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Suzanne Lummis is a poet, influential teacher, arts organizer and impresario in Los Angeles. She is associated with the poem noir, as well as the sensibility for which she is a major exponent–a literary incarnation of performance poetry–the Stand-up Poetry of the 80s and 90s.
Suzanne Lummis was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. She earned her MA from CSU-Fresno, where she studied with Philip Levine. Her collections include Idiosyncrasies (1984), In Danger (1999), and Open 24 Hours (2014), which received the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize from…
The subject of this interview is his granddaughter, Los Angeles poet Suzanne Lummis. Suzanne earned her MA in English in 1978 at California State University-Fresno, where she studied under Philip Levine, Peter Everwine, and Chuck Hanzlicek.
Sep 15, 2013 · Suzanne Lummis is the granddaughter of a California pioneer, a local legend and a woman who has turned her life's misadventures into edgy poetry. She speaks with host Jacki Lyden about noir...
Jun 25, 2019 · Suzanne Lummis’ poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, New Ohio Review, Plume, The American Journal of Poetry and The New Yorker. Her most recent collection, Open 24 Hours, won the Blue Poetry Prize and was published by Lynx House Press in 2014.
Advisory editor Suzanne Lummis’ poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, New Ohio Review, Plume, The American Journal of Poetry and The New Yorker. Her most recent collection, Open 24 Hours, won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize and was published by Lynx House Press in 2014.
She teaches poetry through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Poetry.la produces her YouTube series exploring contemporary poetry and classic film noir, They Write by Night. Showing 1 of 1 results. Suzanne Lummis has poems in Ploughshares, Spillway, The Antioch Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Hotel Amerika, Plume, The New Yorker ...
