No List of Weekly Events
There is no list of weekly events this week. However, included are a few to get people started. Continue reading No List of Weekly Events
Tag: reading
Places We Call Home
Last Sunday’s reading and conversation, “Places We Call Home: Exile, Change and Collective Futures,” at Avenue 50 Studio, featured local poets William Archila, Cynthia Guardado, and Janel Pineda. Together, they explored how U.S. neocolonialism continues to shape the Salvadoran American experience—and the poets who write powerfully about it. Continue reading Places We Call Home
Los Angeles Literature Events: 09/23/24 – 09/29/2024
Plenty of literary events this week: open mics, book clubs, readings, workshops, kids events and a Palestinian solidarity reading and discussion. Local writers reading this week include: Alysha Wise, David A. Romero, Mike Sonksen, Poet Laureate of Altadena Carla Sameth, Lilliam Rivera and Susan Hayden, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 09/23/24 – 09/29/2024
Los Angeles Literature Events: 12/04/23 – 12/10/23
Another week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops, and a few YA and kid events. Local writers reading this week include: Lisbeth Coiman, Teresa Mei Chuc, Nikolai Garcia, Tisha Marie Reichle Aguelara, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo and Anastasia Helena Fenald, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 12/04/23 – 12/10/23
Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/20/23 – 11/26/23
Thanksgiving week is upon us. Hope everyone spends time with the people who matter most to you. There are still literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops, a LGBTQ, a few kids, teen events. Local writers reading this week include: Matt Sedillo, Benin Lemus, Angelina Saenz and Jessica M. Wilson, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/20/23 – 11/26/23
Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/13/23 – 11/19/23
An extra busy week full of literary events, but one of the community’s biggest annual events is the Southern California Poetry Festival at Beyond Baroque in Venice on Friday, Saturday and Sunday featuring over 48 poets reading, discussing their work and teaching workshops. Local writers reading this week include: Ron L. Dowell, Michelle Bitting, Charles Jensen, Juan Amador, William Archila, Christina Cha, Lou Mathews and Adriana Ernesto Cepeda, among others. Get out there in-person or virtually L.Á. and support your local literary community! #losangelesliterature Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/13/23 – 11/19/23
Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/30/23 – 11/05/23
As usual, another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops, a few kids and teen events. Even the First Annual Indie-Pendent Voices: A Celebration of Authors and Zines literary celebration at the Central Library. Local writers reading this week include: Mimi Tempestt (L.A. Native living in the Bay), Donna Hilbert, Tod Goldberg, Susan Straight, Xuan Juliana Wang, Neal Shusterman, Shonda Buchanan, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/30/23 – 11/05/23
Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/02/23 – 10/08/23
As usual, another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops, a few kids, teen and a couple of LGBTQIA+ specific events. Many local writers reading this week include: Lynne Bronstein, Jackie Chou, Richard Modiano, Aruni Wijesinghe, Jeremy Ra, Alexandra Umlas, Christian “Soul Suf” Perfas and Brian Dunlap, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/02/23 – 10/08/23
Los Angeles Literature Events: 08/29/23 – 09/03/23
As usual, another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops, a few kids and teen events. Local writers reading this week include: Justine Pucella Winans, Cody Sisco and James Fujinami Moore, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 08/29/23 – 09/03/23
Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/20/23 – 03/26/23
Another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops and a kids and YA event or two. Local writers reading this week include: Vickie Vertiz, Cory Cofer aka Besskepp, Teresa Mei Chuc, Allen Aquino, Leslie Ortega, Angela Peñaredondo and Bryn Wickerd, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/20/23 – 03/26/23
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