Los Angeles Literataure’s 9th Annual Los Angeles Writers Publish list, 2024 edition. Though this isn’t everyone who’s published in the Greater Los Angeles Literary community in 2024, it’s a large swath of the community. Congratulations to all the local writers who’s published in 2024! And may everyone in the community find even more publication success in 2025! Continue reading Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2024
The Cultural Olympiad came to a close on September 7th at the Central Library Downtown. The exchange of poetry between Paris and Los Ángeles signaled the hand off of culture between the two world cities. Continue reading Cultural Olympiad: Paris to Los Ángeles
Los Angeles Literature’s newest literary history essay by Pam Ward.
Los Ángeles has been home to many powerful poets and writers, native born and transplants. They’ve read on stages, both makeshift and otherwise, from The Valley to Beyond Baroque, to Downtown and Chinatown to The Eastside, at Cafe con Libros in Pomona to LibroMobile in Santa Ana and the Ugly Mug in Orange, to long gone spots like Redondo Poets, Papa Bach Bookstore and 5th Street Dicks in Leimert Park and everywhere in-between. L,Á. native Pam Ward, author of Want Some Get Some, Mad Girls Burn Slow and the poetry collection Between Good Men & No Man At All, takes readers back to her first decade in the literary community, between the mid-80s to the mid-90s, remembering how the poets got down and how poetry saved lives.
Continue reading How to Float: A Poet, The Woman’s Building and Beyond Baroque
A brianchild of VCP SoCal Poets, a new poetry festival brought local poets to Northeast Los Angeles on April 13 and 14th. As Teresa Mei chuc sais, “I would love to continue to put on the festival for years to come.” Continue reading Inaugural NELA Poetry Festival
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
In early August the 8th Poet Laureate of San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and L.Á. native and co-founder of The World Stage, Kamau Daáood, graced the stage at the Anansi Writers Workshop with their verse and wisdom. Continue reading Black August at The World Stage
The annual L.A. Get Down Festival takes place each weekend in April to coincide with National Poetry Month at the Greenway Court Theatre. This year, on the second Saturday, the reading Latinx Poets of the World Stage Press, was the night’s reading. Continue reading Latinx Poets of the World Stage Press at the 7th Annual L.A. Get Down Festival
The North Figueroa Bookshop is one of Los Ángeles’ newest independent bookstores. The first Friday of the Month poet Ingrid Calderon Collins hosts it’s open mic SERPENTINE. Continue reading There Is A New Open Mic In Town: SERPENTINE
Sad news in the Los Ángeles literary community with the passing of performance poet Tonya Ingram. Continue reading Tonya Ingram, an Inspiring L.A. Poet and ‘Lupus Warrior,’ Died Waiting for a kidney
A book review on Inglewood native Cynthia Guardado’s recent poetry collection “Cenizas.” Continue reading Family History: Cenizas by Cynthia Guardado
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