Ruth Forman
Ruth Forman is an American poet. Her content focuses on spirituality, love, challenge, and grace. She currently travels around the United States performing readings from her recent publication; Prayers Like Shoes, and her children's book; Young Cornrows Calling Out the Moon.
Life
She graduated from University of California, Berkeley and University of Southern California film school.[1]
She lives in Los Angeles.[2]
Poem
poetry should drop by a sweet potato pie
ask about the grandchildren
and sit through a whole photo album
on an orange plastic covered lazyboy with no place to go.[3]
Awards
- 2001 Durfee Artist Fellowship to continue work on Mama John, her first novel
- 1999 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Poetry.
- 1992 Barnard Women Poets Prize
Works
Poetry
- Prayers Like Shoes. Whit Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9720205-8-9.
- Renaissance. Beacon Press. 1998. ISBN 9780807068403.
- We Are the Young Magicians. Beacon Press. 1993. ISBN 9780807068205.
Juvenile
Anthologies
- Kalamu ya Salaam, ed (1998). 360, a revolution of Black poets. Black Words. ISBN 9780739415856.
- Gerald Costanzo, Jim Daniels, ed (2000). American poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 9780887483431.
- Norman Minnick, ed. Between Water and Song:New Poets for the Twenty-First Century. White Pine Press. ISBN 9781935210078.
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