Brian Sonia-Wallace

Brian Sonia-Wallace is the 4th Poet Laureate of the City of West Hollywood, the author of The Poetry of Strangers (Harper Collins 2020), and has spent the last decade writing poems for thousands of strangers at Pride festivals, in the Mall of America, aboard Amtrak trains, tailgating Banksy, and at the Wailing Wall. He is a 2021 Laureate Fellow for the Academy of American Poets for his LGBTQ+ organizing, and his work has been published in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Poets.org, and more. Briansoniawallace.com / @rentpoet.