The San Gabriel Valley Literature Festival, Inc. is releasing a series of limited-run audio chapbooks entitled Shadow Oaks Sessions featuring recordings of notable authors and special edition artwork by editors Daniel Questa & Charlotte San Juan. Each disk features a hand-made stencil and (mostly) hand-colored package art (above). Only five ridiculously inadequate dollars. Available at [...]
This is going to sound quaint or trite or maudlin or something, but sometimes it shocks me how much talent there is in my little part of the world. I suppose that talent exists many places, but I see it all the time in my students and my friends. Someone writes a poem and I [...]
Join us at the the San Gabriel Valley Arts Community as we begin with our first arts-related event. The poets Shelley, Keats, and Hunt famously came together for a friendly poetry competition in which they composed sonnets about the Nile in 15 minutes. The result was three brilliant poems with Hunt being nominated the winner. [...]
We’ve uploaded video from all over the San Gabriel Valley and beyond. Check out the library of videos on our youtube channel. Ara Shirinyan reads at Wine and Words in Downey John Brantingham and David Caddy read at Dezember House at Whittier College The October Valley Poets reading Eric Morago Scott Creley Luke Salazar David [...]
Hello Poetry Fiends. It’s almost the third Saturday of the month, which means the bad moon is rising, and we’ve reached the hour of the Valley Poets. Come see Eric Morago, Luke Salazar, and Scott Creley perform at this month’s reading. The Valley Poets Reading @ The Village Book Shop 123 N. Glendora Ave Glendora, [...]
Late at night last week, at a Bar in Pomona, after a reading at Dim Lights, I bought a local beer, Pomona Queen, for myself and one for the featured poet. A man I’ve come to know, respect, and admire as a writer and person over the last few months, Michael Torres. Torres’s poetry is [...]
Jean-Marie Colombani, Le Monde, Paris, France, Sept. 12, 2001 The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th left an indelible mark on lives around the world. Ten years later, we exist in a world that has, of course, been drastically altered. I’ll leave the meta-fiction of politics and socio-economics [...]
Pizza, Poetry, and punk rock came together to form a reading that, in summary, sounds vaguely like a bad 80′s movie, but actually turned out to be one of the best readings I’ve ever been to, let alone read at. The night was hosted by Pizza Supreme in West Covina, which might just become a [...]
Michaelsun Knapp is featured on insomnisveritas.org with his prize-winning story Mr. America. Click his picture and check it out.
SGV Literary Festival staffer Michael Torres has a book out from Finishing Line Press! The Beautiful Distraction is a full length poetry collection from writer Michael Torres. The Beautiful Distraction is available for pre-order now and ships on December 2nd. “Reading Michael Torres’s work is seeing Pomona and Los Angeles for what it really [...]
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