17th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

21 APRIL 2012 — saturday

17th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, includes Poetry Stage, Children's Stage, Cooking Stage, and many more exhibitors, author reading, and panels, visit Poetry Flash and Manic D Press at Booth 979, admission and most activities free, except indoor panels, tickets are available on April 15th and a limited amount of tickets are available per panel, program distributed in the Sunday April 15 edition of the Los Angels Times, Poetry Stage events and readings all day: 10:00 a.m.: Katherine Larson, Radical Symmetry, 10:30 a.m.: Timothy Donnelly, The Cloud Corporation, 11:00 a.m.: Ellen Dore Watson, Dogged Hearts: Poems, 11:30 a.m.: Kevin Prufer, In A Beautiful Country, 12:00: Twentieth-Century Poet Commemorative Stamp First Day of Issue Ceremony, 1:00: Campbell McGrath, In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys: Poems, 1:30: Bruce Smith, Devotions, 2:00 Linda Norton, The Public Gardens, 2:30: Carl Phillips, Double Shadow, 3:00: Carol Ann Davis, Atlas Hour, 3:30: Henri Cole, Touch, and Judith Pacht, Summer Hunger, 4:00: Micahel Ryan, This Morning: Poems, 4:30: Dorothy Barresi, American Fanatics, and Doreen Gildroy, Human Love, 5:00: Victoria Chang, Salvinia Molesta, and Michael O'Keefe, Swimming Under My Father, 5:30 Kelli Anne Noftle, I Was There for Your Somniloquy, and Performance with Earthwake, University of Southern California, Exposition Blvd. and S. Figueroa St., L.A., free admission, USC parking $10, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 (latimes.com/festivalofbooks)