Ruth Forman

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.

Ruth Forman
Ruth Forman, at Sunday Kind of Love, 2013
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley;
University of Southern California

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

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.

References
  1. http://poetryforthepeople.org/feb-15-ruth-forman/
  2. http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4747
  3. http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A21457
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