By Ruben Quesada
FROM: Kenyon Review
Matt Sedillo is a Chicano poet, writer, creative director, and public intellectual. He is the current literary director of the dA Center for the Arts and author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (Flowersong Press, 2019). His forthcoming collection of poetry is City on the Second Floor.
Continue reading “Poetry Today: Kathryn Smith and Matt Sedillo”
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Glennon Doyle & Unfinished via LiveTalks-LA – Online Event
Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event to hear Priyanka Chopra Jonas, in conversation with author Glennon Doyle (Love Warrior). discuss her memoir, Unfinished.
Award-winning actor and producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas, wife of musician Nick Jonas, offers a thoughtful and revealing memoir reflecting on her journey of self-discovery. This remarkable life story rooted in two different worlds covers her nomadic early years, her Miss World pageant, her 20-year career as an actor and producer, and her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, to her marriage and family life.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event, so check site ofr details.
Where: LiveTalks-LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/priyanka-chopra-jonas/
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 02/08/21 – 02/14/21”
by Brian Dunlap
F. Douglas Brown is equally a poet and educator, teaching English and African American poetry at Loyola High School in Los Ángeles. He pushes his students to think critically about the themes and ideas found in the literature he assigns and how they relate to issues relevant to their lives. Brown has even created a Pedagogy of Protest Reading List that includes The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Dubois, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness in the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison and any of the Black Arts Movement poets like Amiri Baraka and Gwendolyn Brooks, to connect how literature is used to connect the personal with the political as seen in African American literature and in Black lives.
Continue reading “F. Douglas Brown on The Chill at Wills Podcast”
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2021 MLK Day Celebration via California African American Museum (CAAM) – Online
Celebrate Marin Luther King Jr. Day immersed in music, culture, and community. This year’s virtual festival highlights MLK’s dedication to labor and workers’ rights, and these movements’ continued importance today.
See site for complete schedule, including a 2:30 pm event: Family Storytime and Poetry Workshop with author Alice Faye Duncan reading her children’s book, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop, followed by a haiku writing workshop.
Where: CAAM – Online Facebook event (see site)
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 10 am – 3:30 pm
Address: CAAM – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/190941376010094/
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/18/21 – 01/24/21”
By Brian Dunlap
Poet and L.Á. native Amanda Gorman will be President Elect Joe Biden’s Inaugural poet Wednesday. She made history by being named the first ever Youth Poet Laureate of Los Ángeles, then became the first-ever Youth Poet Laureate of the United States.
Continue reading “L.Á. Native To Be Presidential Inaugural Poet”
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club via The Last Bookstore– Virtual Zoom Event
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club, hosted by Dan Lopez, reads fiction in Spanish, books by great contemporary writers in their native language, via Zoom.
This month’s selection is El libro de Eva, from Carmen Boullosa, a sweeping feminist reinterpretation of the book of Genesis.
NOTE: Details at event link. All bookstore events are ticketed.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events or https://www.facebook.com/events/779943102595170
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/11/21 – 01/17/21”
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Ask a Children’s Author: Nick Eliopulos via Newport Beach Public Library – Online Kids Facebook Live Event
Join Ms. Liz in asking her fiend, Nick Eliopulos, all about writing fantasy books for kids! Nick has written several of the Spirit Animal books, the Minecraft Wordsworth Chronicles, and co-authors The Adventure Guild.
Log on starting at 10:00 am to watch Ms. Liz and Nick as they discuss writing and answer your questions. A recording of this even will be available for viewing on our Facebook page afterward. Check out our link if you want to submit a question before the event.
Where: Newport Public Library, LAPL – Online Facebook event (see site)
Date: Monday the 4th
Time: 10 am
Address: Newport PL – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1704944309686314
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/04/21 – 01/10/21”
2020 has been one shit show of a year. Especially for Los Ángeles. Kobe died in January. The pandemic hit Los Ángeles County harder than anywhere else in California. The election. However, with businesses shut down and public gatherings banned, the city’s literary community quickly adapted and created community and continued to amplify voices virtually. At the same time writers continued to publish powerful literature.
Continue reading “Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2020”
By Mike Sonsken
FROM: KCET.org
Over the last three decades, the Los Angeles Poetry community has grown into one of the most diverse and active scenes in this city. Before the pandemic, dozens of readings were held weekly and usually at least four or five simultaneously on the same day in different corners of L.A. County. Nonetheless, in a gentrifying city, with the exception of a few long-term spaces like Beyond Baroque, Skylight Books, Stories or the World Stage, the poetry scene is transitory. Many readings only last a few years before the gallery or coffeehouse hosting it goes out of business or the folks who organize the reading find a demanding job that takes them away from poetry. This is where Hiram Sims comes in.
Continue reading “Poetry Lives Here: The Sims Library of Poetry”
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Tweens Read Graphic Novels Book Club via Northridge Branch Library, LAPL – Online Tween Event
Kids ages 9-12 are invited to a monthly graphic novel book club! Join in the fun as we explore popular graphic novels for tweens. The selection for discussion this month is the award-winning graphic novel, Pie in the Sky, by Remy Lai.
With your library card get free access to the book via OverDrive or the library catalog.
Where: Northridge Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 4 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/tweens-read-graphic-novels-book-club
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 12/21/20 – 12/26/20”
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