Carla Rachel Sameth

Writing Workshop, Reproductive Writes
2022-07-13 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom, see registration link in description
Dear ART of Infertility Friends:
In the wake of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision, the ART of Infertility will lead a writing workshop inviting participants to reflect on the intersections of reproductive rights, reproductive health, and the ability to access services to build one’s family. What does the Dobbs Supreme Court decision mean for those who need access to reproductive healthcare, infertility treatment, and other alternative family building options? Join us on Wednesday, July 13th at 8pm EDT for a generative writing workshop.
Register at: https://tinyurl.com/reprowrites
Questions? Email info@artofinfertility.org

Imagine Your California State Park in a Poem, online writing workshop, Pasadena Public Library
2022-07-11 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom, see registration link in description
Topic: Imagine Your California State Park in a Poem presented by Pasadena Public Library, poets Carla Sameth and Gerda Govine Ituarte
Time: Jul 11, 2022 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Pasadena Rose Poets Read
2022-05-14 14:00 - 15:00 | CA
Come join Gerda Govine Ituarte, Teresa Mei Chuc, Shahe Mankerian and Carla Sameth for a reading with The Pasadena Rose Poets!

Featured Reader at the Beatnik Cafe
2022-03-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Hey Hey Teahouse, 1555 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90026, United States
Featured poet along with Rhiannon McGavin at Hey Hey Teahouse for the Beatnik Cafe, hosted by Hanna Pachman.
Beatnik Cafe presents another night of hearing truth from lesser heard perspectives!
4:50-5 pm- Open Mic Sign Up
5-5:10 pm- Intro
5:10- 5:30 pm- Rhiannon McGavin Reading
5:30- 5:50 pm- Carla Sameth Reading
5:50- 6:50 pm- Poetry Open Mic (3 minutes per poet)
6:50- 7 pm- Close
Poetry Open Mic Guidelines: You could read up to two poems at the Open Mic. They can be poems by you or by other poets you respect. Although we want to hear from you, this is not a space to promote your wine company’s social media. You are encouraged to be creative about your language, but racism, bigotry, and sexism are not allowed.
Consider using the below writing prompt.
Write a poem in response to a recent photo from the news.

Saturday Afternoon Poetry
2022-01-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Zoom, see registration link in description
Featured reader along with Jenn Koiter and Megha Sood, Sunday January 15, 3-5 pm online, see link below for Zoom details. In “normal times” Saturday Afternoon Poetry meets weekly (Saturday) in the backroom of the Santa Catalina Branch of the Pasadena Public Library on 999 E. Washington Blvd. between 3pm and 5pm (unless otherwise indicated). Currently the readings are being held on Zoom.
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Canyon Poets Featured Reader
2022-01-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom, see registration link in description
Carla Rachel Sameth will read from her newly published chapbook, What Is Left (dancing girl press).
On Zoom, go to this link to RSVP.

Glowing in the Dark: A Solstice Reading
2021-12-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom, see registration link in description
Reading from We Were Not Alone, a Community Building Art Works Anthology
edited by Hari Alluri & Seema Reza with an introduction by Jewel
Since 2010, Community Building Art Works has been building community in military hospitals through workshops led by professional artists. In that time, we’ve learned that more voices make for stronger community. In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, we moved our workshops at Walter Reed and Ft Belvoir online and opened them up to everyone, regardless of military connection. At “the altar of the laptop,” as Army veteran and community member Anne Barlieb calls it, people from around the world met weekly to write and cry and laugh, to hold one another across space. The poems included in this anthology are written by established authors and workshop participants, some folks being both: members of our community—writers of our time. All profits help our programs grow.

Register at https://bit.ly/glowingreading

WeHo Reads presents Carla Rachel Sameth's chapbook launch for "What Is Left," with a Q&A and readings by special guest poets.
2021-12-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Zoom, see registration link in description
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WeHo Reads: “What Is Left” Book Launch & Poetry Reading
The City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Reads program and City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace present a poetry reading and book launch for Carla Rachel Sameth’s new chapbook, What Is Left, published by dancing girl press. This event will feature readings from the book, a Q&A, and readings by special guest poets Chen Chen, Jireh Deng, Seema Reza, and Victor Yates.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Carla Sameth’s poetry captures the sudden calamity of the pandemic and the way it has made us redraft the future, hold the helplessness of loss from the quiet of our homes, and continue to love despite the distance. The lens of the mother is at the heart of her poems–a mother who knows loss profoundly, a queer mother, and mother to a Black son–and offers potent and urgent currents of protection in a shaky world. She also delivers surprising notes of levity, and we find ourselves in those moments too, and we ride the waves of both demise and recovery. More at https://carlasameth.com/what-is-left/

