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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.
08/02/2025
Valley love in the house! What a beautiful evening of art and community! Lots of fierce palabra shared, and together we raised $259 for KIND! This is incredible! Thank you for helping us raise money for Kids in Need of Defense 🫶🏽♥️💐🙏🏽 Our community is beautiful! Thank you to the super talented Erika Stormm for sharing your gifts with us and supporting our cause! You are dynamic and a light in the darkness!
We love you!
Thank you to our cohosts and collaborators,
Teamwork makes the dream work. Much love.
08/02/2025
Clara Roque Wagner at the mic! De
07/30/2025
Newly published work form Karl Dean with an interview:
Amara Jackson's Interview with Katherine Preza Leonor regarding her debut poetry book 'The Absence of Light'.
07/27/2025
These Poets are pure fire! So honored to have them as part of our Creative community, and also support supporting KIND kids in need of defense. Thank you for offering your time and your words for our children and being there as we all should. Fuego!
Carlos Ornelas .carlosornelas
Sandy Shakes
Anna Goodman Herrick
It’s great to be back at The Libros Lincoln Heights
Thank you for the love.
07/09/2025
Help free our brother, friend and organizer, Ernesto Ayala. He was taken by ICE thugs on 7/8/25
His family is asking for support:
It was wonderful having Ely Lupe in the house on Reason in bed with Jessica this week. It was great to learn her story, and also share what was on our minds. Talking is released, and good for mental health, no matter how dark the subject can be. We gotta make space for each other.
One love one family —be safe, everyone. Ometeotl
interview
06/18/2025
Even in the wake of all this distress, violence, and uncertainty, we still gotta show up for our kids.
LA Poet Society is honored to partner with 826LA Echo Park, in celebrating the young mystery writers and the culmination of their work!
I’m very excited to join in this youth celebration and open mic! We open the mic to all youth in the area that would like to share and the fierce writers and poets who are available.
Announcing our special guest, Mystery Novelist, Aaron Philip Clarke !!! This will be special. Thank you 826LA for all you do to empower our youth!
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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.
