🪶Fifth Poet Laureate of West Hollywood 📚Poet 🎬 Writer 🎼 Musician 📩 No DMs here. Please email or find me @JenCvoice on other social media #linkinbio⬇️
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2012
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#WritingCommmunity Emerging Poets & Writers -- want help developing your chapbook and getting published? This is the project you want to apply to. Please share with friends. Check it out: wokelicious.com/fountain-fel…
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From “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg, born #OTD in 1926.
Read more poems: bit.ly/47AAlGP
Gather in meditation and poetry to kick off the new year! I’m teaching a poetry writing class Saturday Jan 4th, 2pm in LA Chinatown. RSVP with the link, drop-ins welcomed. #writerscommunity
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I’m in search of archery poems to love. But how to find them without the exact key word of “archery” or “arrow” or getting search results to give me poems about sparrows? Pls drop suggestions or links here. Thank you in advance. #poetrycommunity
Call on Saturday Dec 21st 2pm-5pm Pacific to speak to live operators and request a personalized poem for cheer, hope, and solace. Call anytime to listen to recorded poems, new ones each week. 310.853.3952 #HolidayTraditions #poetrycommunity
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United States Poet Laureate and 2020 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival headliner Ada Limón reads "Not knowing when the dawn will come" in honor of Emily Dickinson's 194th birthday tomorrow!
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“Obras de Luz: Works of Light,” a 40-year history of the Japanese American community through the lens of photojournalist Mario Gershom Reyes, will be on view at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, from Dec. 6 to Jan. 5.
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My poetry book is available at my fave indie bookshops in Los Angeles @booksoup @northfigbooks @thepophop.
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Writers, don't miss deadlines coming up on November 11, 15, and 25! Submit poetry, prose, and more to @librelitmag, @PerugiaPress, @full_bleed, @AutumnHousePrs, @clockhouselit, @mayday_online, @OysterRiverPgs, and more publishers: clmp.org/programs-opportunit…
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ALT A still - Volcano - Life - That flickered in the night - When it was dark enough to do Without erasing sight - A quiet - Earthquake style - Too subtle to suspect By natures this side Naples - The North cannot detect The solemn - Torrid - Symbol - The lips that never lie - Whose hissing Corals part - and shut - And Cities - ooze away -
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"my hair is a speakeasy. it’s not that no one can get in—it’s just that you don’t know the password."
Bella Aubin performs Eve L. Ewing's poem "why you cannot touch my hair" (Electric Arches, @haymarketbooks) in a film produced with @RADA_London.
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#ClipOfTheDay: In this @bocaslitfes event, Edwidge Danticat speaks about the roots of her work and reads selected pieces, including the preface from her new essay collection, We’re Alone (@GraywolfPress), in a conversation with Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw. at.pw.org/Danticat
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🎤🏅✒️ Catch the finale of the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad & launch of the L.A. 2028 Cultural Olympiad!
Join us at Catch the Mic: Paris to L.A., Sat., Sept. 7, at @laplcentral. Presented by @Culture_LA, @BBLitArts, @LACountyArts, & @LAPublicLibrary.
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Party at Dickinson's house!
2023 Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips and X.J. Kennedy winner Sebastian Merrill read from their work and discuss their poetic practice and inspiration. Join us at the Dickinson Homestead for a celebration of poetry!
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#YouthAmbassadors for Queer History is back, now with brand new scholarship and stipend support!
This five-month, in-person program mentors students from across LA County to become ambassadors for LGBTQ+ history.
Learn more & apply by 9/8: bit.ly/YouthAmbassadors2024
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Check out this video from @PBS: PBS News Hour, James Baldwin's enduring influence on art and activism pbs.org/video/canvas-james-b…
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The Writing Shows Up | @LAReviewofBooks
For James Baldwin’s 100th birthday, Cherith King reflects on the literary giant’s everlasting charm
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