the Bluebird Reading series @ Avenue 50 Studio

“For last year's words belong to last year's language 
and next year's words await another voice.” T.S. Eliot 

And the next year is upon us…oh my god oh my god!!!! 

You DO NOT wanna miss this…

January 12th at 2PM 

Hollywood Institute of Poetics 
and Avenue 50 Studio presents

the BLUEBIRD READING series 2.0. 1.4 

FEATURING:
Daniel Chacón
Wendy C. Ortiz
Verónica Reyes
Scott Schultz (w/ his one-note musical accompaniment)

with OPEN MIC after the feature
SIGN UP begins at 1:45!

HOSTED BY:
jessica ceballos 

Books will be available for purchase and signing

FREE!
2pm 
at the AWESOMEST space ever...

Avenue 50 Studios
131 North Avenue 50
Highland Park, CA 90042
323 258 1435


the Bluebird Reading series is a component of the Avenue 50 Studio Inc. literary arts programming. 

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DANIEL CHACON is author of Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops (2013). His collection of short stories, Unending Rooms, won the 2008 Hudson Prize. He also has a novel, and the shadows took him, and another collection of stories called Chicano Chicanery. His fiction has appeared in the anthologies Latino Boom; Latino Sudden Fiction; Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge; Caliente: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction; and Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the West Side of the Missouri.He co-edited The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: The Selected Work of José Anontio Burciaga. He is also editor of Colón-ization: The Posthmous Poems of Andrés Montoya, forthcoming in 2014 from Bilingual Press and The Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame. Chacón is recipient of The Hudson Prize, a Chris Isherwood Foundation Grant, The American Book Award, and the Peter and Jean de Main Emerging Writers Award, among others. He has a literary radio show called Words on a Wire (KTEP.org) which he co-hosts with Benjamin Alire Sánez. Visit Chacón’s webpage at http://imaginarywater.com/


WENDY C. ORTIZ is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books) and Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press), both to be released later this year. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nervous Breakdown, The Rumpus, and other places both in print and online. Wendy writes the column "On the Trail of Mary Jane" for McSweeney's Internet Tendency and is co-founder, curator and host of the 9 year old Rhapsodomancy Reading Series (www.rhapsodomancy.org). Visit her atwww.wendyortiz.com or wendycortiz.tumblr.com. 


VERONICA REYES is a Chicana feminist jota poet from East Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA from California State University, Long Beach and her MFA from University of Texas, El Paso. Her poems give voice to all her communities: Chicanas/os, immigrants, Mexican Americans, and la jotería. Reyes has won AWP’s Intro-Journal Project, an Astraea Lesbian Foundation Emerging Artist award, and was a Finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry award. She has received grants and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, and Montalvo Arts Center. Her work has appeared in Calyx, Feminist Studies, ZYZZYVA, and The New York Quarterly. She is a proud member of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) and Macondo Writers’ Workshop.

SCOTT SCHULTZ is an award winning storyteller and writer from Cambridge, MA. Scott won Boston’s 2013 Massmouth Storyslam championship, The Big Mouthoff, and his stories have been heard on NPR. Scott is a long time contributor to LA Record, has a blog devoted to Long Distance bus, train and highway travel (www.loooongride.com) and cohosts a popular amateur basketball podcast “Time Out with Coach Miller” at Skidrow Studios. Scott tells first person true stories to audiences on both coasts, and is preparing his first LOOOONG RIDE book for 2014 publication.

Avenue 50 Studio
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