Dec 11 2020 74 mins
Joshua Corwin interviews LYNNE THOMPSON for ASSIDUOUS DUST #14.5, asks her to share some of her poetry and engages with her in a novel type of poem, completely spontaneous and unprepared.
LYNNE THOMPSON is the author of Start With a Small Guitar (What Books Press) and Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. In 2018, Jane Hirshfield selected her manuscript Fretwork as the winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. A “recovering attorney”, Thompson is the recipient of multiple awards among them an Individual Art Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles and a Tucson Literary Award and special mention from the Pushcart Prize. Her most recent work appears or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Pleiades, and 2020’s Best American Poetry, among others. Thompson serves on the Boards of Cave Canem and the Los Angeles Review of Books and is Chair of the Board of Trustees of her alma mater, Scripps College.
Joshua Corwin, a Los Angeles native, is a neurodiverse, 2-time Pushcart Prize-nominated, 1-time Best of the Net-nominated poet and Spillwords Press Publication of the Month winner. His debut poetry collection Becoming Vulnerable (2020) details his experience with autism, addiction, sobriety and spirituality. He has lectured at UCLA, performed at the 2020 National Beat Poetry Festival and Mystic Boxing Commission Festival of Sound and Vision, read with 2013 US Presidential Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, Michael C. Ford, S.A. Griffin, Ellyn Maybe, among others. His Beat poetry is anthologized alongside Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Ford, Coleman and weiss (Sparring Omnibus, Mystic Boxing Commission; December 31, 2020). He hosts the poetry podcast “Assiduous Dust,” writes the weekly Incentovise column for Oddball Magazine and teaches poetry to neurodiverse individuals and autistic addicts in recovery at The Miracle Project, an autism nonprofit. Corwin’s collaborative collection A Double Meaning, with David Dephy, is seeking publication. He also has forthcoming collaborative poetry projects with Ellyn Maybe including Ghosts Sing into the World’s Ear (Ghost Accordion series 1st Wave, Mystic Boxing Commission).
Corwin is the editor and producer of Assiduous Dust: Home of the OTSCP, Vol. 1 (April 5, 2021) featuring 36 award-winning poets, all demonstrating a new type of found poem (OTSCP) he invented. For more information, please visit https://www.joshuacorwin.com/.
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