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February 6, 2014
GuerrillaReads No. 84: Most Open Mic in the City
Why just have an open mic when you can have a guerrilla open mic? Andru Defeye is making waves in Sacramento, CA, with The Most Open Mic in the City. Flash mob meets poetry, and discover they were meant for each other.
What’s a guerrilla open mic? Watch the video and see for yourself.
Maybe next time Jerry B. will stop by and spill a few lines.
Tagged: flash mob, guerrilla, hip hop, open mic, poetry, Sacramento
September 15, 2013
Crawl for submissions
GuerrillaReads is looking for writers!
We’ll be screening videos from local writers at LA’s first ever LitCrawl. If you’re a writer and would like to have your work considered, check out our “crawl” for submissions now.
Deadline is October 10, 2013.
Tagged: call for submissions, GuerrillaReads, LitCrawl, literature, reading, writing
September 11, 2013
GuerrillaReads No. 83: Shukry Cattan
Welcome to Los Angeles, Crossroads of the World. Hometown world traveler Shukry Cattan reads about growing up Palestinian in the US. It’s about exploring his Arab roots and finding his place in the world.
This video comes to us as part of a partnership between GuerrillaReads and Tiyya Foundation, a local nonprofit that provides basic necessities for refugees and displaced American families. Through their creative writing program, refugees and immigrants have an opportunity to tell their own stories, in their own words. This is one of those stories.
Look for more videos from Tiyya Foundation here on GR.
Tagged: guerrilla, immigrant, literature, Palestine, reading, refugee, Tiyya Foundation, writing
June 21, 2013
GuerrillaReads No. 82: Des Zamorano
Des Zamorano’s novel, Human Cargo, carries on in the fine tradition of LA noir with private investigator and krav maga aficionado, Inez Leon. Zamorano ends her guerrilla reading at LitFest Pasadena with Leon announcing a provocative, “Glendale’s the reason why I’m here.”
Enjoyed this video? Learn more about Zamorano on her website. Or watch all the videos from LitFest Pasadena 2013.
Tagged: author, Glendale, guerrilla, literature, LitFest Pasadena, noir, reading, writing
June 19, 2013
GuerrillaReads No. 81: Just Kibbe
Just Kibbe is a poet and founding member of the Pirate Pig Collective. Wearing a top hat and vest, he drove his white sedan onto the lawn at LitFest Pasadena. He left with a car covered in poems.
He also left us with a few poems of his own:
The pirate pig looks out into the world with his one good eye
And is misquoted making commentary in the dirt
Tagged: author, guerrilla, literature, LitFest Pasadena, pig, pirate, pirate pig, poetry, reading, writing
June 16, 2013
GuerrillaReads no. 80: Melinda Palacio
Poet Melinda Palacio reads two “how to” poems from her collection, How Fire is a Story, Waiting. First, the title poem:
My grandmother caught the flame in her thick hands.
Curled fingers made nimble by kaleidoscope embers.
Fire burns hot and cold if you know where to touch it, she said.
Then she shares with you the must-have secrets of How to Make a Mediocre Poem Sing.
Tagged: author, guerrilla, literature, LitFest Pasadena, poetry, reading, writing
June 11, 2013
GuerrillaReads No. 79: Lucy Wang
Author Lucy Wang does some investigating “down there” where she discovers chirping chickens, spicy red peppers and the door to death and destruction.
This guerrilla reading is an excerpt from her one-woman show, Chinese Girls Don’t Swear. Read more about Wang or follow her @sensuousgourmet.
Tagged: anatomy, author, Chinese girls, down there, guerrilla, literature, reading, writing
June 6, 2013
GuerrillaReads No. 78: Laurel Ann Bogen
Poet Laurel Ann Bogen does a guerrilla reading of two poems from her book, Washing a Language, at LitFest Pasadena: Vocation of the Chair and Winchester Mystery House. Yes, it’s about that world-famous mystery house. And much more:
and so built sliding floors, gilt-edged parlors
and staircases at the top of which a door
slammed against heaven.
Yet, isn’t that what we all want –
to stave off death with architecture
of our own design?
Stay tuned for more videos from the LitFest.
Tagged: author, chair, guerrilla, literature, LitFest Pasadena, poetry, reading, Winchester Mystery House, writing
June 4, 2013
GuerrillaReads No. 77: Petrea Burchard
Petrea Burchard is a writer, actor and photographer. Now she can add “guerrilla reader” to her resume. Here she is reading from her novel Camelot & Vine at the second annual LitFest Pasadena.
The “Camelot” of the title is, yes, that Camelot. King Arthur, round tables, etc. The “Vine?” You’ll have to read the book to find out about that.
If you like this, you’ll want to see more guerrilla readings from Litfest Pasadena.
Tagged: author, Camelot, guerrilla, literature, LitFest Pasadena, reading, writing
May 30, 2013
GuerrillaReads No. 76: Robin Winter
In Robin Winter’s dystopian novel, Future Past, “the first man he murdered returns to teach Ash Tarberrn how to be human.”
You can get a taste of Future Past in this guerrilla reading Winter did at the second annual LitFest Pasadena.
Winter is an painter as well as a writer. Read more about her, and check out her blog.
Tagged: author, dystopian, guerrilla, LitFest Pasadena, reading, science fiction, writing
