WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 6:30–8 p.m. PT
In Person: West Hollywood Library Community Room, 625 N San Vicente Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Free, RSVP Requested
To achieve transformation, we must first imagine it. The fall season of WeHo Reads 2025 begins with four authors summoning their powers of creativity and advocacy. The participating writers will share expansive visions of life, death, and all the sublime and horrific moments in between.
This event brings together poets and authors with queer and marginalized perspectives on the transformative power of literature. Featuring: Gina Rae Duran, interdisciplinary artist, trauma-informed educator, and editor of The White Picket Fence: Stories of Individuality as Rebelliousness anthology, forthcoming from FlowerSong Press; Carlos Allende, educator and author of Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love and Love, or the Witches of Windward Circle; Myriam Gurba, activist and author of several books including Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings; and Dan López, editor and author of The Show House, named a Best Book of 2016 by Chicago Review of Books, and Part the Hawser, Limn the Sea.
West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Jen Cheng will open the event with the reading of a poem.
Additional information:
- Free Parking. Attendees may park in the 5-story Public/Park Parking Structure at 625 N. San Vicente Blvd
- Content warning: This program may contain explicit language or content.
