Random Acts of Terror in Los Angeles tonight

this is happening tonight! if you are in the area, you should check it out. getting this book to print has been quite the journey. i'm proud of my involvement and hope that if you can't get out to the event, you'll give the book a look-see, help us spread the word and maybe buy a copy. support the small press. the independent press. whatever you want to call it. support literature that refuses to conform, has something to say without apology. giving voice to the voiceless or some shit like that.

Friday, July 19. 8pm Pacific
Stories Books and Cafe, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90026
Join us for the poetry book debut of Luis Rivas’ Random Acts of Terror. Hear from poets Matt Sedillo, David Romero, Luis Rivas and special musical guests.

More info about the book can be found at http://theliteraryunderground.org/randomactsofterror

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Luis Rivas lives in Los Angeles, California. He was a telemarketer, construction worker, flower delivery driver, fast food cashier, sales clerk, non-profit canvasser, tutor, adult store and strip club manager and package handler/zip code sorter. He dropped out of Los Angeles Valley College where he was studying journalism to work full-time at a porn shop. Then he got fired. Now he has gone back to school, continuing his studies in journalism and Chicana/o Studies at California State University of Northridge and Los Angeles City College. He is currently a full time journalist student and part-time activist. His poetry has appeared in numerous small press publications. Luis is currently the poetry editor at Gloom Cupboard and a columnist for Red Fez.

Matt Sedillo is a two-time national slam poet, grand slam champion of the Damn Slam Los Angeles 2011 and the author of For What I Might Do Tomorrow published by Caza De Poesia 2010. His poetry has been published in anthologies alongside the likes of such literary giants as Amiri Baraka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hircshman and Luis Rodriguez. Sedillo is a frequent guest on numerous programs on KPFK 9.07 FM and has also been featured twice on Radio Free Atlanta 8.93 FM. An interview and excerpt of his work was featured in a story that appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

David A. Romero is a proud Pocho/Chicano spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA.
Romero is the host of Between the Bars Open Mic at the dba256 Gallery Wine Bar in Pomona,
CA. Romero has opened for Latin Grammy winning artists Ozomatli and Latin Grammy
nominated artists La Santa Cecilia. He has featured alongside Taalam Acey as well as with a
number of HBO Def Poets. His work has been featured numerous times on multiple programs on
KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles.

Uno Kudo "Naked" reading

Come celebrate Uno Kudo's Volume 2: Naked
Sat Feb 2nd 8PM
Helnwein Studio
901 E 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA. 90013

MORE INFORMATION TO COME
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Uno Kudo is a literary and arts publication that features significant new words and art from a diverse array of contributors, presented in expressive and luscious layouts. The theme for this volume is "Naked" and includes work from over 50 writers and artists from around the globe.

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Book Release: The Daughters of Bastards by Iris Berry

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The Daughters of Bastards by Iris Berry
Published by Punk Hostage Press
Afterword by Dimitri Monroe, Introduction by Pleasant Gehman, Cover design or artwork by Geoff Melville, Edited by A. Razor, Associate editor Michele McDannold
124 pages, 6" x 9"
$15.95
Purchase here

The long awaited book from Punk Hostage Press founding editor Iris Berry, entitled The Daughters Of Bastards, is a ride through the dirty streets of 1980s Hollywood that never stops delivering the real taste of a womanhood claiming a place for itself surrounded by the perverseness of a crumbling mystique that was once a golden tinseled dreamland.

About the author:
Iris Berry is one of the founding creative minds behind Punk Hostage Press. She is a native Angeleno who writes about her personal experiences from the sun baked asphalt violent streets of Pacoima, running away to the allure of late 70's Hollywood, at the age of 15, looking for a better life against the historical backdrop of the Los Angeles skyline.

Her poetry and prose, as well as her performances in such memorable groups as the Lame Flames and the Ringling Sisters, are an integral part of L.A.'s contemporary literary movement. She has recently featured articles and interviews in Slake, her most recent being an in depth interview with Art Kunkin, the founder of the Los Angeles Free Press back in the early 60s.

Her latest book, The Daughters of Bastards, features some of her most intimate work she has shared with the public to date. A working title that she has compiled these personalized stories under for the last 10 years, these poems and stories represent a grappling with the idea of origin and the drift that occurs when the umbilical has been cut and the search begins for what might have been lost at the beginning.

It reflects her experiences and gives insight to some of her adventurous times growing up on the streets of Hollywood in the golden era of the LA punk rock scene.