On the last Sunday of each month, LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather in downtown Los Angeles, for a structured Salon featuring formal presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another. If you’re interested in joining LAVA as a creative contributor or an attendee, we recommend Salon attendance as an introduction to this growing community. <\/p>\n
At the April 2015 LAVA Sunday Salon, Joan Jobe Smith presented on her new memoir, Tales of An Ancient Go-Go Girl<\/a><\/em> and on her long creative friendship with Charles Bukowski.<\/p>\n Tales of An Ancient Go-Go Girl<\/em> by long-time Long Beach, California resident Joan Jobe Smith, is a picaresque True Tale, a 50-year Glotessey spanning the 1965 Los Angeles Watts Riots, near death at the hands of a homicidal ex-husband, the counter-culture go-go swinging let-it-all-hang-out 1960s-\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc70s, single Motherhood and Feminism. Rarely does a natural poet and historian such as Joan Jobe Smith endure such ordeals and challenges and survive to tell the tale. It is a Tale written with go-going panache and patois, and heart, courage and humor to make our lives richer and wiser. The event took the form of a series of short Q&As with LAVA’s Richard Schave on milestones from the memoir and Joan’s relationship with the writer Charles Bukowski, punctuated by Joan reading poetry selections which span her career.<\/p>\n For more on Joan Jobe Smith, visit http:\/\/www.pearlmag.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n To view, click this link<\/a> or the image below.<\/span><\/p>\n