Suzanne Lummis

"Suzanne Lummis's breathtaking
new collection of poems,
In Danger
unveils all of the levels of
loneliness we assuage with the
consolations of poetry.
With candor, power and poignancy,
Suzanne Lummis
illuminates the glorious
absurdities of our lives,
especially the pride and paranoia
that arise from living in an
urban landscape.
Nobody can ride
a metaphor bareback
better than this poet, and
nobody delivers
her work to the page
with as much sass and wry humor.
If Los Angeles were to have its own
poet laureate, my choice would be
Suzanne Lummis"
David St. John

In Danger is published by Roundhouse Press, copyright l999
To order In Danger email the The California Poetry Series
or call (510)549-3564
The California Poetry Series
Friday, April 9, 2004
7:30 p.m.
BEYOND BAROQUE LITERARY ARTS CENTER
Suzanne Lummis
and
Dave Mason,
whose books include The Buried Houses
and The Country I Remember (Storyline)
681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291
(310) 822-3006

2004: RECENT ANTHOLOGIES AND NEW LITERARY MAGAZINES
Anthologies:
California Poetry from The Gold Rush to the Present, eds. Dana Gioia,
Chryss Yost, Jack Hicks (Heyday Books), 2003

Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Website, eds., Diane
Boller, Don Selby, Chryss Yost (Sourcebooks, Inc.), 2003

The Misread City, eds. Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost (Red Hen Press), 2003

Poems of the American West, ed. Robert Mezey, Everyman's Library Pocket
Poets - Knoph. 2002
(Note: This otherwise marvelous anthology includes two not-so-impressive
poems from my formative, or, more likely, pre-formative years).

Magazines and other Literary Publications:

The Los Angeles Review, Winter 2004 (Red Hen Press)
Pool, Fall 2003, Eds., Judith Taylor, Amy Schroeder.

Editor: Speechless

Suzanne Lummis resides in Los Angeles, where she is director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, award-winning teacher with the UCLA Extension, and advocate in various Southern California movements and literary uprisings. She combines her background in poetry writing and theater in the language-driven performance group Nearly Fatal Women. Individual poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry International, The Antioch Review, in the Knoph/Random House"Everyman" anthology 'Poems of the West" edited by Robert Mezey, Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthoogy edited by Charles Webb, and in the Autry Museum/Sun and Moon publication "Place as Purpose: Poetry of the Western States" ed. Paul Vangelisti.

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