1. Wanda Coleman - The Academy Of American Poets The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph and selected poems. http://www.poets.org/poets/wcoleman

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Wanda Coleman Wanda Coleman was born in 1946 and is the author of Bathwater Wine (Black Sparrow Press, 1998), winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. A former medical secretary, magazine editor, journalist and scriptwriter, Coleman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation for her poetry. Her other books of poetry include Hand Dance African Sleeping Sickness Imagoes (1983); and Mercurochrome: New Poems (2001). She has also written , published by Black Sparrow Press in 1999. This bio was last updated on Jul 24, 2001. photo: Susan Carpendale Shop for Wanda Coleman books at your local bookstore, through Booksense.com . (This link will open in a new browser window.) Learn more about why poets.org loves Booksense.com Other Wanda Coleman references on this site: Citation: 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize By Marilyn Hacker. From American Poet , Winter 1999-2000.

2. A War Of Eyes And Other Stories By Wanda Coleman Wanda Coleman. Born in Watts, daughter of a boxer and a domestic who workedin movie stars' homes, Wanda Coleman grew up to be a fighter. http://www.blacksparrowpress.com/War_of_Eyes.html

A WAR OF EYES AND OTHER STORIES Wanda Coleman Born in Watts, daughter of a boxer and a domestic who worked in movie stars' homes, Wanda Coleman grew up to be a fighter. "The ebony Amazon," she calls herself in the title piece here, "subservient to none." Her stories back up that claim, matching the powerful punch of her poetry. A War of Eyes glows with the same fiery energy, vibrates in the same real-life-voice-register as Mad Dog Black Lady Imagoes (1983), and Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems and Stories 1968-1986 Most of Coleman's characters are black and poor. They inhabit certain tight, dark corners of Los Angeles where pain and humiliation and defeat take the place of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A pregnant teenager must overcome nausea to fend off creditors in a seedy office; a young mother dreams of opening her own family restaurant but ends up being recruited by pimps; a drug runner gets set-up by his partner; a punch-drunk ex-boxer-turned-preacher is gunned down by police. In the future-is-now world of A War of Eyes , everyone must be constantly combat-ready for the next face-off, with survival always at stake.

3. Coleman Wanda Mercurochrome : New Poems coleman wanda Mercurochrome New Poems. Title Mercurochrome New Poems Authorcoleman wanda. Subject Poetry American Category History Literature Fiction http://www.mypoetryarena.com/Coleman-Wanda-Mercurochrome-New-Poems-1574231545.ht

Coleman Wanda Mercurochrome : New Poems Title: Mercurochrome : New Poems Author: Coleman Wanda Subject: Poetry American Bones Frances Fostoriaglasswa... Long Milbra, Seate Emil Fost... Erano Paul Fountain Pens : Pa... Delozier Loretta Lefton China... ... Partner

4. Coleman Wanda Mambo Hips And Make Believe : A Novel coleman wanda Mambo Hips and Make Believe A Novel. Title Mambo Hipsand Make Believe A Novel Author coleman wanda. Subject http://www.mypoetryarena.com/Coleman-Wanda-Mambo-Hips-and-Make-Belie-1574230964.

Coleman Wanda Mambo Hips and Make Believe : A Novel Title: Mambo Hips and Make Believe : A Novel Author: Coleman Wanda Subject: Fiction Afro-American women Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction - General General Henrich Bob, Nenrich De Coca... Johnson Dana Collectors Guide... Florence Gene Florence's Glas... Wilson David L., Wilson Gene... ... Partner

5. Wanda Coleman Wanda Coleman in action. Photo by Rudiak. http://www.poetrycircus.org/tpcpix/wandacoleman.htm

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6. Small Press Traffic > Wanda Coleman Wanda coleman wanda Coleman is the high priestess of poetry, oneof the most celebrated poetry performers in the country. Based http://www.sptraffic.org/html/authors/coleman.html

events new writing book reviews author biographies ... links Wanda Coleman Wanda Coleman is the high priestess of poetry, one of the most celebrated poetry performers in the country. Based in Los Angeles, Coleman is the author of several collections of poetry, fiction and prose, including Bathwater Wine ,Imagoes, Heavy Daughter Blues, A War of Eyes and Other Stories ,and African Sleeping Sicknes s.Coleman has also released several CDs including High Priestess of the Word. Wanda Coleman's A War of Eyes (Black Sparrow Press) is listed in 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide (Penguin Books, 1994). April 7-9, 2000

7. New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers In America Chapter 14 -- Wanda Coleman Chapter 14 Wanda coleman wanda Coleman, Wanda Coleman (1946 ). Born inWatts, Wanda Coleman continues to live in and write about Los Angeles. http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/quashie/chapter14/custom1/deluxe-conte

Chapter 14: Wanda Coleman Wanda Coleman Wanda Coleman Born in Watts, Wanda Coleman continues to live in and write about Los Angeles. Beginning in 1977, she has published eight books of poetry and fiction, including Mad Dog Black Lady A War of Eyes and Other Stories (1988), and African Sleeping Sickness: Stories and Poems (1990). In 1984 she won a Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry. Coleman focuses on the failures and triumphs of urban African American women struggling against anonymity, poverty, racism, sexism, and violence. Like many blues lyrics, Coleman's writing is consistently direct and stark. She spotlights issues of power and subordination. Her works typically concentrate on sexual characters, relationships often characterized by men's severe mistreatment of women. Violence often erupts in her stories. Many of her female characters face the dilemma of wanting to express their passionate heterosexuality but contending with abusive and sometimes violent males. While most American writers prefer to ignore urban, dispossessed African American women, Wanda Coleman portrays their lives directly and sympathetically. Author Links What's American On this site, Coleman responds to the question posed by the Poetry Society of America, "What is American about American poetry?" There is also an extended interview. As well, Coleman discusses the place of her own poetry in the overall development of American poetry as well.

8. Wanda Coleman Wanda Coleman. FOUR POEMS INTRUDER i've broken thru poetry's backdoor. where have they hidden the valuables? the refrigerator is http://members.aol.com/meatwhistq/coleman.html

Wanda Coleman FOUR POEMS INTRUDER i've broken thru poetry's back door. where have they hidden the valuables? the refrigerator is empty and something covered in green-gray fuzz stains my eyes and stings my nose. the oven apron hangs from its hinge. the trash of countless mealseggshells, coffee grounds, half-eaten fruit, old cheesesticks to plates, litters unmopped floors. an inky foot-deep ring circles the basin of the white enameled tub. the unflushed toilet is feces-clogged. clusters of beer bottles and ashtrays erupting with cigarette butts and spitballs crowd table and counter-tops. the tv buzzes its spill of white noise. the radio persistently whines those nostalgic rhythms innocence is ever lost by. in the closet, all coat pockets are frayed. in the jewel box, all the diamonds, rubies and pearls prove paste. i've broken into poetry's house. it smells dishonest/venal and there's nothing here worthy of theft AMERICAN SONNET (73) blueprinted here in the sizzling breath of righteous black ink, swaggers the sweaty kingfish, sliding blond-kinked

9. Salon.com Audio | Wanda Coleman Los Angeles based author wanda coleman is a nationally acclaimed performance poet. http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/coleman

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10. Wanda Coleman's Book Club Who knows from Oprah? wanda coleman is the Most Out Poet There Is, and we offer our readers her nonhierarchical Top Ten to educate themselves. http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa040301a.htm

zfp=-1 About Homework Help Poetry Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting Poetry with Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS Poetry Currents -from our correspondents About Poetry Museletters Poets in the News ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Wanda Coleman's Book Club Who Knows From Oprah? Related Resources Our Poetry Bookstore Elsewhere on the Web Wanda Coleman poems at AAP American Sonnets ” at Light and Dust Return to Skull Island ” at the St. Mark's Poetry Project Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Citation, 1999 at AAP Wanda Coleman is the Most Out Poet There Is: pure language unreconstructed, dynamic performance hypnotic, juicy funny and mad as hello. Her Bathwater Wine (Black Sparrow, 1998) won a ‘99 Academy Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, breaking through the way she does. Her bountiful books from Black Sparrow wrench beauty and rock jazz from subtle tales of girlhood to full-tilt woman’s rage (somehow still subtle, yo). Compare prices to buy the book Bathwater Wine We’re lucky enough to have snagged a copy of her brand-new memoir

11. Wanda Coleman - The Academy Of American Poets wanda coleman The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selectedpoems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. wanda coleman. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=119

12. Coleman, Wanda Eavan Brooks, Gwendolyn Brown, Sterling Bryant, Dana Chapman, Tracy CliftonRead, Lucile coleman, Anita Scott coleman, wanda Cullun, Countee http://lesdoigtsbleus.tripod.com/id164.htm

var TlxPgNm='id164'; Poetry Library Ahlberg, Allan Angelou, Maya Bakhtiar, Shireen ... Coleman, Anita Scott Coleman, Wanda Cullun, Countee Dashiell, J.M. Dove, Rita Dylan, Bob ... Young, Al Coleman, Wanda Bedtime Story bed calls. i sit in the dark in the living room trying to ignore them in the morning, especially Sunday mornings it will not let me up. you must sleep longer, it says facing south the bed makes me lay heavenward on my back while i prefer a westerly fetal position facing the wall the bed sucks me sideways into it when i sit down on it to put on my shoes. this persistence on its part forces me to dress in the bathroom where things are less subversive the bed lumps up in anger springs popping out to scratch my dusky thighs my little office sits in the alcove adjacent to the bed. it makes strange little sighs which distract me from my work sadistically i pull back the covers put my typewriter on the sheet and turn it on the bed complains that i'm difficult duty its slats are collapsing. it bitches when i blanket it with books and papers. it tells me it's made for blood and bone lately spiders ants and roaches have invaded it searching for food

