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The LAPS mission is to create a bridge, fusing the communities of Los Angeles and Southern California Poets, poetry organizations, Writer groups, booksellers, publishers, literary enthusiasts and supporters into a unified social and literary network.
12/10/2024
Happy solstice everyone. We want to invite you to join us for a very special event with our friends Literati events! Join us for a celebration of HP Lovecraft’s world it is the one and only Cthulhu Christmas! we are so honored to present Poetry on demand, along with special performances from our wonderful network of writers.
Featuring:
Nathan Castellanos
Mariana Franco
Antonieta Villamil
Lilith the Demon
Jessica M. Wilson
enjoy your night of expression and exquisite decadence, with dancing, macabre and dystopian performances, sideshows, and so much more annnd stop by our table for a custom poem!
Use our special code for a sweet discount “livingpoetry”. Link in bio.
12/10/2024
All the love and all the words.
Rest in power Nikki Giovanni.
12/05/2024
We have the new subscription service for you called Behind the Poem!
Have you ever wondered how a writer came up with a line that they did?
Have you ever wondered the message behind the poem or the inspiration?
Behind the Poem unveils just that!
LA Poet Society goes one on one with the amazing, living, Poets of Los Angeles and beyond; talking with them and getting the details behind some of their most famous pieces.
Behind the Poem offers 4 poems delivered to your email a month for $10
Transforming Lives Through the Power of Words: Support the LA Poet Society This Giving Tuesday”
Every community deserves a voice, and at the LA Poet Society, we’ve spent 15 years amplifying the voices of diverse artists, underserved communities, and emerging talent. Our mission is clear: inclusivity, visibility, and accessibility to the literary arts across Los Angeles County and beyond.
The world needs your voice, and the LA Poet Society is here to make sure it’s heard.
This Giving Tuesday, we’re inviting you to be part of something bigger—a movement that celebrates creativity, individuality, and community.
Here’s how your support makes a difference:
📚 Free and low-cost workshops to help you develop your craft.
🎙️ Open mics and events where you can share your work and connect with other creators.
🌟 Opportunities to collaborate, be mentored, and get published.
This is your time to create, inspire, and change the world through your words. Join us in making the literary arts accessible to everyone.
Your art matters. Your story matters.
Visit www.lapoetsociety.org to learn more and get involved.
12/03/2024
We are so excited to be offering a special end of the year Writers in the Wild experience, in partnership with our friends, LA River Arts! Join poets, AlexPetunia and Jessica M. Wilson along with the wonderful flutist, Juan Flautista, and Tongva elder and culture bearer Tina Calderon, on this epic journey in the Sepulveda basin.
Join us as we explore the footsteps of our predecessors and regain ancestral memory and earth belonging. Step through the Poetry portal with us, dig your toes into the Earth, inhale the essence of the river and write your heart.
Prompts and journals given, along with a learning of Tongva words to further our connection with our Mother Earth.
12/02/2024
Happy December! We kicked off Merry Melrose with our “12 Days of Poetry”!
Joining us today was Poet Soul Stuf with Juan Flautista and Jessica M. Wilson We bring you spoken word with uplifting holiday vibes.
Juan was incredible— playing holiday melodies like Silent Night, Jingle Bells & We wish you a Merry Xmas. He closed up our show with Europa by Santana.
We hope to see you next Sunday! More Poetry and Music coming to you!
11/26/2024
Happy anniversary to The Libros! We’re so excited to be part of the family, and bring you Heartbeat Open Mic every last Saturday of the month. This month were really excited to feature some stellar artists!
Featuring:
Daisy Magallanes
Tauri Alonso
Rey Rodriguez
Jorge “Coqui” H. Rodriguez
Plus open mic for all genres of artists!
5 mins at the mic
Hosted by Poet Jessica M. Wilson
11/25/2024
It’s a great day to be a Poet! Thank you Poet Juan Cardenas aka Juan Flautista shared the stage and was typing on demand today. Many folks of all ages were able to try out our typewriters. Many received a custom poem. We love writing for people! It’s such a special feeling. We are so grateful to be of service in this way.
11/20/2024
Get ready for Reading in Bed Jessica! We’re really excited to have Poet Monica Salazar joining us tonight ! Catch the intervie, the poetry, and the music — tonight from 6 to 8 PM! Tune in to KROJ 101.5 fm. www.radioollin.org Call us in the studio to tell us what you’re reading in bed, or send us your request.
11/19/2024
Just a little sip to fuel the next 15 years!
Hahah what a culmination of energy and love.
This weekend we celebrated 15 year of the Los Angeles Poet Society — a dream I uttered into existence for the first time in 2009 — into the ears of Poet Larry Colker and the Redondo Beach Poets… — on the sidewalks of the Venice Beach Boardwalk to all passersby.
We had an incredible celebration 🥳. I had to sleep and sleep to regenerate the energy to come back up and say hello. Say thank you. To say ‘I love you too’. And ‘you’re welcome.’
Thank you for making the LA Poet Society live and grow!
Ometeotl.
You know I was born in East Los Angeles. Soto and 4th. I lived in Montebello, Monterey Park, Woodland Hills, North Hollywood, Mar Vista, West Covina, Glendora, Pasadena, Pomona, LaVerne, and further east … Los Angeles is my blood. 🩸 Te amo gente!
PS: many pictures from our big party will be rolling out soon! Much love to all.
11/15/2024
A huuuge thank you to our Vendor Sponsors who will be joining our LA Poet Society Quinceañera! We are honored to present goods and works from:
Ube for U Bae
Salted Plastic: Tales of Gentrification
Drops of Ice
Egyptian Princess8
Cr8tive Genes Jewelry and Art
Balams Creationz
Ebony Noire
Delicious catering from City of LA Tacos City Of La Taco Catering
LA Poet Society offers Poetry on Demand - custom poems - at Melrose Trading Post, every Sunday!
