Wanda Coleman Archive
Wanda Coleman, Colin Kaepernick, and The Refusal to Prioritize Patriotism Over Blackness
The gravitational pull of reading any of Wanda Coleman's work is as elusive as it is startlingly raw and cathartic—the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles has always teetered between nuance and nihilism, between and distraction and destruction.
Urban Pastoral: American City Poets and Poems
American poetry has a rich tradition of creating space for the full truth of our cities in poems and drawing connections between the interdependent worlds of American city life. Thinking about this tradition in formal terms, we might call it the urban pastoral.