Watch WeHo Reads: Poets Laureate Lee Herrick & Jen Cheng in conversation about poetry, music, food, identity, community, and the power of belonging. youtube.com/live/XeeR-HD... 📚💙 #booksky #poem #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetLaureate @jencvoice.bsky.social

We're live! Come listen to poetry and discussions of culture, identity, community, music, food , and all good things. youtube.com/live/XeeR-HD...

Tonight! Wed. April 15 6:30 pm PT WeHo Reads: Poets Laureate Lee Herrick & Jen Cheng Watch Live: youtube.com/live/XeeR-HD... #booksky #poem #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetLaureate

Today, I'm sharing news from Shonda Buchanan, Jase Peeples, A.P. Thayer, Pam Ward, and Désirée Zamorano. Subscribe to the @bookswellclub.bsky.social newsletter for the good, juicy details. www.bookswell.club/subscribe

One thing that brings me joy these days is seeing authors I love and admire continue to bring their poems and stories into the world. I've been overwhelmed with good news lately, even as headlines make me want to curl up with a good book. @bookswellclub.bsky.social

"We bloom in unfriendly places / season after season / Still I speak undeniably / with dandelion fields of gold." — Jen Cheng, Braided Spaces 📅 Wednesday, April 15 | 6:30–8 pm PT | Free, Online www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @jencvoice.bsky.social 💙📚

"In my California, free sounds and free touch. Free questions, free answers." One week until Lee Herrick joins us for WeHo Reads. Read My California: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57228/... Free event, April 15. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #WeHoReads

She's West Hollywood's own Poet Laureate and the first queer woman of color in the role. Jen Cheng joins Lee Herrick for WeHo Reads April 15. Free, online. RSVP: weho.org/wehoreads #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #WeHoReads

He's the first Asian American California Poet Laureate — and the first ever reappointed. Lee Herrick joins us for WeHo Reads April 15. Free, online. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... 💙📚 #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth #WeHoReads

Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Poets Laureate Lee Herrick & Jen Cheng Wed. April 15 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.weho.org/wehoreads #booksky #poem #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetLaureate

Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Poets Laureate Lee Herrick & Jen Cheng Wed. April 15 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #booksky #poem #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetLaureate

A powerful and fun conversation about building community among friends and writers. Catch the replay on the WeHoArts YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/live/G3OFJ63... #booksky #authorevent #writingcommunity #asianauthor #femaleauthor #novels #shortstories #fiction

Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Writing Together—Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendship, featuring Jade Chang, Angela Flournoy, Aja Gabel, Jean Chen Ho, and Xuan Juliana Wang Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #LiteraryReading #BookDiscussion #Booksky

WeHo Reads: Writing Together — Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendships, featuring Xuan Juliana Wang What happens when five writer friends meet for pasta and pomodoros? Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT online free RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #LiteraryReading #BookDiscussion #Booksky

WeHo Reads: Writing Together—Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendships, featuring Jean Chen Ho What happens when five writer friends meet for pasta and pomodoros? Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #LiteraryReading #BookDiscussion #Booksky @codysiscowrites.bsky.social

WeHo Reads: Writing Together — Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendships, featuring Aja Gabel What happens when five writer friends meet for pasta and pomodoros? Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #LiteraryReading #BookDiscussion #Booksky

WeHo Reads: Writing Together — Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendships, featuring Angela Flournoy What happens when five writer friends meet for pasta and pomodoros? Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #LiteraryReading #BookDiscussion #Booksky

WeHo Reads: Writing Together—Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendship Featuring Jade Chang, author of two critically acclaimed novels, What a Time to Be Alive and The Wangs vs. the World, which won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

Thank you so much for sharing your stories and telling family secrets last night! www.youtube.com/live/RZh2alZ... @toniannj.bsky.social @aimeeliu.bsky.social @codysiscowrites.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social @booksoupofficial.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social #AuthorEvent #Booksky

Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Writing Together—Pomodoros, Marinara, and Friendship, featuring Jade Chang, Angela Flournoy, Aja Gabel, Jean Chen Ho, and Xuan Juliana Wang Wed. March 11 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @booksoupofficial.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

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Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets, featuring Toni Ann Johnson, Aimee Liu, Juanita E. Mantz, and Hannah Sward Wed. Feb. 18 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #booksky

Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets Wed. Feb. 18 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @wehoarts.bsky.social @toniannj.bsky.social @aimeeliu.bsky.social @codysiscowrites.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social @booksoupofficial.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets, featuring Toni Ann Johnson talking about BUT WHERE'S HOME? a new collection of linked stories Wed. Feb. 18 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @toniannj.bsky.social

Coming Soon: WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets, featuring Toni Ann Johnson, Aimee Liu, Juanita E. Mantz, and Hannah Sward Wed. Feb. 18 6:30 pm PT RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @toniannj.bsky.social @aimeeliu.bsky.social @codysiscowrites.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social

Which WeHo Reads 2025 event spoke to you? Drop a comment, share a takeaway, or tell us which event sparked your imagination. Your reflections help keep this community alive and shape what comes next. www.bookswell.club

Watch WeHo Reads on YouTube youtube.com/live/2U2sn_6...

