News from around the Los Ángeles literary community. Check out what some of the writers, presses and literary arts organizations have been up to and have announced is upcoming. The community is always busy. Continue reading News Around the Community
Last Saturday the 4th Annual LibroMobile Literary Arts Festival was a day to celebrate literature and community. Continue reading 4th Annual LibroMobile Literary Arts Festival
By Sarah Mosqueda
FROM: L.A. Times
LibroMobile Arts Cooperative, a literary arts co-op and bookstore in Santa Ana, has existed in many places since it opened in 2016.
Continue reading “Santa Ana’s LibroMobile Arts Cooperative is Upgrading and Making Moves”
By Brian Dunlap
SanTana Poets y Mas started a few minutes late. Connecting through Instagram Live. A rainy day in Southern California, during the pandemic. I was tuning into the middle of the 3rd Anniversary LibroMobile Literary Arts Festival. Local SanTana poets shared their work, beginning with Donato Martinez, a professor of English at Santa Ana College.
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By Vera Casaneda
FROM: TimesOC
When author Sarah Rafael García’s LibroMobile began taking up space in a Santa Ana back alley off 4th and Spurgeon streets, the purpose was to cultivate diversity through books. The past year has been about how to take up space online to survive.
Continue reading “Literary Arts Festival Spotlights Local and Visiting Artists of Color”
Texas based FlowerSong Press is quietly building an impressive list of local writers and other book news from Poet Astrid and others. Continue reading News From the L.Á. Literary Community
by Liz Goldner
FROM: KCET.org
Sarah Rafael García, a familiar writer/entrepreneur/celebrity in her hometown of Santa Ana, exudes radiance, energy and success. Yet she attributes her accomplishments in writing, teaching, publishing and recently becoming the owner of a bookstore to acknowledging discomfort in her life. She uses that discomfort — as an out-of-place Chicana — as a major source of motivation.
Continue reading “Chicana Writing Avatar Sarah Rafael García Moves Forward with Her Rolling Bookstore”
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