Los Angeles Literature Events: 04/08/24 – 04/14/24

An extra busy week full of literary events. The annual LA Get Down Festival continues for its second week at the Greenway Court Theatre and the Northeast Los Angeles Poetry Fest debuts at Los Angeles College Prep Academy High School, Saturday and Sunday. Plus, the traditional slate of other literary events continues as well. Local writers reading this week are: Brenda Vaca, Chiwan Choi, Iris De Anda, Steven Hendrix, Jesse Tovar, Alexandra Adlawan and Erica Ayon, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 04/08/24 – 04/14/24

Not A Podcast: An Interview Series—Episode Three: Jesse Tovar, The Nice Guy of Poetry

Episode 3 of Nikolai Garcia’s interview series Not A Podcast, features Jesse Tovar, Founder and publisher of the Substack literary journal Mobile Data Mag and author if the digital chapbook “Talks on Skinship.” Gracia and Tovar discuss Tovar’s literary citizenship and community building. Continue reading Not A Podcast: An Interview Series—Episode Three: Jesse Tovar, The Nice Guy of Poetry

Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2023

A bit late, but here is Los Angeles Literature’s 8th Annual Los Ángeles Writers Publish list. It’s been a year filled with release parties, notably from new local presses–El Martillo Press and Riot of Roses–dedicated to publishing voices and women of color, as well as World Stage Press and others. Also, individuals published pieces in journals, magazines and newspapers, both big and small and in-between. This list attempts to be comprehensive, but if a publication has been missed, Los Angeles Literature apologizes. Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2023

Speaking Truth to a Flawed System: Anastasia Helena Fenald Discusses Her New Book “The Art of Job Hunting”

Writer Jesse Tovar interviews the always spunky and funny poet Anastasia Helena Fenald about her new book The Art of Job Hunting: A Dramedy in Verse, her takedown of our capitalist system; her first book; working with independent presses and more. Continue reading Speaking Truth to a Flawed System: Anastasia Helena Fenald Discusses Her New Book “The Art of Job Hunting”

Posada: Finding Home

Editor-in-Chief Brian Dunlap’s unpublished book review on Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s debut poetry collection “Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge,” originally written in 2017. “In poems of her family living in Boyle Heights and her Chavez Ravine poems, Bermejo brings this true Chicanx L.Á.—away from the overused tropes of a lack of history, of being without, of L.Á. is Hollywood—to the fore.” Continue reading Posada: Finding Home