WeHo Reads: Going Dark to Bring Light featuring Jennifer J. Chow, Tori Eldridge, Nicholas George, and Georgia Jeffries Dec. 3, 2025 6:30 pm PT Online, Free, RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @codysiscowrites.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @booksoupofficial.bsky.social

WeHo Reads: Going Dark to Bring Light Featuring: Jennifer J. Chow Wed. Dec. 3 6:30–8 p.m. PT Online Via Zoom and YouTube Free, RSVP Requested: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #crimefiction #cozymystery

WeHo Reads: Going Dark to Bring Light Wed., Dec. 3 6:30–8 PM PT Online, Free, RSVP Requested: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #crimefiction #suspense #thriller #authorevent @codysiscowrites.bsky.social

Tonight, hear from three wildly imaginative writers @olivasthewriter.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @tuck.bsky.social online with @bookswellclub.bsky.social and WeHo Reads www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

WeHo Reads: Wild and Powerful Imaginations on Wed., Nov. 12 at 6:30 PM PT with three groundbreaking trans authors: Charlie Jane Anders, M. M. Olivas and Tuck Woodstock www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @codysiscowrites.bsky.social @booksoupofficial.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Save the date! Nov. 12 6:30 pm PT WeHo Reads: Wild and Powerful Imaginations Charlie Jane Anders M. M. Olivas Tuck Woodstock @charliejane.bsky.social @codysiscowrites.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social @booksoupofficial.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

VIDEO: LA Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson recommends THE SISTERHOOD: HOW A NETWORK OF BLACK WOMEN WRITERS CHANGED AMERICAN CULTURE, by Courtney Thorsson! youtube.com/shorts/c87Dw... @courtneythorsson.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Désirée Zamorano discusses her powerful novel, Dispossessed, about the expulsion of Mexican Americans in the 1930s. Listen here ➡️ www.bookswell.club/podcast/25-d... @codysiscowrites.bsky.social #PodcastEpisode #AuthorInterview #LatinaAuthors #HistoricalFiction #RepresentationMatters

I’m so looking forward to this! I’ll be reading an excerpt from my Introduction for The White Picket Fence.

We're excited to welcome featured author Dan López at WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation on Oct. 8 at the West Hollywood Library. www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @danlopezauthor.bsky.social

We're excited to welcome featured author Gina Rae Duran at WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation on Oct. 8 at the West Hollywood Library. www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @ginaraeduran.bsky.social

We're excited to welcome featured author Carlos Allende at WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation on Oct. 8 at the West Hollywood Library. www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

We're excited to welcome featured author Myriam Gurba at WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation on Oct. 8 at the West Hollywood Library. www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads...

WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation Wed., Oct. 8 | 6:30–8 pm In Person: West Hollywood Library Community Room Free, RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... @ginaraeduran.bsky.social @damnedpoet.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @booksoupofficial.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social

Coming soon the Barnes & Noble at the Grove Jase Peeples signs and discusses TWIRL with Tracy E. Gilchrist www.eventbrite.com/e/jase-peepl... #yanovel #mmromance #lgbtnovel

Joe McClean, screenwriter, director, and author of Sins of Survivors, joins host Cody Sisco in conversation about his debut novel rooted in the history of Black Bottom, Detroit. www.bookswell.club/podcast/23-j... #podcast #authorinterview #newepisode @codysiscowrites.bsky.social

Tisha Reichle-Aguilera, author of the YA novel Breaking Pattern, joins Cody Sisco in conversation about rodeo sports, growing up in SoCal, difficult family relationships, and challenging gender norms and socio-economic status. www.bookswell.club/podcast/22-t... @bookswellclub.bsky.social #YAnovel

WeHo Reads: Richard Blanco and Kim Dower in Conversation During National Poetry Month was an inspiring evening of poetry and discussion. And so much fun! You can watch the recording on the WeHo Arts YouTube Channel here: www.youtube.com/live/Hl4WxKn... #NationalPoetryMonth #Poets #literaryreading

Lynne Thompson recently joined BookSwell host Cody Sisco in conversation about her most recent collection, Blue on a Blue Palette (BOA, 2024). You can watch it on YouTube or listen on the BookSwell site (bookswell.club) or on Spotify or Apple. @boa-editions.bsky.social @bookswellclub.bsky.social

Tonight! WeHo Reads: Richard Blanco and Kim Dower in Conversation During National Poetry Month on April 16, 2025 at 6:30-8 pm PT via Zoom and YouTube. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #NationalPoetryMonth #poetryreading #poets

Meet Richard Blanco with Kim Dower during National Poetry Month. Richard is the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet, selected by President Obama, and a National Humanities Medal recipient. WeHo Reads April 16, 2025 6:30-8 pm PT on Zoom and YouTube RSVP Requested: www.weho.org/wehoreads/ #poetry

Save the date! A conversation about poetry with Kim Dower and Richard Blanco. April 16, 2025 at 6:30-8 pm PT via Zoom and YouTube. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/weho-reads... #NationalPoetryMonth #Poets #authorevent #literaryreading @poetrichardblanco.bsky.social @codysiscowrites.bsky.social

Let's talk about books! BookSwell is at the AWP Book Expo at T271. We're giving away books by our featured authors to folx who sign up to our newsletter. Stop by and say hi! #AWP25