POETRY HOUR

Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 2:30 p.m. @ The Pit LA

Los Angeles Review of Books presents Poetry Hour. We’ll be featuring a series of readings, curated by LARB Poetry Editors Elizabeth Metzger and Callie Siskel, from SoCal poets including Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Katie Ford, Douglas Manuel, Natalie Shapero, and Sarah Yanni.

This program is made possible by the Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is a Legacy Artist Fellow (California Arts Council) and a recent Thomas Wolfe Prize winner, among many others. Hedge Coke’s books include The Year of the Rat, Dog Road Woman, Off-Season City Pipe, Blood Run, Burn, Streaming, Look at This Blue: A Poem (book-length), as well as a memoir, Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer, and the play Icicles. Hedge Coke teaches creative writing and narrative medicine at UC Riverside.

Katie Ford’s most recent book is If You Have to Go, published by Graywolf Press. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, and The Norton Introduction to Literature, and is forthcoming from The Atlantic. She teaches at UC Riverside.

Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana, and now resides in Long Beach, California. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Testify (2017) and Trouble Funk (2023). His poems and essays can be found in numerous literary journals, magazines, and websites, most recently Zyzzyva, Pleiades, and the New Orleans Review. He is an assistant professor of English at Whittier College and teaches at Spalding University’s low-res MFA program.

Natalie Shapero is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection Popular Longing. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at UC Irvine.

Sarah Sophia Yanni is a Mexican Egyptian writer, researcher, and editor in Los Angeles. She is the author of Hard Crush (Wonder Press, 2024) and ternura / tenderness (Bottlecap Press, 2019). In 2024, she was selected to represent Los Angeles at the Paris Poetic Games, with a delegation of seven other L.A. poets. Her work can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Wildness, SPECTRA Poets, Mizna, and elsewhere. She is co-founding Editor of Lola Goes By Tom, reviews editor at Full Stop, the former managing editor of TQR, and former poetry editor of The Dry River.

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Elizabeth Metzger’s second full-length collection Lying In came out with Milkweed Editions in April 2023. Her next book is coming out with Milkweed in late 2025. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and Poem-a-Day. Her prose has appeared in Conjunctions, Lit Hub, Guernica, and elsewhere. Metzger lives in Los Angeles, where she is a poetry editor at Los Angeles Review of Books and co-hosts the reading series The Long Freeway: Poets Read Los Angeles.

Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds and Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poetry appears in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review Books.