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3 MARCH 2017 — friday

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  • Small Town Stories: A Night of Stories with Tara Igoe local storytellers share true stories from their lives based on interpretations of the theme, Small Town Stories, produced by comedic speaker and storyteller Tara Igoe, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students/seniors, free to members, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaraque.org)

4 MARCH 2017 — saturday

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  • Poetry in Motion, a Hollywood Literary Salon, readings and performances, produced by Eve Brandstein since 1988, lineup to be announced, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, advance $15/$20 door/$10 students, seniors/$8 members, purchase tickets online at Eventbrite, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.facebook.com/eve.brandstein.9)
  • Ramesh Srinivasan, Director of the Digital Cultures Lab at UCLA, presents his book, Whose Global Village: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 5:00 (323/660-11756, www.skylightbooks.com)
  • Poetry reading by Amy Uyematsu, Marsha de la O, and Nels Christianson to share new work, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students/seniors, free to members, 4:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

5 MARCH 2017 — sunday

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  • Beyond Baroque First Sunday Open Reading, featured reader to be announced, hosted by Steve Goldman, five-minute limit, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free /$5 suggested donation, sign up 4:45, reading 5:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
    NORTH:
  • Poetry at the Steynberg reading series features Los Angeles poet Lance Lee, Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, 3:00 (www.languageofthesoul.org)

6 MARCH 2017 — monday

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  • Lambda Lit Fest Los Angeles presents Queer Bird Lit: Continuing Los Angeles' Legacy of Queer Literature, featuring contemporary queer authors celebrating the history of LA queer writing and culture; readings by Erin Judge, Martin Pousson, Christopher Zeischegg aka Danny Wylde, and Catie Disabato, Stories Bookstore, 1716 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (213/413-3733, www.lambdalitfest.org)
  • Lambda Lit Fest Los Angeles presents: Yes Femmes, featuring writings and performances that explore the limits of the body and launches the Yes Femmes journal that celebrates the multiplicity of femme identity and aesthetics; readings by Amanda-Faye Jimenez, Pauline Gloss, Ciriza, Jennifer Moon + Laub, JD Scott, Elizabeth Hall, Myriam Gurba, Anna Joy Springer, Edgar Fabian, Frias, Martabel Wasserman, and Saehee Cho, Pieter Performance Space, 420 West Avenue 33 Unit #10, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (pieterpasd@gmail.com, www.lambdalitfest.org)

7 MARCH 2017 — tuesday

8 MARCH 2017 — wednesday

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  • Lambda Lit Fest Los Angeles presents An Evening with Bryan Fuller, moderated by Dave White and Alonso Duralde, co-hosts of Linoleum Knife, in discussion with executive producer, writer, co-showrunner Bryan Fuller, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Heroes, Pushing Daisies, Hannibal, West Hollywood Library, 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard, West Hollywood, free, 7:00 (310/652-5340, RSVP: www.facebook.com/events/1226101260758248/, www.lambdalitfest.org)
  • Lambda Lit Fest Los Angeles presents Professor in the Pub, featuring UCLA Chicana/o Studies Professor, author, poet Alicia Gaspar De Alba discussing Queer Bilingual Poetics with two former students, Claudia Rodriguez and Richard Villegas Jr., both accomplished writers, celebrating queer diversity in the Latino/a community and racial diversity in the queer community; books sold, book-signing, The Black Cat, 3909 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, free, 7:00 (323/661-6369, www.lambdalitfest.org)
  • Lambda Lit Fest Los Angeles presents: Romantic Comedy, a monthly stand-up show co-hosted by Jenny Chalikian and Erin Judge; special Lambda Lit Fest edition features comedians and writers Caitlin Gill, Catie Disabato, Janine Brito, Solomon Georgio, and Sabrina Jalees, Stories Bookstore, 1716 West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (213/413-3733, www.lambdalitfest.org)

9 MARCH 2017 — thursday

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  • Dan Chaon, Among the Missing, reads from his novel, Ill Will, an exploration into two sensational unsolved crimes, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (325/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
    NORTH:
  • The EP Foster Library features a poetry reading by Glenna Luschei at its weekly series hosted by Phil Taggart, Poet Laureate of Ventura County, open mic follows, share your own work, EP Foster Library in the Topping Room, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, free and open to the public, 7:30-9:00 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)

10 MARCH 2017 — friday

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  • Poet and essayist Anna Journey, The Atheist Wore Goat Silk: Poems, reads from her new collection of essays, An Arrangement of Skin, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylight.com)
  • Inside The Writer's Studio presents Eric Andrews-Katz interviewing gay novelists Patricia Nell Warren, The Front Runner, and Felice Picano, Twelve O'Clock Tales, about their careers, writing process, influences, and their place in LGBT literary history, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, donations accepted, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

