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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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They Write by Night, “Trump in Hell”
— in this episode’s poem and, elsewhere, in life

By Suzanne Lummis on January 6, 2021

Noir Now: Power and Corruption Sometimes that "sweet smell of success" might be the scent you follow, follow... hither and -- what comes next? oh... Read more →
FilmPoetry

They Write by Night, Invisibility Noir

By Suzanne Lummis on October 21, 2020

Invisibility – Pre-code Halloween Noir The not-to-be-missed Halloween episode which mixes dark goings-on in the fantasy world of early "scary"... Read more →
FilmPoetry

They Write By Night:
Pandemic Noir No. 3, City Gone Missing

By Suzanne Lummis on September 2, 2020

Pandemic Noir No. 3, City Gone Missing Businesses disappear, your favorite restaurant (the Cha Cha Cha on Virgil!), or the last remaining news stand... Read more →
FilmPoetry

They Write By Night: Pandemic Noir 2020, Love and Loneliness

By Suzanne Lummis on July 29, 2020

Pandemic Noir 2020: Love and Loneliness The poem about the woman who gets seated at a restaurant table across from a manikin; the poem about a man... Read more →
FilmPoetry

They Write by Night, Season 2, Episode 2

By Suzanne Lummis on June 10, 2020

Noir by Birthright Where am I? Not inspecting my bunker. In a rooming house, $27.50 a week, behind some gas station. Guy named Jeff Bailey runs it.... Read more →
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They Write by Night, Season 2, Episode 1

By Suzanne Lummis on April 15, 2020

The Homme Fatale Joe—no, not that Joe, another Joe—the shoes, no, shoe, the drink—the From-Far-Away drink, from a tree—The Frolic Room... Read more →
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They Write by Night, Episode 13

By Suzanne Lummis on July 17, 2019

Almost Blue, Almost Through They Write by Night, Episode 13, the closing piece of the season—it's unusual, even more unusual than the other... Read more →
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The Write by Night, Episode 12

By Suzanne Lummis on April 17, 2019

Road Trip Noir There's that woman you can't tear yourself away from, you're too stuck on her. And then there's that woman that you just want to get... Read more →
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They Write by Night, Episode 11

By Suzanne Lummis on March 13, 2019

Dread The best of times, the worst of times, the age of wisdom, the age of foolishness, the epoch of belief, the epoch of incredulity, the season of... Read more →
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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 →
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