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Lynne Thompson

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Lynne Thompson served as the 2021-22 Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles and received a Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in 2022. She received her BA from Scripps College and a JD from Southwestern School of Law. After practicing law for many years, Thompson served as the Director of Labor and Employee Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles, for twenty years. Her first collection of poems, Beg No Pardon, won the Perugia Press Book Prize in 2007 and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award in 2008. She’s also the author of Start With a Small Guitar (What Books Press, 2013) and Fretwork (Marsh Hawk Books, 2019). A recipient of the George Drury Smith Award for Achievement in Poetry in ...more

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Average rating: 4.62 · 47 ratings · 5 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
Beg No Pardon
4.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Start with a Small Guitar
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Mar 05, 2014 05:42AM

Lynne Early going in my reading but I'll let you know!


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Mar 05, 2014 05:27AM

Barbara Read "Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany" reluctantly when it first came out (book club choice) and to my surprise found it fascinating and well worth reading. I'll be interested to hear what you think.


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