Wanda Coleman - Criticism

Criticism

Critical articles about or featuring Coleman include:

  • "Revising Western Criticism Through Wanda Coleman," essay by Krista Comer; Western American Quarterly Journal of the Western Literature Association, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4., Utah State University, Dept. of English, Logan UT, Winter 1999.
  • "Literature and Race in Ls Angeles," by Julian Murphet, Cambride University Press, 2001.
  • "AMERICAN WRITERS: A Collection of Literary Biographies," Jay Parini, Editor, article by Tony Magistrale (perhaps the only in-depth authority on Coleman, having written and interviewed her in the late 80s), 2002.
  • "City of Poems: The Lyric Voice in Los Angeles Since 1990," by Laurence Goldstein, from THE MISREAD CITY: New Literary Los Angeles, Dana Gioia and Scott Timberg, Editors, Red Hen Press, 2003.
  • "What Saves Us" interview of Coleman by Priscilla Ann Brown, Callaloo Vol. 26, No.3, Dept. of English, Texas A & M University, 2003.
  • "Wanda Coleman" biographical essay, A-Z of African American Writers, Philip Bader, Editor, Facts-on-File, NY, 2004.
  • "Wanda Coleman," cover and interview by Jeff Jansen, Chiron Review, Issue 79, Summer 2005.
  • "Wanda Coleman," featured poet in Quercus Review #6, Sam Pierstorff, Editor, Dept. of English, Modesto Junior College, California, 2006.

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