Charles Hood, author of Nocturnalia, reads at the Santa Monica Review‘s Spring 2024 issue celebration. Hood is joined by other contributors to the magazine including Tinna Flores, Janice Shapiro, and Kareem Tayyar. Introduction by Claire Vaye Watkins and emceed by SMR editor Andrew Tonkovich.

In-person event. The Edye, SMC Performing Arts Center, 1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA. Tickets: $10 for purchase at smc.edu/tickets, “Santa Monica Review Presents…”. Free parking. Refreshments. Brief intermission.

Charles Hood has studied birds and natural history from the Amazon to Tibet, and he has seen more than five thousand species of birds in the wild. A widely published poet, he has received numerous fellowships and writing awards and is the author of the Heyday collection A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat. His other Heyday titles include field guides to mammals and birds, and for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County he was the lead author and photographer for the book Wild LA.