
Amy Gerstler
LA Times Festival of Books: Kim Addonizio, Amy Gerstler, Suzanne Lummis, more
27 APRIL 2025 — sunday
The 30th annual LA Times Festival of Books presents indoor and outdoor events including over 200 author and celebrity panels, one-on-one conversations, music, film screenings, book signings, exhibitor booths, Children's Stage, food and cooking demos, bilingual programming and more, authors include poet Amanda Gorman, novelist Percival Everett, Pico Iyer, Chelsea Handler, Stacey Abrams, and many more; today's Poetry Stage features emcees Elena Karina Byrne and Marty L. Williams; 10:00 am: Holaday Mason, As If Scattered; 10:20 am: Tony Barnstone, Apocryphal Poems; 10:40 am: Amy Gerstler, Is This My Final Form?; 11:00 am: Perry Janes, Find Me When You're Ready; 11:20 am: Mita Mahato, Arctic Play; 11:40 am: Camille T. McDaniel, Blood, Skin, and Water; Noon: Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, Dream State: A Commonplace Book; 12:30 pm: 30 Years of Los Angeles Poetry: A 30th Anniversary Panel, with Elena Karina Byrne, Amy Gerstler, Suzanne Lummis, Luis J. Rodriguez; 1:00 pm: Kim Addonizio, Exit Opera; 1:20 pm: Avan Jogia, Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob): (poems of rage, love, sex, and sadness);; 1:40 pm: Sarah Maclay, The H.D. Sequence—A Concordance; 2:00 pm: Derrick Austin, Tenderness; 2:20 pm: Donna Sprujit-Metz, To Phrase a Prayer for Peace; 2:40 pm: Nathan Xavier Osorio, Querida; 3:00 pm: Stella Wong, Stem; 3:20 pm: Carol Moldaw, Go Figure; 3:40 pm: Ruben Quesada, Brutal Companion; 4:00 pm: Lory Bedikian, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body; 4:20 pm: Farid Matuk, Moon Mirrored Indivisible; 4:40 pm: WriteGirl Poets Performance, I Tell You This Now; 5:00 pm: Jose Hernandez Diaz, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man; 5:20 pm: Poetry Art Performance, with poet Gail Wronsky and artist Gronk Nicandro; University of Southern California campus, admission is free, photo ID will be required to enter USC, tickets for panels come with a small reservation fee required for panel sessions in classrooms and campus theatres, event parking is $20, parking garages are credit card only, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT (For more information, eventinfo@latimes.com, or visit: events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/schedule)


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- The 28th annual Petaluma Poetry Walk is an annual poetry festival founded in 1996, this year features 26 poets at eight venues: 11:00 am, Hotel Petaluma, Ballroom, 205 Kentucky Street: Sixteen Rivers Press kicks off the Walk with Judy Halebsky, Moira Magneson, and Patrick Cahill, with event presenter Terry Ehret; Noon, Keller Street CoWork, Main Lounge, 140 Keller Street: Unsolicited Press Poets, Cathryn Shea, LeeAnn Pickrell, and Kerry Donoghue, with event presenter Daedalus Howell; 1:00 pm, The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street: Found Poets in The Round, Grayson Thompson, Original Giotis, and Bernice Espinoza, with event presenter Josh Windmiller; 2:00 pm, The Big Easy, 128 American Alley: Black Lawrence Press Poets, Cassandra Dallett, Tureeda Mikell, and Paul Corman-Roberts, with event presenter Ingrid Keir; 3:00 pm, Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky Street: The Headliners, Dorianne Laux, Life on Earth, and Joseph Millar, Shine, with event presenter Kary Hess; 4:00 pm, Usher Gallery, 1 Petaluma Blvd. North: the Translator Poets, Nancy Morales, Terry Ehret, Amanda Moore, with event presenter Dave Seter, Sonoma County Poet Laureate; 5:00 pm, The Petaluma Historical Library and Museum, 20 4th Street: The Library Youth Poets, Meg Hamill, Lisa Zheng, and Anaya Ertz, with event presenter John Johnson; 6:00-8:00 pm, Aqus Café, 189 H Street (this location is the farthest, you might want a ride for this venue): The Grande Finale: The Shape of Love with Jennifer Barone, Justin Cole Demeter, Ingrid Keir, Sonoma County Poet Laureate Dave Seter, Kelechi Ubozoh, Bill Vartnaw, with event presenter Kary Hess; all in walking distance across Petaluma, all free, 11:00 am to 8:00 pm (For more information, visit: petalumapoetrywalk.org)
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- Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library presents a reading by the Fourth Saturdays Team, the organizers of the series: Lucia Galloway-Dick, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Genevieve Kaplan, and George Hammons, Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Avenue, in the Claremont Village, Claremont, free, 2:00 (909/621-4902, www.claremontlibrary.org/monthly-poetry-readings.html)
- The Sitting Room presents a Round Table Discussion on "The Poetry of Marianne Moore: Just Fiddle or Genuine?" led by Sonoma County Poet Laureate Dave Seter, bring your own favorite poems by Moore or poems of hers that you find challenging, The Sitting Room, Cotati, 2:00-4:00 (Registration required, sittingroomlibrary.org/events)
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