LYNNE THOMPSON & CARLETTA CARRINGTON WILSON
Saturday, March 29 at 2 p.m. at Douglass-Truth Branch, Seattle Public Library, 2300 E Yesler Way

Co-presented by the SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY and the CENTRAL DISTRICT FORUM FOR ARTS & IDEAS. Lynne Thompson, a writer with roots in California and the West Indies, is both the director of employee and labor relations at UCLA, and a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. She readers today from her work, including her collection, Beg No Pardon (Perugia Press). "In Lynne Thompson's new collection, the poems move from precise reflections on childhood to the rites of passage of young adult years, and then on to all the days of joy and despair, solitude, longing and self-knowledge that follow in a life richly lived and acutely observed. Thompson is a poet who revels in language—that 'house of many pleasures.'" - Natasha Trethewey. Also reading as part of this poet program is Seattle's own wonderful Carletta Carrington Wilson. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century. She has an extraordinary book-length poem-in-progress. Free admission (no tickets). The Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library is located at 2300 East Yesler Way. For more information, please see www.spl.org or call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600.

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