NEA grant cancellation affects Beyond Baroque’s literary arts programming, leads to this weekend’s marathon fundraiser. Continue reading Beyond Baroque Cancels the 2025 Southern California Poetry Festival
Sorry for the list of weekly events being late, but the new list has now been published in Los Angeles Literature. The list contains events from Tuesday-Sunday. However, the annual Southern California Poetry Festival takes place this Friday-Sunday at Beyond Baroque. It’s a huge gathering of poets from all over the Southland. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/11/24 – 11/17/24
To kick off the 2023 Southern California Poetry Festival, on November 17th Beyond Baroque celebrated the life, legacy and continued influence of Beyond Baroque fixture and L.Á.’s unofficial Poet Laureate, Wanda Coleman by naming their theatre “The Wanda Coleman Theatre.” Continue reading Renaming of Beyond Baroque’s Theatre
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
MOIRA First Press Reading Series & Chloe Martinez at Woodbury University – In-Person Event
The olive is among the oldest known cultivated trees in the world, grown before the written language was invented. In California, there are many isolated trees or fragments of old groves, such as the trees that still stand on the Woodbury campus. Traditionally, after harvest, oil was pressed in screw or hydraulic presses. The paste was subjected to increasingly high pressures with subsequent degradation in the flavor of the oil. Thus, the “first press” of oil was considered the most flavorful and desirable. ~ the Olive Oil Source, 2018.
Chloe Martinez will be the featured guest at this second event in this year’s series. is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College. See more at www.chloeAVmartinez.com.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines and details.
Where: Woodbury University
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504
Website: https://www.moriaonline.com/first-press-reading-series
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/14/22 – 11/20/22”
Workshop: Humor Writing with Lydia Oxenham at 1888 Center for the Arts
Humor Writing: Where to Begin is a workshop that teaches you how to turn a funny idea, joke or experience into something others can read (and Laugh at!). You’ll leave with tips for finding inspiration, strategies for getting the most out of your idea, and the motivation to finally go home and write with humor. Instructor Lydia Oxenham is a writer and studied comedy writing at UCLA and the Upright Citizens Brigade.
NOTE: The cost is $10 for the workshop, and you may purchase tickets at website link.
Where: 1888 Center for the Arts
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 115 N. Orange St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: http://www.1888.center/calendar/workshop-humor-writing-where-to-begin/
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 11/12/18 –11/18/18”
A new poetry festival debuts in Southern California. Continue reading NEW EVENT: Southern California Poetry Festival
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