Kerouac Festival Los Angeles
Fri, Apr 17
|Typewriters Anonymous
El Martillo Press teams up with Typewriters Anonymous and Library Girl for the first annual Kerouac Festival Los Angeles!
Time & Location
Apr 17, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Typewriters Anonymous, 650 S Ave 21, Los Angeles, CA 90031, USA
About the event
Friday, April 12th
Saturday, April 17th
Sunday, April 18th.
El Martillo Press teams up with Typewriters Anonymous and Library Girl for the first annual Kerouac Festival Los Angeles! Multiple events over three days for one festival celebrating the life and legacy of Jack Kerouac.
Sunday, April 12th - at Library Girl
Library Girl Presents: All That's Left - A Tribute to Jack Hirschman at the Ruskin Group Theatre
Curated with Matt Sedillo and Michael C Ford. Part of the Jack Kerouac Festival. Featuring Derrick C. Brown, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Allison Hedge Coke, Agneta Falk, Michael C Ford, S.A. Griffin, Celia Hirschman, David James, Luis J. Rodriguez, David A. Romero, Bonnie Tamblyn, and Matt Sedillo. Discussion to follow, moderated by Richard Modiano. With Surprise Guests!! Sunday Night, April 12th at 7pm at the Ruskin Group Theatre. Library Girl is now in its 17th year. Created, curated + produced by Susan Hayden.
Buy your tickets here: https://app.arts-people.com/?show=310767
Saturday, April 18th at Typewriters Anonymous
5 pm - 6 pm - The Kerouac We Ignore: Exploring Kerouac’s Fathers and Sons, The Role of Masculine Lineage, Inner Peace, & Love in The Duluoz Legend
6 pm - 8 pm - Tender Hearts Club, Volume One: Love Poetry Anthology Reading
8 pm - 9 pm - Phillip T Nails & Richard E's Community - The Rhythm - Music Performance
Sunday, April 19th at Typewriters Anonymous
6 pm - 7 pm - Paco Taibo lecture by Professor Jose Prado, CSU Dominguez Hills
8 pm - 10 pm -
The Kerouac Festival:
Founded by Galician-Brooklyn-based poet and performer Marcos de la Fuente, the festival continues its mission to honor the rebellious spirit of Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation through boundary-breaking artistic expression.
Typewriters Anonymous:
Typewriters Anonymous is a way of making space to share about life, be in the present moment, and use analog machines as instruments of collaboration. Together we tap into collective imagination. We value kindness, radical tenderness, and are seekers of joie de vivre (exuberant enjoyment of life!)—the driving force behind Typewriters Anonymous and the love we share!
Library Girl:
Created, curated and produced by Susan Hayden, Library Girl is a monthly literary series. Originating in 2009 at Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, CA, the show celebrates the written word and features some of the boldest voices in Los Angeles: poets, essayists, novelists, playwrights and musicians.
El Martillo Press:
El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. El Martillo Press proactively publishes writers looking to pound the pavement to promote their work and the work of their fellow pressmates. There is strength in El Martillo. Founded in Los Angeles in 2023 by Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, and launched with a diverse group of celebrated and hardworking writers who embody our working-class intellectual spirit, El Martillo Press maintains an editorial board that makes its selections for publishing.