Anchored - Write Bloody Publishing & El Martillo Press Reading + Party!!

ANCHORED

Write Bloody Publishing & El Martillo Press join forces for a poetry reading featuring Derrick C. Brown, Alyesha Wise, Matthew Cuban Hernandez, Keayva Mitchell, and David A. Romero. Live music, art, and drinks! Sponored by Los Molinos Beer.

555 W 5th St, San Pedro, CA 90731

Alcoholic beverages served. 21 and over.

Write Bloody Publishing was started in 2004 by award-winning traveling poet, comedian, and former paratrooper Derrick C. Brown. After spending the mid-1990s and early 2000s touring throughout Europe and the U.S., Brown realized the untapped potential in the contemporary poetry market for authors who hit the road and read in bars, theaters, and clubs. Authors had to learn the art of building fan bases by putting on entertaining readings. Brown saw young, smart, page-savvy poets, prose writers, and poetry performers sell out shows, with only self-published, junky-looking chapbooks available. It seemed ridiculous and fateful that publishing houses — both mainstream and independent — hadn't signed some of the best-known and hardest-working touring authors on the scene today.

Founded by Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, 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. El Martillo is the builder of bridges and the destroyer of walls. Launched in Los Angeles 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.

Derrick C. Brown

Alyesha Wise

 Matthew Cuban Hernandez

Keayva Mitchell

David A. Romero