Avenue 50 and Write Large Press presents literary L.A. week

welcome to                 LOS ÁNGELES

Writ Large Press presents THE INSTANT Monday March 28 • 8pm Ham & Eggs Tavern 433 West 8th Street • Los Ángeles FREE A monthly reading series that serves up local and visiting literary contributors, unique live music/performance and everyone’s favorite go-to food in a cup, Instant Ramen. Episode 2 featuring noted poets & writers: Vickie Vertiz Jervey Tervalon Jade Chang Jesse Bliss & Toni Ann Johnson and a live music intermission by: Runson Willis III and a trio of top notch instant ramen available on site. We call this, The Instant. more info Avenue 50 Studio presents ASKEW POETRY JOURNAL the reading Tuesday March 29 • 7pm Avenue 50 Studio 131 N. Avenue 50 • Highland Park $5 Suggested Donation featuring many poets published in Askew over the years. Angel Garcia / Amy Uyematsu / Kim Young / Fernando Salinas / Suzanne Lummis / Lynne Thompson / Patty Seyburn / Phoebe Ozuna / Jerry Garcia / Elisabeth Adwin Edwards / Cece Peri / Alexis Rhone Fancher hosted by MARSHA DE LA O, FRIDAY GRETCHEN & the Ventura County Poet Laureate, PHIL TAGGART more info Writ Large Press presents ALWAYS IN TRANSLATION TRANS PACIFIC POETRY & PROSE Wednesday March 30 • 8pm Document Coffee Bar 3850 Wilshire Blvd #107 • Los Ángeles Free Kim Kyung Ju (trans. Jake Levine) / Kim Yi-Deum (trans. Jiyoon Lee) / Chiwan Choi / Eunsong Kim / Janice Lee / Hannah Sanghee Park more info The Advisory Circle of Con Tinta (a collective of Chicana/Latina Activist Writers), Poets Responding to SB 1070, and Avenue 50 Studio invite you to LA PACHANGA 2016!!! award ceremony & celebration Thursday March 31 • 5:30pm Avenue 50 Studio 131 N. Avenue 50 • Highland Park FREE / donations welcome Honoring the following Chican@ and Latin@ writers: Francisco X. Alarcón, RIP // Juan Felipe Herrera // Lucha Corpi // Luis Javier Rodríguez // Odilia Galván Rodríguez And celebrating the release of the new anthology Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice (University of Arizona Press), edited by Francisco X. Alarcón and Odilia Galván Rodríguez. Reading for the evening: JoAnn Anglin / Cathy Arellano / Victor Avila / Devreaux Baker / Esme Bernal / Sarah Browning / Xanath Caraza / Elizabeth Caresses / Lorna Dee Cervantes / Antoinette Nora Claypoole / Karen S Cordova / Iris De Anda / Sharon Elliott / Mario Angel Escobar / Odilia Galván Rodríguez / Nancy Aidé González / Claudia D. Hernández / Juan Felipe Herrera / Mark Lipman / John Martinez / Andrea Mauk / Gerardo Pacheco / Melinda Palacio / Matt Sedillo / Edith M. Vazquez / Edward Vidaurre / Andre Yang w/ plenty of food & drinks & palabra! & plenty of books for sale & signing! (this is an AWP off-site event) more info Against White Privilege: Writers of Color, LGBTQ, and Disabled Writers Respond to AWP Thursday March 31 • 7pm The Falls Lounge 626 S Spring Street • Los Ángeles FREE Jericho Brown // Ava Chin // Bao Phi // Teka Lark // Xavier Cavazos // Neelanjana Banerjee // Dan Vera // Taz Ahmed // Hieu Minh Nguyen  // Orlando White // Regie Cabico // Armine Iknadossian // Arash Sardinia // Linda Rodriguez (this is an AWP off-site event) more info FREE & ALL ARE WELCOME: PUBLIC POOL is diving into existence and we want you to join us and celebrate! In addition to a group of amazing readers, we’ll have a DJ dropping dope beats, beer and wine bar and other refeshments, and free poetry broadside giveaways! more info Two Dollar Radio/CCM/Entropy/Action Books/Writ Large #AWP16 READING  Friday April 1 • 8pm These Days Gallery 118 Winston Place • Los Ángeles FREE a night of literary readings, booze, socially awkward mingling, shenanigans, metal, metal, and, oh yeah, a raffle! Mark de Silva, Colin Winnette, Janice Lee, Sean H. Doyle, Dolan Morgan, Ashley Farmer, Alexandra Naughton, Johannes Göransson, Don Mee Choi, Yideum Kim, Valerie Mejer, Wendy C. Ortiz, Rachel McLeod Kaminer, Traci Akemi Kato-kiriyama, Ashaki M. Jackson, and more. (this is an AWP off-site event, like no other) more info Writ Large Press presents AWP Off Site VONA/Voices and Willow Books Authors Read Saturday April 2 • 7pm – 10pm The Falls Lounge 626 S Spring Street • Los Ángeles FREE Writers-of-Color–More Urgent Now Than Ever Faculty Authors from VONA-Voices Elmer Abinader // Faith Adiele // Tananarive Due // M. Evelina Galang // David Mura // Daniel José Older // Willie Perdomo Diem Jones, Hosts Willow Books Authors Yesenia Montilla // Cedric Tillman // Cole Lavalais // Mahogany Browne // Rachelle Escamilla // Reginald Flood // Randall Horton (this is an AWP off-site event, like no other) more info The Rejected: Panels Not Approved by AWP Friday April 1 3pm to Saturday April 2 5pm Cielo Gallery & Studio 3201 Maple Ave • Los Ángeles FREE Come and experience many of the panels that were rejected by stupid ass AWP16 for no damn good reason. These will be awesome panels. Brought to you by Lauren Traetto, Writ Large Press, and CIELO. In beautiful South Central LA. Please also attend and support our sister event, Not Your Average White Poets, put on Wednesday night by the people of As/Us Journal, along with Medford Street Studios and Xicanxcritores of East Los/Boyle Heights: https://www.facebook.com/events/1128476133852149/ MORE DETAILS AT LINK BELOW! more info

