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The author of 20 books of poetry and prose, Coleman’s work is focused on racism and the outcast status of living below the poverty line in California, specifically her long-time home, Los Angeles. Her subjects are often controversial and her tone unapologetic.
Wanda Coleman (November 13, 1946 – November 22, 2013) was an American poet. [1] [2] She was known as "the L.A. Blueswoman" and "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles". [3] Biography. Wanda Evans was born in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she grew up during the 1950s and 1960s. She is the eldest of four children.
Nov 24, 2013 · A native of Watts who long was regarded as L.A.’s unofficial poet laureate, Coleman died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long illness, said her husband, poet Austin Straus. She was...
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May 11, 2020 · By Dan Chiasson. May 11, 2020. Photograph by Michael J. Elderman. “I make one chicken feed five,” Wanda Coleman wrote in “My Love Brings Flowers,” a poem from 1983. “Make clothes ten ...
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Nov 23, 2013 · WANDA COLEMAN, 1946-2013. By Juan Felipe Herrera November 23, 2013. THE POET LAUREATE OF SOUTH CENTRAL, the most extraordinary woman on the Los Angeles poetry scene, is dead, just a week...
Wanda Coleman, known as the "unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles," passed away after a long illness yesterday. She was 67. Coleman was born and raised in South L.A. and touched upon...
1946 –. 2013. Read poems by this poet. Born on November 13, 1946, Wanda Coleman grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. During her lifetime she worked as a medical secretary, magazine editor, journalist, and Emmy Award-winning scriptwriter before turning to poetry.
