{"id":259518,"date":"2026-04-09T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259518\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:38:14","slug":"6-national-poetry-month-events-you-can-attend-in-weho-this-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259518\/","title":{"rendered":"6 National Poetry Month Events You Can Attend In WeHo This April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0Saturday, April 11, 2026,\u00a0from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard, West Hollywood City Poet Laureate\u00a0Jen Cheng, Anaheim Poet Laureate\u00a0Camille Hernandez\u00a0and \u00a0Glendale Poet Laureate\u00a0Raffi Wartanian\u00a0will present\u00a0A Poetry Reading with Writing Exercises: Poetry as Mapping Kinship and Collective Cultures. <\/p>\n<p>In this free workshop, find new ways of writing your poems! This trio of poets laureate will share their poetry on the extended family and culture as a map for seeking understanding and survival. The first half is a poetry reading and the second half will offer attendees writing exercises. <\/p>\n<p>This is a free event offered in conjunction with the LA County Library. However, an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weho.org\/community\/arts-and-culture\/literary-arts\/city-poet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.weho.org\/community\/arts-and-culture\/literary-arts\/city-poet\" data-action=\"text_cta_3\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\"><a href=\"https:\/\/visit.lacountylibrary.org\/event\/15776085\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/visit.lacountylibrary.org\/event\/15776085\" data-action=\"text_cta_4\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\">RSVP is requested<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On\u00a0Saturday, April 11, 2026,\u00a0from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the West Hollywood Library Community Meeting Room, located&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,2690],"class_list":{"0":"post-259518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}