Ruth Forman Views

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Ruth Forman is an acclaimed poet and former teacher in June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley.  She is the author of three award-winning books: poetry collections We Are The Young Magicians (Beacon, 1993) and Renaissance (Beacon, 1997), and children’s book, Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon (Children’s Book Press, 2007).  Her latest poetry collection is Prayers Like Shoes (Whit Press, 2009). Her work is widely anthologized.

With such tragic news this week coming from a college campus, we thought we'd share this positive story from poet, Ruth Forman. She's more than a few years removed from her school days but she recently dug up an old class assignment and thought hey, this is great. Forman ended up turning the paper into an illustrated children's book. The work recalls her own childhood of long summer night spent in Philadelphia. It's called Young Cornrows Callin' Out the Moon. Here's poet, Ruth Foreman.

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