Tía Chucha Press's table with Trini Rodriguez |
On Saturday, I had the pleasure of joining Luis Rodriguez
for a joint reading at the Kaya Press booth at
the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Kaya Press, Tía Chucha Press and other wonderful
independent presses and literary journals joined forces at the Smokin’ Hot Lit Lounge
to bring two days of readings, workshops and game playing on the sunny USC
campus.
Luis Rodriguez reading poetry |
Luis began with a rousing reading of several of his poems.
If you haven’t heard him perform his poetry before, you must make certain to do
so soon. After Luis, I read a few flash fiction pieces from one of my
short-story collections, Devil
Talk (Bilingual Press).
Daniel Olivas reading from Devil Talk |
And here are a few photos of readers, writers, editors and publishers having fun with Kaya
Press and Tía Chucha Press, et al.:
Helen, Michele, Tina and Barney after reading |
Kaya Press competitive Scrabble contest |
I also had a chance to visit a couple of panel discussions
including “Nonfiction: A Singular Passion” which included bestselling authors Gustavo Arellano and Ricardo Cortés.
Gustavo Arellano, Daniel Olivas and Ricardo Cortés
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Late in the afternoon, I caught “Writing American Identity”
moderated by Héctor Tobar with panelists Reyna
Grande, David Treuer, Luis
Rodriguez and Melinda
Palacio. Michael Sedano (not pictured) prowled the room with his
omnipresent camera.
David Treuer, Luis Rodriguez, Melinda Palacio, Reyna Grande
and Héctor Tobar
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Lee Merrill Byrd of Cinco Puntos Press
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1 comment:
Wonderful to see Asians and Latinos flowin' poetry / prose together! Fabulous.
~ Karen An-hwei Lee
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