FOURTH SATURDAY POETRY READINGS
Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library
Featuring Lynne Thompson & Luivette Resto
208 N. Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, July 27, 2024 @ 2:00 pm
Featuring Lynne Thompson & Luivette Resto
208 N. Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA 91711
Saturday, July 27, 2024 @ 2:00 pm
Lynne Thompson served as the fourth Poet Laureate of the City of Los Angeles and received a Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets honoring that service. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Blue on a Blue Palette, published by BOA Editions in April of this year. Recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Pleiades, and Gulf Coast. Thompson serves on the Boards of the Poetry Foundation, Cave Canem, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Scripps College.
Luivette Resto is an award-winning poet, a mother of three revolutionary humans, and a middle school English teacher. She was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, but proudly raised in the Bronx. She is a CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her two books of poetry, Unfinished Portrait and Ascension, have been published by Tía Chucha Press. Her third poetry collection, Living on Islands Not Found on Maps, was published by FlowerSong Press in 2022. Her work has been mentioned in the LA Times, Ms. Magazine, and North American Review. She is the associate editor of Tía Chucha Press, and she sits on the boards for Women Who Submit and Beyond Baroque.
This event is free and open to the public; books will be available for purchase.
Please note that Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library and grants from Poets & Writers.
Genevieve & the Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library team
https://www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry
Poets & Poetry in Claremont
https://www.facebook.com/groups/193631171279213
Luivette Resto is an award-winning poet, a mother of three revolutionary humans, and a middle school English teacher. She was born in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, but proudly raised in the Bronx. She is a CantoMundo and Macondo Fellow and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her two books of poetry, Unfinished Portrait and Ascension, have been published by Tía Chucha Press. Her third poetry collection, Living on Islands Not Found on Maps, was published by FlowerSong Press in 2022. Her work has been mentioned in the LA Times, Ms. Magazine, and North American Review. She is the associate editor of Tía Chucha Press, and she sits on the boards for Women Who Submit and Beyond Baroque.
This event is free and open to the public; books will be available for purchase.
Please note that Fourth Saturdays follows Los Angeles County Covid guidelines. The series is supported by Friends of the Claremont Library and grants from Poets & Writers.
Genevieve & the Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library team
https://www.facebook.com/fourthsaturdayspoetry
Poets & Poetry in Claremont
https://www.facebook.com/groups/193631171279213