(he/they) WeHo City Poet Laureate, author of #ThePoetryofStrangers (@harpercollins)/ contributor @guardianus, @rollingstone, @lithub / Poet for Hire by everyone
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2016
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For our 2023 season, we featured our first poetry series. With award-winning hosts Brian Sonia Wallace, Mike the Poet, and Shonda Buchanan, "Friday Night Verse" showcased some of LA's most talented poets and writers. We heard spoken word from the LGBTQIA community🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, poems dedicated to the City of Angels🌴, and poetry uplifting Black voices, BLM✊🏿.
The intimate gatherings in the amphitheater created a safe space for artists to share their work and tell their stories. The series was a success, allowing us to bring poetry to a wider audience and creating a space for people to come together and express themselves.
Thank you to all of the poets for sharing your art with us. We hope to continue this series at Grand Performances in the future and create more opportunities for local artists to share their work✍🏾.
@RentPoet @MikethePoeTLA @shondabuchanan
📸 Julian Mercado, Ellie James
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Send in your manuscript before 11:59 pm ET on Friday, 9/1, to be considered for the 2024 First Book Award. The winner, selected by @VChangPoet, will receive $5000, publication with @GraywolfPress, a 6-week residency @civitellaitaly & book distribution to thousands of Academy members.
Learn more here:
poets.org/academy-american-p…
ALT THE BLUE MIMES by Sara Daniele Rivera, SALTWATER DEMANDS A PSALM by Kweku Abimbola, and AGAINST HEAVEN by Kemi Alabi.
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Join us for Fri. Night Verse 6/23/23, as poets from the righteous 🌈of LGBTQ+, aged seventeen to seventy, share their own work and write new work in dialogue with the audience about what we all share -- the capacity to feel. Meet us in the amphitheater.
RSVP @ 🔗 in bio.
This Friday 6/23 we do the first ever poetry show at @GrandPerfs - The Poetry of Pride! 7-9pm RSVP grandperformances.org/events…
#thingstodoinla #losangelespoetry #poets #poetry #spokenword #pridepoets #Pride2023 #gaypoems
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Bringing this back in light of recent news:
Get a limited-edition But Her Emails hat and support @onwardtogether groups working to strengthen our democracy.
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Self-care is a radical act. Come lounge with a poet.
WeHo Reads: Lounging with Poets
4/26, 6p @ The ARC Respite Deck, West Hollywood Aquatic and Recreation Center
RSVP recommended: weho.org/wehoreads
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Sharing this incredible poem by @reecelyons_ on International Trans Day of Visibility! Reece is an incredible poet, writer + actress + recently ran one of our poetry workshops with @queercircle. We love Reece’s writing so much! Cally Pool is taken from Issue 6. 🏊♀️ 🏳️⚧️ #TDOV2023
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Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Poetry Coalition member @BBLitArts celebrates ROŌT FOR THE UNDERDOG by @iammissyfuego w/ Angela Aguirre, @LetsBendReality, Poet Laureate Fellow @RentPoet & @jencvoice. 3/17 @ 8 p.m. PDT @ @BBLitArts. Register: poets.org/event/root-underdo…
ALT Poster for the launch of Roōt for the Underdog that says "A Reading & Poets' Conversation featuring Meliza Bañales, Angela Aguirre, Sean Hill, & Brian Sonia-Wallace facilitated by: Jen Cheng"
One of my favorite projects this year, a poem celebrating 50 years of advocacy for @justiceinaging – at West Hollywood, CA
Watch and be moved. @rentpoet poem in commemoration of @justiceinaging’s 50 years of advocacy. Featuring @LisbethCoiman & @poetess151, LA’s 21-22 Poet Laureate bit.ly/3E9kZe6
#poetry #aging
Omg thanks @_Audrey_Girl_ – at Los Angeles, CA
I highly recommend The Poetry of Strangers by @RentPoet This is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Been trying to find something that hits the same way and haven’t been able to. Read it when I was going through a lot, and I was able to escape into the pages. Loved it!
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WeHo monkeypox vaccine will be available by appointment starting tomorrow at the @LACountyLibrary location – at Los Angeles, CA
@lapublichealth has announced that it will operate a by appointment only Monkeypox Vaccination Pop-Up Clinic at West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room starting on Wednesday, August 3 and continuing approx six weeks.
Details & Appt Info: w.eho.city/3BCoGs2
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Pitch call: @them is looking for reported features about whats it's like to be a queer student or teacher in the US right now. Classroom censorship, student organizing, bullying, religious curricula, trans students in sports and single-sex schools, etc ✉️ [email protected]