Billy Burgos This Sunday!

Our good friend Billy Burgos will be having a reading and artist reception this Sunday at Beyond Baroque in Venice.  It runs from 6-8pm.  Clich this link for any additional information.  Billy is not only a wonderful writer but a talented artist as well, and both aspects will be on display–we hope to see some of you there!

–cheers, GL

LA/Spring

Click this link for photos of the reading (Billy, BT, Milo, Cat, etc) at Mom’s Bar, the afterparty, and several other afterparties (and LA, KP, parents, shoes, etc)!

-cheers, gl

BIG thanks to Cat from KP

Quick Review

The reading this past Saturday at Mom’s Bar & Lounge in West LA was rockin, and a good time for all.  Thanks so much to everyone who participated and attended.  Excellent sets were turned in by all the poets, including Cat (from KP), Milo, and Billy, and BT.  We here at the Guerilla are looking forward to another set at this location before too long–what with a reading room, patio, and Racer 5, PBR and Stella all on tap, we’ve found a home away from home.  We’ll be posting photos from the event shortly, so be on the lookout for those.  Fight for it!

-cheers, GL

Guerilla Event

Hey all.  We’re having a reading at Mom’s Bar & Lounge in West Los Angeles on Saturday, April 28th, at 2 pm.   Guerillalit writers MJ and Brian will be in attendance, as well as poets Billy Burgos, Milo Martin, and some of the cats from Killpoet.  Should be a good time.  No one under 21 permitted, and no cover.  So come out, knock back a few pints with us (like the pic below), and have a listen.  Look forward to seeing some of you!

-cheers, GL

For Barney Rosset

We here at the guerilla would like to take a moment and celebrate the accomplishments of publisher Barney Rosset, who passed recently at the age of 90.  He was a free speech advocate and fought America’s censorship laws throughout his career, winning a case for Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1959, and later for Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch.  He was also the owner of Grove Press for a time and published both Kerouac and Ginsberg there, and he was the first to publish ‘Howl’ in Evergreen Review.  Quite frankly, many of us who take for granted the ability and right to publish whatever the hell we feel like owe this man a tremendous debt of gratitude.

And while the names in the above paragraph, the DH Lawrence’s and the Henry Miller’s and the Burroughs’s and the Kerouac’s and Ginsberg’s all carry a certain amount of weight for us, and as well they should, let’s not forget the work that was done on their behalf by Barney Rosset.  It is we who reap the benefits.

“If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.”    -Barney Rosset.  Quite simple, really.

 

-cheers, GL

The Independent!

We here at guerillalit would like to announce the release of Tobias Deehan’s new book, The Independent, a collection of poems, stories and plays. He returns to guerillalit press to complete his trilogy (The Imposter & The Stranger).  He continues to push forward new and exciting work, twisting the boundaries of literary art and founding an important voice among contemporary poets.

It can be found in the ‘books by guerillalit’ tab above, or by clicking this link.  Or this one.  And at $10 even, we encourage you to enjoy a read.

-cheers, GL

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