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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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	Beg No Pardon 4.58 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Start with a Small Guitar 4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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message 2: by Lynne

Mar 05, 2014 05:42AM

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

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message 1: by Barbara

Mar 05, 2014 05:27AM

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.