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Suzanne Lummis

Suzanne Lummis

Suzanne Lummis, noted practitioner and exponent of NOIR POETRY, unpacks a genre infused with the ethos of mid-20th Century hard-boiled fiction and crime movies, presenting examples from poets both living and “quite dead.” An influential teacher through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and co-founder of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, Lummis produced a 2011 city-wide, 25-event series, “Night in the City: L.A. Noir Poetry, Fiction and Film.” Her 2012 essay “The Poem Noir — Too Dark to Be Depressed” (Malpais Review, Vol. 3, No. 3) is essential reading on the subject. Lummis was awarded a 2018/19 C.O.L.A. (City of Los Angeles) fellowship to create a series of new poems. Her most recent collection is Open 24 Hours (Lynx House Press). Her poems have appeared in three Knopf "Everyman's Poetry" anthologies, including Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem, and in The Antioch Review, New Ohio Review, Plume, The American Journal of Poetry and The New Yorker. She edited the anthology "Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond" (Pacific Coast Poetry Series/Beyond Baroque Books) named one of the Ten Best Books of 2015 in the Los Angeles Times. (Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher)

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Are the Femmes Fatale? - Part 2
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They Write By Night, Episode 10

By Suzanne Lummis on February 13, 2019

Are the Femmes Fatale? - Part 2 Who's really fatale in this joint? And who knows? Who's got the dark knowledge? Some high up, well-fed,... Read more →
Murder Your Darlings
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They Write By Night, Episode 9

By Suzanne Lummis on February 6, 2019

Murder Your Darlings Ya don't have to knock too many people off in poetry. Truer words have rarely been spoken -- at least by me. Lately. But what... Read more →
Are the Femmes Fatale?
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They Write By Night, Episode 8

By Suzanne Lummis on January 30, 2019

Are the Femmes Fatale? Clips from Devil in a Blue Dress and Chinatown come on the screen -- I re-think the "femme fatale." That's right, I can... Read more →
Money Can't Buy. . .
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They Write By Night, Episode 7

By Suzanne Lummis on January 23, 2019

Money Can’t Buy. . . What's it all about, Alfie? Oh, wrong genre. What's it all about, Walter Neff? You tell me. "You want to know who killed... Read more →
Noir Cool
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They Write by Night, Episode 6

By Suzanne Lummis on January 16, 2019

Noir Cool Noir Cool meets pre-Noir Cool, so pre- it's Elizabethan. Philip Marlowe meets Hamlet. Lummis' men. And nothing stood between her and her... Read more →
Noir Immersion
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They Write by Night, Episode 5

By Suzanne Lummis on January 9, 2019

Noir Immersion For the most forthright Noir aficionados only (if you're not among the most forthright, stay home) -- the whole shebang, the whole... Read more →
Threatened Women
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They Write by Night, Episode 4

By Suzanne Lummis on December 5, 2018

Threatened Women Debby Marsh in The Big Heat, remember her? How about Francine Hughes? No? O.K., so the first, she was just a character in a movie... Read more →
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They Write by Night, Episode 3

By Suzanne Lummis on November 21, 2018

Here’s how this episode of my podcast, “They Write by Night,” (see video below) began: I needed to start with fire. I looked all over my house... Read more →
Mood Sultry
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They Write by Night, Episode 2

By Suzanne Lummis on November 14, 2018

Mood Sultry The scholars like to say film noir's imbued with a sense of menace and dread. Yeah, yeah, we know—sure. But not always. Sometimes... Read more →
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They Write by Night

By Suzanne Lummis on November 7, 2018

A Man, a Woman, a Gun . . . and a Bridge You are a fan of film noir, those cheaply made but strikingly photographed black and white crime movies... Read more →
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