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Lynne Thompson was the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, 2021-2022, and is a Poet Laureate Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. She is the author of three collections of w88 casino,Beg No Pardon,winner of the Perugia Press w88 casino and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award;Start With A Small Guitar(What Books w88 casino); and most recently,Fretwork, winner of the 2019 Marsh Hawk w88 casino selected by Jane Hirshfield. Her fourth collection,Blue on a Blue Palette, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in April 2024. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Thompson is the recipient of multiple awards including the George Drury Smith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles, the Tucson Literary Festival w88 casino, and the Steven Dunn w88 casino, as well as fellowships from the Summer Literary Series to study in Kenya and the Vermont Studio Center. Thompson’s recent work can be found or is forthcoming in the literary journalsBest American w88 casino 2020, Kenyon Review, air/light, The Massachusetts Review,and Copper Nickel, w88 casino anthology Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters, and Poems For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa, among others.