A Place Built by Poets for Poets
“South Central Los Angeles has long had a vibrant poetry” and now “a dedicated venue to write, read, and listen to the work of poets” opened this past summer. Continue reading A Place Built by Poets for Poets
Tag: Sims Library of Poetry
Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/29/21 – 12/05/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Quantum Book Club & Laura Dean via The Book Jewel – In-person YA Event
Please join Quantum Book Club to discuss our November selection, the graphic novel Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, by Mariko Tamki & Rosemary Verero-O’Connell.
This is a sweet, spirited tale of young love that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the healthy ones we need. This graphic novel won several awards for excellence.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: The Book Jewel – In-person Event
Date: Monday the 29th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.thebookjewel.com/events or https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/photos/595324735216001
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Bookfair, Sims Library of Poetry
By Brian Dunlap
The first annual Sims Library of Poetry Bookfair took place on November 20. Authors and presses set up shop in the library’s courtyard selling books, selling poetry, making connections and building community. Promoting the most important aspects of literature: what makes us human; telling our own truths, our own narratives; bluntly speaking truth to power.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/08/21 – 11/14/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Gina Shock, with Belinda Carlisle & James Duke Mason, & Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Gos via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Go-Gos drummer Gina Shock, in conversation with Belinda Carlisle & James Duke Mason, present and discuss her book, Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Gos.
The Go-Gos were the first all-female rock band to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made in Hollywood is drummer Gina Shock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photos and memorabilia collected bver her 40-year career.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online Event
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/18/21 – 10/24/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Jonathan Franzen, with Mona Simpson, & Crossroads via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
FSG presents acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen, in conversation with author Mona Simpson, to discuss and present his new novel Crossroads, in which the author again weds depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision.
Crossroads begins on December 23,1971, where heavy weather is forecast for Chicago and Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church is about to break free of a joyless marriage. But his wife Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their three children are also in crisis, and all of the Hildebrandts seek a freedom that each of the others threaten to complicate. Franzen explores the history of two generations in a pivotal moment of moral crisis, with interwoven perspectives, on a single winter day, and conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.
NOTE: See site for tickets, book purchase & event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/11/21 – 10/17/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Dennis Cooper & I Wished via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Dennis Cooper will present I Wished, in which the author writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it also fails to capture them. .
I Wished is the author’s first novel in ten years, and it revisits the George Miles Cycle of acclaimed novels and the inspiration for the Cycle (Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period). This is his masterwork, and is his most raw, personal, and haunted book of all.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/04/21 – 10/10/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Author Talk with Hilma Wolitzer, & Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket via Central Library, LAPL – Online FB & YouTube Event
Join us to hear author Hilma Wolitzer present and discuss her latest novel, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket.
Hilma Woiltzer has the gift of depicting ordinary life in extraordinary ways, and in this book she illustrates the relationship between the narrator and her husband through funny and insightful stories. Her stories and novels have been praised for illuminating the dark interiors of the American home.
NOTE: See Site for details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online FB & YouTube Event
Date: Monday the 4th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/conversation-author-hilma-wolitzer
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 09/26/21 – 10/03/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Sheetal Sheth, with Nazanin Boniadi, & Bravo Anjali! via Diesel Bookstore – Online Kids IG Live Event
Join us to hear author Sheetal,in conversation with Nazanin Boniadi, present and discuss her new children’s book, Bravo Anjali!
Playing the tuba comes naturally to Anjali. When the boys in her class give her a hard time for being better than them, she messes up on purpose. It’s her dream to win the upcoming music contest, so she will need a lesson in confidence to hit the right notes. This is an important story for to remind children to never dim their light.
NOTE: See Site for details and Eventbrite registration.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online IG Event
Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm PT
Address: Online (see site)
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After COVID Lockdowns, an Essential L.A. Community Reemerges: The Poets
By Jireh Deng
FROM: L.A. Times
The sun was setting into the haze, birds circling above an outdoor stage set up in a private residence at the top of Montecito Heights, as poets read of heartache and survival to an audience seated on hay bales.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 08/09/21 – 08/15/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Maggie Smith, with Victoria Chan, & Goldenrod via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Maggie Smith, in conversation with award-winning poet Victoria Chang (Obit), discuss her new poetry book, Goldenrod.
Award-winning poet Maggie Smith returns with a powerful collection that looks at parenthood, solitude, love and memory by taking unique looks at modern life to explore with empathy and honestly.
NOTE: See Site for details and registration.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: See Site
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-maggie-smith-discusses-goldenrod-victoria-chang
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