Come celebrate the irreverent, tweetable, ludicrous, painful, wondrous work of Ed Smith, the “punk Dorothy Parker” who blazed onto the Los Angeles poetry scene in the early ’80s from the hardcore punk scene. The newly published Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith, edited by David Trinidad, is the only volume that brings together Smith’s published books, unpublished poems, excerpts from his extensive notebooks, photos, and ephemera. Join us for readings and memories with Colin Drohan, Elaine Equi, Brad Gooch, Steve Hall, Ricardo Hernandez, Stephen Ira, Jennifer Krasinski, Kim Rosenfield, Jerome Sala, and host David Trinidad.