Juan Felipe Herrera in conversation with Sesshu Foster, April 9

L.A. TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/tickets-and-schedule/schedule/

Seeley G. Mudd (SGM 123)Ticket required; Signing Area 4

11:30 a.m.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016 SEELEY G. MUDD (SGM 123) Juan Felipe Herrera in conversation with Sesshu Foster (Conversation 1092) Interviewer: Sesshu Foster Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe will also be reading at the festival’s Poetry Stage at 2:30 PM

Indoor Conversations require free tickets.

There are two ways to get Conversation tickets:

Online

Advance Conversation tickets will be available from the website starting April 3, 9 a.m. A $1 service fee applies to each ticket. See http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/tickets-and-schedule/ticket-info/

At the festival

A limited number of tickets for each Conversation is distributed at the festival ticketing booth on the day of the Conversation — free of service charges. The booth will open at 9 a.m. each day.

Guests with Conversation tickets must arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled Conversation start time to ensure seating.

a poem by Juan Felipe:

latest book:

http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100437770&fa=author&person_id=4859

Blood on the Wheel

BY JUAN FELIPE HERRERA

     Ezekiel saw the wheel,
     way up in the middle of the air.
TRADITIONAL GOSPEL SONG

Blood on the night soil man en route to the country prison

Blood on the sullen chair, the one that holds you with its pleasure

Blood inside the quartz, the beauty watch, the eye of the guard

Blood on the slope of names & the tattoos hidden

Blood on the Virgin, behind the veils,

Behind—in the moon angel’s gold oracle hair

                    What blood is this, is it the blood of the worker rat?

                    Is it the blood of the clone governor, the city maid?

                    Why does it course in s’s & z’s?