Join us this Sunday, 11-5pm, and stop by our booth at space R18 to get a custom poem from Poet, Cynthia Briano! Cynthia is an incredible Poet and Scholar, and Host of the Rapp Saloon on 1st Friday nights. She also has "Love on Demand Global" offering peace and love through poetry!
11/15/2024
Happy birthday, Los Angeles Poet Society!
On this day in 2009, you went to the Venice Beach Boardwalk, with your best friend, Christina Granados, and put down a milk crate as your "SoapBox". You stood on there and read poetry.
Christina stood on there and read poetry.
We shouted out to the public to stand up on the SoapBox and be heard!
This was the moment the Los Angeles Poet Society was born -- out of action, and a desire to be heard, visible, accessible.
We brought the community together. Creative community.
Here we are. We have a Press. We have a Board of Directors. We have an online journal. We have a team. We have open mics. We have workshops. We have meditation and grounding writing experiences.
We have community.
Wow. We are so grateful.
THANKS TO YOU -- the COMMUNITY -- we have a 15 year old Los Angeles Poet Society aka LA Poet Society.
LA is Literary Arts! Let's go!
Thank you to everyone who already has their ticket and support our organization!
$50 per person, includes: admission, food, drink & raffle ticket.Pay in 3 paymets of $16.67 to enter the party
11/14/2024
Are you ready for our Quinceañera celebration? We have such a fabulous party planned for y’all!
Wonderful featured performers and Honorees.
Featuring: Popcorn, , Steady , Blessings from Ajolote Danza Mexica We have music from Juan Flautista
Readings from Briana Muñoz
EgyptianPrincess8
Richard Modiano
Mauricio Moreno
Honoring: Paul Vangelisti, Jorge “Coqui” H. Rodriguez, James Coats , Alexis Fancher, and Teresa Mei Chuc
Vendors include:
We have dancing and delicious catered Tacos from City of LA Tacos
We have some amazing items for raffle including: a lava lamp, mirrored scrabble coffee table set, craft writing journals, handmade jewelry, liquor set and book bundles.
For silent auction, we are grateful to who donated a custom hand crafted leather wallet. ($70 value)
We have a set of Chakra Reiki Candles donated by ($77 value)
We have a 30-1 hour facial sessions from Kissed Skin ($100 value)
We have a Reiki session from Mama Terra ($80 value)
We have a record player ($50 value)
And so much fun to be had!
Join us NOVEMBER 16 at Art Share LA
The fun begins at 7:30pm with a red carpet hosted by Alison Masson of Metal Babe Mayhem and Natalie Garcia la Brujita del Jardin/ Chicana in the City
Thank you to all of our sponsors for helping make this celebration come true.
A special thank you to all our Padrinos and Madrinas:
Antonieta Villamil
Tauri Alonso
Paul Vangelisti
Pueblo y Salud
Jesse Marez
Rey Rodriguez
A huge thank you to Councilman Kevin De Leon for his support.
Get you tickets today! They are selling out! Link in bio!
11/14/2024
This Sunday, Miss B interviews Pam Concepcion on VOICES OF COLOR.
Pam Concepcion is an interdisciplinary artist, experimenting with different mediums like poetry, screenwriting, graphic design, digital collage art, and video editing. She loves writing about how complex social phenomena intimately affect our relationships with ourselves, friends, loves, family, and everyone else around us. She is currently working on her first book, Unbecoming, a collection of poetry, photos and collages about a young girl’s coming of age.
Catch the chat here live on Instagram 6pm PST.
Voices of Color is real talk where we amplify the Black and Brown experience.
11/13/2024
Our special edition Quinceañera step and repeat is here🌞!
Woohooo. We are getting things ready 🎁🎉🎈. Are you coming to the party?
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Feliz Poetry Month!
Wishing you all a Happy National Poetry Month, from the literary organization that's all about POETRY all year long; your friendly Los Angeles Poet Society!
We will be launching our prompts for National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), a week at a time. Tag us, share your poems, and we will publish them here on IG and on our blog.
WRITE ON!
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Venice Beach, CA - November 2009 - Friends and Writers, Jessica M. Wilson and Christina Granados went out to the boardwalk to find a good spot to lay down their milk crate.
“Why not a Poet?”
A huge Doors fan, Jessica frequented the Venice Beach Boardwalk...whether to take in the ocean view, admire the Jim Morrison mural on 18th and Speedway, or to buy unique art from local artists. Along her journey up the walk, she encountered a large crowd around a shouting man. Like any other curious being, Jessica wanted to see what the hype was all about. She made her way closer, digging through the crowd, to see a single man, standing on top of an ice chest. What was he shouting? They were messages of religious belief...rhetoric of the sort. Jessica took it in and huffed about the messages he was pushing... However, was taken back by how many ears he flocked... she was even intrigued. She saw how he opened up his ice chest, to hand out the booklets he had about what he was preaching about... connecting with people.
No one stopped him. People took the time to listen to him.
He just stood on an ice chest, which was also where he tucked away his “books”.
“WHY NOT A POET?”, Jessica said. And then, SoapBox Poets was born. The next weekend, Jessica and Christina put down their milk crates, stood on em, and invited any poet, or writer, or artist, to join them. Step up to the SoapBox and be heard!
That’s been the message of the Los Angeles Poet Society, ever since.
Celebrating 10 years of service to LA -- being the bridge to creatives around town.
