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Episode 9: Friendships

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Victoria Chang’s "Friendships."
- Date: May 27, 2021
- Victoria Chang,
- Lynne Thompson
- Poetry
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Episode 8: Learning to Love America

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s “Learning to Love America”
- Date: May 20, 2021
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim,
- Lynne Thompson
- Poetry
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Episode 7: The Sign Says “Closed for Business”

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Amy Uyematsu’s “The Sign Says `Closed for Business’”
- Date: May 13, 2021
- Amy Uyematsu,
- Lynne Thompson
- Poetry
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Episode 6: Agent Blue

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Teresa Mei Chuc’s poem “Agent Blue”.
- Date: May 6, 2021
- Teresa Mei Chuc,
- Lynne Thompson
- Poetry
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Episode 5: Harry It’s Raining

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Holly Prado Northrup’s poem “Harry It’s Raining”
- Date: April 29, 2021
- Holly Prado,
- Lynne Thompson
- Poetry
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Episode 4: Words are Birds

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Francisco X. Alarcón’s “Words are Birds”.
- Date: April 22, 2021
- Francisco X. Alarcón,
- Lynne Thompson
- Poetry
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Episode 3: Rose Solitude

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Jayne Cortez’s “Rose Solitude”.
- Date: April 15, 2021
- Jayne Cortez,
- Lynne Thompson
- Poetry
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Episode 2: And the Grass Did Grow

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Ralph Angel’s “And the Grass Did Grow”.
- Date: April 8, 2021
- Ralph Angel,
- Lynne Thompson
- Poetry
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Episode 1: American Sonnet 15

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Wanda Coleman’s “American Sonnet 15”.
- Date: April 1, 2021
- Wanda Coleman,
- Lynne Thompson
- Poetry
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Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters

As part of Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles joins the nationwide celebration of 250 years of African American poetry on the occasion of the…
- Date: January 28, 2021
- Amanda Gorman,
- Kris Bowers,
- Robin Coste Lewis,
- Safiya Sinclair,
- Kevin Young
- Poetry
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Just Us: An American Conversation

How do we talk about race in America? Two of our country's most award-winning poets and unflinching voices on racism will join ALOUD for their first public event together. Claudia Rankine is an…
- Date: November 15, 2020
- Claudia Rankine,
- Terrance Hayes,
- Dawn Lundy Martin
- Poetry
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Should We Praise the Mutilated World? Poetry from California to Krakow

Two of the world’s greatest living poets come together for a rare Los Angeles reading and conversation. The work of Robert Hass, former U.S. Poet Laureate and long-time translator of Nobel Laureate…
- Date: April 24, 2018
- Robert Hass,
- Adam Zagajewski,
- Andrew Winer
- Poetry
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Haiku in Zapotec: From Oaxaca to Japan and Back

Because of its similar celebration of the beauty of the natural world and focus on compactness, contemporary Zapotec-language poetry shares much in common with the Japanese haiku. Poet Víctor Terán…
- Date: January 23, 2018
- Jane Hirshfield,
- Víctor Terán,
- David Shook
- Poetry
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La Lengua Sin Frontera (Language Without Borders): Three Indigenous Poets

Join us for an evening celebrating indigenous poetry from the United States and Mexico with three major poets—Natalie Diaz (member of the Mojave and Pima Indian tribes, winner of the Nimrod/Hardman…
- Date: November 9, 2017
- Natalie Diaz,
- Layli Long Soldier,
- Natalia Toledo
- Poetry

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