Lummis, Suzanne

As a writer, poet and influential teacher with the UCLA Extension Writers program, Suzanne Lummis is among the best-known figures in the Los Angeles literary community. She was among the principal avatars of the Los Angeles and Long Beach-based movement of the 90s, Stand-up Poetry, and her poems and essays are associated with noir poetry, a poetry influenced by the dark themes, chiseled beauty and striking dialogue of the black and white crime movies of the 40s and 50s. Her poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, Antioch Review, Hotel Amerika, Ploughshares, New Ohio Review, The New Yorker, a...