Lynne Thompson

LA poet laureate

LA poet laureate

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A native Angeleno, Lynne Thompson says the city informs the way she writes.

LA poet laureate Lynne Thompson on the ‘kernels of poems’ inside all of us

A native Angeleno, Lynne Thompson says the city informs the way she writes.

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