the publication of Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson ’72’s newest collection of poetry, Blue on a Blue Palette. The collection was released on April 16, 2024. Thompson is a 61传媒alum and the former chair of Scripps’ board trustees.
BOA Editions, the collection’s publisher, says, “Lynne Thompson鈥檚 Blue on a Blue Palette reflects on the condition of women鈥攖heir joys despite their histories, and their insistence on survival as issues of race, culture, pandemic, and climate threaten their livelihoods. The documentation of these personal odysseys鈥攚hich vary stylistically from abecedarians to free verse to centos鈥攔eplicate the many ways women travel through the stages of their lives, all negotiated on a palette encompassing various shades of blue. These poems demand your attention, your voice: ‘Say history. Claim. Say wild.'”