Viva Poetry!

Join us for afternoons of poetry at the Lummis Day Library Series! Hear live poetry from Los Angeles poets and learn to write or improve your own poetry. All events are free and open to the public.

Saturday, May 8,
Special Start Time 3-5PM
@ The Eagle Rock Library
5027 Caspar Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Featuring Chiwan Choi and Candace Pearson with
special guest Mehnaz Turner

Saturday May 15, 2-4PM
@ The Arroyo Seco Regional Branch
6145 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042
liz gonzález, UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor, will
lead a free poetry workshop for beginning and published
writers of all ages! Come tap into your imagination and begin a
new poem!

Chiwan Choi's first major collection of poems The Flood will be published by Tía Chucha Press this April and his work has appeared in ONTHEBUS, Esquire, Circa and American Book Jam.

Candace Pearson's manuscript Hour of Unfolding won the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry and her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Borderlands and Texas Poetry Review.

liz gonzález' poetry and fiction have been in many publications and anthologies, including Women on the Edge: Fiction by L.A. Women Writers, Open Windows, and So Luminous the Wild Flowers.

Don't miss the wrap-up Open Reading
and 7 minute lecture "Poetry in a Golden Nutshell"
by John Brantingham of Mount San Antonio College
Autry Museum 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
on Saturday, May 22, at 2-4PM! Sign up @ 1:30PM to read.

All are welcome! Readings will be limited to 5 minutes or three
www.lummisday. org for more info short poems.

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc., with a grant it received from the James Irvine Foundation.