Topic: Poetry

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 Vandana Khanna's poem "Dear O."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Keetje Kuiper's poem "Prayer."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads David Kirby’s poem"Van Gogh."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Major Jackson’s "Let Me Begin Again."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads David St. John’s "Coast Poppies."

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 Naomi Shihab Nye’s "Famous".

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 Kwame Dawes’s "Skin".

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Harryette Mullen’s "We Are Not Responsible".

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads F. Douglas Brown’s "This Name / His".

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Donika Kelly’s "In the Chapel of St. Mary’s".