Jericho Brown

LA Times Festival of Books: Jericho Brown, Ilya Kaminsky, more

13 APRIL 2019 — saturday

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books features a weekend of books, music, film, comedy, food, famous authors and celebrities, entertainment, and more; authors and speakers; Hoy Stage features readings in Spanish; Cooking Stage features demonstrations; Poetry Stage features an exciting line up: 10:00 a.m.: Erica Jong, The World Began With Yes; 10:20 a.m.: Diane Seuss, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl; 10:40 a.m.: Carl Phillips, Wild is the Wind; 11:00 a.m.: Jericho Brown, The Tradition; 11:20 a.m.: Rigoberto Gonzales, The Book of Ruin; 11:40 a.m.: Rae Armantrout, Wobble; Noon: Chase Twichell, Things as it is; 12:30: Donna Spruijt-Metz, Slippery Surfaces; 12:45: Carol Muske-Dukes, Blue Rose; 1:00: Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic; 1:40: Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assasin; 2:00: Kathy Fagan, Sycamore; 2:20: Cyrus Cassells, Still Life With Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas; 2:40: Claudia Keelan, We Step into the Sea; 3:00: Charles Harper Webb, Sidebend World; 3:20: Deborah Landau, Soft Targets; 3:40: Ellen Dore Watson, Pray Me Stay Eager; 4:00: Dawn Lundy Martin, Good Stock Strange Blood; 4:20: Blas Falconer, Forgive the Body This Failure; 4:40: Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of; 5:00: Jos Charles, Feeld; 5:20: Joseph Rios, Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations; 5:40: Armine Iknadossian, All That Wasted Fruit; visit Poetry Flash and Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center at Booth 185, see Poetry Flash poem broadsides; University of Southern California, University Park Campus, Los Angeles, panels and indoor conversations are free but require tickets available on site or online, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 (events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks)