Lynne ThompsonLynne Thompson was appointed Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles in February 2021. She's the author of Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Press Book Prize, Start With A Small Guitar, and FRETWORK (Marsh Hawk Press, 2019), inner of the Marsh Hawk Press Prize.

Patricia Smith is the author of eight books of poetry, including Incendiary Art (2017), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, an NAACP Image Award, and finalist for both the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. Read More Read Less