Southern California Poetry Festival - Sunday
Event Information
Event description
Description
Day three of the 2018 Southern California Poetry Festival features Ilya Kaminsky, Dana Gioia, and others reading from the Best American Poetry 2018; readings curated by Lambda Literary, Rattle, PEN America, and Gunpowder Press; workshops led by Jeffrey Schultz and Peter J. Harris; and a young writers worksop taught by Nicelle Davis. All events are free. Visit scpoetryfest.com for a full description of events and more details.
Organized in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
Schedule:
Workshops:
10am - 12pm - Peter J. Harris: UnSilenced… summoning ecstatic insight by ‘diving’ into personal/social Vertigo
10am - 12pm - Jeffrey Schultz: "A Robust Ignorance”: Navigating the Turns of Image and Abstraction
11am - 2:00pm - Nicelle Davis: Young Writers Workshop for ages 10-17
2:00pm - 4:00pm - SoCal Literary Showcase:
Gunpowder Press:
Nan Cohen
Catherine Abbey Hodges
Chryss Yost
PEN America:
F. Douglas Brown
Alicia Partnoy
Nancy Lynée Woo
Rattle:
Marvin Artis
Nancy Miller Gomez
Dave Harris
Taylor Mali
4pm - LAMBDA Literary Reading
Ryka Aoki
Charles Jensen
Tommy Pico
Margaret Rhee
Dinner Break
6pm - Reading for the Best American Poetry 2018
Brendan Constantine
Dana Gioia
Mandy Kahn
Ilya Kaminsky
Nate Klug
Jessica Piazza
Aaron Poochigian
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.
