GuerrillaReads

GuerrillaReads No. 10

September 28, 2009 · 2 Comments

John Talley-Jones reads the Marfusha Haiku

These haiku narrate the story of Marfusha, first rabbit into space. In July of 1959, she participated in a high-altitude, suborbital Soviet test flight.  Along with two canine companions, she successfully returned to Earth, where she lived out the rest of her days.  A Rumanian postage stamp was subsequently issued in her honor.

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Written and read by John Talley-Jones of the Los Angeles punk band Urinals.

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GuerrillaReads No.9

March 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Bronwyn Mauldin reads from her short story, Sensible Cars for Santa Ynez.

Bronwyn Mauldin is a writer and founder of GuerrillaReads.com. Her work has appeared in The Battered Suitcase, Blithe House Quarterly, Clamor magazine, and From ACT-UP to the WTO (Verso).

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This guerrilla reading took place in Eagle Rock, some 30~ miles southeast of the fictional town of Santa Ynez.

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GuerrillaReads No.8

January 19, 2009 · 1 Comment

Urban poet Yvonne Estrada reads four poems featuring topics ripped from the bloody streets of Los Angeles.

You can read more of Estrada’s work in Mischief, Caprice and Other Poetic Strategies and Catena, or find her on MySpace. Estrada is a well-established guerrilla reader – she’s read poetry from the top of a downtown L.A. building, and once was part of a group that put poetry disguised as schedules on public transit.

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This guerrilla reading took place in the ambulance yard of the L.A. County Emergency Medical Services Authority in the City of Commerce.

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GuerrillaReads No.7

December 19, 2008 · 1 Comment

Crystal Allene Cook reads from her novel, Bombardirovka.

Cook has been published in such journals as Shenandoah and the Southeast Review. This guerrilla reading was recorded live in Little Armenia in Los Angeles.

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GuerrillaReads No.6

November 19, 2008 · 3 Comments

Poet Kim Dower reads four poems from a collection in progress, Air Kissing On Mars.

Dower is a Los Angeles area poet. Her previous work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Seneca Review and others.

This guerrilla reading took place on Mulholland Drive at Fryman Canyon in Los Angeles in October 2008.

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GuerrillaReads No.5

September 25, 2008 · 2 Comments

Poet Gwendolyn Alley reads from a manuscript in progress, Shishilop Project taped at Surfer’s Point in Ventura, California, September 2008.

Alley’s work can be found at ARTLIFE Limited Editions and at the 3:15 Experiment. Her primary blog is the ArtPredator, which also has a YouTube channel.

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GuerrillaReads No.4

August 26, 2008 · 5 Comments

Author Terry Wolverton reads “Nothing and Everything” from her manuscript, Wounded World.

Wolverton is the author of Shadow and Praise, Embers and Bailey’s Beads, among other works. She is also the founder of Writers at Work.

This guerrilla reading took place at Golden Bridge Yoga in Hollywood, CA.

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GuerrillaReads No.3

July 21, 2008 · 2 Comments

Lisa Horowitz Brooks reads from her recently completed novel, Unraveling Lana.

Read on the grounds of the Brand Library in Glendale, California.

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GuerrillaReads No.2

June 23, 2008 · 3 Comments

Kathy Talley-Jones reads At the Tower of Silence, from her current novel-in-progress, Majnun:

Read in the Joshua Tree Highlands.

Kathy Talley-Jones is a Los Angeles area writer.

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GuerrillaReads No. 1

May 19, 2008 · 1 Comment

Cheryl Klein reads from her short story, Follow Me to the Church of Perfect Light:

Read in front of the mural at Elsa’s Bakery, in Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA.

Klein is author of The Commuters (City Works Press, 2006). She blogs at breadandbread.blogspot.com, where a version of this story first appeared.

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