Lynne Bronstein is a Santa Monica writer, journalist and poet. A New York native, she’s proudly maintained her New York state of mind despite many years in Southern California.
Here she does a guerrilla reading of her poem, “Born.” You can read and learn more about Bronstein on her website or buy her most recent book of poems, Border Crossings.
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Tom Schabarum is a Seattle-area poet and novelist. While he’s published his novels to the Kindle, he still loves the feel of a book in his hands. He put it this way in a blog post,
In Seattle we have the beautiful Olympic Sculpture Park, which contains a huge sculpture of a typewriter eraser complete with circular rubber wheel and feather brush top. When I have young people in my car under thirty years old, I always ask them to identify it and none of them know what it is. Hearing their answers keeps my mind pointing to the future and embracing it.
Tymeka Coney is recession-proof.
In her guerrilla reading at the 10th annual West Hollywood Book Fair, she showed us how. She read from her book of poetry, Words Unspoken, about making it through the recession and about Michael Jackson.
More about Coney on her website or on Facebook.
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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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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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I dropped by Occupy LA again today, this time with a few gallons of water and a copy of my book, The Streetwise Cycle, to donate. The guy at the library told me that poetry and plays are the most popular items getting checked out. Which is great news! That’s definitely not what they’re pushing at the big box corporate bookstores.
While I was there, the library organized a poetry reading. Some folks read works by famous poets, while others read or performed their own work. Two of them were kind enough to do guerrilla readings of their own poems on camera.
First up, Courtney Klink.
I thought these lines from her poem were particularly timely:
Liliana is singing a sparkling revolution
It’s too bad no one’s listening.
Next is Tina Xu:
My favorite lines:
I can’t get by one day without wanting to burst
So teach me, will you,
Teach me to shine on like you.
GuerrillaReads would love to post more work from Occupy writers! Send us your video, or drop me a line.
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Upcoming live GuerrillaReads events
Tues, Feb 21 at 7:30 pm An evening of 99% Guerrilla Lit hosted by The Brickbat Revue. Live readings, plus guerrilla lit videos from Occupy LA.
Sat, March 24 Video walk with GuerrillaReads co-founders Bronwyn Mauldin and Cheryl Klein in Highland Park. Explore the neighborhood and create a video of you reading your work. Open to writers at all levels.
Stay tuned for more details.
