Calendar for Southern California

Updated September 8, 2010

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1 SEPTEMBER 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• A reading for New Poets of the American West, an anthology of poets from eleven Western states edited by Lowell Jaeger, Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado, Pasadena, 7:00 (626/449-5320, www.vromansbookstore.com)
• Rick Moody reads from and signs his new novel, The Four Fingers of Death, an adaptation of a fictional 1960s pulp horror movie, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)

2 SEPTEMBER 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• LMU Extension presents Brendan Constantine and Mariano Zaro in a poetry reading, with storyteller Sahwna Kehler and Paul Humphreys on piano, The Marymount Institute, Third Floor, University Hall, One LMU Drive, LA, enter off Lincoln Blvd., second left driveway to park free in P2-P3, elevator to Third Floor, 7:00 (310/338-1971, http://extension.lmu.edu)
• Acclaimed Los Angeles novelist Mona Simpson reads from and signs My Hollywood, her first novel in ten years, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)

3 SEPTEMBER 2010---friday:
CENTRAL:
• Hollywood Institute of Poetics presents Picasso Isn’t Happy That Dali Got Angel Wings & Lorca Just Doesn’t Care, an evening of poetry, art and music with poetry by Eve Brandstein, Corrie Greathouse, Michael O’Keefe, and Frankie Salinas; art by Lysa Flores, Louie Metz and Hector Velez; music by Lysa Flores, hosted by Rafael F.J. Alvarado and Brett Candace, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, 6:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
NORTH:
• A reading for New Poets of the American West, an anthology of poets from eleven Western states edited by Lowell Jaeger, the reading features contributors Lynne Thompson, Teresa Chuc Dowell, Craig Cotter, Thea Gavin, Eve Malo, and host Melinda Palacio, Borders Bookstore, 7000 Market Place Drive, Goleta, 7:00 (805/968-1370)

4 SEPTEMBER 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading by poet and professional gardener Charles Goodrich, Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden, Argentine poet Alejandro Escudé, Where Else But Here, and Eric Gudas, Best Western and Other Poems, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

5 SEPTEMBER 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Open reading with poet and filmmaker Angel Perales and poet/musician Charles Claymore, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, open sign up 4:45, reading 5:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

7 SEPTEMBER 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Neal Pollack discusses and signs Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude, a memoir, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
• Cobalt Poets presents an open reading with featured poet Nicholas Karavatos, one drink minimum, all ages, The Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, west of Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, free, sign up 8:30-8:45, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt)

8 SEPTEMBER 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• John Brandon reads from and signs Citrus County, a novel, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
• Two Idiots Peddling Poetry presents poet Nicholas Karavatos, No Asylum, open reading follows, Ugly Mug Café, 261 N. Glassel, Orange, $2, 8:00 (714/997-5610, www.poetryidiots.com)

9 SEPTEMBER 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Joshua Mohr, Termite Parade, and Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps, read from and sign their new novels from Two Dollar Radio, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
SOUTH:
• Fallbrook Writers Read presents poet Nicholas Karavatos, No Asylum, open reading follows, Café des Artistes, 103 S. Main Street, Fallbrook, 6:00 (www.kbgressitt.com/events)

10 SEPTEMBER 2010---friday:
CENTRAL:
• Red(d)ress series presents a poetry reading by Mandy Kahn, Stephen Westbrook, and Neil Aitken, The Lost Country of Sight, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
• H.I.P., Hollywood Institute of Poetics presents EasySpeak hosted by Doug Knott, featuring poet and fiction writer Steve Abee, King Planet, poet Anthony Seidman, Combustions, poet, dancer, performance artist Eric Trules, and comedian jazz vocalist David Zasloff, Stories Books & Café, 1716 Sunset Blvd., LA, 8:00 (213/413-3733)

11 SEPTEMBER 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• James Riley reads from and signs his middle readers novel, a fairy tale mash-up, Half Upon a Time, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 5:00 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
• Poetry reading by Claudia Keelan, Missing Her, and Donald Revell, The Bitter Withy, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
NORTH:
• The Poetry Zone features a reading by John Ridland, plus open mic with host Suzanne Frost, Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 21 W. Anapamu, Santa Barbara, 2:00-4:00 (host: 805/252-1655)
SOUTH:
• Poetry reading by Nicholas Karavatos, No Asylum, D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, free, 7:00 (858/456-1800, www.dgwillsbooks.com)

