Donna Hilbert, Beside the City of Angels: A Long Beach Poetry Festival

Standing around after a poetry reading in early spring with my good friends, the exceptional poets, Anna Badua, Clint Margrave, Kevin Lee, Paul Tayyar and Tamara Madison, all of us chatting about how much we love poetry and how much we love Long Beach, when one of us said, “We should have a Long Beach poetry festival.”  It was like being a kid again when someone says, “Let’s put on a show!”

Only this time there would be no costumes or puppets and we would have bona fide talent.

Thus, Beside the City of Angels: A Long Beach Poetry Festival was born. This is a free event, open to the public.  In addition to the readings, there will be the opportunity to buy books and have them signed by the authors as well as rub elbows with editors and publishers. Click the link at the end of the lineup for further details.

WHEN:

Saturday, October 15 10am-9pm
WHERE:
2nd City Council Art Gallery
435 Alamitos Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90802-1643
(562) 901-0997
2ndcitycouncil.org
WHO (Readers):
Erika Ayon
Amanda J. Bradley
John Brantingham
David Caddy
Jeff Epley
Dorothea Grossman (with trombonist Michael Vlatkovich)
Raymond P. Hammond
David Hernandez
Steve Kowit
Cassandra Love
Rick Lupert
Bill Mohr
Joan Jobe Smith
Clifton Snider
G. Murray Thomas
Mehnaz Turner
Fred Voss
Charles Harper Webb
Grace Zabriskie
Rafael Zepeda
Hosted by:
Anna Badua, Donna Hilbert, Kevin Lee, Tamara Madison, Clint Margrave, Paul Kareem Tayyar
For complete event schedule visit: http://lbpoetryfestival.blogspot.com/
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.