Saturday, November 2, 2024
Exene Cervenka and John Doe performing at the Beyond Baroque Gala
Los Angeles is still feeling the afterglow of the corporate success of its baseball team. News reports claimed that one hundred thousand people, more or less, converged on the streets of downtown Los Angeles for a raucous parade of baseball players and team officials. I was happy for the exuberant joyfulness of everyone who was there. In truth, it wouldn’t make much difference to New York City if the Yankees had won the World Series. After all, that team has won over two dozen World Series. Unlike the Dodgers, the Yankees didn’t lose a World Series to a team that cheated in order; nor did the Yankees have to forego a World Series victory parade four years ago because of the pandemic. This World Series triumph allowed a city to release long forestalled energy.
Of course, for some people it takes an event on the scale of the World Series to distract them from the oncoming debacle of the national election. For those who are more easily calmed, there are two events this weekend that you should know about: the 2024 LitLit gathering, and the Beyond Baroque gala. The former is free; the latter costs $200 a ticket.
beyondbaroque.org
https://givebutter.com/c/beyondgala
Below are links to the vendors of print culture that will be in residence at LitLit, which is sponsored by the Los Angeles Review of Books. If you can’t make it to THE PIT, then browse these cultural outlets for some fascinating and intriguing books!
https://9vtbackslash5.com
https://www.826la.org
https://www.altaonline.com
https://www.lapl.org/angelcitypress\
https://www.artbook.com
https://www.as-is-press.com
https://colourbloccreativ.com
https://www.ediblela.com
https://errant.press
https://hatandbeard.com
https://heavymannerslibrary.com
https://hessepresse.com/home.html
https://www.cindyrehm.com/hexentexte
https://insert.press/pages/about-insert-blanc
https://www.inventorypress.com
https://www.legacyunbound.org
https://www.magrabooks.com
DISPLACEMENTS – Bill Mohr
https://www.magrabooks.com/books/displacements
Displacements
$10.00
DISPLACEMENTS features two previously unpublished prose poems, as well as a monologue and a sermon. If the mutability of collage, as Alan Wald suggests, engenders the poetic logic of prose poems, Mohr’s comic permissiveness tethers their unfamiliar juxtapositions with puckish vivacity. The other pair of pieces strike a more contumacious note in the narrator’s refusal to reconcile himself to a specious fate. In each work the lift-off of each sentence pushes aside not only what has preceded it, but the recoil of what might yet happen.
https://nueoi.com
https://shop.paperchasepress.com/pages/about-us
https://parallevarmag.com/About
https://rarebirdlit.com/about-rare-bird/
https://www.smc.edu/sm-review/index.html
https://www.semiotexte.com
https://www.slantd.com/our-story
https://www.catranslation.org
https://www.catranslation.org
https://www.whatbookspress.com/poetry.html
https://www.wordsuncaged.org
About Bill Mohr