The first Community News of 2025 and so much has already happened in the Greater Los Angeles literary community in these first three months. The devistating Eaton and Palasades FIres that began the year to the 4th Annual Culver City Book Festival to Pomona introducing a new poet laureate and their first youth poet laureate to a new independent bookstore opening in Echo Park and more. Let’s get caught up. Continue reading Community News
Recently, LibroMobile Arts Cooperative announced the 2024-2026 OC Poet Laureate: Gustavo Hernandez. The county’s second Poet Laureate. Check out who this poet is. Continue reading Orange County’s New Poet Laureate
West Hollywood Poet Laureate Jen Cheng presents The West Hollywood Holiday Poetry Hotline for everyone this holiday season. Continue reading The West Hollywood Holiday Poetry Hotline
Recently poet, writer and musician Raffi Joe Wartanian was named Glendale’s first Poet Laureate. It only took eight years for poet and resident Linda Ravenswood to get city approval for the position last Fall. Continue reading Glendale’s First Poet Laureate
An interview with Pomona Poet Laureate Ceasar Avelar. “I write exclusively through the sociological lens of a blue-collar worker…I can bring my blue-collar social status to the front of my expression.” Continue reading 5 Questions With Pomona’s New Poet Laureate Ceasar Avelar
Lynne Thompson, the outgoing Los Angeles Poet Laureate, reflects on her two years as Poet Laureate. Continue reading Award-winning Poet Laureate of Los Angeles Set to Pass the Torch
At the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2023, Poet Ceasar K. Avelar became Pomona’s second Poet Laureate. He took over the reins from David “Judah 1” Oliver, a passionate poet who wears many hats—artist, poet, author, art advisor, and is the Co-Host and Founder of LionLike MindState Poetry and Art Series at the Pomona Fairplex. Avelar steps into the role of Poet Laureate, having become known in the Southern California poetry community for his proletariat-infused poetry and as the host of the monthly open mic “Obsidian Tongues” every second Saturday of the month at Café con Libros Press in Pomona’s Arts Colony. Plus, next year FlowerSong Press will publish his debut poetry collection.
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“The selected Poet Laureate will serve as an ambassador for Glendale’s rich culture and diversity, promoting the art of poetry. ” Continue reading Glendale Recruits for First Poet Laureate
“Alice Pero will be inducted as Sunland-Tujunga’s new Poet Laureate,” a program established in 1999 “to honor the legacy of John Steven McGroarty who served as California State poet laureate form 1933-44.” Continue reading Pamela Shea Passes the Laurels to ST 10th Poet Laureate Alice Pero on April 9, 2022
By Daryl M.
FROM: LAPL Blog
Steven Reigns is a Los Angeles poet and educator and was appointed the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. Alongside over a dozen chapbooks, he has published the collections Inheritance, and Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat.
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