Visit the Beat Museum on Saturday, August 5th for a reading in celebration of West Hollywood Poet Laureate and 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow Brian Sonia-Wallace‘s latest collection, Maze Mouth.
“Raw—as in haunting, but also as in no condom—West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace’s culminating laureate project traces the year he lost his father and moved to a gay mecca. Expect human pups, apocalypse salesmen, orgy fish, and an insatiable, sushi-eating Death.”
…and featuring the following readers:
- Kim Shuck
San Francisco Poet Laureate Emerita
- Aileen Cassinetto
San Mateo County Poet Laureate
- Armen Davoudian
Poet and translator, author of Swan Song and The Palace of Forty Pillars
- James J. Siegel
SF poet, author of How Ghosts Travel and The God of San Francisco and host of Literary Speakeasy
- Kelly Grace Thomas
Poet, author of Boat Burned