LaWanda Walters, Author at Consequence Forum

LaWanda is the author of one full-length poetry collection, Light Is the Odalisque (Silver Concho Series, Press 53, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Georgia Review, Antioch Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Cincinnati Review, Laurel Review, and other periodicals. “Goodness in Mississippi,” a poem in the Golden Shovel form devised by Terrance Hayes, was chosen by Sherman Alexie for Best American Poetry 2015. She received a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.

Folly Beach

by LaWanda Walters | Oct 22, 2020 | Poetry

In memoriam: Clementa Pinckney and eight others murdered at Mother Emanuel It’s only here where I’ve seen the surf crimping into ruffled-up petticoats, the edges of olive and indigo skirts of wave, of glance, of flirt, of buff— Rococo cream frame for the rough tide,...