Upcoming Readings
November 19, 2024—Poetry at the Pub, 6 pm, Public House Brewing Co, Rolla, MO. With Barbara Harris Leonhard.
November 21, 2024—High Noon, 12-1 pm, High Low, 3301 Washington Ave, St Louis, MO.
December 1, 2024—Speakeasy @ Swordfish Tom's, 7 pm, 210 W 19th Terr, Kansas City, MO. With Melissa Fite Johnson.
Surface Tension
We breach the water, slice
through chlorine blue.
I’m on display—drowning
the urge to fling the lifeguard
away & swim. He slings his arm
across my chest & grabs
my breast. Everyone knows
the rules. No panic. No struggle.
I search women pants life
vest, find YouTube videos
of men saving only themselves.
They tread water. Peel off
their pants, knot the legs, beat
open waistbands against water
like loons lifting skyward.
Skirts lead different lives.
Everyone knows
women walk into water.
Men walk on top.
—Olney Magazine, Issue 3, Winter 2022
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October 3, 2024—For Words, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO. With Jennifer Gravley.
September 21, 2024—Osage Arts Center, Belle, MO. With Richard Stimac.
September 26, 2024—Spoken at Cafe Berlin, Columbia, MO. With Aarik Danielsen.
September 9, 2024—Gumbo Bottoms Single Still Poetry Society, Jefferson City, MO. With Jennifer Gravley.
July 17, 2024—The Next Weather reading series at Yellow Dog Bookshop, Columbia, MO. With Heather Bartel.
October 4, 2023—Cheltenham (UK) Poetry Festival, ONLINE only. With Chris Hopkins.
August 14, 2023—The Raven Book Store, Lawrence, KS. With Melissa Fite Johnson and Courtney LeBlanc
August 13, 2023—Well-Versed Words, ONLINE only
July 18, 2023—Poetry Is Normal, Normal Public Library, Normal, IL
October 17, 2022—Downtown Poetry, Joplin, MO
October 16, 2022—Spine Bookstore & Cafe, St. Louis, MO
September 25, 2022—with poet Erin Little, Sundays@4, Baton Rouge, LA
September 23, 2022—with poet Christian J. Collier, MTSU Write & Poetry in the Boro, Murfreesboro, TN
January 20, 2022—Columbia (Missouri) Writers’ Guild Quarterly Reading series.
November 7, 2021—Black Sunflowers Poetry Press launch of SMEOP (Shmoop) anthology, online.
September 10, 2019—Hearing Voices Seeing Visions series at Orr Street Studio, Columbia, MO
June 28, 2019—Nemeth Arts Center, Park Rapids, MN
November 2018—Cox Gallery, William Woods College, Fulton, MO
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Arts Calling (Jaime Alejandro, host), episode 77
Eat the Storms (Damien Donnelly, host), season 6, episode 7
Speaking of the Arts (Diana Moxon, host)—KOPN 89.5, October 14, 2022
Arts Calling (Jaime Alejandro, host), episode 36
Eat the Storms (Damien Donnelly, host), season 4, episode 9
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Poetry Mini Interview—by Thomas Whyte, five parts, February 28–March 28, 2023.
Poetry Showcase & Quick 9 Interview—Fevers of the Mind, May 26, 2022
“Up words: Local poet enjoys recent resurgence”—Columbia Daily Tribune, May 22, 2020
"A Word?" Kellie Scott-Reed from Roi Fainéant Press interviews Lynne.
Fizza Abbas, a poet and author based in Pakistan, talks with Lynne about poetic form, revision, and inspiration.
Paul Pepper interviews Lynne. She reads "The Tutorial" at [2:52] and "Filtered" at [4:08]. Air date: March 20, 2023.