Voices from Leimert Park: a poetry anthology [1-59907-015-4]

Author : Shonda Buchanan

ISBN Code : 1-59907-015-4
Language : English
Pages number : 201
Format : 6”x 9”, Softcover

An anthology like this has been a long time coming. For the last fifteen years, every place we come together, whether it was The World Stage, or someone’s party, a birthday gathering, a child’s naming ceremony, a funeral or a home-going, whether it was a cement corner or Fifth Street Dicks (Richard Fulton’s place) backed up by a jazz band, we have always brought words. …We all knew [this anthology] needed to happen, but we were busy living and loving, making babies and building careers. And, of course, we were writing. Yet, we knew a renaissance was happening in Los Angeles, akin to the Harlem Renaissance. But we were caught up in it, shaking, grinding our pencils down, downing endless cups of coffee at a table outside Fifth Street, trying to find the words to say it precisely the way our heart was beating the sounds out.

POETS IN THE ANTHOLOGY mikael ahadou riua akinshegun kim benjamin jennifer bowen shonda buchanan paul calderon wanda coleman kamau daÁood michael datcher jawanza dumisani ruth forman goldie the poet peter j. harris levan hawkins reginahiggins yuri hinson

jamal holmes wendy james/tcheconsase jason luckett josslyn luckett k. curtis lyle a.c. lyons sr. ymasumac maraÑÓn keith antar mason lynnmanning jose mendivil sequoia olivia mercier rhonda lynn mitchell merilene m. murphy art nixon v. kali nurigan nancypadron

e. j. priestley jerry quickley ariel robello s. pearl sharp renee simms romus simpson raaki solomon hannibaltabu jervey tervalon lynne thompson imani tolliver a.k. toney debra a. varnado pam ward conney d. williams angelo williams jaha zainabu