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14. Poetry Center - Coleman, Wanda - 04/14/85 Reader coleman, wanda. Accession Number 631. Date 04/14/85. Length 64 minutes.Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity African American. http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/newcatalog/267.htm

Reader: Coleman, Wanda Accession Number - 631 Date: Length: 64 minutes Tape Quality: good Collection: Poetry Center Ethnicity: African American Language: English Use Policy: available Content: From Women Working in Literature conference: a continuation of "A Dickinson Colloquium." Comments or Questions Search Catalog

15. Poetry Center - Coleman, Wanda - 10/14/82 Reader coleman, wanda. Accession Number 487. Date 10/14/82. Length 40 minutes.Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity African American. http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/newcatalog/266.htm

Reader: Coleman, Wanda Accession Number - 487 Date: Length: 40 minutes Tape Quality: good Collection: Poetry Center Ethnicity: African American Language: English Use Policy: available Content: "Where I Live," "Blind Betty," "Luz," "Today I Am A Homicide In The North of The City," "Doing Battle With The Wolf," "Poet After Surgery," "Cousin Mary," "Dolls," "Silly Bitches Institute," "Mother the Flesh," "Tis Morning Makes Mother A Killer," and "They'll Starve You." Comments or Questions Search Catalog

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17. Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry: Bibliography coleman, wanda 1983, Imagoes (Black Sparrow Press) colemanWImagoes(gender=F). coleman, wanda 1987, Heavy Daughter Blues http://efts.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AAP20/AAP20.bib.html

Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Bibliography SEARCH Database Home Chadwyck-Healey The ARTFL Project ... Back to EFTS Ai [ Greed (Norton) [ Ai:Greed ] (gender=F). Ai, 1947- [ Vice (Norton) [ Ai1:Vice ] (gender=F). Atkins, Russell. [ Phenomena (Wilberforce University) [ AtkinsR:Phenomena ] (gender=M). Atkins, Russell. [ Heretofore (Penguin Books) [ AtkinsR:Hrtfr ] (gender=M). Atkins, Russell. [ Here In The (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) [ AtkinsR:Here-In ] (gender=M). Atkins, Russell. [ (Paul Bremen) [ ] (gender=M). Aubert, Alvin. [ If Winter Come: Collected Poems 1967-1992 (Carnegie Mellon University Press) [ AubertA:If-Winter ] (gender=M). Baker, Houston A. Jr. [ No Matter Where You Travel, You Still Be Black (Lotus Press) [ BakerH:No-Matter ] (gender=M). Baker, Houston A. Jr. [ Spirit Run (Lotus Press) [ BakerH:Spirit-Run ] (gender=M). Baker, Houston A. Jr. [ Blues Journeys Home (Lotus Press) [ BakerH:Bls-Jrnys ] (gender=M). Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934- [ Preface To A Twenty Volume Suicide Note.... (Totem Press) [ BarakaI:Preface-To ] (gender=M).

18. Wanda Coleman, Psalm For The Angels, Poem psalm for the angels. wanda coleman, 1993. Poem, Poet's Walk, GrandHope Park, Grand and 9th. desert man ocean woman mountain child http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/pubart/Downtown/Grandhope/coleman2.html

psalm for the angels Wanda Coleman, 1993 Poem, Poet's Walk, Grand Hope Park, Grand and 9th. desert man ocean woman mountain child river spirit wind we live this land, plant our faith, harvest its wealth. Back to Public Art in the Grand Hope area

19. Wanda Coleman, Many Songs One City, Poem many songs one city. wanda coleman, 1993. Poem, Poet's Walk, GrandHope Park, Grand and 9th. red black brown yello white, the colors http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/pubart/Downtown/Grandhope/coleman1.html

many songs one city Wanda Coleman, 1993 Poem, Poet's Walk, Grand Hope Park, Grand and 9th. red black brown yello white, the colors of our hope together we build our city, paving our streets in stars. Back to Public Art in the Grand Hope area

20. Salon.com Audio | Wanda Coleman wanda coleman. They Will Starve You . Oct. 05, 2000 Los Angeles basedauthor wanda coleman is a nationally acclaimed performance poet. http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/coleman/print.html

Alt Text Search About Salon Table Talk Newsletters ... Investor Relations To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser Wanda Coleman "They Will Starve You" By Wanda Coleman Oct. 05, 2000 Los Angeles based author Wanda Coleman is a nationally acclaimed performance poet. She is the author of numerous books of fiction, poetry and prose including "Bathwater Wine," "Imagoes," "Heavy Daughter Blues," "A War of Eyes and Other Stories" and "African Sleeping Sickness." Ms. Coleman's work can also be found on several spoken word releases including her solo CD "High Priestess of Word." Listen to this MP3 recording of "They Will Starve You," taken from the CD "Lip," a benefit for Women's Action Coalition. Sound Off Send us a Letter to the Editor Salon.com Audio Salon ... Technology and The Free Software Project Letters Columnists Salon Plus ... Salon Shop Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited Salon, 22 4th Street, 16th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103 E-mail

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