Topic: Poetry

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "i am not done yet" by Lucille Clifton.

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "Rain" by Claribel Alegría.

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 "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden.

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "Black Indian" by Shonda Buchanan.

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "Speak A Million Years" by Peter J. Harris.

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "The Afterlife" by Ron Koertge.

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "Just in Case" by Eloise Klein Healy.

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."