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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.
11/26/2025
Here are the links for the workshops and registration:
Quick Summary: 8-Week Online Workshop Series with Jessica M. Wilson, MFA Explore embodiment, art, and poetry through the lens of Alejandra J. Lopez’s “Modernpieces” and classical masterpieces. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ EKP...
11/25/2025
New online writing workshops starting this Friday!
Click the link to register for Friday's first "F___ (Farewell) 2025" workshops:
Y'all ready to party with us!
We are celebrating 16 years of service to Los Angeles county!
Making bridges, building creative community all around.
Come celebrate with us December 12th at the 5 Star Bar in downtown LA!!!
Free cover -- let us know you're coming and RSVP! We are featuring 16 amazing poets for our 16 years of poetic resistance!
Some of our lineup includes the righteous poetic power of:
Jeffrey Martin, Rey Rodriguez, Jesenia Chávez, Iris De Anda, Jake Téran, La Poeta Violeta, and so many more!
Support our work, and donate $16 and be part of our Sweet 16 campaign. We're bringing sweets to the party 🎉 🧁 and we want to share with you.
Hosted by the phenomenal Sandy Shakes; we are so excited for this night of poetic party pure Fuego!
Let's do this!
11/23/2025
This Sunday come meet our Poet dream team and witness their words come to life on stage. The LA Poet Society is proud to present our incredible poets on demand:
Cynthia Alessandra Briano
Anna Goodman Herrick
Eli Chevalier
Catch the show at 2:25 to 2:55 p.m. at the greenways stage. Then stop by our table at space R19 and get your very own custom poem.
11/22/2025
Speakeasy at Bodevi happens this Friday night where we celebrate our sweet 16 anniversary with our creative community in San Fernando!
Our show will be hosted by the amazing Diosy from Vôces Unidas en Pacoima!
Open mic to all creative artists. You get 5 minutes each.
No cover for this show but donations are encouraged. Consider being part of our sweet 16 campaign and donate $16 to help us continue our work in bringing 75 events a year to the creative communities across LA county and the San Fernando valley.
11/21/2025
Many in our community have been navigating stressful times. As we see our neighbors suffer discrimination and injustices; know that you are not alone.
Our Founder, Jessica M. Wilson, shares her truth of how the ICE raids have impacted her family:
The escalation of ICE raids that began in Los Ángeles in June has touched all of Southern California, not least the literary community. Jessica Wilson, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Poet So…
11/21/2025
Save the date and join us for our Sweet 16 Party, December 12!
No cover! Let's party and witness the power of our creative community!
11/17/2025
LA Poet Society is Sweet 16!
Celebrate with us at our upcoming events and join the Sweet 16 campaign!
Also, a great new reivew of Anatomy of a Flame, from Karina DaSilva!
Happy sweet 16 Los Angeles Poet Society! We are so happy to be of service to the Los Angeles county community, providing a safe space for expression, making the literary arts accessible, visible, and inclusive to all creatives.
We are very excited to kick off our birthday month with our first open mic showcase!
Join us this Friday, November 7th, for fresh Fridays open mic at Señor Fish in Eagle Rock. This wonderful show will be hosted by the incredible host, Jess Saravia! .lit
She has curated a phenomenal lineup for you!
Featuring:
Candice Margarita
Carlos Mares Jr
Gene aka Genie the Jester
Juan Amador
Karo Ska
MF
Raynne
Maestro DeSean
Vik Villa
Our mic is also open to all creatives. Everyone gets up to 5 minutes. We welcome music, singers, comedy, poetry, storytellers, improv, actors... All genres of creativity.
No hate speech tolerated
No inebriated folks at the mic.
Let's maintain a safe space for all who want to participate.
We are a literary arts non-profit 501c3, of service to LA county and beyond. Any donations received our tax deductible. Your support helps us and producing more literary arts events.
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Thank you so much for being part of this legacy of literary art.
11/01/2025
Join us Monday for our Talking Hearts Writing Circle! We welcome in the new season together with our special guest Facilitator, Poet Annalicia Aguilar, MFA.
Annalicia Aguilar is a Mexican American/mixed-race indigenous poet, screenwriter, playwright, producer, and educator. She has an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in Writing, with emphasis in Theater.
She has been a featured poet for the Trenches Full of Poets Series, the Los Angeles Poet Society, Sim's Library of Poetry, and The Community Literature Initiative.
Author of Broken, But Holding,coming soon by Riot of Roses Publishing House.
All our welcome. Donations appreciated.
See you all soon.
10/31/2025
What an incredible night to witness! It was the 10-year anniversary of the Eastside Arts Initiative, where I had the incredible honor of being an MC for the night, reciting my poem and making special acknowledgments to an array of talented artists of all genres and all wonderful humans who believe in the spirit and the power of creativity. Poet Matt Sedillo also MC'd with me.
A super highlight of the night for me was being immersed with everyone in this celebration, and awarding the EAI inaugural council members who have stayed with the organization since the beginning steps, with an incredible award. I also was able to deliver the awards to the rest of the current EAI council. It was so wonderful to dance and enjoy meeting new creatives. I also got to be up there taking up space with culture clash, a group of comedians and actors and activists that I remember watching on TV when I was about 11. I always admired them and thought they were hilarious. They still are. 😂
It was really special also to see the new Sounds of the Eastside art exhibit in the museum at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. It was so cool!!!
I was so proud to see all this amazing LA music talent, including the traje of one of my brothers and friends from the San Fernando valley, Yaotl Mazahua, of Aztlán Underground! I've always been such a fan of their music, because it spoke to me in a way that made me feel seen and human. I love their music and seeing Yaotl's traje spoke to the power of our resistance as indigenous people, and our visibility. We have always been here. Claim your rightful place and be seen.
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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.
