[ALOUD] Newer Poets XVII
7:00 PM - Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Los Angeles Central Library
Mark Taper Auditorium
630 W. Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
The seventeenth annual newer poets program is guest-curated by three acclaimed poets: Eloise Klein Healy, Arktoi Press; Suzanne Lummis, Los Angeles Poetry Festival; and Gail Wronsky, professor, Loyola Marymount University and member, Glass Table Collective.
Xochitl-Julisa
Bermejo is a poet, high school teacher, and native Angelino.native Angelino.
She is creator and host of Beyond Baroque’s reading series Hitched,
co-founder of The Splinter Generation, and was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart
Award. Her work has been published in The Los Angeles Review, PALABRA, and
Writers at Work's Poem of the Month.
Mia
Carli was born in Corona, CA. She studied English and Political Science at
Loyola Marymount University and is now getting her M.F.A. in Poetry at the
University of Iowa.
Paul
Lieber produces and hosts Why Poetry on KPFK radio in L.A. and Santa
Barbara. His poetry collection, Chemical Tendencies, published by Tebot
Bach, was a finalist in the MSR poetry contest and received an honorable
mention in the Allen Ginsberg Contest. His poems have appeared in the
Patterson Review, Askew, Alimentum, New York Quarterly, Solo and many other
journals. Paul works as an actor and has performed on and off-Broadway and
in numerous films and TV shows.
Angela
Peñaredondo was born in the Philippines and grew up in Los Angeles and San
Francisco. She is a recipient of a UCLA Community Access Scholarship in
Poetry and a Fishtrap Fellowship. She has been featured in various literary
venues such as The World Stage, Avenue 50, West Hollywood Book Fair and The
Los Angeles Poetry Festival’s Night and the City. Currently, she is working
on a collection of poetry and will soon start a graduate program in creative
writing this year.
Verónica
Reyes is a Chicana jota from East LA. Her poems give voice to her
Mexican-American communities. She was a resident at Ragdale Foundation,
Vermont Studio Center and a NEA fellow at the Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts. Her poetry has been published in Calyx, Feminist Studies,
ZYZZYVA, North American Review and The New York Quarterly.
Rolland
Vasin, third-generation American writer (pen name Vachine) is published in
the journals Open Minds Quarterly, Gnome, and Found and Lost and is an
active open-mic-reader at venues from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Big Sur,
California. He has featured at Los Angeles’ World Stage, The Rapp Saloon,
and Cobalt Cafe, among others, and dabbles in improvisational theater and
stand-up comedy for which we was recognized as the Laugh Factory’s 1992 3rd
Funniest CPA in Los Angeles. As a day job, Rolland's CPA corporation audits
youth and family charities.
Thanks to The Library Foundation for its support of this event.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers with a grant it received from the James Irvine Foundation.
James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) - Judith Freeman - Naomi Hirahara (Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner) - Eddie Muller (Founder, President Film Noir Foundation) - Robert Polito (Detours: Seven Noir Lives, forthcoming Knopf) - Noir Scholar Alan K. Rode.
And Movies. And Panels. And L.A.'s Noir Poets.
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This fall (2011), the Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center collaborated to produce "Night and the City: L.A. Noir in Poetry, Fiction and Film" — October 28 - November 13, with keynote speaker, Robert Polito, poet and editor of the Library of American volumes Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s and Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, reading on October 15. While many major events will take place at Beyond Baroque in Venice, others are being developed for venues around the city, as well as L.A.'s farthest outposts, where Festival and Beyond Baroque collaborators will celebrate "Long Beach Noir" and "Oxnard Noir."
NEWER POETS READING XVI (July 2011)
The Los Angeles Poetry Festival and Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
presented L.A.'s prestigious and wildly popular annual reading for local
poets—a feature of The Los Angeles Public Library's ALOUD series. Six poets
perform their best ten minutes.
Poets selected by The Los Angeles Poetry Festival:
Lory Bedikian's manuscript The Book of Lamenting received the
Philip Levine Prize in Poetry from CSU-Fresno.
Mehnaz Turner was a 2009 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow in Poetry.
Sherman Pearl's work has appeared in over 50 literary magazines.
Poets selected by Beyond Baroque:
Cassandra Love was a 2008 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow in Poetry.
A. Razor belongs to the collective The Hollywood Institute of
Poetics.
Anthony Seidman is the author of Where Thirsts Intersect (The
Bitter Oleander Press) and Cosmic Weather (White Print, Inc.).
ALOUD: Newer Poets at the Central Library (June 2010)
World Arts Olympus: Readings on the Queen Mary (June 2010)
The Big Read: Robinson Jeffers and the Ecology of Poetry (October 2009)