Wanda Coleman

Jun 10, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Amiri Baraka |Wanda Coleman

I was grateful to devise and facilitate a workshop called “Standing Outside Myself: The Black Ecstatic.” I began by drawing on ecstasy’s etymology as a framework for our thinking—the idea of “standing outside oneself” or “displacement from the proper place” became a guiding thrust as we explored ecstasy in the black tradition with a three-pronged approach: ecstasy and spirituality, ecstasy and sex/love, and ecstasy and nature.

Feb 1, 2024 | laist.com | Monica Bushman |Wanda Coleman |Octavia E. Butler

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Feb 1, 2024 | laist.com | Wanda Coleman |Octavia E. Butler |Jade Adia |Emanuel Hahn

Topline: Local booksellers gave us their recommendations of books that help people better understand Los Angeles. Their picks include novels like Ask the Dust by John Fante, There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia, and Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. Non-fiction picks included Ed Ruscha/ Now Then: A Retrospective and Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin.