Hi, everyone! Here’s a list of some virtual literary happenings to help us get through the month. If you’re organizing or participating in an event that isn’t listed, send me an email (justingreene@entropymag.org) and I’ll be happy to add it. Sending all the love!
Thursday, April 2
2pm PDT (5pm EDT): Kansas State University — 2019-2020 Visiting Writers Series / Bridget Lowe, Jenny Molberg / Zoom
3pm PDT (6pm EDT): Copper Canyon Press Launch Party Livestream / Ellen Bass, Monica Sok, Mark Bibbins / RSVP
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Books are Magic / Kawai Strong Washburn in Conversation with Serena Morales / Instagram Live
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): White Whale Bookstore Virtual Reading / Jason Schneiderman + Dawn Lundy Martin / RSVP
6pm PDT (9pm EDT): UNOLIT-20 / Christopher Romaguera, Andrea Panzeca, Jacob Budenz, Caro Fautsch, Jake Budenz / Host: Christy Lorio / Zoom
6pm PDT (9pm EDT): Queer Memoir / Andrea Gibson, T Kira Madden, Samantha Allen, Vivek Shraya / Host: Cameron Esposito / Zoom
7pm PDT (10pm EDT): Litquake on Lockdown — Poets for National Poetry Month / Rebecca Foust, Jane Hirshfield, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Kazim Ali / Link Posted at 6pm PDT
Friday, April 3
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): inQluded / Gem / 4pm PDT (7pm EDT) / RSVP
5:30pm PDT (8:30pm EDT): Online Literary Happy Hour / Mary-Kim Arnold, Amina Cain, Charles Yu / Host: Matt Bell / RSVP
7pm PDT (10pm EDT): Litquake on Lockdown / Eli Crews, Beth Lisick / Link Posted at 6pm PDT
Saturday, April 4
7pm PDT (10pm EDT): Litquake on Lockdown — “Home Baked” Booty Shake / Rebecca Skloot, Marke Bieschke, Alia Volz / Link Posted at 6pm PDT
Sunday, April 5
2pm PDT (5pm EDT): Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair / Shana Nys Dambrot + Osceola Refetoff / Instagram Live
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Camp Beotis — For Everyone Who Misses Basketball / Kaveh Akbar, Nate Marshall, Hanif Abdurraqib / RSVP
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Poets in Pajamas / moira j. / Facebook Live
7pm PDT (10pm EDT): Litquake on Lockdown — Met Cute — The Happy Side of Gay Romance / Kim Fielding, J. Scott Coatsworth, Angel Martinez, Amy Lane / Link Posted at 6pm PDT
Monday, April 6
1:30pm PDT (4:30pm EDT): The Kenyon Review Virtual Reading Series / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo / Zoom (Password: 616230)
1:30 PDT (4:30pm EDT): The Word Works at Café Muse Online / Lisa Hase-Jackson + Annie Kim / RSVP
7pm PDT (10pm EDT): Litquake on Lockdown — DIY Flash with the Flash Fiction Collective / Jane Ciabattari, Grant Faulkner, Kirstin Chen, Meg Pokrass / Link Posted at 6pm PDT
Tuesday, April 7
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Books are Magic / Veronica Roth in Conversation with Leigh Bardugo / Twitch
7pm PDT (10pm EDT): Litquake on Lockdown: ZYZZYVA’s 35th Anniversary Issue Release / Dave Madden, Lysley Tenorio, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Kristen Iskandrian, and More! / Link Posted at 6pm PDT
Wednesday, April 8
10am PDT (1pm EDT): Camp Beotis — Children’s Books Read-Aloud / Clint Smith / RSVP
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Books are Magic / Robert Kolker in Conversation with Susannah Cahalan / Zoom
7pm PDT (10pm EDT): Litquake on Lockdown — We All Want to Change the World / Kirstin Chen, Andrew Altschul, Ramona Ausubel, Danielle Evans, Joshua Furst / Link Posted at 6pm PDT
Thursday, April 9
11am PDT (2pm EDT): Copper Canyon Press Launch Party Livestream / Traci Brimhall, Leila Chatti, John Freeman / RSVP
7pm PDT (10pm EDT): Litquake on Lockdown — Bring the World into Your Home with World Editions / Sisonke Msimang, Adeline Dieudonné, Pierre Jarawan / Link Posted at 6pm PDT
6pm PDT (9pm EDT): Stella Corso, Ben Fama, Colleen Louise Barry, Emily Kendal Frey, Naa Akua, Brian Foley, Catherine Bresner, E. J. Koh, Bill Carty / Zoom (Password: 2569833)
Friday, April 10
5pm PDT (8pm EDT): Noir at the Bar / Amber Sparks, Kathleen Barber, James Grady, Colleen Shogan, Alma Katsu, Art Taylor, Erica Wright, Angie Kim + Music by Sara Jones / Host: E.A. Aymar / RSVP
7pm PDT (10pm EDT): Litquake on Lockdown: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times / Alicia Garza, Aya de Leon, Chip Livingston, Achy Obejas, Carolina De Robertis / Link Posted at 6pm
Saturday, April 11
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Bull City Press Presents / Destiny Hemphill, Alan King, and Lesley Wheeler with Emilie Menzel / Join the Mailing List to Receive an Invitation
