Poet Laureate Happy Hour with Gustavo Hernandez & Ching-In Chen

🖊️ Poet Laureate Happy Hour with Gustavo Hernandez & Ching-In Chen at LibroMobile 

Save the date: Friday, June 14, 2024 from 6-8pm PST 

Need some writing advice or line edits or just someone to give you poetry inspirations....

Can’t make it to our Libro Mobile bookstore? Email

libromobile@gmail.com for a zoom link, 

About the OC Poet Laureate:

Gustavo Hernandez is the author of the acclaimed

poetry collection Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press) and the micro-chapbooks Form His Arms and Little Fleece (Ghost City Press). His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Harvard Review, The Slowdown Podcast, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series. Hernandez holds an associate’s degree in English from Santiago Canyon College and a bachelor’s degree in English-Creative Writing from California State University Long Beach. He was born in Jalisco, Mexico, and raised in Santa Ana, California, where he still resides. Hernandez is the Orange County Poet Laureate for 2024-2026.

About Redmond's Poet Laureate 

Ching-In Chen is author of The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems and recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters. Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities and currently a core member of the Massage Parlor Outreach Project, a Kelsey Street Press collective member and an Airlie Press editor. They are collaborating with Cassie Mira and others on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice. 

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