Topic: Poetry

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Al Young's poem "Dawn at Oakland Airport."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Martha Ronk's poem "Scraps of Indigenous History."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads traci kato-kiriyama's poem "Los Angeles is (such) a Scorpio."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Matthew Dickman's poem "Rhododendron."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Michelle Bitting's poem "Labyrinth."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Allison Adelle Hedge Coke's poem "Look At This Blue."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Lauren Russell's poem "Peggy/ An Inventory."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Forrest Gander's poem "Aubade III."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Dana Levin's poem "January Garden."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Sonia Sanchez's poem "Ballad (after the spanish)."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Ada Limón's poem "A New National Anthem."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Linda Gregerson's poem "Variations on a Phrase by Cormac McCarthy."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads David Romero's poem "Micro Machines."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Nathan McClain's poem "Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi".