# Ruth Forman

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**Ruth Forman** is an American [poet](/source/Poet). Her content focuses on spirituality, love, challenge, and grace. She currently travels around the United States performing readings from her recent publication; Prayers Like Shoes, and her children's book; Young Cornrows Calling Out the Moon.

## Life

She graduated from [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California,_Berkeley), and [University of Southern California](/source/University_of_Southern_California) film school.[1]

She lives in [Washington DC](/source/Washington_DC).[2]

## Awards

- 2001 Durfee Artist Fellowship to continue work on Mama John, her first novel
- 1999 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Poetry.
- 1992 [Barnard Women Poets Prize](/source/Barnard_Women_Poets_Prize)

## Works

### Poetry

- ["Poetry Should Ride the Bus", *David Knecht*](http://www.tcnj.edu/~knecht2/Poetryshouldride.htm)
- *Prayers Like Shoes*. Whit Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9720205-8-9.
- *Renaissance*. Beacon Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8070-6840-3.
- [*We Are the Young Magicians*](https://archive.org/details/weareyoungmagici0000form). Beacon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8070-6820-5.

### Juvenile

- Ruth Forman & Cbabi Bayoc (illustrations) (2007). [*Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon*](https://archive.org/details/youngcornrowscal00form). Children's Book Press. ISBN 978-0-89239-218-6. Ruth Foreman poet.

### Anthologies

- Kalamu ya Salaam (ed.) (1998). *360, a revolution of Black poets*. Black Words. ISBN 978-0-7394-1585-6.
- Gerald Costanzo & Jim Daniels (eds.) (2000). [*American poetry: the next generation*](https://archive.org/details/americanpoetry00gera). Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1.
- Norman Minnick (ed.) (2010). *Between Water and Song:New Poets for the Twenty-First Century*. White Pine Press. ISBN 978-1-935210-07-8.

## References

1. ["Feb 15: Ruth Forman at Poetry For The People"](https://web.archive.org/web/20060708174116/http://poetryforthepeople.org/feb-15-ruth-forman/). *poetryforthepeople.org*. Archived from [the original](http://poetryforthepeople.org/feb-15-ruth-forman/) on 2006-07-08.

1. ["Ruth Forman"](https://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4747). [Poets & Writers](/source/Poets_%26_Writers). Retrieved July 24, 2009.

## External links

- ["Poet Ruth Forman Reads from 'Callin out the Moon'", *NPR*](https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9645327)

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