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1 MARCH 2019 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Jen Beagin reads from and signs her new novel, Vacuum In The Dark, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com/event/2019-03)

2 MARCH 2019 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Peggy Aylsworth reads from her new collection of poems, Morning in the Long Night City, on the life of a working woman in New York during World War II, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors, members free, 5:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Oliver Chin presents and signs his new children's book, The Year Of the Pig: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, free, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, 11:00 a.m. (www.vromansbookstore.com)
  • Poetry in Motion presents a performance of Man Overboard, hosted by Eve Brandstein, with Adrian Cunningham, Dylan Brody, Christian Elder, Michael Harris, Ty Grandson Jones, Rick Lupert, Rick Overton, Eric Trules, and Greg Cope White; Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $15 online at Eventbrite, $20 at the door/$10 students, seniors/$8 members, 7:30 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Irshad Manji discusses Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times, in an onstage conversation with journalist and radio-television personality Patt Morrison, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

3 MARCH 2019 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Duende Nights Open Mic welcomes everyone to experience a multimedia poetry performance with no explanations before the poem, hosted by Amèricas Poet Society founder Antonieta Vìllamil, open mic, open to poetry, short story, song painting projection, and music; Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, free, donations encouraged, 5:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

4 MARCH 2019 — monday

5 MARCH 2019 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Sunita Puri, MD discusses her new book, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, in an onstage conversation with Angela Morales, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

6 MARCH 2019 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Erwin Raphael McManus discusses and signs The Way Of the Warrior: An Ancient Path to Inner Peace, the book shows that encountering peace doesn't occur by accident but through artful intention, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

7 MARCH 2019 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • A night of art and poetry, snacks and refreshments will be provided, Huntington Beach Art Center, 538 Main Street, Huntington Beach, free, 6:30-8:00 (714/374-1650, www.huntingtonbeachartcenter.org/poetry-at-the-center.html)
  • Victoria Riskin discusses Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

8 MARCH 2019 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Lisa See reads from and signs her novel, The Island of Sea Women, an epoch set over many decades in the Korean island of Jeju, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)
  • Poet, bookmaker, and visual artist Stephen Vincent and poet, writer, and publisher Douglas Messerli present Poetry Reading Haptic, a multimedia program that combines Vincent's poetry and his haptic drawings, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors/members free, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

9 MARCH 2019 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Kerry Madden presents her new picture book set in the 1940s Great Smoky Mountains, Ernestine's Milky Way, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 11:00 a.m. (www.vromansbookstore.com)
  • Novelist Jennifer E. Smith reads from and signs her romance, Field Notes on Love, with author Morgan Matson, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 4:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

10 MARCH 2019 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet, playwright, actor, ONTHEBUS editor Jack Grapes reads from his new collection of poetry, with poet and Poetry East editor Richard Jones, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $20 general, $10 students/seniors, $8 members, 1:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Jim Natal reads from Spare Room, his new collection of poetry in haibun form, with American Book Award-winning poet Dorothy Barresi, What We Did While We Made More Guns, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors/members free, 5:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Soap Box Poets Open Reading, bring your own words, the mic is yours, five-minute limit, hosted by Jessica Wilson Cardenas, Mike Kelly Gallery, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, free, donations are welcomed, sign up 1:45, reading 2:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Public Works Improvisational Theatre presents "Voice in the Well: Carry On," a lively variety program celebrating writers, storytellers, poets, musicians, and comics, hosted by Eric Vollmer, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors/ members, 7:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

11 MARCH 2019 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Elias Castillo reads from, discusses, and signs A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)
    SOUTH:
  • Verbatim Poets Society Poetry Open-Mic, Verbatim Books, 3793 30th Street, San Diego, doors open 7:30, reading 8:00 (619/501-7466, www.verbatim-books.com)

12 MARCH 2019 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Elias Callow reads from and signs The Urban Forager: Culinary Exploring and Cooking on L.A.'s Eastside, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

13 MARCH 2019 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Editor Molly Dillon and contributors read from and sign the anthology, Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope and Change from Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House, contributors to read include Andrea Flores, Noemie Levy, Nita Contreras, Elle Celeste, Jaimie Woo, and Vivian Graubard, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

14 MARCH 2019 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Don Winslow reads and signs his new novel based on the War on Drugs in modern America, The Border, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

15 MARCH 2019 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Mitchell S. Jackson reads from and signs his memoir of growing up in a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)
  • Six of Jeff McMahon's works that span across socio-political, queer, and historical frames of discourse, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, free, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