11 MARCH 2017 — saturday

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  • Reading and reception for Get Lit's special poetry workshop, hosted by Diane Luby Lane, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, donations accepted, 4:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Tony nominee Marcia Rodd directs this debut staged reading of a new work by playwright/novelist Richard Setlowe, L.A. Women: The Confession, a middle-aged actress at the end of her rope recounts her life and career, this is the last performance (of a series) and stars Denise Lebra Hefti, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students/seniors, free to members, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

12 MARCH 2017 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Soap Box Open Reading, hosted by Jessica Wilson, five-minute limit, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free/donations welcomed, sign up 1:45, reading 2:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

13 MARCH 2017 — monday

14 MARCH 2017 — tuesday

15 MARCH 2017 — wednesday

16 MARCH 2017 — thursday

    NORTH:
  • The EP Foster Library features a poetry reading by Carol V. Davis at its weekly series hosted by Phil Taggart, Poet Laureate of Ventura County, open mic follows, share your own work, EP Foster Library in the Topping Room, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, free and open to the public, 7:30-9:00 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)

17 MARCH 2017 — friday

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  • The Poetry Salon presents The Poetry of Social Justice Final Reading, featuring powerful, purposeful writing that addresses issues of the day, hosted by Kelly Grace Thomas, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, donation requested, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

18 MARCH 2017 — saturday

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  • The Arcade Poetry Series presents a reading by Christopher Buckley, Star Journal: Selected Poems, and Sara Borjas, "No, I wasn't always this ugly", hosted by Jackson Wheeler, Carnegie Art Museum, 424 South C Street, Oxnard, $5/CAM members free, 6:00 (805/385-8158, www.carnegiem.org)

19 MARCH 2017 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Lunch BB 30, a new monthly program bringing together writers of prose, poetry and creative non-fiction, hosted by Jon Hess, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, 4:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

20 MARCH 2017 — monday

21 MARCH 2017 — tuesday

22 MARCH 2017 — wednesday

23 MARCH 2017 — thursday

    NORTH:
  • The EP Foster Library features a poetry reading by Marcus Van at its weekly series hosted by Phil Taggart, Poet Laureate of Ventura County, open mic follows, share your own work, EP Foster Library in the Topping Room, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, free and open to the public, 7:30-9:00 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)

24 MARCH 2017 — friday

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  • Poet, musician and clinical psychologist Rick Smith joins SoCal publisher and poet RD Armstrong for an evening of ars poetica, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students/seniors, free to members, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

25 MARCH 2017 — saturday

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  • Beyond Spanish: Poetry In Basque, Catalan, Galician, and Spanish, a multilingual reading with Josu Baque Ugarteburu and poet Mariano Zaro, sponsored by the Spanish Resource Center of the Consulate General of Spain, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students/seniors, 8:00 (310,822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • The International Women's Writing Guild presents "California Dreaming," the third annual Regional Writing Conference, multiple sessions covering wide range of topics including "The Screenplay to Creation of New Fairy Tales," featuring producer and film writer Linda Bergman, storyteller Alyce Smith Cooper, poet Marj Hahne, Dorothy Randall Gray, Maureen Murdock, Bernadette Murphy, and Mel Ryane, register online, The International Women's Writing Guild, Antioch University Los Angeles, 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City, $45-$150, 8:45 a.m.-6:30 (iwwg.wildapricot.org/events)

26 MARCH 2017 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Nebraska Girl monthly open reading, hosted by Wyatt Underwood, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, sign up 1:30, reading 2:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by Lorine Parks and Catherine Theis, The Fraud of Good Sleep, the series takes place every fourth Sunday, The Claremont Library, 208 N. Harvard Avenue, Los Angeles, free, 2:00 (909/621-4902, www.colapublib.org/libs/claremont)

27 MARCH 2017 — monday

28 MARCH 2017 — tuesday

29 MARCH 2017 — wednesday

30 MARCH 2017 — thursday

    NORTH:
  • The EP Foster Library features a poetry reading by Kali Bennett at its weekly series hosted by Phil Taggart, Poet Laureate of Ventura County, open mic follows, share your own work, EP Foster Library in the Topping Room, 651 E. Main Street, Ventura, free and open to the public, 7:30-9:00 (805/648-2716, www.vencolibrary.org)

31 MARCH 2017 — friday


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