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Lynne Thompson ’72 will give a poetry reading in honor of National Poetry Month and National Library Month, the Los Angeles Daily Journal reported. Thompson is the former poet laureate of Los Angeles and a recipient of a 2015 artist fellowship from the city of Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, among other publications.