Join us in reading local in April! For National Poetry Month, we selected fiction and poetry to awaken the soul. Our picks appear below.
You can meet the poets on April 16 during the WeHo Reads: Richard Blanco and Kim Dower in Conversation During National Poetry Month event.
We’re also running a book giveaway! Attendees on April 16 will be chosen at random to receive a free book from one of the participating authors. We’re giving away one copy of each of the books marked with the book icon 📖 below to give away. See official sweepstakes rules for more information.
Richard Blanco
- 📖 Homeland of My Body: A rich, accomplished, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco’s selections from his five previous volumes | Read more about Homeland of My Body on the Penguin Random House website. | Available from Bookshop.org and the Los Angeles Public Library.
- 📖 How to Love A Country: A new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive verses. | Read more about How to Love a Country on the Penguin Random House website. | Available from Bookshop.org and the Los Angeles Public Library.
Kim Dower
- 📖 Obsessive love has never been so much fun! What She Wants: Poems on Obsession, Desire, Despair, Euphoria is a powerful tribute to the intensity of obsessive love, told through the trademark humor and heartbreak of bestselling poet Kim Dower. | Available from Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- 📖 I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom: A rich, complex, heartbreaking, and funny anthology of poems on motherhood—being one and having one. | Available from Bookshop.org, Amazon, and the Los Angeles Public Library.
