Poems on Air Podcast Episodes

The works of numerous African American poets, authors, and thinkers were featured on the library's Poems on Air podcast series, hosted by Los Angeles' most recent Poet Laureate, Lynne Thompson. The list below is a curation of these first-rate episodes.

Kwame Dawes. Photo credit: Chris Abani.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reading poetry at an event.

Kwame Dawes: Skin

Terrance Hayes
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reading poetry at an event.

Terrance Hayes: American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin

Lucille Clifton
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reading poetry at an event.

Lucille Clifton: telling our stories | i am not done yet

Faylita Hicks
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reading poetry at an event.

Faylita Hicks: The Battered Woman’s Prayer for Power

Shonda Buchanan
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reading poetry at an event.

Shonda Buchanan: Black Indian

Robert Hayden
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reading poetry at an event.

Robert Hayden: Frederick Douglass

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Lynne Thompson reading potery at an event.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reading poetry at an event.