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The poets arrived in style, wearing trench coats and velvet gloves, combat boots and platform Mary Janes. They slunk around looking dark and dangerous — though the day was preternaturally bright, a perfect July Saturday in Los Angeles.

The event: The sixth annual Poetry Circus. The brainchild of local poet Nicelle Davis, this annual extravaganza is described as a community event that “blurs the line between performer and audience to allow everyone the chance to run away and join the circus.”...

Spring is over — but the Spring 2019 issue of The Hopkins Review has just come out, and it has a story of mine in it!

“Dumbo” is about a floor of smart girls in college who all happen to have hooked up with the same guy. Here’s a short excerpt:

We lived on the girls-only floor for the science scholars. The opportunity to live there was sold to us and our parents as a privilege and a perk, a reward for our high AP Biology scores and violin playing and community service projects, and as good g...

I’m used to driving to the Mandrake from the west, so making the trip from Burbank for the first time last weekend, I got completely turned around. I parked in the general vicinity, walked up a confused half block to the stoplight, and was repeatedly pushing the cross button when I looked behind me to see an open door, and over it, the familiar little neon sign: BAR.

The Mandrake is a low-key bar in the industrial-looking area that’s the Culver City arts district. It’s also home to It’s Five...

If you’d like to hang out with me in person this summer, come to The Poetry Circus #6: Circus Noir next Saturday.

Organized by Nicelle Davis whom I’ve been reading with a lot lately, The Poetry Circus is an interactive art event series described as “part workshop, community outreach, performance, ride, dance, and creation.” There’ll be poets, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, face painting, light refreshments, and circus acts! Here’s the schedule:

When: Sat., July 13, 2019, 5 pm-10 pm
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Though I mostly write fiction now, I did go to grad school for poetry — and have published two poetry chapbooks I rarely get to read from. But I’ll be doing that in a couple days at Poetry Palooza!

Poetry Palooza is an annual event organized by the Northridge Creative Writing Circle, a student group at Cal State Northridge. This year, it happens Thu., May 2. I’ll read at 5 pm in Jerome Richfield Hall, room 201 (driving directions here).

Looking forward to getting to read with Nicelle Davis...

They say true happiness comes from giving — so ask not what your literary community can do for you, ask what you can do for your literary community. Here are six ways to give back to the Los Angeles literary community:
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For a more vibrant literary community: Pen America

This literary and human rights organization, committed to championing the freedom to write, does everything from provide fellowships to emerging writers to defend writers and journalists’ freedom of speech to give out lit...

One great way to find a writing community: Becoming a regular at a local reading series.

To help you do that, I’ve put together a list of my favorite reading series. Just to be clear, many more readings happen in town. Indie bookstores, writing programs, and literary journals often host their own series. Plus, lots of one-off events happen everywhere from tiny coffee shops to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. And there are other reading series I haven’t included on this list, sometimes because t...

What makes a bookstore great for writers? There’s the usual stuff all readers want, like nicely organized shelves, a pleasant browsing atmosphere, and if possible, a coffee shop.

But as a writer, I also want the bookstore to be the hub of a literary community. That means I favor bookstores with a knowledgeable staff that reads and recommends books, that carries books and chapbooks and zines put together by locals, that hosts regular readings that introduce me to new writers — from the very fa...