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Robin Coste Lewis

Robin Coste Lewis
Robin Coste Lewis, the winner of the National Book Award for Voyage of the Sable Venus, is the poet laureate of Los Angeles. She is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California, as well as a Cave Canem fellow and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. Lewis was born in Compton, California; her family is from New Orleans.


A Poem by Robin Coste Lewis

"What We Had"
April 23, 2019  By Robin Coste Lewis
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VOYAGE OF THE SABLE VENUS

FIVE LYRICS FROM A NEW EPIC SEQUENCE
September 30, 2015  By Robin Coste Lewis
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