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  • Poetry Reading w/ Mitchell Jacobs & Friends

    Village Well Books & Coffee 9900 Culver Boulevard, #1b, Culver City, CA 90232, Culver City, CA, United States

    Acclaimed poets read from their most recent work.Join us for a poetry reading featuring Mitchell Jacobs, author of the new book Rogue Astronaut!Joining Mitchell are poets Ashley Dailey, Bryan Byrdlong, Leila Farjami, and Savannah Manhattan.About the participants:Mitchell Jacobs is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California, where he served as Managing Editor of Ricochet Editions. His poems have Read More ...

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  • Voices of Los Feliz — Radically Human Zine Launch

    Barnsdall Art Park 4800 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    The centerpiece of the Los Feliz Writers Festival: an outdoor reading at Barnsdall Art Park launching Radically Human, a neighborhood zine featuring over 30 writers and artists.In the organizers’ words: “Bring a picnic, a blanket, and friends, and come meet under the stars at the beautiful Barnsdall Art Park and meet the local writers who live in Los Feliz as Read More ...

  • Reading Through History Book Club

    The Pop-Hop Books Co-Op 5002 York Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90042, United States

    A bi-monthly book club where we read and discuss books inspired by historic events from different and less exposed cultural perspectives.

  • L.A. Book Launch: Pyrrhic Symphony by Adam O. Davis

    Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center 681 Venice Blvd, Venice Beach, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    A book celebration for Adam O. Davis's second poetry collection Beyond Baroque presents a book launch for Adam O. Davis' award-winning second poetry collection, Pyrrhic Symphony (University of Nebraska Press, 2026) with Blas Falconer, Arthur Kayzakian, and Diana Marie Delgado in the Wanda Coleman Theater. Praise for Pyrrhic Symphony Pyrrhic Symphony is wild, whip-smart, and irreverent—a maximalist elegy for late Read More ...

  • WeHo Reads: Reimagining History

    West Hollywood Library - Community Meeting Room 625 North San Vicente Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069, West Hollywood, CA, United States

    Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026 · 6:30–8:00 p.m. PT In person, West Hollywood Library Community Room, 625 N San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069 Free, RSVP Requested Four Los Angeles writers return to the past, through fiction and poetry, to understand where we came from. Why do we keep returning to history? And what changes when we recover what was Read More ...

  • WeHo Reads: Into the Unknown

    Online (virtual event)

    Five queer authors open portals to spectacular new worlds and dare us to get lost in them. Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026 · 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Online via Zoom and YouTube What can we discover in worlds that have never existed? And how does queer imagination remake the rules of magic, adventure, and belonging? On Oct. 14, five queer authors Read More ...