This week in the literary world brings on an interesting array of personalities that will be reading from their selected work and in one event signing their work. We have an open reading an the Bodhi Tree with Z. Budapest will be discussing and signing her book. Beyond Baroque will he hosting an open reading one night with Sharon Doubiago and Lenore Weiss, and another night with Rafael F.J. Alvarado, Sufi Erter, Saria Idana, and Thurston Seaton.

So without further delay, your literature for the week!

Open Reading at the Bodhi Tree - with Z. Budapest
Friday February 29th 7:30pm
8585 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood 90069 (Map)

Admission: FreeZsuazsanna Budapest, arrested in 1975 for being a witch, will be discussing and signing her book, The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries. Born in Budapest, Hungary, on January 30, 1940, her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and practicing witch though supported her family as a sculptress. In 1959 she emigrated to the United States and attended the University Of Chicago…it is around this time she began to practice her families traditions. In 1975 Budapest was arrested for performing a Tarot Reading on an under cover cop and would be prohibited from further readings for the next 9 years until the law against psychics would be lifted. Her first book, The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows, was published in 1975 and then re-published in 1989 as The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries.

Open Reading at the Beyond Baroque with Sharon Doubiago and Lenore Weiss

Friday February 29th 7:30pm
681 Venice Blvd. Venice CA (Map)

(310)822-3006

Sharon Doubiago is author of Hard Country and South American Mi Hija, as well as the story collections, El Nino and The Book of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes. Her other titles include The Husband Arcane: The Arcane of O, Psyche Drives the Coast, and Body and Soul. Her Love on the Streets, Selected and New Poems, is forthcoming from Pittsburgh.

Lenore Weiss’s poetry has been published in Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Paterson Literary Review, and Exquisite Corpse. Her latest chapbook is Sh’ma Yis’rael (Hear Oh, Israel). Event hosted by Richard Modiano and Carlye Archibeque.

Open Reading at the Beyond Baroque with Rafael F.J. Alvarado, Sufi Erter, Saria Idana, and Thurston Seaton
Sunday March 2nd, 5pm

• Rafael F.J. Alvaradois the co-founder of the World Wide Radio Network and host of the Moe Green Poetry Hour.
• Sufi Erter has been published in The River Oak Review.
• Saria Idana works with F.L.O.W., a poetry program for incarcerated youth.
• Thurston Seaton is a longtime attendee of the Beyond Baroque 1st Sunday of the Month Open Readings.

Event hosted by Marie Lecrivain. Photo Courtesy of lorenz3474909367 via Flickr

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