Poet Lynne Thompson closed the opening ceremony of the third annual June Jubilee celebration at the Los Angeles Central Library with a poem inspired by a quote from activist Fannie Lou Hamer: "Nobody…
In my role as the City’s Poet Laureate, l issued a call to L.A.’s middle schools for students’ poems responding to the following questions: What location or site in the City means the most to you &…
One of the benefits of literature is that it allows the reader to empathize with the protagonists or—in the case of poets—with the themes and issues that concern them. In this period when the country…
First, a number of greetings in the language of a few native peoples on this continent: Yaa'teeh – "It is good" in Dine/NavajoKwira Va – "We are one" in RaramuriGualli Tonalli – "Good day," in Nahuatl…
Walk with the young, America;be young, again, America,among the defiant and awake,solid in their dreams.Be the revolution in the marrowwhere passions, ideals, fervors,purpose and courage,are not just…
When I received the call last September from Mayor Eric Garcetti that I’d been chosen as the new Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, I had to keep this quiet until the official announcement in October…
