The Los Angeles Poetry Festival has presented over 150 city-wide events that explore the culture, character and history of Los Angeles through the writings of some of the city's most distinctive poets.
Since its creation in 1989, by Suzanne Lummis and Sherman Pearl, The Los Angeles Poetry Festival, in collaboration with many arts and cultural entities—Beyond Baroque, MOCA, The Los Angeles Public Library, The World Stage, The Southwest Musuem, The Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, and others—has produced over a hundred fifty readings involving various themes and explorations. Some of these include Women at the Edge, Exiles and Immigrants, Poetry of the Sacred, Hangugin-Yongshi: Images from the Country of the Morning Calm, Poetry and the Unbroken Line (Poets and Fiction Writers), The Poetry of Conscience, Play Ball! Poets Take on the American Sport, Tribute to Black Bards, Mermaids Singing: Contemporary Voices in Classical Forms, La Poesia de la Americas, The Mythical Works of Yeats, Jump into the POOL! (A celebration of the literary magazine, Pool) and Poetry, Dreams and Healing: A Workshop.
LA Poetry Festival is sponsoring two fabulous poetry readings aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach as part of the Arts Olympus event.
Sunday Readers
John Brantingham
Ching-In Chen
Sandra Cutuli
Jamie Asaye FitzGerald
Mary Fitzpatrick
Jessica Goodheart
Bill Hickok
Charlotte Innes
Sarah Maclay
Judith Pacht
Cece Peri
Gloria Vando
Mariano Zaro
More information here.
Since its creation in 1989, by Suzanne Lummis and Sherman Pearl, The Los Angeles Poetry Festival, in collaboration with many arts and cultural entities—Beyond Baroque, MOCA, The Los Angeles Public Library, The World Stage, The Southwest Musuem, The Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, and others—has produced over a hundred fifty readings involving various themes and explorations. Some of these include Women at the Edge, Exiles and Immigrants, Poetry of the Sacred, Hangugin-Yongshi: Images from the Country of the Morning Calm, Poetry and the Unbroken Line (Poets and Fiction Writers), The Poetry of Conscience, Play Ball! Poets Take on the American Sport, Tribute to Black Bards, Mermaids Singing: Contemporary Voices in Classical Forms, La Poesia de la Americas, The Mythical Works of Yeats, Jump into the POOL! (A celebration of the literary magazine, Pool) and Poetry, Dreams and Healing: A Workshop.
LA Poetry Festival is sponsoring two fabulous poetry readings aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach as part of the Arts Olympus event.
Sunday Readers
John Brantingham
Ching-In Chen
Sandra Cutuli
Jamie Asaye FitzGerald
Mary Fitzpatrick
Jessica Goodheart
Bill Hickok
Charlotte Innes
Sarah Maclay
Judith Pacht
Cece Peri
Gloria Vando
Mariano Zaro
More information here.