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carla Sameth’s is the author of What is Left (dancing girl press, 2021) and memoir One Day on the Gold Line (published 2019, reissue forthcoming by Golden Foothills Press, 2022). Her writing on blended/unblended, queer, multi-racial and single parent families appears in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. Carla’s work has been twice named as Notable Essays of the Year in Best American Essays. A Pasadena Rose Poet, a West Hollywood Pride Poet, and a former PEN Teaching Artist, Carla teaches creative writing to high school and university students, and has taught incarcerated youth. More at more at https://carlasameth.com/

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
… a record of family life, outrage and grief during the COVID-19 pandemic and this new yet old era of racist violence in the US. Carla Rachel Sameth’s lyrical record is at once searingly personal and politically astute.
—Chen Chen, author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

… a beautifully absurd witness to the early days of the pandemic… honest, tender and poignantly humorous.
—Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge

…These poems are not like pills to be taken in doses but more like rich and aromatic cups of coffee to savor and relish, wishing there were more.
—Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning

The feel, focus and flavor of What Is Left bears fruit familiar and fresh…
—Gerda Govine Ituarte, author of Future Awakes in Mouth of NOW

ABOUT THE FEATURED POETS
Chen Chen’s second book of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in September 2022. His first book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), was long-listed for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including three editions of The Best American Poetry. He teaches at Brandeis University and also serves on the poetry faculty for the low residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.
Seema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives & When the World Breaks Open. Based in Maryland, she has led writing workshops within correctional facilities, military and civilian hospitals, elementary and secondary schools, and universities. She is the CEO of Community Building Art Works, a unique arts organization that encourages the use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care and socialization among a military population struggling with emotional and physical injuries. Reza’s work with veterans is featured in the 2018 HBO documentary We Are Not Done Yet. An alumnus of Goddard College and VONA, she has had writing online and in print in McSweeney’s, The LA Review, The Feminist Wire, The Offing, and Entropy among others.
Jireh Deng (she/they) is a queer Asian American poet and journalist born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley. Their work appears in the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the podcast VS, L.A. Taco, the Human Rights Campaign, TaiwaneseAmerican.org and more. They are a student at CSU Long Beach and the student advisory board representative for the Asian American Journalist Association’s Los Angeles Chapter. In summer 2021 they interned at the L.A. Times and is currently interning at NPR. When they aren’t writing, you can probably find them cooking noodles or fried rice for loved ones.
Victor Yates is a writer, storyteller, and performance artist. His digital Black Lives Matter spoken word performance, Death Sentence, received grants from the city of West Hollywood (2020) and Glendale (2021). He was also awarded a grant from West Hollywood to shoot a documentary recording narratives of older gay men. He was selected for the Fire Island Artist Residency and is the winner of the 2020 George Floyd Honorarium for Poetry from the Los Angeles Press. He won the 2017 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction for his book, A Love Like Blood.
Brian Sonia-Wallace is the 4th Poet Laureate of the City of West Hollywood and a national 2021 Laureate Fellow for the Academy of American Poets. He has been published in Poets.org, Rattle, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian. Brian has spent the last decade writing poems for over 10,000 strangers based on their stories in a string of unlikely residencies ranging from Amtrak to the Mall of America. These adventures and poems appear in Brian’s memoir, The Poetry of Strangers (Harper Collins, 2020) which the New York Times called, “full of optimism and wide-eyed wonder…he charms us.” More at briansoniawallace.com & @rentpoet.

Speaking of Now, Library Girl and Roar Shack Present
2021-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | CA
Please join Susan Hayden of Library Girl + David Rocklin of Roar Shack as we combine literary events once again for our annual “last show of the year.” Featuring writers: Nikolai Garcia, Jeff Greenstein, Toni Ann Johnson, James Evert Jones, David Rocklin + Carla Sameth. Featuring music by The Prickly Pair (Mason Summit + Irene Greene). SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5th, 2021 @7 PM. Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Ave, Santa Monica 90405. Admission $15. Free Parking. Limited Seating! Please purchase tickets in advance to be assured a seat. Tickets Available NOW~ Go to www.ruskingrouptheatre.com, click on See A Show and look for the Library Girl icon. Please note, this show is on the First Sunday Night of the Month just this one time. Proof of Vaccination or Negative Covid Test within 48 hours required. The wearing of masks while inside theatre is Mandatory. Library Girl, created/curated/produced by Susan Hayden. Managing Director: Mike Myers. Production Staff: Nicole Millar + Paul Denk. Roar Shack, created/curated/produced by David Rocklin. All Proceeds from this Event Donated to Ruskin Group Theatre. (Cover photo/art from Pat Metheny Group/Speaking of Now album)

