Calendar for Southern California

Updated July 28, 2008

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1 JULY---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Bill Robertson of Santa Monica Emeritus College leads the poetry group "Poetry and Verse" to strengthen your poetry "appreciation, dedication, and creation," Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 10:30 a.m. (310/260-9110)
• Redondo Poets presents a reading by contributors to Carving in Bone: An Anthology of Orange County Poetry, with open mike, Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina Avenue, Redondo Beach, sign up to read 7:50, featured reading 8:10 (310/316-6554, http://home.ca.rr.com/redondopoets)
• Cobalt Café's weekly reading series, featured poet and open reading, seven minute limit, The Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, west of Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, sign up 8:30, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt)

2 JULY---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Two Poetry Idiots presents a reading by Mindy Nettifee, The Ugly Mug, 261 No. Glassell Avenue, Orange, $2 cover charge or one drink minimum with student ID, 8:00 (www.poetryidiots.com, www.theuglymug.com)

3 JULY---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Beyond Baroque presents "The Night Before the 4th: A Patriotic Preparation," with writers Leslie Perry, Linda Pollack, Ross Altman, Susan Griffin, and Code Pink, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, half-mile west of Lincoln, Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students, members free, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

6 JULY---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Beyond Baroque presents an Open Reading hosted by Marie Lecrivain with poet, author and journalist Deborah Edler-Brown and poet and musician Daniel Garcia-Black, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, half-mile west of Lincoln, Venice, free, open sign up 4:45, two poem limit, reading 5:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

7 JULY---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Book Soup presents a reading by David Wroblewski from his novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, book signing to follow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, LA, 7:00 (310/659-3110, www.booksoup.com)
• Laurie Notaro reads from Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death, book signing to follow, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 7:00 (310/260-9110)

8 JULY---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Bill Robertson of Santa Monica Emeritus College leads the poetry group "Poetry and Verse" to strengthen your poetry "appreciation, dedication, and creation," Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 10:30 a.m. (310/260-9110)
• Seth Greenland reads from his novel, Shining City, book signing to follow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, LA, 7:00 (310/659-3110, www.booksoup.com)
• Karen Essex reads from Stealing Athena, book signing to follow, Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 7:00 (310/260-9110)
• Moon Tide Press reading by poet Kate Buckley, A Wild Region, winner of the 2008 James Hearst Prize from the North American Review, with open mike, book signing follows, Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina Avenue, Redondo Beach, sign up to read at 7:50, featured reading at 8:10 (310/316-6554, www.moontidepress.com)
• Cobalt Café's weekly reading series, featured poet and open reading, seven minute limit, The Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, west of Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, sign up 8:30, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt)
NORTH:
• San Buenaventura Artists' Union presents an open mike night hosted by Roe Estep, featuring poet Steve Aguilar, Artists' Union Gallery, 330 South California Street, Ventura, 7:30 (805/320-3524, www.venturaartistsunion.org)

9 JULY---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Book Soup presents television's first child superstar, Jon Provost of Lassie, and Laura Jacobson from their book filled with celebrity anecdotes, Timmy's in the Well, book signing to follow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, LA, 7:00 (310/659-3110, www.booksoup.com)
• Hammer Reading Series presents novelist Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba, and novelist Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper, book signing to follow, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, LA, free, 7:00 (310/443-7000, www.hammer.ucla.edu)
• Monthly writing group,"Write On," led by writer Debra Eckerling, open to all genres, Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 7:00 (310/260-9110)

10 JULY---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Book Soup presents a reading by artist, filmmaker, wife and mother Eleanor Coppola from Notes on a Life, book signing to follow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, LA, 7:00 (310/659-3110, www.booksoup.com)

11 JULY---friday:
CENTRAL:
• Book Soup presents a reading by Daily Candy, the experts on all things cool and of-the-moment, from The Daily Candy Lexicon, book signing to follow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, LA, 7:00 (310/659-3110, www.booksoup.com, www.dailycandy.com)
• Beyond Baroque presents a live reading and performance of the texts of seminal conceptual and language artist Lawrence Wiener, by artists, writers, musicians, curators, filmmakers and others, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, half-mile west of Lincoln, Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students, members free, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

12 JULY---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• Book Soup presents a reading by Alexa Young from Frenemies, with Stephanie Kuehnert reading from I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone, book signing to follow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, LA, 5:00 (310/659-3110, www.booksoup.com)
• Beyond Baroque presents the Summer Lit Show with LA's Diva Deluxe Suzy Williams performing songs based on writings by Truman Capote, Dorothy Parker, Shakespeare, Langston Hughes and more, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, half-mile west of Lincoln, Venice, $10, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

