Lynne Thompson

Lynne Thompson was Los Angeles’s fourth poet laureate and represented the city at the Marathon Poétique during the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Thompson is the author of Blue on a Blue Palette (BOA Editions, 2024), Fretwork (Marsh Hawk Press, 2019), Start with a Small Guitar (What Books Press, 2015), and Beg No Pardon (Perugia Press, 2007). A lawyer by training, Thompson serves on the board of the Poetry Foundation and is the current president of Cave Canem.