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1 MARCH 2013 — friday

CENTRAL:
• CantoMundo poetry reading features Ángel N. García, Luivette Resto, Unfinished Portrait, finalist for the Paterson Prize, Millicent Borges Accardi, Only More So, Manuel Paul López, 1984, Juan Luis Guzmán, and Leticia Hernandez, Too Much Girl, CD, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students/members free, 8:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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2 MARCH 2013 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• "The Real Surreal: Six Avant-Garde Writers," poets and fiction writers Diane Ward, Mark Salerno, Sarah Maclay, Christopher Reiner, Gail Wronsky, and Michael C. Ford, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students/members free, 7:30 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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3 MARCH 2013 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• First Sunday Open Reading hosted by Billy Burgos, five minute limit, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, sign up 4:45, reading 5:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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4 MARCH 2013 — monday

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5 MARCH 2013 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Open reading, plus Hollywood Institute of Poetics featured poet, Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, free, doors open 8:30, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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6 MARCH 2013 — wednesday

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7 MARCH 2013 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Gerry Fialka hosts street dance history with film clips and live demonstration by dancer Harry Weston; 7 Dudley Cinema, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, 7:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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8 MARCH 2013 — friday

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9 MARCH 2013 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Poetry in Motion presents Hollywood and literary writers Dennis Christopher, Jo Anderson, Michael Harris, Jon Hess, Melissa Alvarado, Peter Harris, and Allee Willis, with host Eve Brandstein, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $20/$10 students, seniors/$5 members/$15 advance tickets, 7:30 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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10 MARCH 2013 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• Frank Samperi reads from Trilogy, collecting three of his poetry collections: Quadrifariam, The Prefiguration, and Lumen Gloriae, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students/members free, 4:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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• Jerry Stahl reads from Bad Sex on Speed and hosts a reading from The Heroin Chronicles with contributors Jervey Tervalon, Gary Philips, John Albert, Ava Stander, and Michael Albo, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, reading 7:00, book signing 8:30 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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11 MARCH 2013 — monday

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12 MARCH 2013 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Novelist Mona Simpson hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Hanley, The Jacksonian, actors Ed Harris, Diane Keaton, Amy Madigan, and Belita Moreno will read excerpts from her plays, Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (310/443-7000, hammer.ucla.edu)
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• Valley Contemporary Poets presents Judy Barrat plus open reading, Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, free, doors open 8:30, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
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13 MARCH 2013 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• Red Hen Press presents a reading by poet and novelist Katharine Coles, The Earth Is Not Flat; poet Terrance Hayes, Lighthead, winner of the National Book Award in Poetry; writer, editor, literary historian Dan Vera, Speaking Wiri Wiri, winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize; poet and memoirist Peggy Shumaker, Toucan Nest, poems, Boston Court Performing Arts Center, 70 North Mentor Avenue, Pasadena, parking free, entrance on north side of building, $10/$5 students, seniors, 7:00 (626/683-6883, redhen.org)
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14 MARCH 2013 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Stephen Yenser hosts the a poetry reading by Terrance Hayes, Lighthead, Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (310/443-7000, hammer.ucla.edu)
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15 MARCH 2013 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Poetry Reading by a multi-generational group of performance poets, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students/members free, 8:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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16 MARCH 2013 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Beyond Baroque Artist-in-Residence Robert Branaman presents New Work, Why I Didn't Go to High School, free screening of his film Bob's 10 Favorite Things, and readings from surprise poets, Mike Kelley Gallery, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, 3:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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• Open poetry reading with improvised back up by Ellyn Maybe Band; bring potluck dish, five minute limit, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 seniors, students/$5 members, 8:30 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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• All-Day Workshop with poet Jeffrey McDaniel, Ruskin Art Club, 800 S. Plymouth Blvd., Los Angeles, breakfast and lunch included, $95 all-day, $55 to audit, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 (to register, email: ekduende @gmail.com; information: jmcdaniel @slc.edu)
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17 MARCH 2013 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• The Great Beyond Open Reading hosted by Jessica Ceballos, featuring Tresha Haefner, five minute limit; Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, sign up 1:45, reading 2:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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• Hitched: The Poetry of Emerging Counterparts presents poet and nonfiction writer Elline Lipkin, Girls' Studies, reading with David Slavin, and award-winning poet and novelist Melinda Palacio, How Fire Is A Story, Waiting, reads with Yaro Cura, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students/members free, 5:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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18 MARCH 2013 — monday

