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  • Episode 62: Mai Der Vang

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Mai Der Vang's poem "They Think Our Killed Ones Cannot Speak to Us" from her collection Yellow Rain.

    June 2, 2022
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  • Episode 61: Will Alexander

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Will Alexander's poem "Eruption From the Compound of Living" from his collection Refractive Africa.

    May 26, 2022
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  • Episode 60: francine j. harris

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads francine j. harris' poem "My hair is falling out " from her collection here is the sweet hand.

    May 19, 2022
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  • Episode 59: Douglas Kearney

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Douglas Kearney’s poem "Eulogy for a Pair of Kicks" from his collection Sho.

    May 12, 2022
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    May 12, 2022
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  • Episode 58: Diane Seuss

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Diane Seuss’ poem [My favorite scent is my own funk] from her collection frank: sonnets.

    May 5, 2022
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  • Let the Record Show: A Conversation With Sarah Schulman

    In conjunction with the orchestra’s performance of John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1, a memorial to those he lost to AIDS at the height of the epidemic, the LA Phil welcomes Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993. Twenty years in the making…

    May 3, 2022
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  • Episode 57: Hao Nguyen

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Hao Nguyen’s poem "Napalm Notes" from her collection A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure.

    April 28, 2022
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  • The Candy House: A Novel

    From the daring Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Jennifer Egan, this program will enter the world of The Candy House, her "sibling novel" to A Visit from the Goon Squad. In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of "Own Your Unconscious," a fictional foray into…

    April 26, 2022
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  • Episode 56: Diamond Forde

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Diamond Forde’s poem "Trying to Write A Music Poem" from her collection Mother Body.

    April 21, 2022
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  • Episode 55: Threa Almontaser

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Threa Almontaser’s poem "Dream Interpretation [Fox]" from her collection The Wild Fox of Yemen.

    April 14, 2022
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  • How The Handmaid’s Tale Changed the Conversation About Women

    Since Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was adopted for television by creator Bruce Miller, the conversation about women in society has shifted. In some ways, women have made great strides to break that glass ceiling, and in other ways, the progress for American women has taken a retroactive…

    April 13, 2022
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  • Episode 54: Benjamin Garcia

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Benjamin Garcia’s poem "To the Unborn Sibling" from his collection Thrown in the Throat.

    April 7, 2022
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  • Episode 53: Desiree C. Bailey

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Desiree C. Bailey’s poem "Fleshed Cartographies" from her collection What Noise Against the Cane.

    March 31, 2022
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  • Episode 52: Jane Hirshfield

    Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Jane Hirshfield’s poem "Today, Another Universe" from her collection Ledger.

    March 24, 2022
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    March 24, 2022
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