THIS WEEK’S THEME: FOOD

Celebrate National Poetry Writing Month with us! Whether you join us for one session or all four, get ready to expand your understanding of poetry and the joy of writing it. No previous writing experience necessary!

Facilitated by LA poet and author SOFÍA AGUILAR.

SOFÍA AGUILAR is a Chicana writer and editor based on the traditional homelands of the Tongva and Chumash peoples, now known as Los Angeles, California. Her work has appeared in the L.A. Times, Refinery29 Somos, and New Orleans Review, among other publications. As an alum of WriteGirl and a first-generation college graduate, Sofía earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she received the Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry and the Spencer Barnett Memorial Prize for Excellence in Latin American and Latinx Studies. She is the author of self-published chapbooks STREAMING SERVICE: golden shovels made for tv (2021) and STREAMING SERVICE: season two. She is currently at work on her third poetry chapbook and her first novel.