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1 APRIL 2013 — monday

2 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

3 APRIL 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Amy Friedman reads from and signs Desperado's Wife, her memoir about marrying a prisoner, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)

4 APRIL 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Peter Mehlman reads from and signs Mandela Was Late: Odd Things & Essays From the Seinfeld Writer Who Coined Yada, Yada and Made Spongeworthy a Compliment, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
    NORTH:
  • Photographer Danny Lyon signs his books, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Knave of Hearts, and Deep Sea Diver, Museum Galleries, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, 5:30-7:30 (www.sbmuseart.org)
  • Poetry reading by former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate David Starkey, Circus Maximus, Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, free, please reserve tickets online, 6:30 (reserve tickets: tickets.sbma.net; www.sbmuseart.org)
  • Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum present Davy Rothbart, writer, performer, and contributor to "This American Life" radio, in a reading from his acclaimed magazine, Found, and his essays in My Heart Is an Idiot, Forum Lounge, 653 Paseo Nuevo, Upper Arts Terrace, Santa Barbara, free, happy hour 5:00, show 7:00 (www.sbcaf.org)
  • Phil Taggart hosts a poetry reading featuring Dian Sousa, plus an open mic, Topping Room, E.P. Foster Library, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, 7:30 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)
  • Janelle Lynch signs her book of photographs, Los Jardines de Mexico, Museum Store, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, 5:00- 8:00 (www.sbmuseart.org)

5 APRIL 2013 — friday

6 APRIL 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Demetri Martin presents and signs Point Your Face At This: Drawings, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 2:00 (www.booksoup.com)
  • Douglas Kmiec reads from Lift Up Your Hearts: A true story of loving your enemies, tragically killing your friends, and the life that remains, a memoir of politics and inter-faith diplomacy, with a foreword by Martin Sheen, book signing follows, Bank of Books, 29168 Heathercliff Road, #109, Malibu, 2:00 (www.bankofbooks.com)

7 APRIL 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Rhapsodomancy presents a reading by featured poets and prose writers, The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Angeles, donation $3, twenty-one and over only, doors open 7:00, show 7:30 (rhapsodomancyla @gmail.com, www.rhapsodomancy.org)

8 APRIL 2013 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Red Hen Press presents a poetry reading by Nathalie Handal, Poet in Andalucía; Los Angeles Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings; Cecilia Woloch, Carpathia, Annenberg Community Beach House, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, free, parking $3 per hour/$8 per day, 6:30 (310/458-2257, redhen.org)
  • Comedienne and writer Julia Sweeney reads from and signs If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)

9 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Valley Contemporary Poets presents featured poet Marvin Jordan, plus open reading, Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, free, doors open 8:30, reading 9:00 (Café: 818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
  • Reading and signing by actor Tom Sizemore, By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There, memoir, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
    NORTH:
  • The Ventura County Writer's Club announces the winners of the 12th Annual Poetry Contest, Pleasant Valley Senior Center, 1605 Burnley Street, Camarillo, free (www.ventracountywriters.com)

10 APRIL 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Reading and signing by Blake Bailey, Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson, a biography of the author of The Lost Weekend, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)

11 APRIL 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Reading and signing by Rayya Elias, Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
    NORTH:
  • Phil Taggart hosts a poetry reading featuring Chris Buckley, plus open mic, Topping Room, E.P. Foster Library, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura. 7:30 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)

12 APRIL 2013 — friday

13 APRIL 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • LIVE NUDE POETS: A Celebration of Los Angeles Poetry features Beyond Baroque poet-in-residence Will Alexander, co-Founder of the World Stage Kamau Daáood, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, Cahuenga Press co-founder Holly Prado, Mike Sonksen, David St. John, Los Angeles Poetry Festival founder Suzanne Lummis, hosted by Carlye Archibeque, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice CA 90291, $10, 8:00-10:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Poetry reading by Meri St. Mary, whose work has appeared in Chiron Review, and David Boles, founder of Primal Urge Magazine, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 4:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Reading, discussion, and signing by Vincent Brook, Land of Smoke & Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 4:00 (www.booksoup.com)
  • Wenonah Hauter presents and signs Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America, Bank of Books, 29168 Heathercliff Road, #109, Malibu, 2:00 (www.bankofbooks.com)

