Calendar for Southern California

Updated May 8, 2008

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7 JUNE---saturday:
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All-Day Poetry Workshop on Poetry and Humor with Molly Bendall, continental breakfast and lunch included, The Ruskin Art Club, 800 S. Plymouth Blvd., Windsor Park, LA, all day $85, morning audit $45, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 (registration required, contact: Elena Karina Byrne, 310/669-2369, EKduende@cox.net)
An Evening with filmmaker and poet Larry Bridges, featuring a presentation of his new documentary Muse of Fire, and clips from Why Shakespeare and The Big Read, reception follows screening, The Ruskin Art Club, 800 S. Plymouth Blvd., LA, $10/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/669-2369, Ekduende@cox.net)

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8 JUNE---sunday:
CENTRAL:
Poetry at the Ruskin presents a reading by poet/novelist Katherine Coles, Fault, director of the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, and poet Linda Gregg, Things and Flesh, reception follows, hosted by Elena Karina Byrne and Kate Gale of Red Hen Press, The Ruskin Art Club, 800 S. Plymouth Blvd., LA, $10/$5 students, seniors, 2:00 (310/669-2369, 818/831-0649)
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Moonday, A West Side Reading Series presents a reading by Robert Carroll and Holaday Mason, open mike follows, Village Books, 1049 Swarthmore Avenue, just north of Sunset, Pacific Palisades, 7:30 (310/454-4063, www.moondaypoetry.com)

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14 JUNE---saturday:
CENTRAL:

Poetry and Translation, a special reading and presentation with Sholeh Wolpé, The Ruskin Art Club, 800 S. Plymouth Blvd., Windsor Park, LA, $10/$5 students, seniors, 3:00 (310/669-2369, Ekduende@cox.net)

15 JUNE---sunday:
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Corners of the Mouth presents a poetry reading by Nicholas Karavatos and Evelyn Cole, open reading limited to five minutes of original work follows, Linnaea's Café, 1110 Garden Street, San Luis Obispo, free, 7:00 (805/547-1318, www.languageofthesoul.org)

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21 JUNE-----saturday:
CENTRAL:
Poetry and Music with Brian Tracy and musicians Renee Safier and Andy Hill, The Ruskin Art Club, 800 S. Plymouth Blvd., Windsor Park, LA, $10/$5 students, seniors, 3:00 (310/669-2369, Ekduende@cox.net)
NORTH:

Arcade Poetry Series, hosted by Jackson Wheeler, features poets David Starkey and friday lubina, Carnegie Art Museum, 424 South C Street, Oxnard, 7:00 (805/385-8157)

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22 JUNE---sunday:
CENTRAL:

All-Day Poetry Workshop on "Swallowing the Eye, Image & Surrealism Then & Now," with poets Brendan Constantine and Elena Karina Byrne, continental breakfast and lunch included, The Ruskin Art Club, 800 S. Plymouth Blvd., Windsor Park, LA, all day $85, morning audit $45, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 (registration required, contact: Elena Karina Byrne, 310/669-2369, EKduende@cox.net)

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28 JUNE---saturday:
CENTRAL:

Celebrated author and humorist David Sedaris, UCLA campus, Royce Hall, 340 Royce Drive, LA, $50/$40/$28/$17 UCLA students, 8:00 (tickets: 310/825-2101, www.uclalive.org)
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Friday's on Saturday presents a poetry reading by Larry Colker, plus open mike hosted by Friday, The Bell Arts Factory, 432 N. Ventura Avenue, Ventura, 7:30

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Calendar for Southern California

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