Poetry hotline: call 202-998-3510 to speak to a poet / visit www.weho.org/pride or www.pridepoets.com for more info 

Call in to get a custom poems for you or a loved ones based on the topic of your choice, written by one of the team of LGBTQ+ Pride Poets standing by at the remote Poetry Hotline from June 11-13, marathon-style from 10am-10pm. Poems will be written on-the-spot, and callers can choose to have copies of the poems emailed or mailed to them.

For the last two years, Pride Poets has brought together LGBTQ+ literary community and members of the public. In 2019, they popped up with typewriters around West Hollywood throughout the month of Pride, crafting over 600 new poems for passersby commemorating their personal queer histories. In 2020 Pride Poets fielded 60 custom poem requests submitted online and ran Pride Mic, which featured 100+ LGBTQ+ writers and notable historian Lillian Faderman (co-author of Gay LA).

Pride Poets connects LGBTQ+ poets with the public to write custom poems. It’s mission is to promote queer dialogue and writing using storytelling, glitter & typewriters. The phone line is a collaboration with the Try Tank Experimental Lab (www.TryTank.org), and linked to self-guided events LOVE NOTE and Pride Publics. Pride Poets is a RENT Poet Project, made possible by a One City One Pride grant(www.weho.org/pride) from the City of West Hollywood and organized by Brian Sonia-Wallace, with the permeable poetry hotline in 2021 co-organized with Molly Thornton.