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 at www.weho.org/wehoreads
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 the profound, sometimes unsettling moments that lie between.
This event brings together poets and authors with queer and marginalized perspectives on the transformative power of literature. This event brings together poets and authors with queer and marginalized perspectives on the transformative power of literature. Featuring: Carlos Allende, educator and author of Coffee, Shopping, Murder, Love and Love, or the Witches of Windward Circle; Gina Rae Duran, interdisciplinary artist, trauma informed educator, and editor of The White Picket Fence: Stories of Individuality as Rebelliousness anthology, forthcoming FlowerSong Press; 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. The event will open with a poem from West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Jen Cheng. This event may contain explicit content.
*Attendees are advised that the program may include mature language and themes.
Staff: Mike Che, 323-848-6377, mche@weho.org
