With the longer timelines and competitive nature of traditional publishing\, self-publishing or starting a micropres s are ways to get your work out there. At the end of this session\, studen ts will have resources and empowered analysis on options for individual pu blishing goals.
\nSponsored by the Friends of the West Hollywood Lib rary.
\nJen Cheng is the Fifth Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (2023 -2026). As an indie artist with a commitment to social justice\, she has e xperience with various publishing projects\, from zines for high school po ets as part of her project as a Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of A merican Poets to other projects such as partnering with a hybrid publisher and starting a micropress. Cheng's best-selling poetry collection Bra ided Spaces \;(2023) is re-released in 2026 with a second edition . She recorded selected poems from Braided Spaces \;as a limi ted edition EP vinyl record\, Braided Spaces: Trenza 1. She is th e publisher of a 2026 immigrant rights anthology\, Butterflies Over La nd. She is the creator and a mentor of the Fountain Fellows project\, inviting emerging poets and writers to apply to the mentorship project fo r chapbook publication. Learn more about Jen Cheng's projects online \ ;@jencvoice or JenCvoice.com.
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