Ongoing Events
"As Man Is To God" at Lyric Hyperion
Slow Lightning Lit is delighted to present, former punk rocker and veteran comedy writer, playwright and poet ANDREW NICHOLLS in his first one-man SERIOUSLY FUNNY show of the blights encountered during the Amazonian jungle filmmaking of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. Some say Nicholls' book of hysterical rhyme in four languages and perfect dactylic tetrameter is destined to become as much a cult classic as its forerunners, Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo" and Les Blank's "Burden of Dreams." To all poets, comedy writers, filmmakers, historians and opera lovers, for the love of God and as man IS to God, don't miss this show.
HOT OFF THE PRESS
NAPOWRIMO READING ONLINE ALL OPEN : ALL POEMS WRITTEN IN THE LAST 30 DAYS
DETAILS COMING
L.A. Times Festival of Books Booth 200 w/Writers and Publisher’s Network
SLOW LIGHTNING LIT will partner with our member Colleen O’Mara Diamond of The Ojai Writers Collective in the Writers and Publishers Network Booth 200 (across from the Poetry Stage.)
Our poets and authors will be on hand to sign your books as follows … and you’ll be able to visit us without missing a beat on the Poetry Stage.
1:00pm SLANT: Slow Lightning Lit Anthology III: Folio Edition
w/ COLLEEN O’MARA DIAMOND, PEGGY DOBREER, JANET FITCH, MANDY RAE HARTZ, ANDREW NICHOLLS, BILL RATNER, GUY ZIMMERMAN
2:30pm MAMMAL ONE: Guy Zimmerman
3:15pm AS MAN IS TO GOD: A Poem On the Making of Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO: Andrew Nicholls
4:00pm LAMENTING WHILE DOING LAPS IN THE LAKE: Bill Ratner
AWP Conference Booth 754
SLOW LIGHTNING LIT is happy to be part of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Los Angeles from March 27-29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
YOU CAN FIND US in the Main Exhibit Hall, Booth 754 (middle back by the concession stand) to introduce our online daily somatic meditation and writing practice (in its fourth year) with new books by Guy Zimmerman, Andrew Nicholls, Murray Mednick, Bill Ratner and three years of Slow Lightning Lit Anthologies: I. Impractical Poetry, II. Astonished Poetry, and III. Folio Edition: SLANT.
Our Table Readings and Author Signings are scheduled at the Booth: Thursday Noon:SLANT Anthology, Folio Edition; Friday: 11am; AS MAN IS TO GOD, A Poem On the Making of Werner Herzog’s, FITZCARRALDO by Andrew Nicholls; Friday 1pm: SLANT Anthology, Folio Edition; Saturday 11am, MAMMAL ONE by Guy Zimmerman.
Slow Lightning Lit began meeting daily on January 12, 2021 after the Insurrection at the Capitol shook the soul of American Democracy. We are still quivering, still meditating together, still in search of whimsy and the miraculous, in our morning drop-in community writing sessions.
In celebration of our first time at AWP we will be giving a free book to every 12th person who signs our guest registry. Come by and introduce yourself.
Slow Lightning Birthday Bash
Join us for an afternoon of Live Music, Poetry, Champagne & Cake
Includes readings from Bill Ratner, Shawna Casey, Ryan Cutrona, Darrell Larson, and Guy Zimmerman.
Hosted by Peggy Dobreer.
Music by Don Preston and Putter Smith.
Excerpt from documentary “The Coyote Cycle” created by Guy Zimmerman and Bradford L. Cooper, narrated by actor Ed Harris on the life and poetry of Murray Mednick.
1st Annual Belmont Shore Book Festival
Slow Lightning Lit hosted the Poetry Stage at the first Annual Belmont Shore Book Festival in Long Beach, CA.