Notable Los Angeles: 6/3–6/9
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Posts Tagged: Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Notable Los Angeles: 1/21–1/27
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/7–1/13
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 5/28–6/3
Literary events and readings in and around L.A. this week!
...moreNotable Los Angeles: 5/15–5/21
Monday 5/15: Bianca Bosker discusses and signs Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 5/16: Brown Paper Press and Peter Gajdics celebrates the release of his new memoir, The Inheritance of Shame. 7 p.m. at Fingerprints.
...moreNotable Portland: 4/27–5/3
Thursday 4/27: Come celebrate Portland’s creative youth during the sixth annual Verselandia! poetry slam. This city-wide event features students from local high schools competing for poetic glory. National and International Poetry Slam Champion Anis Mojgani will host this year’s competition. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 7 p.m., $30 reserved, $10 general admission. Portland author Grace Mattioli […]
...more“This is a police state. This is Arizona…”
“This is a police state. This is Arizona, and worse, this is my country. I must remember this moment. I must not forget even if I want, even if, when I’m back home in bed, the whole scene seems impossible.” — From Day 5 of Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s trip to the Arizona-Mexico border. You can check […]
...moreMarilyn Nelson on Fortune’s Bones
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem is the poet Marilyn Nelson’s rendering of a really horrific true story about a slave owner in Connecticut who dissected the slave Fortune’s bones and “hung them in his house for a little medical school.” “My first thought,” said Nelson, “was what would it be like to be Dinah, Fortune’s […]
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