Meet Poet Astrid | Author, Poet, & Writer
FROM: Shoutout LA
We had the good fortune of connecting with Poet Astrid and we’ve shared our conversation below.
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Meet Luivette Resto | Mother, Poet, Educator
FROM: Shoutout LA
We had the good fortune of connecting with Luivette Resto and we’ve shared our conversation below.
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‘Written Without Shame’: Mexican-American Poet Briana Muñoz on Poetry, Performance and Her Indigenous Roots
“Los Angeles is a home that keeps Muñoz inspired. ‘There is so much movement. You just walk out the door and there’s a poem,’ she says.” Continue reading ‘Written Without Shame’: Mexican-American Poet Briana Muñoz on Poetry, Performance and Her Indigenous Roots
Two Idiots Peddling Poetry
By Brian Dunlap
After all these years, I finally attended Two Idiots Peddling Poetry. I finally got to the Ugly Mug in historic downtown Orange. I’ve always respected and appreciated the space they hold for people to express their reality, a place where writers can share their work in the Southland’s expansive literary scene.
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How This Chicano Poet From Diamond Bar Got Into 50 Bookstores Without A Major Publisher
“Now jobless, and finally in possession of a car after years of calling up rideshares and riding the bus), I decided it was time to bring the hustle I had brought towards building up my resume and touring across the country towards hustling books.” Continue reading How This Chicano Poet From Diamond Bar Got Into 50 Bookstores Without A Major Publisher
2nd Annual Culver City Book Fair
Last Saturday the 2nd Annual Culver City Book Festival took place at the Wende Museum of the Cold War. Here is what happened. Continue reading 2nd Annual Culver City Book Fair
Donna Hilbert Finds Love in the Poetry of Lament
“In Threnody: Poems, her new collection of 62 poems, Hilbert continues that tradition of lament, demonstrating that the modern lament is as contemporary as its older and ancient predecessors.” Continue reading Donna Hilbert Finds Love in the Poetry of Lament
Interview With an Author: Steven Reigns
By Daryl M.
FROM: LAPL Blog
Steven Reigns is a Los Angeles poet and educator and was appointed the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. Alongside over a dozen chapbooks, he has published the collections Inheritance, and Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat.
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Bookfair, Sims Library of Poetry
By Brian Dunlap
The first annual Sims Library of Poetry Bookfair took place on November 20. Authors and presses set up shop in the library’s courtyard selling books, selling poetry, making connections and building community. Promoting the most important aspects of literature: what makes us human; telling our own truths, our own narratives; bluntly speaking truth to power.
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The Shore Interview #21: Nancy Lynée Woo
Interviewed by Taylor N. Schaefer
FROM: The Shore
TNS: In your poem “S.O.S With Warble and Cell Tower,” you utilize large shifts in tone and rhetorical position— from call for help to call to action— from dream imagery to concrete reality. How did you come to these craft choices in the poem?
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Los Angeles Literature 