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"At the Jazz Club, He Comes on a Ghost"
At the website for "Nation and Imagination: 20th Century African American Poetry," an English course taught by Herman Beavers at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Jah in Packaging"
An essay by Coleman at Instant Classics - The Culture Quick Mart site.
Four "American Sonnets"
From American Sonnets by Wanda Coleman, co-published by Light and Dust Books and Woodland Pattern Book Center.
What is American About American Poetry?
Coleman's replies to a survey distributed as part of the Poetry Society of America's "What is American About American Poetry?" festival, which took place on November 12-14, 1998.
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Wanda Coleman
photo: Susan Carpendale
Wanda Coleman

Wanda Coleman was born in 1946 and is the author of Bathwater Wine (Black Sparrow Press, 1998), winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. A former medical secretary, magazine editor, journalist and scriptwriter, Coleman has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation for her poetry. Her other books of poetry include Native in a Strange Land: Trials & Tremors (1996); Hand Dance (1993); African Sleeping Sickness (1990); A War of Eyes & Other Stories (1988); Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems & Stories 1968-1986 (1988); Imagoes (1983); and Mercurochrome: New Poems (2001). She has also written Mambo Hips & Make Believe: A Novel, published by Black Sparrow Press in 1999.

Poems by
Wanda Coleman

American Sonnet (10)
American Sonnet (35)
Bedtime Story
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever
Mastectomy

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