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  • Evoke LA

    Join MacArthur Fellow and USC Annenberg Professor Josh Kun with the series historians—the Autry associate curator Tyree Boyd-Pates, Pitzer professor Suyapa Portillo Villeda, and USC professor Natalia Molina—to discuss this new collaboration with KPCC & LAist that blends live music, live conversation…

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  • Secret Identity: A Novel

    The bestselling and award-winning writer Alex Segura, the author of five Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery novels and the acclaimed Archie Meets Kiss storyline comics, offers a rollicking new literary mystery set in the world of comic books. Segura’s latest novel, Secret Identity, takes an look at the…

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  • Episode 51: Natasha Trethewey

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Natasha Trethewey’s poem "Elegy" from her collection Thrall.

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  • Episode 50: Patricia Smith

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Patricia Smith’s "Thankful" from her collection Blood Dazzler.

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  • Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

    The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide for our times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, including selections from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics…

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  • Episode 49: Ilya Kaminsky

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Ilya Kaminsky's poem "We Lived Happily During the War."

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  • Episode 48: Carl Phillips

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Carl Phillips's poem "Little Winter."

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  • Episode 47: Kiki Petrosino

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Kiki Petrosino's poem "Prelude."

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  • Episode 46: Jaki Shelton Green

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Jaki Shelton Green's poem "i know the grandmother one had hands."

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  • Episode 45: Tyehimba Jess

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Tyehimba Jess' poem "Fort Mose."

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  • Episode 44: Chloe Martinez

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Chloe Martinez's poem "To the Fossils Embedded in the Floor of the Met’s Medieval Galleries."

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  • Episode 43: Cece Peri

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Cece Peri's poem "It’s Noir."

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  • Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

    What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott of The New York Times shares an unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America. Elliott’s latest work…

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  • Episode 42: Henry Morro

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Henry Morro's poem "Any Job."

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