17th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

22 APRIL 2012 — sunday

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.: James Ragan, Too Long a Solitude, and Dana Gioia, Pity the Beautiful, 10:30 a.m.: Douglas Kearney, The Black Automaton, and Holaday Mason, Dissolve, 11:00: Matthew Zapruder, Come All You Ghosts, and Eric Gudas, Best Western and Other Poems, 11:30: Carol Muske-Dukes, Twin Cities, 12:00: Brendan Constantine, Calamity Joe, 12:30: Gail Wronsky, So Quick Bright Things, 1:00 Cyrus Cassells, The Crossed-Out Swastika, 1:30: Shideh Etaat, Sheida Mohamadi, Partow Nooriala, Chad Sweeney, and Sholeh Wolpe present The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its Exiles, 2:00 David Hernandez, Hoodwinked, 2:30: Dawn Lundy-Martin, Discipline, 3:00: David St. John, The Auroras: New Poems, and Anna Journey, If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting, 3:30 Kim Dower, Air Kissing on Mars, and Charles Harper Webb, Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems, 4:00 Lory Bedikian, The Book of Lamenting, and Carroll Kearley, The Plain Above the River, 4:30: Poetic Performances by the Get Lit Players Teen Poetry Troupe, University of Southern California, Exposition Blvd. and S. Figueroa Street, LA, free admission, USC parking $10, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 (latimes.com/festivalofbooks)