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Thank you for coming out to The Los Angeles Review Reading on Thursday, everyone!
Special thanks to Alexa Oliphant and Alisa Trager at Red Hen Press for putting the event together, and thanks to my fellow readers Anna Scotti and Sean Bernard. Sean — Looking forward to reading your novel, Studies in the Hereafter!
Our reading even got a little writeup in La Canada Valley Sun!
The Los Angeles Review will have more readings — especially around AWP 2016. See you there!
I’ve never been to La Canada Flintridge before, but I’ll be reading there this Thursday and I’ll be bringing cupcakes because I’ll still be celebrating my birthday. Do come out and join me! Local literary journal Los Angeles Review is hosting a reading with three contributors:
What: Los Angeles Review Reading at Flintridge Bookstore
When: Thu, November 12, 2015, 7 pm
Where: Flintridge Bookstore & Coffee House, 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge, CA
I’ll be reading the new pieces that were published in the latest Los Angeles Review. Joining me will be Sean Bernard, the fiction editor of Los Angeles Review himself, and Anna Scotti.
Come for the sugar or come for the stories. Hope to see you soon —
Thank you for coming out to The Dancing Girl Press Show yesterday, everyone!
Special thanks to series organizer David Rocklin, host David Kukoff, and my fellow readers Lisa Cheby, Rachelle Cruz, and Cati Porter. And a big thanks to Kristy Bowen of Dancing Girl Press, who really brought us all together.
One more photo from the reading after the break. Hope you can make it to my last upcoming birthday reading!
Continue reading “The Dancing Girl Press Show at Roar Shack, in Echo Park, Nov. 8, 2015”
Come out to Echo Park this Sunday for cupcakes, dancing girls, and fun reads!
Feminist poetry press Dancing Girl Press is based in Chicago, but has many fans — and poets — in Los Angeles. Five L.A.-based women poets — including me! — who have chapbooks with Dancing Girl Press will be reading and celebrating:
What: The Dancing Girl Press Show at Roar Shack
When: Sun, November 8, 2015, 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Where: 826LA, 1714 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
I’ll be reading from my chapbook Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit with fellow poet Lisa Cheby, author of Love Lessons from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, pictured below in delicious cake form from her launch party:
as well as Rachelle Cruz, Cati Porter, and Nikia Chaney. Our Dancing Girl chapbooks will be available for $5-$7 each or $25 for a full set of five.
We’ll also have a musical guest — the talented Ramona Pilar — and a reading from last month’s Roar Shack Live Write winner B Deep.
The Roar Shack reading series is organized by David Rocklin, fabulous friend and author of The Luminist. Unfortunately he won’t be hosting this particular event due to schedule conflicts. In his place, David Kukoff, author of Children of the Canyon, will serve as guest host!
The Sweet Life will be delivering mini cupcakes to celebrate my birthday, which was last Sunday! Come eat sugar and hear poetry — and come to my one remaining birthday reading too. See you soon —
Thank you for coming out to the Crevasse in Los Angeles reading last night, everyone!
The reading in brief: The women read fiction about sex; the men read poems about family.
Special thanks to host Zoë Ruiz and my fellow readers, Lisa Locascio, Douglas Manuel and Brandon Som.
More photos from the reading after the break. Hope you can make it to my two other birthday readings!
Continue reading “Crevasse in Los Angeles reading, Stories Books & Cafe in Echo Park, Nov. 4, 2015”
The Los Angeles Review‘s brand new fall 2015 issue is now out — and contains within its pages two of my flash fiction pieces! Here’s an excerpt from the first, “The Panel”:
We, the six closest friends of the couple, were called on to serve on the panel. Our task was to determine who was in the right, the wife or the husband. To aid us in our decision we received a twenty-minute recording of an argument between the two, which we listened to carefully three times over the four-hour deliberation period.
Read the rest of that — plus another piece called “Social Psychology” — by picking up a copy of The Los Angeles Review, Volume 18.
The issue also contains a short piece called “Delorean” by Bryan Hurt, one of my favorite writers and a friend from grad school. Also, don’t miss Ryan Habermeyer’s “A Cosmonaut’s Guide to Microgravitic Reproduction” — which combines space travel and sex and loneliness and madness.
Lastly: Come hear me read “The Panel” and more at The Los Angeles Review’s reading! That’ll happen Thursday, November 12, 7 pm at Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 1010 Foothill Blvd, La Canada Flintridge, Calif. You’ll also get to hear The Los Angeles Review’s own fiction editor, Sean Bernard, and contributor Anna K. Scotti.