
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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- Fiction writer, essayist and journalist Lauren Markham will discuss and read from her new book, Immemorial, the latest volume in Transit Books' Undelivered Lectures series, on the design and function of memorials, with writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit, Call Them By Their True Names, presented in partnership with the Mesa Refuge, Dance Palace, 503 B Street, Point Reyes Station, 3:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: ptreyesbooks.com/event/2025-02-08/lauren-markham-and-rebecca-solnit)
- The El Cerrito Poet Laureate program presents "Place and Placemaking in Poetry and Photography," a conversation about writing and imagining El Cerrito/Richmond in art, with poet, playwright, and novelist Ishmael Reed, who has written extensively about place and Richmond, El Cerrito, and Oakland, with Lewis Watts, professor, and photographer who photographs the Bay Area and Black diaspora, and El Cerrito Poet Laureate Tess Taylor, El Cerrito Community Center, Garden Room, 7007 Moeser Lane, El Cerrito, 4:30 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.el-cerrito.org/1561/Current-Poet-Laureate)
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- Writer, playwright, organizer, and educator Dr. Mahogany L. Browne, former San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin, recording/performing artist Destiny Muhammad, and Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Emeritus Tshaka Campbell read and perform for a special Black History Month event celebrating the power of poetry and music, SJZ Break Room, 310 South 1st Street, San Jose, 6:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.eventbrite.com/e/tiny-room-poetry-series-tickets-1131267263839?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3KxvMAG7M-3jW_crIJM_FFFNqnjaqJLOdtQdAjFIT_9_hYcW6MYQJSHU8_aem_C2VWI8RhXYOAhYnr_Nyevw)
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- Author of two National Book Award-winning novels, Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward will discuss her latest novel, Let Us Descend, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/ward-2025)
27 FEBRUARY 2025 — thursday
- Poet and author of The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros will discuss her first poetry collection in twenty-eight years, Woman Without Shame, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/cisneros-2025)
28 FEBRUARY 2025 — friday
- Author of the best-selling memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom will discuss his latest novel, The Little Liar, as part of Writer's Symposium by the Sea 30th Anniversary Event, "Writing That Redeems," with founder and host of the annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea and journalist Dean Nelson, Brown Chapel, Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, $16, 7:00 pm PST (For more information, visit: www.warwicks.com/event/albom-2025)
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