by Brian Dunlap
Update on #90x90LA. Today Chiwan Choi, the lead organizer of #90x90LA, posted the following on his Facebook page:
“Presenting the #90X90LA site and calendar. as you will see, July dates are posted. as August and September fill up, we will post them too. it’s not 100% perfect (details need to be put in for some of the events) but we think it’s in shape enough to share with you. please spread the word and start penciling in into your calendars. thank you.”
Check out the events at: http://90x90la.com/
Teen’Scape program presents a creative workshop on the DIY art of writing poetry, drawing mini-comics, collaged illustration, self-publishing, and making zines.
Yesterday it was announced that Cynthia Guardado, Los Angeles poet and author of the poetry collection Endeavor, won the prestigious Pellicer-Frost Poetry Prize. The prize, according to its website, is awarded to one “Mexican poet and to a United States poet” who has submitted a manuscript of 25 or more pages, and comes with $2,500 and publican of their poems in various literary magazine in both the US and Mexico.
Three independent publishing entities with common goals of publishing vital and exciting literature, building and participating in community, and contributing and promoting good literary citizenship, are joining forces.
There is a new open mic in town. Yes, another open mic. Yes, even though this site lists more than 30 in and around L.A.
Lou Cove, with Joel Stein, discusses and signs Man of the Year: A Memoir, which tells the story of a family in the 1970s. After his eighth move in twelve years, Lou figures he should resign himself to teenage purgatory of tedious paper routes, school bullies, and unrequited lust for girls he likes. But the arrival of an old friend of Lou’s father from California leads him to juggle the perils of adolescence with the pursuit of Hollywood stardom.