12 SEPTEMBER 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Les Figues Press’s Not Content Series presents writer/artist Sawako Nakayasu’s Improvisational Insect Orchestra performance, musicians improvise the score to a live insect performance, audience members are invited to bring their own instrument, LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 6522 Hollywood Blvd., LA, performances at 3:30 and 4:30, event 3:00-5:30 (323/957-1777)  
• Reading for Chopin with Cherries, edited by music historian and poet Maja Trochimczyk, the anthology celebrates the two-hundredth anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin’s birth with one hundred twenty-three poems by ninety-two poets, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 3:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
• Second Sunday Poetry Series presents a featured reading by Cecilia Woloch, Judith Terzi, and Marie Lecrivain, plus open mic hosted by Alex M. Frankel, Café Alibi, 84 South Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, 5:00 (www.secondsundaypoetry.com)
• Poetry reading by Malibu poet, painter, and musician Alden Marin and publisher/poet Pablo Capra, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

13 SEPTEMBER 2010---monday:
NORTH:
• Poetry reading by Fred Marchant, The Looking House, presented by the Peace and Justice Committee with Associated Students and the English Division, Humanities Forum 6304, Cuesta College, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo, 5:30 (805/546-3100, www.cuesta.edu)

14 SEPTEMBER 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Cobalt Poets presents an open reading with featured poet Brandon Cesmat, one drink minimum, all ages, The Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, west of Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, free, sign up 8:30-8:45, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt)
NORTH:
• Poetry reading by Enid Osborn and Ellen Reich, open mic, hosted by Roe Estep, Artists Union Gallery, 330 California Street, Ventura, 7:30 (805/320-3524)

15 SEPTEMBER 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Two Idiots Peddling Poetry presents poet Leigh White, open reading follows, Ugly Mug Café, 261 N. Glassel, Orange, $2, 8:00 (714/997-5610, www.poetryidiots.com)

16 SEPTEMBER 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Fall Poetry Series presents a reading by Lois P. Jones and artist/poet J. Michael Walker, All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Seeking the Soul of L.A. on its Streets, Room 1859, University Hall, One LMU Drive, LA, enter off Lincoln Blvd., second left driveway to park in P2-P3, 8:00 (310/338-1971, http://extension.lmu.edu)

17 SEPTEMBER 2010---friday:
CENTRAL:
• William Carlos Williams Birthday Reading by S.A. Griffin, Rafael F.J. Alvarado, Michael Leon, and special guests, bring your favorite Williams poem, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
• Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber discuss and sign their biography, Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius, an electric guitar will be raffled off at the event, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)

18 SEPTEMBER 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• The New Poetry Reading in NOHO features recovered drug addict, poet, and social work Ed Houston, plus open mic, eight minutes maximum per poet, T.U. Studios, 10943 Camarillo Street, North Hollywood, free, 4:00-6:00 (Host, Radomir Vojtech Luza: 818/762-5866)  
• RD Armstrong aka Raindog, E/OR, and Gerald Locklin, Modest Aspirations, read from their poetry, Open Books, 2226 E. 4 th Street, Long Beach, near Junipero, 7:00 (562/499-6736)
• Poetry reading by Chiwan Choi, The Flood, and actress/poet Melora Walters, Sonnets and Failures, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
NORTH:
• Weird Words presents a poetry reading by Polly Bee, Tree Beinstein, and Robert Peake, Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, 8560 Ojai-Santa Paula Road, Ojai, free, 7:00 (805/646-3381, www.beatricewood.com)

19 SEPTEMBER 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• H.I.P. presents Murjerismo: An Afternoon of Strong Latina Poets featuring Luivette Resto, Alicia Partnoy, Ana Reyes, Raquel Delgado Ruiz, Frankie Salinas, Avenue 50 Studio, 131 North Avenue 50, Highland Park, 2:00-4:00 (323/258-1435, www.avenue50studio.com)
• Found & Lost Publication Reading, a bi-annual publication devoted to pure poetry/art, reading features Frank T. Rios, S.A. Griffin, Michael Leon, Bob Branaman, and Michael C. Ford, hosted by Richard Modiano, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, free, 3:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
• Valley Contemporary Poets presents a reading by poet, fiction writer, and memoirist Luis Rodriguez, Always Running, La Vida Loca: Gang Days in LA, poet liz Gonzalez, and poet/blogger Xochitl-Julisa Barmejo, Tarzana Community & Cultural Center, 19130 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, $6, 3:00
• Contributors reading for Black Clock 12, with fiction writers Richard Rayner, Nina Revoyr, Samantha Dunn, Tod Goldberg, Paul Cullum, and Monica Carter, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 5:00 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
• Featherless reading series presents an “evening of bare naked stories,” reception follows, $5, free parking, Wordspace, 3191 Casitas Avenue #156, LA, 7:30 (http://featherless-la.blogspot.com)
NORTH:
• Corners of the Mouth! poetry reading by Mary Kay Rummel and Jane Elsdon, open reading follows, five minute slots, hosted by Kevin Patrick Sullivan, Linnaea’s Café, 1110 Garden Street, San Luis Obispo, free, 7:00 (805/547-1318, www.languageofthesoul.org)