14 APRIL 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Book Soup hosts Jeff Garlin's Reading Group discussion of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony's Burgess, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 4:00 (www.booksoup.com)
  • Red Hen Press presents a reading by poet, fiction writer, and translator Katie Farris, boysgirls; poet and writer Erin Coughlin, Pause, Traveler; poet Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa; essayist, poet, and marine biologist Eva Saulitis, Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist; and poet and memoirist Peggy Shumaker, Toucan Nest, poems, Ruskin Art Club, 800 South Plymouth Blvd., Los Angeles, $10/$5 students, seniors, 2:00 (323/936-4632, redhen.org)
  • Soapbox Poets Open Reading, all welcome, hosted by Jessica Wilson, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, free, sign up begins 1:45, reading 2:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
    NORTH:
  • Mission Poetry Series presents "April Voices: Three Poets Sprung," featuring Laure-Anne Bosselaar, A New Hunger, Kurt Lipschutz, This Drawn & Quartered Moon, and Marsha de la O, Black Hope, winner of the New Issues Press Poetry Prize, refreshments, The Mission Renewal Center, Old Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, free, 1:00

15 APRIL 2013 — monday

16 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

17 APRIL 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Kelly Oxford reads from her humor essays, Everything is Perfect When You Are a Liar, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
    NORTH:
  • "Courting the Beloved," a reading by Los Angeles poet Michelle Bitting, Notes To The Beloved and Good Friday Kiss, in celebration of National Poetry Month, Q&A and book signing follows, Oxnard College Performing Arts Building, Oxnard College, 4000 S. Rose Avenue, Oxnard, free, 1:00 (www.vcccd.edu)

18 APRIL 2013 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry reading by Alice Fulton, Palladium, book signing follows, hosted by Stephen Yenser, tea and coffee, cash bar, Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (hammer.ucla.edu)
  • Architecture & Beyond series presents Moses Gates, Hidden Cities, The Los Feliz Library, 1874 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Angeles, 6:30
  • Owen Egerton reads from his humorous science fiction novel, Everyone Says That At the End of the World, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
    NORTH:
  • Phil Taggart hosts a poetry reading featuring Joyce La Mers and Scott Struman, plus an open mic, Topping Room, E.P. Foster Library, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura. 7:30 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)

19 APRIL 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • 33rd Annual Los Angeles Times Books Prizes ceremony honors the best books of 2012, awards include Innovator's Award to writer Margaret Atwood, Kirsch Award to historian Kevin Starr, and finalists in a wide range of literary categories, Poetry nominees are Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Gluck, The Ground by Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Useless Landscapes, or A Guide for Boys by D.A. Powell, Aerial by Bin Ramke, and Gravesend by Cole Swensen; Fiction nominees are The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg, Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain, Arcadia by Lauren Groff, Magnificence by Lydia Millet, and Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer, University of Southern California, Bovard Auditorium, Los Angeles, $10, 7:30; also see the Festival calendar listings for Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21 (events.latimes.com/bookprizes)
  • Architecture & Beyond series presents Moses Gates, Hidden Cities, The Los Feliz Library, 1874 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Angeles, 6:30

