![]() ![]() ![]() From the elderly to prisoners, I try at all times to remind my students that the only difference between a great poet and a lousy one is practice. Poetry is high art, sure, but it is also an exceedingly accessible cultural game that anyone can play. Poet Laureate is two-fold: first, to celebrate and curate an ever-widening cross-city appreciation for poetry of all kinds, from all cultures and nations second, to celebrate the rich and diverse history of Los Angeles poetry. In a press release, Lewis said the following about the honor: ![]() And it quickly became recognized as a groundbreaking achievement of extraordinary merit: not only did it receive the National Book Award for Poetry, but it was also the first debut by a Black American writer to win the award.įollowing this success, in 2017, Mayor Eric Garcetti named Lewis the poet laureate of Los Angeles to cultivate the city’s literary community and represent its unique cultural contributions to the wider landscape of literature in the United States. Her book-which Alta Journal’s California Book Club will discuss at its June 17 gathering-explores the meaning of motherhood, desire, gender, and slavery through the elusive and oft-obscured figures of Black women in the Western world. Robin Coste Lewis was a 51-year-old doctoral student at the University of Southern California when her first poetry collection, Voyage of the Sable Venus, was published, in 2015. ![]()
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