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  • Episode 73: Lauren Russell

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

    August 18, 2022
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  • Episode 72: Forrest Gander

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

    August 11, 2022
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  • Episode 71: Dana Levin

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

    August 4, 2022
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  • Episode 70: Sonia Sanchez

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

    July 28, 2022
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    July 28, 2022
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  • Episode 69: Ada Limón

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

    July 21, 2022
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    July 21, 2022
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  • Episode 68: Linda Gregerson

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

    July 14, 2022
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    July 14, 2022
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  • Episode 67: David Romero

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

    July 7, 2022
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    July 7, 2022
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  • Episode 66: Nathan McClain

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

    June 30, 2022
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    June 30, 2022
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  • Una noche con Yesika Salgado / An Evening With Yesika Salgado

    La emergente superestrella literaria y activista de la positividad corporal se está ganando al mundo por su forma poco convencional de interpretar el amor y el cuerpo. Seguida por un dedicado club de fans en Instagram llamado Mango Mafia, Salgado es una poeta salvadoreña nacida en Los Ángeles y…

    June 29, 2022
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  • Tracy Flick Can’t Win: A Novel

    Fans of best-selling author Tom Perrotta’s Election will remember the signature character Tracy Flick—Reese Witherspoon’s character from the classic movie adaptation. She is back, and, once again, the iconic protagonist is determined to take high school politics by storm. In classic Perrotta style…

    June 23, 2022
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  • Episode 65: Michael Kleber-Diggs

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Michael Kleber-Diggs' poem "Every Mourning" from his collection Worldly Things.

    June 23, 2022
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  • Episode 64: Tanya Ko Hong

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Tanya Ko Hong's poem "Waiting" from her collection the WAR still within.

    June 16, 2022
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  • Cult Classic: A Novel

    Described as “Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful,” Cult Classic, by acclaimed author Sloane Crosley, takes the reader on a journey of past love, memory, and through the philosophy of romance. One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former…

    June 16, 2022
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  • Episode 63: Aurielle Marie

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Aurielle Marie's poem no name in the street from their collection Gumbo Ya Ya.

    June 9, 2022
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