20 APRIL 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • A dramatic-comic poetry performance, "The Return of Nearly Fatal Women," featuring poets/spoken word artists Linda Albertano, Laurel Ann Bogen, and Suzanne Lummis, Beyond Baroque Literary/Art Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student,seniors, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • The 18th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the country's largest book festival, features a weekend of books, music, film, comedy, food, famous authors and celebrities, entertainment, and more; authors and speakers include Orson Scott Card, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Los Angeles Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, Sarah Dessen, Carol Burnett, Cornelia Funke, Chris Columbus, Cassandra Clare, Debbie Reynolds, Lucy Dahl, Heather McDonald, Molly Ringwald, Mona Simpson, Christine Sneed, David Rensin, Austin Grossman, John Freeman, Robert Gale, Joshua Bloom, George Black, Alison Bechdel, Joshua Cody, Mark Bryant, Katharine Applegate, David Abrams, Paul Adler, Dwayne Booth, Aaron Childs, Elena Karina Byrne, Cecil Castelucci, Jeff Chu, Valerie Harper, Jennifer Haymore, Piper Kerman, Fiona Maazel, Kerri Majors, Demetri Martin, Aaron Johnston, Philip Kerr, and more; Children's Stage performances; Hoy Stage features performances in Spanish; Cooking Stage, Pop & Hiss music and dance stage, and Young Adult Stage; Poetry Stage: 10:00 a.m.: Susan Terris and Lynne Thompson, 10:30 a.m.: Gabriel Meyer and Christopher Merrill, 11:00 a.m.: Henri Cole and Richard Silberg, 11:30 a.m.: Marianne Boruch, Noon: Brynn Saito and Traci Brimhall, 12:30: Cole Swensen, 1:00: Bin Ramke, 1:30: Rowan Ricardo Phillips, 2:00: Kurt Brown, 2:30: Mary Jo Bang, 3:00: David St. John and Anna Journey, 3:30: Charles Harper Webb, 4:00: Dorothy Barresi and Jim Natal, 4:30: James Ragan and Helene Cardona, 5:00: Heidy Steidlmayer and Brendan Constantine, 5:30: VoiceMusic featuring Peter J. Harris, Tracy Wannomae, Alan Mark Lightner, and Rocio Marron; visit Poetry Flash at booth 122; University of Southern California, 850 West 37th Street, Los Angeles, panels and indoor conversations are free but require tickets available on site, 10:00 a.m.-6:00; also see the Festival calendar listings for Friday, April 19, and Sunday, April 21 (events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks)
    NORTH:
  • Arcade Poetry Series presents Jeffrey Alfier, The Wolf Yearning, and Tobi Cogswell, Lit Up, Carnegie Art Museum, 424 South C Street, Oxnard, $3/members free, 7:00
  • Dr. Bonnie Buckner signs her new book, Dream Your Self Into Being, refreshments, Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E Valley Road, Santa Barbara, 3:00 (805/969-4977)

21 APRIL 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Great Beyond Open Reading, hosted by Jessica Ceballos, features special guest Connie Williams, Beyond Baroque Literary/Art Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, sign up 1:45, reading 2:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Hitched: The Poetry Of Emerging Counterparts, a monthly reading series that pairs established poets and writers with their emerging counterparts, hosted by poet Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Beyond Baroque Literary/Art Center 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 5:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • The 18th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the country's largest book festival, features a weekend of books, music, film, comedy, food, famous authors and celebrities, entertainment, and more; authors and speakers include Orson Scott Card, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Los Angeles Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, Sarah Dessen, Carol Burnett, Cornelia Funke, Chris Columbus, Cassandra Clare, Debbie Reynolds, Lucy Dahl, Heather McDonald, Molly Ringwald, Mona Simpson, Christine Sneed, David Rensin, Austin Grossman, John Freeman, Robert Gale, Joshua Bloom, George Black, Alison Bechdel, Joshua Cody, Mark Bryant, Katharine Applegate, David Abrams, Paul Adler, Dwayne Booth, Aaron Childs, Elena Karina Byrne, Cecil Castelucci, Jeff Chu, Valerie Harper, Jennifer Haymore, Piper Kerman, Fiona Maazel, Kerri Majors, Demetri Martin, Aaron Johnston, Philip Kerr, and more; Children's Stage performances; Hoy Stage features performances in Spanish; Cooking Stage, Pop & Hiss music and dance stage, and Young Adult Stage; Poetry Stage: 10:00 a.m.: Jennifer K. Sweeney and Monica Youn, 10:30 a.m.: Sholeh Wolpe, 11:00 a.m.: Lewis MacAdams, 11:30 a.m.: Ron Koertge, 12:30: Carol Muske Dukes, Deborah Landau, and Dana Goodyear, 1:15: Lawrence Bridges, 1:30: Jill Bialosky, 2:00: Dana Gioia, 2:30: Matthew Dickman, 3:00: Stephen Burt, 3:30: Mark Irwin, 4:00: Maureen Alsop and Louise Mathias, 4:30: The Offending Adam; visit Poetry Flash at booth 122; University of Southern California, 850 West 37th Street, Los Angeles, panels and indoor conversations are free but require tickets available on site, 10:00 a.m.-5:00; also see the Festival calendar listings for Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20 (events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks)
  • Opening reception for Pierre Picot, Paintings And Drawings "in absentia," a selection of recent large ink on paper drawings of nature "ecstatic and unbound," paintings, exhibition runs April 21-May 19, Mike Kelley Gallery, Beyond Baroque Literary/Art Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, 2:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

