Juan Felipe Herrera

LA Times Festival of Books: Juan Felipe Herrera, Jorie Graham, more

9 APRIL 2016 — saturday

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the country's largest book festival, 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; Children's Stage performances; Poetry Stage features an exciting line up hosted by Elena Karina Byrne and Marty Williams, with poetry books on sale from Small World Books: 10:00 a.m.: Jeffrey Schultz, What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other, Jeannette Clough, Flourish; 10:30 a.m.: Ron Koertge, Vampire Planet; 11:00 a.m.: Jorie Graham, From the New World; 11:30 a.m.: California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia, 99 Poems: New & Selected; Noon: Willis Barnstone, Mexico in My Heart, Andrei Codrescu, and Stanley Moss; 12:50: Brian Stefans, Viva Miscegenation, Allison Joseph, Mercurial; 1:30: Tony Barnstone, Pulp Sonnets; 2:00: Marsha de la O, Antidote for Night; 2:30: U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera; 3:00: Rick Barot, Chord; 3:30: Arthur Vogelsang, Orbit; 4:00: Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez; 4:30: Jennifer Militello, A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, and Hélène Cardona, Life in Suspension: La View Suspendue; 5:00: Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude; 5:30: Holly Prado Northup, Oh, Salt/Oh, Desiring Hand, Harry Northup, East Hollywood: Memorial to Reason; visit Poetry Flash and Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center at Booth 134, see Poetry Flash broadsides and LA poetry info from Beyond Baroque; University of Southern California, 850 West 37th Street, 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)