16 MARCH 2019 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Beyond Spanish is a program of poetry read in Basque, Catalan, Galician, and Spanish by Josu Baque, Mónica Comas Rodríguiez, Jennifer Holmes, Unai Nafarrate, Jurgio Vallinhas, and Mariano Zaro, sponsored by Education Office of the Consulate General of Spain, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, free, 4:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Poet S.A. Griffin celebrates his 65th birthday with a performance of "Overpopulation & Art," by composer and performance artist John Cage, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, free, however there wil be a "submission" charge of $6.50 for anyone attempting to leave the performance early, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Story Time Takeover features Rhett Miller and Dan Santat presenting their new children's book No More Poems!: A Book in Verse that Just Gets Worse, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 10:00 a.m. (www.vromansbookstore.com)

17 MARCH 2019 — sunday

18 MARCH 2019 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Novelist Maura Roosevelt,Baby of the Family, in conversation with author Katya Apekina, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

19 MARCH 2019 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • John Lanchester, The Wall, discusses his new modern-day fantasy novel The Wall with Los Angeles Times Book Critic David Ulin, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

20 MARCH 2019 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Jonathan Evison reads from and signs his coming-of-age novel Lawn Boy, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

21 MARCH 2019 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller read from and sign their new thriller set in Tokyo, Red Hotel, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

22 MARCH 2019 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Novelist John McMahon reads from and signs his thriller, The Good Detective, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 7:00 (www.vromansbookstore.com)
  • Robbi Nester reads from her new poetry collection, Narrow Bridge, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors/members free, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

23 MARCH 2019 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Barbara Abercrombie leads an all-level writing workshop, "Discovering Your Story," meets once a month for three hours using Barbara's book Kicking in the Wall, limited enrollment, Vroman's Books Meeting Room, next to the main store, 709 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 120, Pasadena, $70 per session, 9:00 a.m.-noon (626/449-5320, www.vromansbookstore.com)
  • Swan Huntley leads an all-level writing workshop, "Getting Unstuck," the workshop aims to move writers through difficult moments in the writing process by decisions and readings, limited enrollment, Vroman's Books Meeting Room, next to the main store, 709 E. Colorado Blvd., Suite 120, Pasadena, $70 per session, 1:30-4:30 (626/449-5320, www.vromansbookstore.com)
  • Shonda Buchanan hosts a special tribute to the great playwright and poet Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, who passed away in 2018, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors/members free, 7:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Valerie Wallace reads from her collection House of McQueen, winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry, selected by Vievee Francis, with poet Bruce Willard, Violent Blues, also from Four Way Books, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors/members free, 4:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

24 MARCH 2019 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • 7 Dudley Cinema presents experimental films with discussion and live music, with host Gerry Fialka, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, free, donations welcomed, 7:00 (310/822-3006, Laughtears.com, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • Celebration for Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th Birthday, with live music, films, readers, and more; films screened feature "Golden Mouth," by Bob Branaman, "The Beats: An Existential Comedy," by Philomene Long; music by Ross Altman; featuring readings from Ferlinghetti's poetry and prose by Ross Altman, Bob Branaman, Michael C. Ford, S.A. Griffin, Susan Hayden, Richard Modiano, Pamela Mosher, Lorrain Perrotta, A. Razor, Bucky Sinister, Daniel Yaryan, Fred Whitlock, and special guests, with a panel discussion by City Lights Books stalwarts Bob Branaman and Pamela Mosher, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, free, 1:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)
  • The Nebraska Girl Open Reading, hosted by Wyatt Underwood, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, free, donations welcomed, sign up 1:30, reading 2:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

25 MARCH 2019 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Matt De La Peña reads and signs the latest in his DC Icon series Superman: Dawnbreaker, to get a book signed purchase at least one copy from Vroman's, customers may bring up to three copies from home to be signed, save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line, Vroman's Books, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, free, 6:30 (www.vromansbookstore.com)

26 MARCH 2019 — tuesday

27 MARCH 2019 — wednesday

28 MARCH 2019 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Memoirist, poet, and performance artist David Mura in conversation with playwright Valina Hasu Houston, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors/members free, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

29 MARCH 2019 — friday

30 MARCH 2019 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Garrick Beck, son of Julian Beck and Judith Malina, co-founders of The Living Theater, reads from his memoir True Stories, with a special rare performance by The Living Theater in person, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors/members free, 8:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

31 MARCH 2019 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Laurel Blossom reads from Longevity, a book-length narrative prose poem and poet Patrick Donnelly reads from his new collection of poetry, Little-Known Operas, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, $10/$6 students, seniors/members free, 4:00 (310/822-3006, www.beyondbaroque.org)

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