Greetings, good people! Thank you for stopping by. Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the PoeT is here writing essays hosting poetry events and leading workshops across California. He also gives city tours laced with poetry. Get Letters to My City. Holler!


Mike Sonksen is a 3rd-generation Southern Californian. Poet, professor, journalist, historian & tour-guide, his latest book Letters to My City was published by Writ Large Press. He’s written for Poets & Writers, KCET, Alta, Wax Poetics, PBS, LA Taco, LA Review of Books, LAist, Boom and the Academy of American Poets. Sonksen is the Coordinator of the First Year Experience Program at Woodbury University.