🙏Thank you to friends who joined us live and gave us questions.
🌱Hope more people can enjoy our poems and conversation with the replay.

You’re invited! Wed April 15 6:30pm-8pm online conversation with CA State Poet Laureate Lee Herrick. Find us in youtube with WeHo Arts. After the virtual event, join me in person in West Hollywood for a short walk to see some poetry banners. Meet me at my fave 🍦ice cream shop AWAN.

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See you in Baltimore! Come break bread with our party on Thurs March 5, 5:30pm at Angie’s Seafood.

Will you be my hummingbird so we cab pollinate more monkeyflowers to bloom? #valentine #plants

Sweet bell peppers! Will you be the crunch to my word salad?

Don’t be so koi! Be my ride-or-die for the Fire Horse Year! #valentine #chinesenewyear

The poet laureate with a bold plan to get Boyle Heights students into the woods Through 'Feng Shui Poetry in the Parks,' launched by West Hollywood's poet laureate and nurtured by a local English teacher, Boyle Heights students visit nature throughout the city to write poetry.

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Are you going to AWP in Baltimore? Come visit us at our party with our amazing readers. More deets: butterfliesanthology.eventbrite.com

Thank you to our contributors and our early supporters 🙏

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Photo courtesy of the City of West Hollywood. 📸photo credit Jonathan Moore

Me and reindeer antlers writing a poem while handling calls for the Holiday Poetry Hotline. The gift of poetry in the winter blues of December.

An ode for my city, referencing We the People. More on my substack

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For poems of the season, call 310.853.3952 for poems read and written by West Hollywood’s poets laureate. This week we have one featuring Steven Reigns.

Hope to see new poets come visit with this next poetry writing workshop we have coming up on December 13th, 11am at the WeHo Library. Free, come learn about the poetry pharmacy model and enjoy some holiday treats too.

This Sunday 11/16 2pm, visit with our featured poet and a guest reader circle on the theme “defiance.” Bit.ly/nov2025palabras

This Saturday afternoon, November 15 at 2pm, come visit with me and others reading Pat Parker’s poems at the West Hollywood Library.

At the Museum of Social Justice in Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA).

Thank you to West Hollywood for the honor and privilege of serving 2 years of poet laureate duties. Cupcakes and sweets were served at the end of poetry class at the WeHo Library today to help celebrate the marking of time. 🧁🧁

Highly self-conscious in the efforts of performative media

Me performing “Prayer of Light” at the National Book Festival hosted by the Library of Congress
with other poet laureate fellows @poetsorg.bsky.social
📸 credit Elizabeth Gronlier
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Save the date for October 12th, a poetry reading with award-winning queer poets in West Hollywood. Info on bit.ly/lgbtqpoetry1012

Photo: Group of people sitting in a circular format among plants, sharing poetry. An overlay of text offeting info of upcoming event.

If you’re in the Los Angeles area, you’re invited to the literary salon I host. This Sunday September 28, 2-3:30pm. Info and rsvp on bit.ly/sept2025palabras

Thank you for this opportunity to meet other Laureate Fellows and experience the Library of Congress. @poetsorg.bsky.social

Check out the schedule to see some very cool authors! www.loc.gov/events/2025-...

Well, this is a good reason to deal with jet lag. #nationalbookfestival #booksky

Found this photo of me a few years ago volunteering at a fruit pick where we donate the harvest to food banks and community kitchens. I don’t always remember to document the stuff I do, but it’s nice to have some photos for when life feels like a blur. #volunteer

Excited that I learned to how to do Kintsugi today.

Inspiration from Leonard Cohen:
“There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in”