13 JULY---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• "Screenwriting" writing group supports screenwriters and their works-in-progress, Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 10:00 a.m. (310/260-9110)
• Book Soup presents a reading by Heather Thomas from her novel, Trophies, which actor Harrison Ford said "Made me laugh out loud...ironic, smart and surprisingly touching," book signing to follow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, LA, 7:00 (310/659-3110, www.booksoup.com)

14 JULY---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Book Soup presents a reading by Donald Welch from his novel, The Bachelorette Party, book signing to follow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, LA, 7:00 (310/659-3110, www.booksoup.com)
• Moonday, A West Side Reading Series presents a reading by Keith Holyoak and Russell Salamon, open mike follows, Village Books, 1049 Swarthmore Avenue, just north of Sunset, Pacific Palisades, 7:30 (310/454-4063, www.moondaypoetry.com)

15 JULY---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Bill Robertson of Santa Monica Emeritus College leads the poetry group "Poetry and Verse" to strengthen your poetry "appreciation, dedication, and creation," Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 10:30 a.m. (310/260-9110)
• Book Soup presents a reading by Kevin Conley from his book about the wild life as a professional stuntman, The Full Burn, book signing to follow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, LA, 7:00 (310/659-3110, www.booksoup.com)
• Redondo Poets presents a reading by Jack McCarthy, Say Goodnight, Grace Notes, with open mike, Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina Avenue, Redondo Beach, sign up to read 7:50, featured reading 8:10 (310/316-6554, http://home.ca.rr.com/redondopoets)
• Valley Contemporary Poets presents the VCP Anthology Reading, featuring Alice Pero, Ambika Talwar, Damien Stednitz, Jamie O'Halloran, Mike Sonsen, Rat Pack Slim, and Timothy Green, with open reading, seven minute limit, The Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, west of Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, sign up 8:30, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt)
EAST:
• Idyllwild Arts presents the Mini Poetry Festival and Reception, part of Poetry Week at Idyllwild, featuring former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser; Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard; Marie Howe, What the Living Do, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; Terrance Hayes, Wind in a Box; Eloise Klein Healy, Building Some Changes; and Charles Harper Webb, Amplified Dog, Idyllwild Arts, Krone Library, 52500 Temecula Road, Idyllwild, $10 at the door, 7:30 (951/659-2171, www.idyllwildarts.org)

16 JULY---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Moon Tide Press reading by poet Kate Buckley, A Wild Region, winner of the 2008 James Hearst Prize from the North American Review, book signing follows, Laguna Beach Library, 363 Glenneyre Street, Laguna Beach, free, 6:30 (949/497-1733, www.moontidepress.com)
• Journalist Robert Scheer reads from and discusses his book on America's military-industrial complex, The Pornography of Power, book signing to follow, Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 7:00 (310/260-9110)
• Two Poetry Idiots presents a reading by Jaimes Palacio, The Ugly Mug, 261 No. Glassell Avenue, Orange, $2 cover charge or one drink minimum with student ID, 8:00 (www.poetryidiots.com, www.theuglymug.com)
• New American Writing Series presents Janet Kauffman reading from Trespassing, short fiction and essays on a factory farm on a rural Michigan community, and Thomas Lawson reading from Mining for Gold, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, LA, free, 8:00 (310/443-7000, www.hammer.ucla.edu)
EAST:
• Idyllwild Arts presents an Informal Reading at Cafe Aroma with Visiting Poets and Poets-in-Residence from the Idyllwild Summer Poetry Festival, Cafe Aroma, 54750 N Circle Drive, Idyllwild, 7:30 (951/659-2171, 951/659-5212, www.idyllwildarts.org, www.cafearoma.org)

17 JULY---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Beyond Baroque celebrates more than five years of poeticdiversity: the litzine of LA with readings from poets and writers E. Amato, Charles Claymore, Sabrina Edwards, Magdalena, Brenda Petrakos, Douglas Richardson, Ratpack Slim, Kevin Stricke, Annette Sugden, and Mariano Zaro, hosted by poeticdiversity editor Marie Lecrivain, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, half-mile west of Lincoln, Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students, members free, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
EAST:
• Idyllwild Arts presents an Informal Reading with Visiting Poets and Poets-in-Residence from the Idyllwild Summer Poetry Festival, Idyllwild Arts, 52500 Temecula Road, Idyllwild, 7:30 (951/659-2171, www.idyllwildarts.org)

18 JULY---friday:
EAST:
• Idyllwild Arts presents an Informal Reading with Visiting Poets and Poets-in-Residence from the Idyllwild Summer Poetry Festival, Idyllwild Arts, 52500 Temecula Road, Idyllwild, 7:30 (951/659-2171, www.idyllwildarts.org)

