Career
Suzanne Lummis lives in Northeast Los Angeles and is an award-winning teacher at UCLA Extension where, since 1991, she has led the beginning through master class workshops in poetry. She is the present director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, which produces poetry events in Los Angeles and its environs. She combines her background in poetry writing and theater by performing with the language-driven troupe Nearly Fatal Women. This group, which she helped to found, has appeared at The Knitting Factory in New York, Knox College in Illinois, Beyond Baroque and MOCA in Los Angeles, and various other performance venues.
Suzanne edits the online literary magazine Speechless the Magazine, which is published by Tebot Bach. This eclectic journal of "poetry and related arts straight from L.A." has published issues covering topics such as "L.A. Poetry: Then and Now", "Poetry Goes to the Fights", and more recently "Speechless Goes to the Movies," which chronicles poets' impassioned love affair with the movies. If you've ever wondered what Allen Ginsberg's favorite movies were, be sure to check out "Poets' Favorite Movies Revealed at Last" in this issue.
Suzanne is the literary coordinator of the Arroyo Arts Collective in Northeast Los Angeles. From 1995 until 2003, the Arroyo Arts Collective sponsored five "Poetry in the Windows" competitions in Highland Park. During those events, poems appeared in store windows that included a pet shop, barber shop, drug store, laundermat, and bakery. Since 2006, the Arroyo Arts Collective has sponsored the annual "Lummis Day" for which Suzanne hosts the poetry festivities honoring her grandfather and celebrating the spirit and diverse culture of Northeast Los Angeles.
As visiting poet-professor, Suzanne has mentored seven-to-thirteen-year-old emerging poets at the Santa Fe Springs Art and Poetry Camp at Heritage Park and The Clarke Estate, co-sponsored by Friends of the Junior Arts Center. Her poetry and theater skills were applied in the summer of 2002 when she wrote the lyrics for a children's musical production of Twelfth Night produced in Beverly Hills and La Jolla by the ETC Theater Company. Her own two plays, October 22, 4004 B.C., Saturday and Night Owls, were produced in Washington State and Houston, Texas, as well at The Cast Theater, Los Angeles.
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