Los Angeles Public Library's Poems on Air: Recent Episodes
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Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "For a Daughter Who Leaves" by Janice Mirkitani.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII" by Pablo Neruda.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "Speak A Million Years" by Peter J. Harris.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "Landless Acknowledgement" by Nate Marshall.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "The Battered Woman’s Prayer for Power" by Faylita Hicks from her collection HoodWitch.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "Explaining Love" by Dexter L. Booth from his collection Abracadabra Sunshine.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads James Cagney's poem "Found in America: Bad Apples."
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 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 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 Nathan McClain's poem "Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi".
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Michael Kleber-Diggs' poem "Every Mourning" from his collection Worldly Things.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Aurielle Marie's poem ~~no name in the street~~ from their collection Gumbo Ya Ya.
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.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Will Alexander's poem "Eruption From the Compound of Living" from his collection Refractive Africa.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads francine j. harris’ poem "My hair is falling out " from her collection here is the sweet hand.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Douglas Kearney’s poem "Eulogy for a Pair of Kicks" from his collection Sho.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Diane Seuss’ poem [My favorite scent is my own funk] from her collection frank: sonnets.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Hao Nguyen’s poem "Napalm Notes" from her collection A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Diamond Forde’s poem "Trying to Write A Music Poem" from her collection Mother Body.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Threa Almontaser’s poem "Dream Interpretation [Fox]" from her collection The Wild Fox of Yemen.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Benjamin Garcia’s poem "To the Unborn Sibling" from his collection Thrown in the Throat.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Desiree C. Bailey’s poem "Fleshed Cartographies" from her collection What Noise Against the Cane.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Jane Hirshfield’s poem "Today, Another Universe" from her collection Ledger.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Natasha Trethewey’s poem "Elegy" from her collection Thrall.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Patricia Smith’s "Thankful" from her collection Blood Dazzler.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Ilya Kaminsky's poem "We Lived Happily During the War."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Jaki Shelton Green's poem "i know the grandmother one had hands."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Chloe Martinez's poem "To the Fossils Embedded in the Floor of the Met’s Medieval Galleries."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Suzanne Lummis's poem "Why I Am Not the Los Angeles River."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Toi Derricotte’s poem "Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Danusha Laméris’s poem "Rites of Winter."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Rebecca Hart Olander’s poem "Ascension."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Phillip B. Williams’ poem "Final Poem for My Father Misnamed In My Mouth."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Brian Sonia-Wallace’s poem "The Comfort Ghosts."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Janice Harrington’s poem "Shaking the Grass ."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads J. Michael Martinez’s poem "Portrait of an Iris."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Marisela Norte’s poem "In Your Presence."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads William Archila’s poem "Echo Park Poem."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Felicia Zamora’s poem "The Rock in the Glen."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Andrea Carter Brown’s poem "The Rock in the Glen."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Wislawa Szymborska’s poem "Photograph from September 11."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Joy Harjo’s poem "When the World as We Knew It Ended."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Lucille Clifton’s "telling our stories."
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Terrance Hayes’ "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin".
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Dorothy Barresi’s "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles".
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Harryette Mullen’s "We Are Not Responsible".
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Donika Kelly’s "In the Chapel of St. Mary’s".
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s “Learning to Love America”
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Amy Uyematsu’s “The Sign Says `Closed for Business’”
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Holly Prado Northrup’s poem “Harry It’s Raining”.
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Francisco X. Alarcón’s “Words are Birds”.