19 JULY---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• An intimate discussion on writing and the nature of creativity with literary icon and internationally renowned best-selling author Ray Bradbury, Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 2:00 (310/260-9110)
• Hammer Reading Series presents essayist and short story writer Janet Kaufmann, Trespassing, and artist and writer Thomas Lawson, Mining for Gold, book signing to follow, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, LA, free, 5:00 (310/443-7000, www.hammer.ucla.edu)
• Beyond Baroque's 40th Anniversary Series presents a reading by poet Jeffrey McDaniel, The Endarkenment, and poet Amy Gerstler, Ghost Girl, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, half-mile west of Lincoln, Venice, $7/$5 seniors/students, members free, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
EAST:
• Idyllwild Poetry Festival, featuring former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser; Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard; Marie Howe, What the Living Do, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; Terrance Hayes, Wind in a Box; Eloise Klein Healy, Building Some Changes; Charles Harper Webb, Amplified Dog; Cecilia Woloch, Late; Ed Skoog, the 2007 winner of the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poetry Award; and Kathleen Spivack, Moments of Past Happiness, the open-air festival features readings from all mentioned poets as well as live jazz in Idyllwild's beautiful ampitheatre, Idyllwild Arts Academy and Summer Program, Holmes Ampitheatre, 52500 Temecula Road, Idyllwild, $15 at the door, 4:00 (951/659-2171, www.idyllwildarts.org)

20 JULY---sunday:
NORTH:
• Corners of the Mouth presents a poetry reading by Don Wallis and Kevin Patrick Sullivan, 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)

22 JULY---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Bill Robertson of Santa Monica Emeritus College leads the poetry group "Poetry and Verse" to strengthen your poetry "appreciation, dedication, and creation," Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 10:30 a.m. (310/260-9110)
• Redondo Poets presents a reading by Cati Porter, Seven Floors Up, with open mike, Coffee Cartel, 1820 S. Catalina Avenue, Redondo Beach, sign up to read 7:50, featured reading 8:10 (310/316-6554, http://home.ca.rr.com/redondopoets)
• Cobalt Café's weekly reading series features an open reading, seven minute limit, The Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, west of Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, sign up 8:30, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt)
NORTH:
• San Buenaventura Artists' Union presents an open mike night hosted by Roe Estep, featuring poet Suzanne Roberts, Shameless, Artists' Union Gallery, 330 South California Street, Ventura, 7:30 (805/320-3524, www.venturaartistsunion.org)

23 JULY---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Two Poetry Idiots presents a poetry reading by Jeffrey McDaniel and Jack McCarthy, The Ugly Mug, 261 No. Glassell Avenue, Orange, $2 cover charge or one drink minimum with student ID, 8:00 (www.poetryidiots.com, www.theuglymug.com)

26 JULY---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• Beyond Baroque presents "Live From the World Stage" hosted by Jawanzaa Dumasani with readings by poets Billy Burgos, George McDonald and Tchikonsase Aje, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, half-mile west of Lincoln, Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students, members free, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
NORTH:
• Friday's on Saturday presents a poetry reading by Ryan Gillenwater, plus open mike hosted by Friday, The Bell Arts Factory, 432 N. Ventura Avenue, Ventura, 7:30 (805/643-1960, www.bellartsfactory.com)

27 JULY---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Screenwriting" writing group supports screenwriters and their works-in-progress, Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 10:00 a.m. (310/260-9110)

28 JULY---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Christopher Reich reads from his new novel, Rules of Deception, book signing to follow, Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 7:00 (310/260-9110)

29 JULY---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Bill Robertson of Santa Monica Emeritus College leads the poetry group "Poetry and Verse" to strengthen your poetry "appreciation, dedication, and creation," Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 10:30 a.m. (310/260-9110)
• Cobalt Café's weekly reading features an all open reading, seven minute limit, The Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, west of Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, sign up 8:30, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt)
NORTH:
• San Buenaventura Artists' Union presents an open mike night hosted by Roe Estep, featuring poet Sarah Maclay, The White Bride, Artists' Union Gallery, 330 South California Street, Ventura, 7:30 (805/320-3524, www.venturaartistsunion.org)

30 JULY---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Casa Romantica Reading Series presents a reading by poets Sholeh Wolpé, Rooftops of Tehran, and Elisa Pulido, Casa Romantica Cultural Center & Gardens, 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente, free, 7:00 (949/498-2139, www.casaromanticareadingseries.org)
• T.J. English reads from and discusses his book, Havana Nocturne, book signing to follow, Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 7:00 (310/260-9110)