Former LA Poet Laureate and Scripps alum Lynne Thompson ’72 joined the Altadena Poets Laureate for a poetry workshop on December 14, 2024.
Thompson served as the fourth Los Angeles Poet Laureate and was an Academy of American Poetry Poet Laureate Fellowship recipient.
Her most recent book, a collection of poems titled Blue on a Blue Palette, reflects on the condition of women and their insistence on survival.
Read some of Thompson’s work here.