Upcoming Readings
April 12, 2026—Columbia Writers Guild, 2–4 pm, Boone Electric Co-op, 1413 Rangeline, Columbia, MO 65201. National Poetry Month presentation and reading with Cass Donish.
Spring 2026—Writers’ Room of Boston, on Zoom. Time, date TBA.
Leaving Louisiana
Loblolly pines, pin oaks, swamp iris
Sip your last chicory coffee
Uproot
because
water stays behind
& green speaks two languages
high desert doesn’t understand
Cry till dew unfurls blue
flowers at dawn
—The Inflectionist Review,
Issue 17, January 2024
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January 31, 2026—10 am-noon, Bloom & Bindings, Boonville, MO.
May 26, 2025—The Inflectionist Review Reading Series, on Zoom. With FJ Bergmann and Izzy Maxson.
May 22, 2025—Spoken, Cafe Berlin, Columbia, MO. With Amie Whittemore.
April 17, 2025—Lit Crawl / Unbound Book Festival, Columbia, MO. With Jenny Molberg and others.
November 19, 2024—Poetry at the Pub, Public House Brewing Co, Rolla, MO. With Barbara Harris Leonhard.
November 21, 2024—High Noon, High Low, St Louis, MO.
December 1, 2024—Speakeasy @ Swordfish Tom's, Kansas City, MO. With Melissa Fite Johnson.
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.