H.I.P., the Hollywood Institute of Poetics, presents Paloma Poets (hosted by a can of green beans) featuring Joan E. Bauer, Billy Burgos, Jessica Ceballos, Cassandra Love and Bryan Sanders, at Avenue 50, 131 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park, on Sunday, April 15 at 2 p.m. There is an open reading with a 3-minute maximum.
Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and has worked as an English teacher, poetry editor, educational counselor and nonprofit fundraiser. She divides her time between Venice, California and Pittsburgh, where she curates the Hemingway Summer Poetry Series with Jimmy Cvetic.
Billy Burgos is a native of Belize and makes his home in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he is an active member of the Anansi Writers Workshop and serves as a poetry facilitator for Beyond Baroque.
Jessica Ceballos has been writing for over twenty years and been published in Centre Review and Hinchas de Poesia.
Cassandra Love is a 2008 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow. Swagger is a Woman is her first book of poetry and is available through Mouthfeel Press.
Bryan Sanders is a member of the Hollywood Institute of Poetics and the former host of the Black and Tan poetry reading series at Stories bookstore in Echo Park.
April 13, 2012 : Posted by Joan E. Bauer
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It should be a lively show this evening as Eric Morago, author of What We Ache For, and Peggy Dobreer, author of In the Lake of Your Bones, read their work together at Skylight Books. If you haven't been to Skylight, it's one of the coolest and homiest independent bookstores in Southern California, the kind of place where, if you're a regular, the staff might remember you and recommend a title or two.
The reading starts at 7:30 p.m. and the store is at 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles. You may want to arrive early, as parking can be tight around the neighborhood. Hope you can make it!
April 10, 2012 : Posted by Michael Miller
The LMU Extension Poetry Series continues Thursday, April 12 at 8 p.m. in University Hall Room 1857. There is an open reading (up to 2 poems, up to 5 minutes), plus features Marsha de la O. (left) and Holaday Mason.
De la O.'s book of poetry, Black Hope, won the New Issues Press Poetry Prize and a Small Press Editor's Choice Award. She is the winner of the dA Poetry Award and the Ventura Poetry Festival Contest. With Phil Taggart, she is the co-editor and publisher of the literary journal Askew.
Mason is the author of Towards the Forest & Dissolve (New River Press 2007, 2011), Light Spilling from its Own Cup (Inevitable Press, 1999) and Interlude (FarStarFire Press, 2001). She is a Pushcart nominee and has published work in a number of journals including Poetry International, American Literary Review, Pool, Smartish Pace, Runes, Solo, The River Styx, Spoon River Review and The Laurel Review. She is co-editor of Echo 68 and lives in Venice, California, where she sometimes serves as artist-in-residence for Beyond Baroque.
April 7, 2012 : Posted by David Slavin
Hello NAPOWRIMO poets!
Thanks for keeping in touch and now we have a site for you to submit your poems for the National Poetry Month challenge at G2 Gallery!
For those of you in attendance for Brendan Constantine's book release for Calamity Joe at G2 last Sunday, here is the address for the prompt: lakeofyourbones@gmail.com. If you missed it, the official launch of Peggy Dobreer's new book, In the Lake of Your Bones, will be held in the same gallery on Sunday, April 29 at 4 p.m. At that event, time will be made in the program for a presentation of the best response(s) to this prompt: If the lake of your bones ran dry, what would we find in the silt? How would you describe that irreducible quality (item, element, thing)? Or would it speak for itself?
Send your responses no later than April 20. Note: Your name should not appear on the poem itself. Attach your poem as a Word Document, PDF or RTF. Be sure to indicate the name of your poem in your cover letter so it can be matched up after the reading process.
Looking forward to your genius!
April 5, 2012 : Posted by Peggy Dobreer