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19 MARCH 2013 — tuesday

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20 MARCH 2013 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• Christa Parravani reads from and signs Her: A Memoir, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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NORTH:
• Poetry Reading with Westmont alumna Kelly Davio, Burn This House, plus Westmont students Riley Hall and Paul Anderson, Hieronymus Lounge, Kerrwood Hall, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, 7:00
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21 MARCH 2013 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• A discussion and book signing with Sarah Erdreich, Generation Roe: Inside the Future of the Pro-Choice Movement, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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NORTH:
• Phil Taggart hosts a poetry reading featuring John Ridland, plus an open mic, Topping Room, E.P. Foster Library, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, 7:30 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)
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• Book signing with Kathryn Miles, All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship, Chaucer's Bookstore, 3321 State Street, Santa Barbara, 7:00 (805/682-6787, www.chaucersbooks.com)
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22 MARCH 2013 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Carlye Archibeque hosts a lecture on Emily Dickinson with guest readers, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students/members free, 8:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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23 MARCH 2013 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Screening of the film Tsar to Lenin, followed by a question-and-answer session presented by the Socialist Equality Party and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students/members free, 3:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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24 MARCH 2013 — sunday

CENTRAL:
• Benefit for Valley Contemporary Poets, featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Jerry Garcia, and others, with hosts, poets Peggy Dobreer and Rick Lupert, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students, 4:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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• Red Hen Press presents a poetry reading moderated by Brendan Constantine, and featuring poet Bart Edelman, The Geographer's Wife, Editor of Eclipse, A Literary Journal; Kelly Davio, Burn This House, Managing Editor of The Los Angeles Review; David Hernandez, Hoodwinked, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Brynn Saito, The Palace of Contemplating Departure, winner of the 2011 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award; and Richard Silberg, The Horses: New and Selected Poems, Associate Editor of Poetry Flash, Ruskin Art Club, 800 South Plymouth Blvd., Los Angeles, $10/$5 students, seniors, 2:00 (323/936-4632, redhen.org)
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• Best-selling author Robert Masello, The Romanov Cross, book signing with a discussion of how to write, get published, and his new novel, Bank of Books, 29168 Heathercliff Road, #109, Malibu, 2:00 (www.bankofbooks.com)
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NORTH:
• Adder's Tongue Press celebrates its first book of poetry, The Spirit Life of Birds by Maía, with host Friday Lubina and a poetry reading featuring Marsha de la O, Perie Longo, Dian Sousa, Mary Kay Rummel, and Enid Osborn, refreshments; Unity Chapel, 227 E. Arrellaga Street, Santa Barbara, 2:00
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25 MARCH 2013 — monday

CENTRAL:
• Matt Kepnes presents and signs How to Travel the World On $50 a Day: Traveler Cheaper, Longer, Smarter, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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26 MARCH 2013 — tuesday

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27 MARCH 2013 — wednesday

CENTRAL:
• Darryl Shelly reads from and signs The Hobbyist, his novel about sex addiction, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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NORTH:
• Westmont Reading Series launches with novelist and short story writer Ron Hansen, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Fleischmann Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of National History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, free, 8:00 (805/565-7174)
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28 MARCH 2013 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Andy Erdman presents and signs Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
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29 MARCH 2013 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading featuring Elana Bell, Eyes, Stones, winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award, and Sholeh Wolpé, Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths, editor of Breaking the Jaws of Silence: Sixty American Poets Speak to the World, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 seniors, students/members free, 8:00 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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30 MARCH 2013 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• Beyond Music presents oboist Claire Chenette, performing work by Berio, Holliger, Chaya Czernowin, Davis/Evans, and her own musical compositions, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $20/$10 seniors, students/$5 members, 8:30 (310/822-3006, beyondbaroque.org)
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31 MARCH 2013 — sunday

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