The person who has a hammer
Tends to see everything as a nail
So begins Vanessa Van Wagner’s poem, Not the Other Guy.
She did her guerrilla reading live at the 10th Annual West Hollywood Book Fair. You can connect with Van Wagner on Facebook.
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Constance Dunn wants to democratize glamour. It’s not just for the rich and famous. What’s more, she says, it’s not just about appearance:
Wearing the most exquisite ensemble will fail to grant glamour if it’s the wrong style, fit or color for you. Nor will the most gussied-up beauty ever be considered quite so if she snarls at everyone in her path.
In her guerrilla reading at the West Hollywood Book Fair, Dunn gave a few hints about how it’s done.
Find out more on her website.
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Poet, spoken word artist and actress Lindsay Halladay has a heart that is so zen, it needs to beat only every now and then. Just watch this guerrilla reading of her poem, Zen, and you’ll understand.
Halladay, aka The Lindz, has performed sold-out shows for the LA Women’s Theater Festival, and she partnered with Declare Yourself, a non-partisan voting initiative founded by Norman Lear. She’s also been nominated for the Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant (FAAR) through The Ford Foundation and The Hip-Hop Theater Festival.
Read more about The Lindz on her website.
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Amber Howard is a SoCal poet. Her book, Fallen, was written during a difficult year in her life. Howard describes it as “personal and observational takes on love, lust, self-discovery, dreams and musings on life.”
Howard did a guerrilla reading at the 10th annual West Hollywood Book Fair.
More on her website.
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In 1971, the region then called “East Pakistan” fought a bloody liberation war with “West Pakistan” that led to creation of the independent nation of Bangladesh. Abu Zubair lived through that civil war, and he writes about it in his new novel, The Silent and the Lost. Zubair was recently awarded the US-Asia Business Forum’s Community Support Award for support of the community through historic writing.
Zubair read from his book at the 10th annual West Hollywood Book Fair.
It’s a first here on GR: a guerrilla reading about guerrillas.
More about Zubair and his work on his website.
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Jeanne Córdova is a proud troublemaker with a storied history. She’s been an activist nun, human rights editor for the L.A. Free Press, and political organizer. Her newest book, When We Were Outlaws: a Memoir of Love & Revolution, tells her personal story in the context of the struggle for gay rights and women’s liberation in the 1970s.
Learn more about Córdova – writer, activist, publisher and Latina – on her website.
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Live from the West Hollywood Book Fair, it’s Steven Paul Leiva with a guerrilla reading from his first contact novel, Traveling in Space (Blüroof Press). Leiva is a writer and producer who knows more than just a little about Hollywood and Ray Bradbury.
Writing about writing in a recent blog post, Leiva said,
Good writers do not channel in from some higher plain, they are simply human creatures who have a talent for expression and a talent, as Noel Coward would have said, to amuse. Brilliant writers combine those talents with a talent to reveal truths—or, at least, very interesting questions—about the human condition.