Blood on the couch, made for viewing automobiles & face cream

Blood on the pin, this one going through you without any pain

Blood on the screen, the green torso queen of slavering hearts

Blood on the grandmother’s wish, her tawdry stick of Texas

Blood on the daughter’s breast who sews roses

Blood on the father, does anyone remember him, bluish?

                    Blood from a kitchen fresco, in thick amber strokes

                    Blood from the baby’s right ear, from his ochre nose

                    What blood is this?

Blood on the fender, in the sender’s shoe, in his liquor sack

Blood on the street, call it Milagro Boulevard, Mercy Lanes #9

Blood on the alien, in the alligator jacket teen boy Juan

                    There is blood, there, he says

                    Blood here too, down here, she says

                    Only blood, the Blood Mother sings

Blood driving miniature American queens stamped into rage

Blood driving rappers in Mercedes blackened & whitened in news

Blood driving the snare-eyed professor searching for her panties

Blood driving the championship husband bent in Extreme Unction

                   Blood of the orphan weasel in heat, the Calvinist farmer in wheat

                   Blood of the lettuce rebellion on the rise, the cannery worker’s prize

Blood of the painted donkey forced into prostitute zebra,

Blood of the Tijuana tourist finally awake & forced into pimp sleep again

It is blood time, Sir Terminator says,

It is blood time, Sir Simpson winks,

It is blood time, Sir McVeigh weighs.

                   Her nuclear blood watch soaked, will it dry?

                   His whitish blood ring smoked, will it foam?

                   My groin blood leather roped, will it marry?

                   My wife’s peasant blood spoked, will it ride again?

Blood in the tin, in the coffee bean, in the maquila oración

Blood in the language, in the wise text of the market sausage

Blood in the border web, the penal colony shed, in the bilingual yard

                    Crow blood blues perched on nothingness again

                    fly over my field, yellow-green & opal

                    Dog blood crawl & swish through my sheets

Who will eat this speckled corn?

Who shall be born on this Wednesday war bed?

Blood in the acid theater, again, in the box office smash hit

Blood in the Corvette tank, in the crack talk crank below

Blood boat Navy blood glove Army ventricle Marines

in the cookie sex jar, camouflaged rape whalers

Roam & rumble, investigate my Mexican hoodlum blood

                    Tiny blood behind my Cuban ear, wine colored & hushed

                    Tiny blood in the death row tool, in the middle-aged corset

                    Tiny blood sampler, tiny blood, you hush up again, so tiny

Blood in the Groove Shopping Center,

In blue Appalachia river, in Detroit harness spleen

Blood in the Groove Virus machine,

In low ocean tide, in Iowa soy bean

Blood in the Groove Lynch mob orchestra,

South of Herzegovina, south, I said

Blood marching for the Immigration Patrol, prized & arrogant

Blood spawning in the dawn break of African Blood Tribes, grimacing

& multiple—multiple, I said

Blood on the Macho Hat, the one used for proper genuflections

Blood on the faithful knee, the one readied for erotic negation

Blood on the willing nerve terminal, the one open for suicide

Blood at the age of seventeen

Blood at the age of one, dumped in a Greyhound bus

Blood mute & autistic & cauterized & smuggled Mayan

& burned in border smelter tar

                    Could this be yours? Could this item belong to you?

                    Could this ticket be what you ordered, could it?

          Blood on the wheel, blood on the reel

          Bronze dead gold & diamond deep. Blood be fast.

Juan Felipe Herrera, “Blood on the Wheel” from Border-crosser with a Lamborghini Dream. Copyright © 1999 by Juan Felipe Herrera.  Reprinted by permission of University of Arizona Press.

Source: Border-crosser with a Lamborghini Dream (University of Arizona Press, 1999)

from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/244636#poem

 

 

 

¡Mañana! ¡Tomorrow! Intercambio bilingüe @ Hammer / Bilingual Exchange @ Hammer — ¡& AntenaMóvil!

