Celebrate Now You Are A Missing Person by Susan Hayden published by Moon Tide Press. Poetry readings, music, and food. MC'ed by Eric Morago.About this Event
Susan Hayden’s lyrical memoir, Now You Are a Missing Person (June 2023, Moon Tide Press), explores how love, grief, and the disappearing landscape of the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles shaped her life through a collection of stories and poems. Hayden is best known for her award-winning monthly literary series, Library Girl, which has given a platform and a home to a diverse community of writers and musicians since 2009. With her debut book, she moves front and center.
Three devastating losses are at the heart of Susan Hayden’s memoir. The suddenness of each of these deaths ― her father, her childhood best friend, and her husband ― sparks and guides a series of explorations to claim equilibrium and a sense of self. Raised in an observant Jewish family in the suburban San Fernando Valley, she struggles and finds her footing in an ever-shifting culture of expectations around body image, sexuality, motherhood, widowhood, and autonomy.
Come and celebrate the release of Susan Hayden’s debut memoir. The author will be reading with poets S.A. Griffin, Michael C. Ford, and a special music performance by the angsty Americana duo, The Prickly Pair. The evening will be MC'ed by Moon Tide publisher, Eric Morago. Tacos will be served on the patio during reception before and after the program starting at 6:00 pm.
Doors Open: 6:00 pm. Readings: 7:00 pm.
About the authors
Susan Hayden is a multigenre writer on a scavenger hunt for love, magic and home in a disappearing landscape. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies including, most recently, Beat Not Beat (Moon Tide Press). Hayden is the creator and producer of Library Girl, the long-running, monthly literary series at Ruskin Group Theatre. The proud mother of singer- songwriter Mason Summit, she lives in Santa Monica, CA with her husband, music journalist Steve Hochman. Now You Are a Missing Person is her first published book.
S.A. Griffin drives too fast, sleeps too little and thinks too much. A co-editor of Beat Not Beat, his second book from Punk Hostage Press, Pandemic Soul Music, features drawings by his late sister Robin Lynne Griffin. In 2010 he created and toured with Elsie the Poetry Bomb; a Vietnam era practice bomb converted into an art object filled with over 900 poems from around the world, all in an effort to inspire civil disagreements. Father, husband, cat lover, left-handed lefty and Vietnam era veteran.
A legendary voice in the LA poetry scene, Michael C Ford has produced a steady stream of print and recorded product since 1970. Hen House Studios continues to publicize and market his recorded tracks Look Each Other in the Ears (2014) with surviving members of a 1960s theatre rock quartet most of you may remember as The Doors. A chapbook titled Populated Wilderness in conjunction with Ion Drive Publishing is being produced as a fundraiser for Lockwood Animal Rescue Center. His most recent collection of poetry and prose will be published by Mystic Boxing Committee Press.
Irene Greene & Mason Summit join forces as The Prickly Pair, a newly-formed duo specializing in angsty Americana with a contemporary perspective. Both have pursued solo careers, but sought to combine their talents in a project that demonstrates a deep mutual love of country & western traditions while staying true to their own musical instincts. “Long Gone,” their latest single, came out in April of this year. The two are currently based in Nashville. For updates, follow @ThePricklyPairMusic on all platforms.
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Event Venue
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, United States
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