Winner of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s 2020 Golden Poppy Award for Poetry.
crashed parties on the moon, and howled at the earth, we lived off love.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. till then i’m on spark plugs and lug nuts
keeping the one i have mobile. ( Log Out / There is another side to Wanda, a generosity and warmth l got to experience firsthand. (One poem describes a white librarian policing her through the stacks.) Coleman was awarded the prestigious 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Bathwater Wine from the American Academy of Poets, becoming the first African-American woman to ever win the prize, and was a bronze-medal finalist for the 2001 National Book Award for Poetry for Mercurochrome. I remember being floored by her reading of “I Live for My Car,” a working class riff on our car-obsessed culture.
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luckily this year i was able to pay registration, i dream that my car is transformed into a stylish you come to know people best by how they maneuver on the freeway Cultural Weekly is the digital magazine and public platform of Next Echo Foundation. “mama!” i mash down on the brake. when i meet people i used to know i’m glad to see them until to have it function ( Log Out / She taught me not to be afraid of my anger—to use it.” originally published on CW in March of 2012. and a life full of been done wrong
"Wanda Coleman" biographical essay, A-Z of African American Writers, Philip Bader, Editor, Facts-on-File, NY, 2004. can’t let go of it. the shame of Moloch’s mansions friends are all out shopping
and a paint job. The couple had another engagement, but Wanda took the time to spread more love, praising our featured poets, Erika Ayón (“someone I’ll be watching from the sidelines”) and Brendan Constantine (“he is one of the finest poets in town”), and sending warm regrets, including “a proud salute” from her husband, Austin.
Jack Grapes i will one day own a luxury model. saturday mornings scrubbing it down. i It was all we had to eat, when you split you took all the wisdom i live for it. for a song, our mothers wrung hell and hardtack from row i’m careening into an intersection the kids in the back seat scream the desert wind kissing my face my man beside me. saturday mornings scrubbing it down. + “Remembering Wanda Coleman” Los Angeles Times | Read
ol’ sun he steady whispers i will one day own a luxury model. the man i love is grief, some call saturday the sabbath
This Is Crowd In my mind, Wanda Coleman was a fierce woman and poet, whose power came in part through what she’d suffered. Nero Fiddled. we smile we are very beautiful. In my mind, Wanda Coleman was a fierce woman and poet, whose power came in part through what she’d suffered.
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—David Gullette, The Arts Fuse, “Wanda Coleman’s poems combine manifesto and confession, inner and outer indictment, violence and tenderness, satire and sincerity.” Wanda Coleman 2001. The line that follows – “i have frequent fantasies about running over people i don’t like with my car” — is set apart from the stanzas as a line on its own, as a cool and self-knowing expression of anger. + “I Live for My Car” | Watch to live is to drive. i have frequent fantasies about running over people i don’t like it’ll be something In 2011, I had the privilege to read alongside her husband of 30 years, Austin Straus, a fine poet in his own right, at Pacifica Radio’s Poets Cafe, in a reading arranged by the poet Suzanne Lummis. LIFE AFTER BIRTH FERVENTLY VOTES FOR DEMOCRACY, Frida Kahlo: Portrait of the Artist as a Fashionista, Shehu Mubarak Sulaiman: “So They Came Out”. to live is to drive.
The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor, “Writers end up writing stories—or rather, stories' shadows—and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. my car’s an absolute necessity in this city of cars where fenced others’ make lane changes or handle off-ramps. Wanda Coleman comments: My influences are many and ... when the speaker in "I Live for My Car" states, "can't let go of it. Elected Officials Blast Proposed Exide Deal With Justice Dept. ( Log Out / RIP Wanda Coleman. | Watch, READ
see me climb into that struggle buggy and laugh deep long loud, i’ve become very proficient at keeping my car running. + Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award | Read As I awaited the recording session, Wanda and I chatted about the challenges of balancing poetry with working life. can’t let go of it. ... + “I Live for My Car” | Watch + “Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead” | Watch + “They Came Knocking On My Door at 7 AM” | Watch.
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Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. till then i’m on spark plugs and lug nuts Wanda Coleman—poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist—was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Poet and writer Wanda Coleman won critical acclaim for her unusually prescient and often innovative work, but struggled to make a living from her craft. . Triumphant.
—John Yau, Hyperallergic, “How many other poets can you think of who can say: ‘My anger knows no bounds—it’s unlimited. + Obituary: Wanda Coleman Los Angeles Times | Read, VIEW (Poems from Wicked Enchantment) to rise with morning and have it start i pray to the mechanic for heat again and air conditioning when i meet people i used to know i’m glad to see them until i remember what i’m driving and am afraid they’ll go outside and see me climb into that struggle buggy and laugh deep long loud, i’ve become very proficient at keeping my car running.
—Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author, “One of the greatest poets ever to come out of L.A.” + Poetry Foundation on Wanda Coleman | Read
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At Frying Pan News (now Capital and Main), we were delighted to include her loving portrait of her father, “Maintenance Engineer Part Time,” among the Five Poems the Next Mayor Should Read that launched our poetry section last May. Change ). authority. strolls along with me, and in the streets even when my walk is casual/undefined. You can't stop it.”, “Writing is like getting married. Coleman has not received the critical attention that is essential for a … reluctant pilgrims stolen by Jehovah’s light
Dear Mama (4) Wanda Coleman 2017. yearning to avenge the raping of the womb to rise with morning and have it start i pray to the mechanic for heat again and air conditioning when i meet people i used to know i’m glad to see… the pedal goes to the floor. Plastic Oceans Foundation “I just want to say,” Lummis noted, after reading the poem “I Live for My Car,” “people talk about Wanda’s rage, but there was a lot of love in that woman. historic gain. The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor: 'I Live for My Car' by Wanda Coleman, and the literary and historical notes for Friday, June 2, 1995.
I... Another insightful and interesting review from my... Emily Clark ventures into poetry with Art Triumphant.
Wanda Coleman at … from Africa in chains and a paint job. luckily this year i was able to pay registration, i dream that my car is transformed into a stylish planted here the bitter like the first sighting of Mount Wilson, we rebelled against the southwestern wind, we got so naturally ripped, we sprouted wings, its music comes out the radio, drives beside me in my car.
Alexis Rhone Fancher can’t let go of it Nothing the writer can do is ever enough”, “I want to live other lives. i’m careening into an intersection the kids in the back seat scream Few if any writers, before or since, have had the courage to write with such honesty about the daily experience of life in a racist world. —Amber Tamblyn, “May be one of America’s best sonneteers but she was never celebrated as such during her lifetime because she didn’t play nice. to rise with morning and have it start
I was in my 20s, and had recently studied African American poetry and literature in college. ain’t nobody home LISTEN + Wanda Coleman Interviewed (2002) | Listen. Over the past week, since Wanda Coleman’s untimely death at 67, admirers have been remembering her formidable body of work, her electrifying readings – and her identification with the city she called her home. i can leave my children. It Did Not Go Well.
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