Southern California Poetry Festival - Saturday
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Event description
Description
Day two of the 2018 Southern California Poetry Festival features original commissioned work from Kimiko Hahn, Morgan Parker, and Vanessa Angélica Villareal; a retropective on the poets and poetry to emerge from Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center over the past 50 years; a poetry film festival; readings curated by Jack Jones Literary Arts, Red Hen Press, and Kaya Press; and a poet's potluck! It also includes free workshops taught by Kimiko Hahn and Janice Lee. For more details, as well as the festival's complete schedule, visit scpoetryfest.com.
Organized in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
Schedule:
Workshops:
10am-12pm - Kimiko Hahn: The Sensationally Short Poem
10am-12pm - Janice Lee: Co-Dependencies: Affected Bodies & the Poetic Languages of Personhood
12:00pm - 2:00pm - SoCal Literary Showcase:
Kaya Press:
Readers TBA
Red Hen Press:
Kim Dower
Eloise Klein Healy
Edoardo Ponti
Jack Jones Literary Arts:
Frank Johnson
Joseph Rios
B.A. Williams
2:30-4:00pm - Poetry Film Festival, hosted by Pedro Paulo Aroujo of Maraca, Inc.
Blank Verse Films
Motionpoems
4:30-6:30pm - ReVerse: Beyond Baroque in Retrospect
Laurel Ann Bogen
Amy Gerstler
S.A. Griffin
Suzanne Lummis
Bill Mohr
Dennis Phillips
Pam Ward
6:30 - 8 pm. The Poet's Potluck Dinner Break
Bring food and celebrate!
8pm - The New Series: Writing the Future
A reading of new poems commissioned for the festival on the theme of "Writing the Future", followed by a dicussion moderated by Victoria Chang.
Original work by:
Kimiko Hahn
Morgan Parker
Vanessa Villarreal
Reservation Policy for Southern California Poetry Festival
Since the festival is free of charge it is our policy to overbook for all readings and conversations. In the case of a full program your free ticket may not guarantee admission. We recommend arriving early. Standby tickets will be released fifteen minutes prior to each program.
Since the festival is free of charge it is our policy to overbook for all readings and conversations. In the case of a full program your free ticket may not guarantee admission. We recommend arriving early. Standby tickets will be released fifteen minutes prior to each program.
Regular workshops will be capped at fifteen people and will not be overbooked. Please note that our morning workshos run concurrently, and that you should not reserve a space in both workshops. The youth poetry workshop will be capped at 30. If you have reserved a space in a workshop and will not be able to attend, kindly email emmitt@beyondbaroque.org, or call 310-822-3006 so that we can release your spot to another person.
