Devorah Major

Devorah Major is an American writer, editor, recording artist, and professor. She has won awards in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction and is San Francisco's third Poet Laureate.^[1]

Education[]

Major graduated from San Francisco State University in 1976 after studying African-American Studies and Health Education. She is now a part-time senior adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts.^[2]

Works[]

Major has toured Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and all over the United States performing her poetry and speaking on panels focused on African-American poetry, Beat poetry, and poetry of resistance.^[3] She is the author of two novels and four books of poetry. Her fifth book of poetry, and then we became was published (in 2016) by City Lights.^[4]

Bibliography[]

• An Open Weave. Seal Press. 1995. ISBN 9781878067661
• Street Smarts. Curbstone Books. 1996. ISBN 9781880684276
• Browned Glass Windows. Curbstone Books. 2002. ISBN 9781880684870
• Where River Meets Ocean. City Lights Books. 2003. ISBN 9781931404037
• With More Than Tongue. Creative Arts Book Company. 2003. ISBN 9780887395116
• The Other Side of the Postcard. City Lights Publishers. 2005. ISBN 9781931404068
• and then we became. City Lights Publishers. 2016. ISBN 9780872867260

References[]

External links[]

• Devvorah Majors home site
• Major at City Lights
• Major at CCA
• Major at Good Reads