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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Ruth Forman

Role
  
Poet


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Alma mater
  
University of California, Berkeley; University of Southern California

Books
  
We are the young magicians, Renaissance

Education
  
University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern California

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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.

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Life

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She graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and University of Southern California film school.

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She lives in Washington DC.

Poem

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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.

Awards

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  • 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

    • Poetry

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  • "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

  • Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon. Illustrator Cbabi Bayoc. Children's Book Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-89239-218-6. 

    • 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. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • Norman Minnick (ed.). Between Water and Song:New Poets for the Twenty-First Century. White Pine Press. ISBN 978-1-935210-07-8. 

    • References

    Ruth Forman Wikipedia
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