HOLLYWOOD EVENTS

 DISPATCHES:

David Darmstaedter, Rebecca Velazquez, Chiwan Choi & Melora Walters. Poetry & Prose at The Masonic Lodge – Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Wednesday – June 23, 2010

The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

323.469.1181

DOORS 8:00 PM – READINGS 9:00 PM (SHARP)

ADMISSION & PARKING ARE FREE. BEER & WINE SERVED ($2 suggested donation).

David Darmstaedter has written plays produced at the Hudson Theater starring Mark Ruffalo and also wrote on the, El Cantante, screenplay, starring Jennifer Lopez. He will be reading from is debut published novel, My Monster, a hilarious story about an ex-model, porn actor, junkie, widower trying to raise his son by himself.

Rebecca Velazquez is from Mexico and was raised in Southern California. She holds a double major in Humanities and Art History from Loyola Marymount. She is currently working on an autobiographical book about her decade long struggle with drugs and a self help series on conquering addictions for the last time.

Chiwan Choi is a writer, editor, teacher, and publisher. His first major collection of poetry, The Flood, has been published by Tía Chucha Press.  He leads various writing workshops and is the owner/editor of a publishing company featuring Los Angeles writers, Writ Large Press.

Melora Walters’s first chapbook of poetry and art, Sonnets and Failures, will be published by Finishing Line Press. Her art can be found on her website: melorawaltersvendler-art.com. She is also an actress (Boogie Nights, Big Love). Melora Walters resides in Los Angeles with her husband Alex and her two children, Tom and Joanna.

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