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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.

Called the “best short-story writer in English,” (Time) George Saunders is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose, Saunders continues to challenge and surprise—here is a collection of prismati…

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

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy and renowned author and social scientist Dr. Robert D. Putnam join ALOUD for a wide-ranging conversation ab​out the past and future of community in America. In this exclusive conversation, Dr. Murthy and Dr. Putnam will discuss how we can begin to address some of the biggest challenges facing Americans today…

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.

This event marks the culmination of the inaugural Los Angeles Public Library Creators in Residence, highlighting new original work by photographer Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin and visual artist River Garza. Rooted in the Black community and Indigenous Tongva community respectively, Boyd-Bouldin and Garza have produced thoughtful, reflective, gorgeous works i…

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads "Explaining Love" by Dexter L. Booth from his collection Abracadabra Sunshine.

Join Cody Keenan, President Obama’s chief speechwriter, and Jon Favreau, co-host of Pod Save America and founder of Crooked Media, to discuss Keenan’s new book Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America. Through the behind-the-scenes moments, from Obama’s suggestion that Keenan pour a drink, listen to some Miles Davis, and “find …

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."

In the wake of the pandemic, the George Floyd protests, and the country’s ongoing efforts to reconcile its racist past and address ongoing racial injustice, Black playwrights have pushed the boundaries of style and form, exploring absurdism, lyricism, and other genre-bending experiments to try to capture the strange blend of joy, fear, pain, and en…

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 Matthew Dickman's poem "Rhododendron."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Michelle Bitting's poem "Labyrinth."

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 Forrest Gander's poem "Aubade III."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Dana Levin's poem "January Garden."

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 David Romero's poem "Micro Machines."

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Nathan McClain's poem "Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi".

La emergente superestrella literaria y activista de la positividad corporal se está ganando al mundo por su forma poco convencional de interpretar el amor y el cuerpo. Seguida por un dedicado club de fans en Instagram llamado Mango Mafia, Salgado es una poeta salvadoreña nacida en Los Ángeles y criada en Silver Lake y cuyos libros de poesía, Corazó…

Fans of best-selling author Tom Perrotta’s Election will remember the signature character Tracy Flick—Reese Witherspoon’s character from the classic movie adaptation. She is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist is determined to take high school politics by storm. In classic Perrotta style, his new book Tracy Flick Can’t Win is a sharp, dark…

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Michael Kleber-Diggs' poem "Every Mourning" from his collection Worldly Things.

Described as “Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful,” Cult Classic, by acclaimed author Sloane Crosley, takes the reader on a journey of past love, memory, and through the philosophy of romance. One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of …

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Tanya Ko Hong's poem "Waiting" from her collection the WAR still within.

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.

In conjunction with the orchestra’s performance of John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1, a memorial to those he lost to AIDS at the height of the epidemic, the LA Phil welcomes Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993. Twenty years in the making, Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehe…

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Hao Nguyen’s poem "Napalm Notes" from her collection A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure.

From the daring Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Jennifer Egan, this program will enter the world of The Candy House, her “sibling novel” to A Visit from the Goon Squad. In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of “Own Your Unconscious,” a fictional foray into the idea of a technology that allows us access to…

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.

Since Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was adopted for television by creator Bruce Miller, the conversation about women in society has shifted. In some ways, women have made great strides to break that glass ceiling, and in other ways, the progress for American women has taken a retroactive turn that makes this show all the more relevant and t…

Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Benjamin Garcia’s poem "To the Unborn Sibling" from his collection Thrown in the Throat.