Special Poetry Reading with Featured Poet, Lynne Thompson!

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.

POETRY OPEN MIC GUIDELINES

Join local poets for a FREE morning open mic and poetry reading—with caffeine!

Each session will be hosted by Malibu Poet Laureate, Nathan Hassall, and will start with a special guest reading and an opportunity for live Q&A. Following the featured reader, we will end the event with a poetry open mic.

If you’re published, aspiring, or otherwise, please bring a poem to share or come to enjoy the local poetry. Garner encouragement from peers and derive energy from performing before an audience! The "Caffeinated Verse" open mic series will continue through the fall on the third Saturday of every month.

POETRY HOUSE RULES:

• If you'd like to read at the open mic, please bring one poem so there's enough time for all sign-ups to participate. Thank you!

Sponsored by the Friends of the Malibu Library. For Adults. No RSVP required.