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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.