Jen Hofer

on / with Antena / Antena Los Ángeles

presents:

¡El AntenaMóvil ya está instalado! Ven a nuestro evento bilingüe este sábado no solamente para compartir comida rica y conversación rica, sino también para ver/leer/comprar libros de muchas editoriales pequeñas y micros de Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos — incluyendo las maravillas locales Kaya Press, Phoneme Media, Ricochet Editions, Seite Books, y Writ Large Press. El Antenamóvil es un triciclo de carga adaptado, equipado con libros que están a la venta y para leer aquí. La selección se enfoca en obras bilingües y multilingües, textos en traducción y textos innovadores de escritorxs de razas marginadas.

¡The AntenaMóvil is installed! Come to our bilingual event this Saturday not just to share delicious food and delicious conversation, but also to see/read/buy publications from many small and micro presses from Latin America and the U.S. — including local wonders Kaya Press, Phoneme Media, Ricochet Editions, Seite Books, and Writ Large Press. The AntenaMóvil is a retrofitted Mexican cargo trike stocked with books that are for sale and for reading on-site. The selection features bilingual and multilingual works, work in translation, and innovative texts by writers of color.

Justicia laboral alimentaria + Justicia del lenguaje: Un intercambio bilingüe
Food Labor Justice + Language Justice: A Bilingual Exchange
con / with Antena / Antena Los Ángeles, Cocina Abierta & ROC-LA
12 marzo / March 12
12pm – 3pm
Gratis / Free

Se proporcionará comida, pero si deseas, ¡trae una receta o un plato para compartir!
Food will be provided, but if you like, bring a recipe or a dish to shar e!
https://hammer.ucla.edu/antena12marzo/
Por favor RSVP / RSVP Please
(¡pero ven aunque no puedas RSVP! / ¡but come even if you can’t RSVP!)

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles  CA  90024

The Worker Body / El cuerpo trabajador, Cocina Abierta & ROC-LA, July 2015 / julio de 2015.
Photo/Foto: Heather M. O’Brien

Antena y Antena Los Ángeles, artistas en residencia con el programa de Public Engagement (Participación pública), junto con artistas, organizadorxs y trabajadorxs restauranterxs de la colectiva Cocina Abierta y El Centro de Oportunidades para Trabajadores de Restauranterxs de Los Ángeles (ROC-LA), invitan a lxs visitantes del Hammer a compartir comida, ideas y conversación en un espacio bilingüe. Les invitamos a escuchar las historias de trabajadorxs restauranterxs y posteriormente participar en un diálogo bilingüe durante una comida estilo familiar. Se proporcionará la comida, pero cualquier plato o receta que quieran traer será bienvenido.

¡Colabora compartiendo una receta para nuestro recetario! 

Las recetas que logre recolectarse serán utilizadas por Libros Antena Books para crear una pequeña publicación DIY (Do-It-Yourself o hazlo-tú-mismx), que será distribuida a todxs lxs participantes.

Public Engagement artists-in-residence Antena and Antena Los Ángeles, along with artists, organizers and restaurant workers from the Cocina Abierta collective and Restaurant Opportunities Center of Los Angeles (ROC-LA), invite Hammer visitors to share food, ideas, and conversation in a bilingual space. Visitors are invited to hear the stories of restaurant workers and afterward engage in bilingual dialogue over a family-style meal. Food will be provided, but feel free to bring a dish or recipe to share.

Participate by contributing a recipe for our recipe book! 

The collected recipes will be made into a small DIY publication by Libros Antena Books and distributed to all participants.

Jen also notes, NEWLY AVAILABLE:

¡Ya salió la traducción de Estilo (Style) de la feroz escritora mexicana Dolores Dorantes! Puedes comprar el libro en Small Press Distribution o directo de Kenning Editions .

My translation of Estilo (Style) by the fierce Mexican writer Dolores Dorantes is out! You can by the book from Small Press Distribution or directly from Kenning Editions .