20 SEPTEMBER 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Charles Yu reads from and signs his debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
NORTH:
• Favorite Poems Project third Monday reading with host Lois Klein, all are invited to read a favorite poem (or two), not their own, The Blue Agave, 20 E. Cota, Santa Barbara, 5:15-6:30

21 SEPTEMBER 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Valley Contemporary Poets presents an open reading with featured poet Trish Falin, one drink minimum, all ages, The Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, west of Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, free, sign up 8:30-8:45, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt)

22 SEPTEMBER 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Two Idiots Peddling Poetry presents poet Donna Hilbert, open reading follows, Ugly Mug Café, 261 N. Glassel, Orange, $2, 8:00 (714/997-5610, www.poetryidiots.com)

24 SEPTEMBER 2010---friday:
CENTRAL:
• Novelist James Ellroy reads from and signs The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women, his new memoir, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
• Poetry reading by Julie Sheehan, Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise, and Douglas Kearney, The Black Automaton, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

25 SEPTEMBER 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading by Tony Barnstone, Tongue of War, and British translator and poet Michael Hulce, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
NORTH:
• Mission Poetry Series presents a poetry reading by Barry Spacks, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Robert Peake, Clare’s Place, Mission Renewal Center, Old Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, 1:00 (805/682-4713)
• Friday on Saturday presents a poetry reading by Kevin Patrick Sullivan, open mic, hosted by friday, new location, Artists Union Gallery, 330 California Street, Ventura, 7:30
SOUTH:
• Professor Yunte Huang discusses his new book Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History, D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, free, 7:00 (858/456-1800, www.dgwillsbooks.com)

26 SEPTEMBER 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Ninth annual West Hollywood Book Fair features three hundred author and artists on fifteen stages, one hundred fifty exhibitors, The Writing Room features writing workshop all day, panels and performances for all ages, including poets Mark Doty, Terry Wolverton, fiction writers Francesca Lia Block, Michael Jaime-Becerra, and many others, 2:00 sharp: Poetry and Pavement: A Celebration of Poetry and Bicycles featuring editor of Bicycle Review J de Salvo, Jen Hofer, one, anti-war-manifesto poems, and Eric Howard, Poetry/Hybrid Stage, West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd., between Melrose and Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, LA, free, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 (www.westhollywoodbookfair.org) 
• Matt Stewart reads from and signs his whimsical novel set in San Francisco, The French Revolution, the novel was first released on Twitter, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 5:00 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
• Poetry reading by poet, journalist, and Latin American scholar Marjorie Becker, Setting the Virgin on Fire, and Jonathan Harris, The Wave That Did Not Break, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

28 SEPTEMBER 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Indelible Ink, a Vanguard Poetry/Performance Art Series presents poets and writers with music, drama, variety acts, Q&A follows, hosted by Monica Lee Copland, POP Champagne and Dessert Bar, 33 E. Union Street, Pasadena, $15, special promotion: two tickets, two glasses of sparkling wine, an appetizer and a book/CD of featured performer $50, 6:30 (advance tickets: 626/578-7267, www.indelibleink.net)
• Cobalt Poets presents an open reading with featured poet TBA, one drink minimum, all ages, The Cobalt Café, 22047 Sherman Way, west of Topanga Canyon Blvd., Canoga Park, free, sign up 8:30-8:45, reading 9:00 (818/348-3789, www.poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt)
NORTH:
• Anthology contributors reading from Out of Thin Air, Ventura County Writers Club Anthology, Borders Books, 125 W. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, 7:00 (805/497-8159)

30 SEPTEMBER 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Tao Lin reads from and signs Richard Yates, his new novel, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, LA, 7:30 (323/660-1175, www.skylightbooks.com)
• Ellyn Maybe’s Poetry Rodeo, an open reading featuring Ellyn Maybe and her band performing from her poetry/music CD, Rodeo for the Sheepish, bring up to five minutes of poetry and the band will improvise alongside as you read, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, $7/$5 students, seniors, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)