Another busy week in Los Angeles Literature with literary events ranging from open mics, workshops, readings and book clubs. Local writers featuring this week include: Charles Harper Webb, Anne Soon Choi, Steven Reigns, Dr. Alondra and Giovanni Boskovich, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 8/04/25 – 8/10/25
Recently, LibroMobile Arts Cooperative announced the 2024-2026 OC Poet Laureate: Gustavo Hernandez. The county’s second Poet Laureate. Check out who this poet is. Continue reading Orange County’s New Poet Laureate
By Gabriel San Román
FROM: TimesOC
For naysayers, Orange County’s literary scene is as barren as the citrus orchards that once dominated its landscape but have long since been bulldozed to make way for suburban blandness. O.C. supposedly traded its tart to be trite.
Continue reading “New ‘Citric Acid’ quarterly journal gives O.C. some literary tart”
By Gabriel San Román
FROM: Los Angeles Times OC
Above the din of cumbias and a nearby vegan food fest, Dr. Natalie J. Graham’s poetic cadence soothed the crowd that gathered last month in downtown Santa Ana to hear her read. Seated in front of LibroMobile’s garage entrance, she began with works of other poets before turning to poems of her own.
Continue reading “Orange County’s First-Ever Pair of Poet Laureates Make Their Debut”
By Brian Dunlap
Over the course of the past year and a half, with organizations, museums, and theaters, among other venues, having to move their events online due to the pandemic, they have connected with so many friends old and new, who are not local to their physical event space.
Continue reading “Update: Local Open Mics Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and SHOUT! the Open Mic Have Teamed Up”
By Brian Dunlap
As more of the Los Ángeles literary community returns to in-person events, two long-running Orange County open mics, Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and Shout! the Open Mic, are joining forces, as Two Idiots said on Facebook, to “maintain an online reading.” They want to “continue to connect with our extended community beyond the borders of Southern California.”
Continue reading “Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and Shout! the Open Mic Are Joining Forces”
Texas based FlowerSong Press is quietly building an impressive list of local writers and other book news from Poet Astrid and others. Continue reading News From the L.Á. Literary Community
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