Writers-at-Work Reading Series Presents: Poets Lynne Thomspon & Mira Rosenthal
Cal Poly’s Writers-at-Work series is very pleased to be hosting former LA Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson along with Professor of Creative Writing Mira Rosenthal on Wednesday, May 6th at 4:10 pm in Building 10, Room 200. Please see attached flyer and the readers’ bios below. Please arrive on time or early; space is limited.
Lynne Thompson was the 4th Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles. The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, her poetry collections include Beg No Pardon (2007), winner of the Perugia Press Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award; Start With A Small Guitar (2013), from What Books Press; and Fretwork (2019), winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. Thompson’s honors include the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award (poetry) and the Stephen Dunn Prize for Poetry as well as fellowships from the City of Los Angeles, Vermont Studio Center, and the Summer Literary Series in Kenya. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Poem-A-Day (Academy of American Poets), New England Review, Colorado Review, Pleiades, Ecotone, and Best American Poetry, to name a few.
Mira Rosenthal is an American poet and translator of Polish-language writers such as Tomasz Różycki, Małgorzata Lebda, and Krystyna Dąbrowska. Her work has received the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the Found in Translation Award, among other recognitions, and twice has been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize as well as for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, the National Translation Award, and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She is the author of Territorial, a Pitt Poetry Series selection and finalist for the INDIES Book of the Year award, and The Local World, winner of the Wick Poetry Prize. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, two Fulbright Fellowships, a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, and residencies at Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and the Jan Michalski Foundation.
Please contact Lauren Henley at lihenley@calpoly.edu with questions.