Ruth Forman

Ruth Forman is an American 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.

She graduated from University of California, Berkeley, and University of Southern California film school.

She lives in Washington DC.

poetry should drop by a sweet potato pie
ask about the grandchildren
and sit through a whole photo album
on an orange plastic covered lazyboy with no place to go.

• 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

Poetry

• "Poetry Should Ride the Bus", David Knecht
• 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. Beacon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8070-6820-5.

Juvenile

• Young Cornrows Callin Out the Moon. Illustrator Cbabi Bayoc. Children's Book Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-89239-218-6. Ruth Foreman poet.CS1 maint: others (link)

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. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1.
• Norman Minnick (ed.). Between Water and Song:New Poets for the Twenty-First Century. White Pine Press. ISBN 978-1-935210-07-8.