Patricia Smith

LA Times Festival of Books: Patricia Smith, Kate Gale, Michelle Bitting, more

24 APRIL 2022 — sunday

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Poetry Stage presents Kate Gale, The Loneliest Girl; Tommy Pico, Feed; Jos Charles, A Year & Other Poems; Peter Campion, One Summer Evening at the Falls; Sholeh Wolpé, Abacus of Loss-A Memoir in Verse; Jonathan Wells, Debris; Patricia Smith, Incendiary Art; Marty Williams, Game; Elena Karina Byrne, If This Makes You Nervous; Luis J. Rodriguez reading from selected works; Jerry Garcia, Trumpets in the Sky; Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Look at This Blue; Daniel Tiffany, Cry Baby Mystic; Steven Reigns, A Quilt for David; LA Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson, Fretwork; Jane Wong, How to Not Be Afraid of Everything; Suzanne Roberts, Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties; Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling; Maureen Alsop, Pyre; Michelle Bitting, Nightmares and Miracles; WriteGirl presents Kai Adia reading from her work, University of Southern California campus, Los Angeles, free, 10:00 am-5:00 pm PDT (For more information, visit: events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks)