The works of numerous African American poets, authors, and thinkers were featured on the library's Poems on Air podcast series, hosted by Los Angeles' most recent Poet Laureate, Lynne Thompson. The list below is a curation of these first-rate episodes.
Kwame Dawes: Skin
Terrance Hayes: American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin
Lucille Clifton: telling our stories | i am not done yet
Faylita Hicks: The Battered Woman’s Prayer for Power
Shonda Buchanan: Black Indian
Robert Hayden: Frederick Douglass
More episodes to explore
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reading poetry at an event.