Poems from the Hotline with Pride PoetsPride Poets brings together the LGBTQ+ literary community and members of the public, popping up at events with typewriters or virtually crafting custom poem requests. Watch this moving, inspirational, and fun presentation featuring their favorite new poems written for callers during their Poetry Hotline in 2021. Learn how they the stories behind the poems and how they write craft a poem for a stranger in just minutes, commemorating personal queer histories. For adults. This event was recorded live on June 22, 2021.
The views thoughts and opinions expressed during this presentation belong solely to the poets, and do not necessarily reflect the views, thoughts, and opinions of LA County Library.
0:00 Intro
0:33 About Pride Poets
4:26 Brian Sonia-Wallace
6:39 Molly Thornton
10:34 Jen Cheng
14:19 d.r. baker
16:59 Victor Yates
18:43 Catherine Gewertz
21:22 jess/jiexi zhou
26:10 Michael Narkunski
31:10 Carla Sameth
35:27 Jay Baldwin
39:37 reg
44:34 Natalie Dressel
49:38 Pride Poets discussion and upcoming events
52:33 Closing Poem by Brian Sonia-Wallace
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After The MusicThe City of West Hollywood celebrates the holiday season each year with a special holiday card. This year, in addition to a digital card, the City of West Hollywood has produced an imaginative and touching two-and-a-half-minute video called “After The Music.” This video animates a poem written especially for the holidays by the new West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace.
West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace created the poem “After The Music” to address the feelings of hope, connecting and coping with isolation during this very unusual holiday season. The video combine the poem, read aloud by the poet himself, with animations and artwork from Zoo Crew Productions and Steven Rahbany.
For more information on this project visit www.weho.org/arts or contact Mike Che, Arts Coordinator for the City of West Hollywood.
Poem: I Sing The Body West Hollywood by West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Kim DowerWest Hollywood City Poet Laureate Kim Dower (2016-2018) solicited lines from hundreds of community members in West Hollywood and weaved those words together into two citywide collaborative poems: “West Hollywood is for Dreamers” and “I Sing The Body West Hollywood,” The latter poem was turned into a five-minute animated video, which incorporates the poem as narrated by Kim Dower; artwork by local artist Miguel Andrisani; and music from Derek Monteiro, Audiomoe, and Aaron Colbert.
For more information on the West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Program visit https://www.weho.org/community/arts-and-culture/literary-arts/city-poet or contact the program manager, Mike Che at mche@weho.org.
WeHo Reads: What Is Left?
WeHo Reads: Toward Better Futures | a celebration of the Road to Joy and Mindful JourneysPoets and authors who participated in the WeHo Reads series in 2022 and 2023 gathered to celebrate the creative spirit and our collective, mindful journey toward understanding, empathy, and harmony.
This event took place at the West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room on February 8, 2023.
The series opener for WeHo Reads 2023 assembled writers who are seeking to navigate joy in the midst of sorrow and craft mindful journeys toward better futures, whether through fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry.
Participating writers included: bridgette bianca, Shonda Buchanan, Jen Cheng, Lisbeth Coiman, Flint, Charles Flowers, Peter J. Harris, Reuben "Tihi" Hayslett, traci kato-kiriyama, Lester Graves Lennon, Malia Márquez, Thea Pueschel, Luivette Resto, Carla Sameth, Sehba Sarwar, Lynne Thompson, and Hazel Kight Witham.
This event also served as a reception for a new exhibition of photographs from a contest that was held around the theme of the 2022 WeHo Reads series about creating joy in times of sorrow. The contest was held in the fall of 2022 and was juried by writers/photographers Lynell George and Marisela Norte. Photographers featured in this exhibition include: Natalia Affonso, Nadia Alamah, Rick Castro, Arpan Basu Chowdhury (who had the first-place winning submission), Gabriella Maria dos Santos Silva, Victoria Goring, Haro Istamboulian, Louis Jacinto, Alessia Piscopo, Mateo Salas, and Don Tinling.
Andrea Gibson - Every Time I Ever Said I Want to DieGet Andrea’s new book, YOU BETTER BE LIGHTNING: http://bit.ly/andreagibsonybbl
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Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO.
About Button:
Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry.
We seek to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry's audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.
Africa's Madonna: Kat Kol-KesSelf-styled as an African Madonna, Katlego K Kol-Kes is a poet and author of her debut anthology "...on about the same old things". A well known Trans* ARTivist originally from Botswana, Katlego is Bahati Books author and she is currently based in London as a Chevening Scholar. Katlego actively pushes the boundaries of comfortability, acceptability and knowing through her written and performed art. Her debut poetry collection, "...on about the same old things" is the first in a series exploring the experiences of queer identifying Africans.
My Life is Poetry 2020 ReadingMy Life is Poetry is an autobiographical poetry workshop for LGBTQ seniors, founded by Steven Reigns, funded by City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and supported by the Senior Services Department of The Los Angeles LGBTQ Center.
Sarah Kay - The Minister of LonelinessGet Sarah Kay's book here: https://bit.ly/SarahKayPoems
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Sarah Kay, performing at Gray Area in San Francisco, CA.
About Button:
Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry.
We seek to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry's audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.
There's No Rainbows in Heaven | Gay LGBT short film / Spoken word poetryThis is a short film I created for my final major project, its not amazing but here you go, enjoy!!!!!!
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I Envy The Ocean }{A Poetry Short Film}{A Visual Poem}.This is a Visual Short Poem Written, Directed, and Filmed by myself....
it is about the luxuries and the grace we SHOULD give to humanity when it comes to depression, anxiety, mental health, and our earthly woes--
and how we have to be able to cultivate a space in which people can crash down, fall apart, feel as if they are nothing, be ashamed for it--and then they can rise again like the oceans waves do...
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SYNTH MUSIC AMBIENCE:
SyllixMusic
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CINEMATIC OCEANIC FOOTAGE:
Chris Bryan Oceanic Footage
Ellis Van Jason
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enjoy!
