Wanda Coleman: April 4, 2013

The Poetry Center presents Wanda Coleman, recipient of the 2011 Poetry Center Book Award, for The World Falls Away (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). Following an introduction by Book Award judge, Brenda Coultas, Coleman reads poems from: The World Falls Away, Greatest Hits: 1966–2003 (Pudding House Publications, 2004), Ostinato Vamps (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), and Bathwater Wine (Black Sparrow Press, 1998).

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Location
The Poetry Center, SFSU
Date
04/04/2013
Total Run Time
00:30:40
Contributor
Brenda Coultas
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WANDA COLEMAN (00:28:37)

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Brenda Coultas, judge for The Poetry Center Book Award, introduces Wanda Coleman as an outstanding poet "continually expanding her range and speaking her truth." Coleman reads and comments on the following poems: "The Silver Satin Niggah Rides," "About Mistakes," "Augeries (3)," "Requiem for a Nest," "Meanwhile in San Francisco," "The Museum of You," "My Neruda," "On Cleaning Up All These Ashes in the Sand," "What Little I Know About Truth," "Where My Blues Done Gone," "Night Coffee," and "Morning Widow's Song."

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