22 APRIL 2013 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Peggy Riley reads from her novel Amity & Sorrow, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)

23 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Cobalt Poets presents a featured reading by Daniel Romo, plus open reading, Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, free, doors open 8:30, reading 9:00 (Café: 818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
  • Jen Kirkman reads from her memoir, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
  • Zocalo Public Square features Shannon K. O'Neil, presenting her bookTwo Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead, The RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, 7:30 (www.rand.org)
  • Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, by Cecilia Woloch, a multimedia performance in words, images, music and dance, with Flamenco music and dance by José Cortés, Ethan Margolis, and Cihtli Ocampo celebrating the lyric fire of the Gypsy spirit, the evening will be introduced by Los Angeles Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, a discussion follows moderated by Stephen Smith, executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, with Romani activist and scholar Dr. Ian Hancock, Bovard Auditorium, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, free but reservations required, 7:00 (rsvp: www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices)

24 APRIL 2013 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • "From Funnybooks to Graphic Novels," a presentation and signing by cartoonist Gilbert Hernandez, Marble Season, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 7:30 (www.skylightbooks.com)
  • Richard Belzer presents and signs Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation Into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)

25 APRIL 2013 — thursday

26 APRIL 2013 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Black Lawrence Press: West Coast Prose and Poetry reading features fiction writer Elizabeth Cantwell, novelist Tracy DeBrincat, Michael Hemmingson, Frank Montesonti, The Lost Girl, James Morrison, co-founder of Bat City Review, Jessica Piazza, and poet Sarah Suzor, Beyond Baroque Literary/Art Center, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

27 APRIL 2013 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • "The Holy Barbarians: The Beat Scene In Los Angeles, 1950-2013," is a reading by beat and post-beat poets including Pegarty Long, Steve Abee, King Planet, Doug Knott, The Aware Wolves, Robert Branaman, and Frankie Rios, co-sponsored by the UCLA Library, hosted by S.A. Griffin, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • An evening with jazz comedian David Zasloff, monologues on money, outer space, art and negative thinking while accompanying himself on the shofar, Japanese shakuhachi flute, percussion, and autoharp, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

28 APRIL 2013 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Funny Man: S.J. Perelman, a two-act solo play featuring distinguished actor Alan Openheimer, (Murphy Brown, Star Trek, Law and Order), as famed humorist S.J. Perelman, writer for Marxist Brothers, Mike Todd, and New York Magazine, two hours, including fifteen-minute intermission, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Sharon Venezio reads from her debut poetry collection, The Silence Of Doorways, guest readers include poets Suzanne Lummis, Chad Sweeney, Parable of Hide and Seek, and poet and fiction writer Terry Wolverton, Stealing Angel, Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 student, seniors, 4:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

29 APRIL 2013 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Tosh Berman, Sparks-Tastic: Twenty-One Nights with Sparks in London, a memoir of traveling through London with the musical group Sparks, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)

30 APRIL 2013 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Red Hen Press presents a poetry reading by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise, winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, judged by Claudia Rankine, Armory Center for the Arts, 145 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, free/$5 donation, 7:00 (626/792-5101, redhen.org)
  • Cobalt Poets presents Los Angeles Poet Laureate Eloise Klein Healy, A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings, Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, free, doors open 8:30, reading 9:00 (Café: 818/348-3789, poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html)
  • Rudolph Herzog presents and signs A Short History of Nuclear Folly: Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-Ups, a sardonic people's history of atomic blunders and near-misses, Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 7:00 (www.booksoup.com)
  • L.A. noir mystery reading by Steph Cha, Follow Her Home, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 7:30 (www.skylightbooks.com)

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