You can attend events like Palabras Literary Salon or request a special visit from Jen at your school or private events. Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day parties are a good time to hire me for typewriter poetry services as entertainment for your event to be uniquely memorable. Online writing classes with Jen to be announced soon! Save the date for Sunday February 8th 1pm-2:30pm. You can register for the 2-hour UCLA Extension class scheduled for April 11th here. If you would like an in-person writing class with Jen at WeHo Library, please save the date for April 11th, 2pm-4pm.

Jen was selected as one of 23 Poet Laureate Fellows with The Academy of American Poets. The Laureate Fellow project is well under way with Bravo High School students. If you want to support our high school poets, please email to find out details about their zine party! Save the date for May 4th, 2026, 4pm-6pm.

Poetry Scrabble: Site-specific collaborative poetry experience

Poetry Scrabble premiered at WeHo Pride Arts Festival 2024, was part of an activation at LA River Arts, and opened the poetry performance I hosted on at Grand Performances. Poetry Scrabble is an interactive community poetry experience, inviting attendees to play with word tiles on a word art sculpture. At each event, attendees create collaborative poems with words celebrating the event. The experience will be curated and hosted by Jen Cheng, resulting in two poems that are site-specific, family-friendly, and engaging all to play with poetry.

Order the poetry book, Braided Spaces. See a sample of the collection as Jen shares her feminist transnational poem, Ten Thousand Butterflies, with 2023 Grand Performances in Downtown Los Angeles. Links to the virtual book launch, videos, and praise are on the book page. This book sets a foundation of Jen’s teachings in Feng Shui Poetry writing workshops.

Jen is honored as a 2023 California Arts Council Fellow. More about the fellowship here. You can see more about Jen in the press or find out about upcoming events.

Poet Laureate of West Hollywood

Jen Cheng is the Poet Laureate of West Hollywood for 2023-2026. She is the first queer woman of color in the City’s Poet Laureate program and has a commitment for building bridges across communities. Find her writing workshops at the West Hollywood Library and in the community. Stay tuned for the December 2024 Holiday Poetry Hotline. We loved it so much last year, we are doing it again! New events are updated regularly on her events list or social media (JenCvoice). Learn more about April National Poetry Month in West Hollywood in the news here or more about the poetry billboard. If you want inspiration for creativity, it’s there on the Substack, with behind-the-scenes of what goes into Jen’s poems.

Book Jen for your events

Jen performed a poetry set to celebrate International Women’s Day which you can see on her YouTube channel. Book her for your celebration. She tailors her sets for different audiences such as women’s events, queer spaces, or Asian American (AANHPI) celebrations. If you have a special occasion, she loves to write something special for your theme!

Podcast and Radio

This last December, we got a special shoutout from KCRW about the Holiday Poetry Hotline.

On KPFK’s Poet’s Cafe, Jen shares about Palabras, a BIPOC-centered literary salon that she curates and hosts. Listen to the radio show here. On KPFK’s Feminist Magazine interview (Nov 15th, 2023 edition), Jen shares about her book, projects for her Poet Laureateship, and other news.

As a wellness coach, Jen Cheng talks her method of breath work, “music.:breath,” with Liberate Yourself.