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Lynne Thompson

LA Times Festival of Books: Lynne Thompson, Craig Santos Perez, Marsha de la O, more

20 APRIL 2024 — saturday

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, hosted by the University of Southern California, is the largest free book festival in the Northern Hemisphere; this year's indoor and outdoor events will include over 200 conversations and performances, over 500 authors, with book signings, cooking demos, poetry readings, bilingual programming and more; POETRY STAGE SCHEDULE: 10:00 am: Lynne Thompson, Blue on a Blue Palette; 10:20 am: Maggie Milner, Couplets: A Love Story; 10:40 am: Simon Shieh, Master: Poems; 11:00 am: K. Iver, Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco; 11:20 am: Dean Rader, Before the Borderless: Dialogues with the Art of Cy Twombly; 11:40 am: Hala Alyan, The Moon That Turns You Back; Noon: Shelley Wong, As She Appears; 12:30 pm: LA Times Book Prize Poetry Finalist Roundtable, with K. Iver, Airea D. Matthews, Maggie Millner, Jenny Molberg, Simon Shieh, and one more; 1:00 pm: Sarah Maclay, Nightfall Marginalia; 1:20 pm: Derrick Brown, Love Ends in a Tandem Kayak; 1:40 pm: Jenny Molberg, The Court of No Record: Poems; 2:00 pm: Airea D. Matthews Bread and Circus: Poems; 2:20 pm: Kristina Marie Darling, Daylight Has Already Come: Selected Poems; 2:40 pm: Katie Farris, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive; 3:00 pm: Lynn Emanuel, Transcript of the Disappearance, Exact and Diminishing; 3:20 pm: A. Van Jordan, When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again; 3:40 pm: Sam Sax, Pig; 4:00 pm: Paisley Rekdal, West: A Translation; 4:20 pm: Mag Gabbert, SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS; 4:40 pm: Marsha de la O, Creature; 5:00 pm: Katherine Coles, Ghost Apples; 5:20 pm: Timothy Donnelly, Chariot; 5:40 pm: Poetry performance with Elena Secota and musicians Daniel Manoiu and Danny Moynahan; Poetry Flash (Booth 901), San Francisco's Manic D Press, and LA's Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center will be among more than 300 exhibitors at the outdoor event, University of Southern California, 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, general admission is free, the festival will also feature ticketed events with authors and celebrities, outdoor programming doesn't require a ticket, 10:00 pm to 6:00 pm PDT (For more information and to view the schedule of participants, visit: events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule)




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10 JANUARY 2025 — friday

  • Blue Light at the Gallery presents poets Anna Papadopoulos, Safety Trip, Barbara Saxton, De-Classified, and Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Her Face in the Fire, in a reading presented by Blue Light Press, Virtual on Zoom, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, or to RSVP, email: bluelightpress@aol.com)

11 JANUARY 2025 — saturday

  • "Whether You Fly: An Ekphrastic Poetry Project," presents poets responding to paintings by visual artist Julie Heffernan; curated by Annice Jacoby and Maw Shein Win, the poets responding are Adrian Arias, James Cagney, Jennifer Futernick, Heather June Gibbons, and Yiskah Rosenfeld, the poets will share their work and sign books, art cards featuring the poems and paintings will be available, Catharine Clark Gallery, 248 Utah Street, San Francisco, $5 includes a commemorative art postcard specifically designed for this event, 4:00 to 6:00 pm PST, readings begin at 4:30 (For more information, visit: cclarkgallery.com/events/32/overview)

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26 JANUARY 2025 — sunday

  • The Laminations: An Experimental Fiction Workshop, will occur over four Sundays (January 26, February 9, 23, March 9), exploring how to manage layers of formal complexity with plot complexity, and when these laminations overload and opacify the truth, led by Angie Sijun Lou, fiction editor at FENCE, Virtual on Zoom, sliding scale $60-200, 1:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.smallpresstraffic.org/event/laminations-experimental-fiction-workshop)

27 JANUARY 2025 — monday

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30 JANUARY 2025 — thursday

  • Former City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood Kim Dower will read from and discuss her latest poetry collection, What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria, with poet Blas Falconer, Rara Avis, Warwick's, 7812 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, free, 7:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/dower-2025)
  • Writers Read Ukiah presents a reading by Chris Olander, Nevada County Poet Laureate emeritus, Open Mic follows the featured poet with six-minute slots for each participant, Grace Hudson Museum, 431 South Main Street, Ukiah, free, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.gracehudsonmuseum.org/new-events)

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