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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Please join us! A sample of Lynne's poetry is below.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:13.5pt'>and RECEPTION, and OPEN MIC($6)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Sunday, February
10 at 2 p.m.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Open Mic at 3:30
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:18.0pt'>by Lynne Thompson</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Winner of the 2007 Perugia Press Prize for her poetry
collection <i>Beg No Pardon</i>, Lynne Thompson was born and raised in Los
Angeles, California by parents born in the Windward Islands, West Indies. She
received her B.A. from Scripps College and a J.D. from Southwestern University
School of Law. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she was named finalist for the Philip
Levine, Crab Orchard, Backwaters Press, and Blue Lynx Poetry Prizes. Ms.
Thompson currently serves as the Director of Labor Relations at U.C.L.A. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>[Open Mic follows at
3:30; sign-ups at 1:45, $6]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The reading is free and open to the public. Open
Mic: $6. Sign up at 1:45. dA Center for the Arts <br>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>252-D S. Main Street Pomona, Ca. 91766
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*This event is supported by Poets and Writers, Inc. through a grant it has
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The James Irvine Foundation.<br>
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<br>
<i>RATTLE e.3 </i>22<br>
<br>
<i>Lynne Thompson<br>
</i><br>
<br>
<br>
I AM GRENADINE<br>
<br>
having been born of elite black masses.<br>
<br>
I am a slaver washed up on Spring.<br>
<br>
I am Lower Bay and its blackbird.<br>
<br>
I am the great-grand-niece of Chatoyer;<br>
<br>
chipped fretwork on his chattel-house.<br>
<br>
I am sharpening stones from Queensbury;<br>
<br>
mist sheltering sugar plantations at Farm,<br>
<br>
a dwelling house joined to the cane,<br>
<br>
to the windmills, to the waterwheels,<br>
<br>
a hodgepodge of Kara˙be footnotes<br>
<br>
in Father Breton’s diary; he say—<br>
<br>
<i>from the very beginning, they were<br>
</i><br>
<i>filled with hatred, not just for slavery,<br>
</i><br>
<i>but any form of injunction, authority<br>
</i><br>
<i>or submission…<br>
</i><br>
This is why I run to the sea.<br>
<br>
Being well-supplied with rivers,<br>
<br>
I oscillate windward and leeward,<br>
<br>
dangle a bracelet of fishing cays,<br>
<br>
tattoo of Bordel petroglyphs<br>
<br>
on each palm, Yambou Pass carving<br>
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the bones where my elbows curve.<br>
<br>
In 1780, I was harried by hurricanes,<br>
<br>
under heavy fire from all enemies.<br>
<br>
But I stride with considerable numbers—<br>
<br>
led the insurrection at the Massarica River.<br>
<br>
Some say I am one-half Anglican Church,<br>
<br>
but I am thorny and cut down.<br>
<br>
I am never six furlongs from Kingstown.<br>
<br>
There, I am after-ash of Soufričre, 1902—<br>
<br>
or so my daddy tells—<br>
<br>
all internal wars,<br>
<br>
pregnant with destruction,<br>
<br>
fled in different directions.<br>
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Today,<br>
<br>
I am golden guava, Young Island, Grenadine,<br>
<br>
and my name will not be confused or improved.<o:p></o:p></p>
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