Sunday, April 12
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Camp Beotis — All-Time Best and Worst Dates / Danez Smith, Fatima Asghar, Hieu Minh Nguyen / RSVP
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Poets in Pajamas / Linette Reeman / Facebook Live
Monday, April 13
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Books are Magic / C Pam Zhang in Conversation with Alice Sola Kim / Zoom
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Noir at the Bar / Bruce Robert Coffin, Elisabeth Elo, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Joanna Schaffhausen, Sarah Smith, Peter Swanson / Hosts: Daniel Ford of Writers Bone +
Edwin Hill / RSVP
Tuesday, April 14
1:30pm PDT (4:30pm EDT): The Kenyon Review Virtual Reading Series / Kyle Swenson / Zoom (Password: 170373)
Wednesday, April 15
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Books are Magic / Chelsea Bieker in Conversation with T Kira Madden and Marisa Siegel / Zoom
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Camp Beotis — Making Friends as an Adult / Kaveh Akbar, Clint Smith, Danez Smith, Nate Marshall / RSVP
Thursday, April 16
2pm PDT (5pm EDT): COVID-19, Decarceration, and Abolition / Ruth Wilson Gilmore in Conversation with Naomi Murakawa / RSVP
3pm PDT (6pm EDT): Copper Canyon Press Launch Party Livestream / Ed Skoog, Victoria Chang, Philip Metres / RSVP
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Books Are Magic x inQluded Present — Qmunnity In Publishing / JP Brammer, Krutika Mallikarjuna, Leah Johnson, Matt Ortile / RSVP
6pm PDT (9pm EDT): UNOLIT-20 / Cam Munn, Amie Geistman, Tad Bartlett, Christine Baniewicz, Kelly Gangeness Le / Host: Christy Lorio / Zoom
Friday, April 17
4:30pm PDT (7:30pm EDT): Away Message: A Virtual Reading Series / Johanna Hedva, jayy dodd, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, Travis Chi Wing Lau / Host: Zefyr Lisowski / Livestream / Venmo to Pay Performers (Suggested Donation $10): @zef-lisowski
Sunday, April 19
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Camp Beotis — Fashion & Finding Your Style / Ashley C. Ford, Jacqui Germain, Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen / RSVP
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Poets in Pajamas / Rashaun J. Allen / Facebook Live
Monday, April 20
1:30pm PDT (4:30pm EDT): The Kenyon Review Virtual Reading Series / Molly McCully Brown & Susannah Nevison / Zoom (Password: 899478)
Tuesday, April 21
11am PDT (2pm EDT): Copper Canyon Press Launch Party Livestream / James Richardson, Sarah Ruhl, Heather McHugh / RSVP
1:30pm PDT (4:30pm EDT): The Kenyon Review Virtual Reading Series / Oliver de la Paz
/ Zoom (Password: 988561)
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): White Whale Books — The Memory Eaters Virtual Book Launch / Elizabeth Kadetsky in Conversation with Irina Reyn / RSVP
Wednesday, April 22
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Camp Beotis — Black Music & Streetwear of the 90s / Ashley C. Ford, Sylvia Obell, Hanif Abdurraqib, Danez Smith / RSVP
Thursday, April 23
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): White Whale Books — Pretty Owl Poetry Reading / Lucia LoTempio, Charlie Lefever, Kara Knickerbocker, Malcolm Friend / RSVP
Sunday, April 26
2pm PDT (5pm EDT): White Whale Books — Against Occupation Reading / George Abraham, Malcolm Friend, Casandra López / RSVP
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Camp Beotis — Guided Writing Workshop (beotis.com/camp) / Safia Elhillo / RSVP
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Poets in Pajamas / Zefyr Lisowski / Facebook Live
Wednesday, April 29
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Books Are Magic / Ellen Bass, Victoria Chang, Nick Flynn, Ben Purkert / Zoom
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): Camp Beotis — Crossing Mediums: Writing for TV (beotis.com/camp) / Jonny Sun, Fatimah Asghar / RSVP
Thursday, April 30
4pm PDT (7pm EDT): White Whale Books — Object Permanence Virtual Book Launch / Michelle Gil-Montero w/ Piotr Gwiazda, Garth Graeper / RSVP
5pm PDT (8pm EDT): Archaic Torso of Gumby / Geoffrey Morrison and Matthew Tomkinson / a href=”https://www.facebook.com/events/224442162206685/” rel=”nooppener noreferrer”>RSVP
5pm PDT (8pm EDT): Wave Books / Matthew Roher, Lisa Fishman, Chris Nealon / a href=”https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wXAi7gmJSLCLH418OYBI8w” rel=”nooppener noreferrer”>RSVP
