by Brian Dunlap
Los Angeles poet Matt Sedillo has won the 2017 Joe Hill Poetry Award.
As stated on the Labor Heritage website the ” Joe Hill Award honors leaders and artists who have contributed to the successful integration of arts and culture in the labor movement, given every year at the Great Labor Arts Exchange is awarded to persons based on their dedication, participation, and promotion of labor, labor arts, culture, organizing, and/or history.”
The Labor Heritage Foundation has presented this annual lifetime achievement award for work in the field of labor culture since 1989.
Past L.A. winners are Mark Lipman (2015).
90X90LA: Facilitating Spaces at Cielo Galleries/Studios 
Join us to hear editor Anne Margaret Daniel discuss and sign F. Scott Fitzgerald’s I’d Die for You, a collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by Fitzgerald, most of which were originally submitted to major magazines in the 1930s and accepted during his lifetime but never published. Some could not be sold because they departed from what editors expected of him. These stories provide a new look into his creative process and a new insight into the arc of his career.
Los Ángeles/Bell Garden’s Native Vickie Vertiz will be releasing her second book of poems Palm Frond With Its Throat Cut, next month (September). The Amazon jacket copy describes Vertiz’s book as a collection that “uses both humor and sincerity to capture moments in time with a sense of compassion for the hard choices we must make to survive. Vértiz’s poetry shows how history, oppression, and resistance don’t just refer to big events or movements; they play out in our everyday lives, in the intimate spaces of family, sex, and neighborhood. Vértiz’s poems ask us to see Los Angeles—and all cities like it—as they have always been: an America of code-switching and reinvention, of lyric and fight.”
Exciting publication news coming out of the Los Angeles Literary community. Happy to announce that Erika Ayón’s first collection of poetry will be published by L.A. based 
Teen Summer Reading Challenge at Exposition Park Regional Library–Teen Event
