Guidance regarding COVID-19 procedures at our Reading & Lecture Series events is available here. All events will be streamed live on our website in addition to the in-person reading. 

We are proud to present a reading by Sesshu Foster.

Sesshu Foster taught literature and composition in East Los Angeles for thirty years, and creative writing at Pomona College, California Institute of the Arts, Naropa University, University of California at Santa Cruz, and other colleges and universities. Winner of two American Book Awards, his latest books are the novel, ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines (with artist Arturo Ernesto Romo), and a book of poems, City of the Future, which won the 2019 CLMP Firecracker Award. 

Additional support for the 2021-2022 Reading & Lecture Series was provided by Innovations in Healthy Aging – a strategic collaboration led by the University of Arizona Health Sciences, rethinking what it means to thrive while aging.