Robin Coste Lewis

Lewis is the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles. She is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus, the winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry. A Cave Canem graduate, she is a Ford Foundation Art of Change fellow, and a Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

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Read the Poem 'Navel' by Robin Coste Lewis

We crawled out of her navel one by one, then waited until we were all here.That lucid moment when the last wet child learned to stand, we began walking.We walked slowly. We took some time....

By Robin Coste Lewis
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