Brian Sonia-Wallace at the Ugly Mug!

Brian Sonia-Wallace has written poems for over 10,000 strangers across the country based on their stories since 2012, including in residence for Amtrak Trains, Mall of America, Google, and the National Parks. He is the author of Maze Mouth (Moon Tide Press 2024) and The Poetry of Strangers (Harper Collins 2020), the 4th Poet Laureate of the City of West Hollywood, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Brian’s work has been published in The Guardian, Rolling Stone and American Poets, and set to music to be sung at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Kennedy Center. He teaches through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

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• Next month, 16th July, 08:00 pm, Sarah Thursday at the Ugly Mug! in Orange

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