Ruth Forman
Ruth Forman | |
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 Ruth Forman, at Sunday Kind of Love, 2013 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California |
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 Washington DC.[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
- "Poetry Should Ride the Bus", David Knecht
- Prayers Like Shoes. Whit Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9720205-8-9.
- Renaissance. Beacon Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8070-6840-3.
- We Are the Young Magicians. Beacon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8070-6820-5.
Juvenile
- Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon. Illustrator Cbabi Bayoc. Children's Book Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-89239-218-6.
Ruth Foreman poet.
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Anthologies
- Kalamu ya Salaam, ed. (1998). 360, a revolution of Black poets. Black Words. ISBN 978-0-7394-1585-6.
- Gerald Costanzo; Jim Daniels, eds. (2000). American poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1.
- Norman Minnick (ed.). Between Water and Song:New Poets for the Twenty-First Century. White Pine Press. ISBN 978-1-935210-07-8.