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Poetry in Bloom
2021-04-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom, see registration link in description
Enjoy an evening of Poetry hosted by Gerda Govine Ituarte

About this Event

Bonita Museum & Cultural Center Celebrates National Poetry Month
Join in for this virtual Poetry Event that you can enjoy from the comfort of your favorite chair.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Host is the poet Gerda Govine Ituarte with:
The Pasadena Rose Poets
Teresa Mei Chuc
Kate Gale
Hazel Clayton Harrison
Shahé Mankerian
Toni Mosley
Carla Sameth
Annette Wong
Also, special guests!
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Poetry in Bloom, Southern California Poets
2021-04-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Zoom, see registration link in description
Enjoy an evening of Poetry hosted by Gerda Govine Ituarte

About this Event

Bonita Museum & Cultural Center Celebrates National Poetry Month
Join in for this virtual Poetry Event that you can enjoy from the comfort of your favorite chair. Register/tickets at link below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-in-bloom-southern-california-poets-tickets-146687525337
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Host is the poet Gerda Govine Ituarte with:
The Pasadena Rose Poets
Teresa Mei Chuc
Kate Gale
Hazel Clayton Harrison
Shahé Mankerian
Toni Mosley
Carla Sameth
Annette Wong
Also, special guests!

Sister Flowidarity Women's Herstory Month Poetry Reading
2021-03-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Zoom, see registration link in description
An incredible line-up of dynamic women reciting poetry!
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Featured Reader, Canyon Poets
2021-03-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom, see registration link in description
Topic: The Canyon Poets
Time: March 11, 7-9 pm
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The Pasadena Rose Poets: African American Poets
2021-02-09 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom, see registration link in description
The Pasadena Rose Poets will present the poetry of African American poets past and present, along with some of their own poetry. Presented by Teresa Mei Chuc, Kate Gale, Hazel Clayton Harrison, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Shahé Mankerian, Toni Mosley, Carla Sameth and Annette Wong.
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This event is sponsored by The Friends of the Pasadena Public Library.

Reading for In Isolation: An Anthology
2021-01-03 12:00 - 14:00 | CA
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Alternative Field presents “In Isolation, Book Launch Reading”
Poets featured in the anthology will read their work responding to the virus, quarantine, and isolation.
Instagram Live @Alternative Field

Virtual Launch Party: Unspoken Anthology
2020-10-08 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
To see reading, go to: https://www.facebook.com/lifein10minutes
For event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/370771367648925
Virtual Launch Party: Unspoken AnthologyVirtual Launch Party: Unspoken Anthology
Join Life in 10 Minutes for the Virtual of Unspoken: Writers on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth.
Gathering the voices of 29 writers who have been affected by infertility and childbearing loss, Unspoken is written as an invitation to connection where silence and isolation has so often prevailed.
Joining is as simple as tuning into the Life in 10 Minutes Facebook page from 7-8:30 pm EST. Writers will be sharing the following pieces from the anthology:
“We Have Pets,” Carla Sameth
“What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Miscarriage,” Erin Pushman
“Emmanuel” by Paula Michelle Gillison
Poems, by Alison Blevins
“The Trauma of Miscarriage,” by Arden Cartrette
“Unable to Speak,” by Dana Arlien
“Rainbow Baby” – Karen Olshanksy
“Thistle’s Story” – Jennifer Jurlando

Help us welcome and celebrate these stories of loss and resilience.
Books may be pre-ordered at: https://www.lifein10minutes.com/unspoken-anthology

homo-centric Reading Series
2020-01-28 19:30 | Stories Books and Cafe, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles,, Los Angeles, CA, 90026, United States
Featuring: Sarahmay Griffin, Carla Sameth and Hank Henderson, homo-centric Reading Series

San Francisco Public Library, James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center Author Reading
2020-01-16 18:00 - 19:30 | San Francisco Public Library James C Hormel LGBTQIA Center, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 94102, United States
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library
One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays, Author Reading with Carla Sameth

Pasadena Rose Poets Poetry Collection 2019 Launch
2019-11-15 18:30 - 20:15 | Red Hen Press, 1540 Lincoln Avenue, Pasadena, CA, 91103, United States
Pasadena Rose Poets Poetry Collection 2019
Reflection, Resistance. Reckoning. Resurrection.
​
edited by Gerda Govine Ituarte
Release November 15, 2019
First Book Launch
Friday, November 15, 2019
6:30 – 8:15 p.m.
Venue: Red Hen Press
1540 Lincoln Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
​Published by Shabda Press

The Pasadena Rose Poets:
Teresa Mei Chuc, Mel Donalson, Kate Gale, Damian Gonzalez, Hazel Clayton Harrison, Gerda Govine Ituarte, Shahé Mankerian, Toni Mosley, Carla Sameth, and Annette Wong.

