In addition to SLOW LIGHTNING LIT in AWP Booth #754, (middle back of the Convention Exhibit Hall, by concessions) presenting on the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center…..

…poet/voice actor BILL RATNER has over-kindly booked the Los Angeles Makery Gallery, for an off-site Slow Lightning Lit celebration reading and book signing. Program includes: comedy writer ANDREW NICHOLLS; novelist JANET FITCH; playwright/scholar, GUY ZIMMERMAN; and out-of-town members, AAPI poet/Texas connection JACINTA CAMACHO KAPLAN (with DAVE WHEELER former host at the Midnight Special); and poet, fiction writer/Berkeley to New York connection DAROTHY DURCAK.

With special member cameo appearances by MANDY RAE HARTZ, poet/Crestline; LUCIEN ZELL, poet, novelist/Prague; JUNE STODDARD, poet/Santa Monica; COLLEEN O’MARA DIAMOND, poet/Ojai; LORAINE DESPRES, novelist/Beverly Hills ; and PEGGY DOBREER poet/curator/host of Slow Lightning Lit. Also, special friends Myka Kielbon, Jeff Rogers, and Raundi Kai Moore-Kondo.

Signing Books: AS MAN IS TO GOD: A Poem on the Making of Werner Herzong’s “Fitzcarraldo” by Andrew Nicholls; MAMMAL ONE by Guy Zimmerman; SLANT: Slow Lightning Lit Anthology III; by community members of Slow Lightning Lit online practice, and Living Poetry by Murray Mednick.