Voices from Leimert Park: A Poetry Anthology

An anthology like this has been a long time coming. For the last fifteen years, every place we come together, whether it was The World Stage, or someone¿s party, a birthday gathering, a child¿s naming ceremony, a funeral or a home-going, whether it was a cement corner or Fifth Street Dicks (Richard Fulton¿s place) backed up by a jazz band, we have always brought words. ¿We all knew [this anthology] needed to happen, but we were busy living and loving, making babies and building careers. And, of course, we were writing. Yet, we knew a renaissance was happening in Los Angeles, akin to the Harlem Renaissance. But we were caught up in it, shaking, grinding our pencils down, downing endless cups of coffee at a table outside Fifth Street, trying to find the words to say it precisely the way our heart was beating the sounds out.Buchanan, Shonda is the author of 'Voices from Leimert Park: A Poetry Anthology', published 2006 under ISBN 9781599070155 and ISBN 1599070154.