Ángeles Literature in May. Writers were running workshops for the community and they all came together on the 19th and 20th in Pasadena’s Theater District for the 7th Annual LitFest Pasadena, celebrating local writers and presses. Plus, as many L.A. writers teach at local high schools, community colleges and universities and as the school year ends, they’ve been reflecting on the impact they’ve had on their students. One has been recognized for his teaching with an award.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 5/28/18 –6/03/18
Free Memorial Holiday Monday at LACMA
Visitors and families of all ages are invited to a FREE day at the museum, with bilingual tours, campus-wide exhibits, including Hidden Narratives exhibit and others, all open to the public, and live music with Soft Streak.
Where: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Date: Monday the 28th
Time: 11 am – 5 pm
Address: 5905 Wilshire Blvd., West Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: http://www.lacma.org/event/target-free-holiday-monday-10
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Los Angeles Literature Events 5/21/18 –5/27/18
Tony Abbott & Mordicai Gerstein at Children’s Book World–Children’s Event
Please join us to meet and hear from two authors receiving the Horace Mann Upstander Awards, given yearly to celebrate authors who publish fictional stories that encourage activism on the part of the protagonist. The authors will discuss their work, receive their awards from Antioch University Los Angeles, and the presentation will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. For ages: 10-adult.
The Summer of Owen Todd, by Tony Abbott is the winner of the Annual Book Award. Mordicai Gerstein is the Lifetime Achievement Award winner for his commitment to activism, and particularly for his latest book, The Boy and the Whale.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., West Los Angeles, CA 90064
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My 12-Year Love Affair
by Erika Ayón
From: Women Who Submit
It began 12 years ago, the concept for my poetry collection Orange Lady. It was 2006, that summer I had gone to VONA (Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation) in San Francisco, where I had taken a writing workshop with Chris Abani. At VONA, I connected with writers who also lived in Los Angeles, and upon my return, through them, I learned about Ruth Forman’s poetry workshops. It was in these workshops held at Ruth’s home in Los Angeles surrounded by willow trees and included Tai Chi lessons taught by her that the poetry collection came to me. Ruth always showed immense compassion toward our writing process and lovingly gave us permission to just write. That permission to just write sparked this emotional surge in me, and I wrote without care or judgment, with pure reckless abandonment. It was in these workshops that I began compiling the poems that would ultimately become part of my first poetry collection Orange Lady.
Develop Skills and Transcend Limits through the Arts: Meet Luis Antonio Pichardo
by Catherine Sturgeon
From: LAPL Blog
DSTL Arts is a nonprofit arts mentorship organization based in Los Angeles that “inspires, teaches, and hires emerging artists from underserved communities.” The acronym in DSTL Arts stands for Develop Skills and Transcend Limits through the Arts. Co-founded by Luis Antonio Pichardo and Jennifer Fuentes in late 2012, DSTL Arts began as Luis’ vision for empowering the next generation of working artists from underserved and underrepresented communities in the arts, serving, at first, only youth whom aspired to become working artists in spite of a lack of a support system in their immediate community, including their families.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 5/14/18 –5/20/18
Restless Souls & The Concrete, Book Launch & Discussion at Book Soup
Restless Souls, by Dan Sheehan & The Concrete, by Daniel Abbott, will be presented and discussed in conversation with Melissa X. Golebiowski of Literary Hub.
Restless Souls is a moving and darkly funny meditation on friendship, the emotional ravages of war, and the way our memories simultaneously comfort and restrict us from growing and moving on.
The Concrete is a striking literary debut that grapples with the effects of childhood trauma, lost dreams, human sexuality, and the difficulties of marriage.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
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Six-week poetry workshop welcomes poets of all ages
by MARIEL ROSSI DEVRIES
From: The Occidental
The Center for the Arts Eagle Rock is hosting a poetry workshop with the theme of intergenerational poetry, which welcomes individuals of all ages, every Tuesday until May 22. Jessica M. Wilson, founder of the Los Angeles Poet Society — a community organization for art and literature based in the city since 2009 — is leading the workshop. Members of the public can sign up for the full six weeks at a fee of $60 or attend a single workshop for $10. Five people attended the first workshop on April 17 and discussed works by beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg, author of “Howl.”
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Francesca Lia Block Is A Lot More Than Weetzie Bat
THE BELOVED WRITER ON DEFYING EXPECTATIONS AND TRYING NEW THINGS
By Zan Romanoff
From: Lithub
I can’t help myself: I dress up to go see her. It’s 9 am on a Thursday morning when I leave my house, 50-some degrees in Los Angeles and so windy that palm trees are curved and swaying, my car trembling with exertion on the freeway.
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