Writers Week Craft Talk | Lynne Thompson: I’ve Written the Poem, Now What?

Please join us for a special Writer’s Week Craft Talk at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public.
Lynne Thompson was Los Angeles’ 4th Poet Laureate and received a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. In 2024, She represented the City of Los Angeles at the Marathon Poétique at the Paris Olympic Games. Thompson is the author of four collections of poetry: Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Press Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Associations New Writers Award; Start With A Small Guitar (What Books Press); Fretwork, winner of the 2019 Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize selected by Jane Hirshfield; and Blue on a Blue Palette, published by BOA Editions in April 2024. The recipient of multiple awards, Thompson has taught for the University of Reno Low Residency Program, Napa Valley Writers Conference, and the Central Coast Writers Conference, among others. Recent work appears in Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and the anthology Dear Yusef: Essays, Letters and Poems For and About One Mr. Komunyakaa, to name a few. A lawyer by training, Thompson serves on the Boards of The Poetry Foundation and the Los Angeles Review of Books and is the current President of Cave Canem.