Reading and Book Launch Celebration with the Pasadena Writing Posse and Pasadena Rose Poets
2019-10-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Avenue 50 Studio, 131 North Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA, 90042, United States
Carla Sameth will read from her memoir, One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays along with members of the Pasadena Writing Posse, The Pasadena Rose Poets and other local writers including: Gerda Govine Ituarte, Manuela Gomez, Gale Cohen, Maria Elena Fernandez, Annette Wong, Hazel Clayton, Thelma Reyna and Toni Mosley. They will read their original work and there will be an opportunity for Q & A, discussion and celebration.

Reading at Montana Book Company in Helena
2019-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Montana Book Company, 331 N Last Chance Gulch, Helena, CA, 59601, United States
Reading and Signing: One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays

LitCrawl LA "It's a Book Party" presented by Women Who Submit
2019-10-06 15:30 - 16:15 | CA
Women Who Submit presents:

It’s a Book Party! Publishing a book can take years of work filled with countless revisions, submissions, and rejections. A trial of perseverance, when a writer finally holds a published book in their hands, it’s a day worth celebrating. Help us welcome the newest titles from the women and nonbinary writers of Women Who Submit into the world with a raucous book bash.
Authors Carla Sameth, Noriko Nakada, Colette Sartor, Michelle Brittan Rosado, and Jenise Miller.

Open Door Poetry Reading at Battery Books in Pasadena
2019-09-26 20:00 - 22:00 | The Battery Books and Music, 26 S Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
Open Door Poetry Reading at Battery Books, Carla Rachel Sameth reads with Gerda Govine Ituarte.

Pasadena Central Library Author Series
2019-09-19 19:00 | Pasadena Central Library, 285 E Walnut St, Pasadena, CA, 91101
Featured Author Talk and Reading from One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays

Yves' Jewelry & Judaica, Author reading/signing, Carla Sameth One Day on the Gold Line (Berkeley)
2019-09-11 19:00 | Yves’ Jewelry & Judaica, 1865 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, 94707, United States

Vroman's Bookstore, Reading and In-Conversation with Kevin Uhrich, editor at The Pasadena Weekly
2019-08-29 19:00 | Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA, 91101, United States
In-conversation Carla Sameth (author One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays) with Pasadena Weekly editor, Kevin Uhrich.

Seattle book reading and signing at Third Place Books in Seward Park
2019-08-25 19:00 | Third Place Books in Seward Park, 5041 Wilson Ave S,, Seattle, WA, 98118, United States
Seattle book reading and signing for One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays. Come celebrate!

Contributing Authors Summer Reading Event with Carla Sameth and Rena Priest
2019-08-24 16:00 | Tacoma Arts Community Center, 1102 South 11th Street, Tacoma, WA, 98405, United States
Rena Priest is a Lummi Tribal Member and author of Patriarchy Blues and Sublime Subliminal.
Carla Sameth is a 2019 West Hollywood Pride Poet and author of One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays (July 2019)

Hugo House Panel "Writing Motherhood" featuring: Carla Sameth, Anne Liu Kellor, Mary Pan and Samantha Updegrave
2019-08-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, CA, 98122, United States
Panelists Anne Liu Kellor, Mary Pan, Samantha Updegrave and Carla Sameth will read from their work and discuss themes and questions related to “Writing Motherhood.”

NYC book reading and signing at Bluestockings Bookstore
2019-08-06 19:00 | Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen Street, New York, CA, 10002, United States
Book Reading and Signing with Authors Marina DelVecchio and Carla Sameth. Carla Sameth will be reading from her memoir, One Day on the Gold Line (Black Rose Writing, 2019), which tells the story of a lesbian Jewish single mother raising a black son in Los Angeles.
Based on her adoption and teen years, Marina DelVecchio’s Dear Jane (Black Rose Writing 2019) tells the story of a suicidal teen whose letters to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre give her the courage she needs to overcome the abuses of her childhood and the silences of her new life as a Greek-American adoptee.
