In this series, SUZANNE LUMMIS, noted practitioner and exponent of NOIR POETRY, unpacks a genre infused with the ethos of mid-20th Century hard-boiled fiction and crime movies, presenting examples from poets both living and “quite dead.” An influential teacher and co-founder of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, Lummis produced a 2011 city-wide, 25-event series, “Night in the City: L.A. Noir Poetry, Fiction and Film.” Her 2012 essay “The Poem Noir — Too Dark to Be Depressed” (Malpais Review, Vol. 3, No. 3) is essential reading on the subject. Her most recent collection is "Open 24 Hours" (Lynx House Press, 2014). Her poems have appeared in the anthology "Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem" (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet Series, 2011) and many other publications, including The New Yorker, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Plume, and The American Journal of Poetry. She edited the anthology "Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond" (Pacific Coast Poetry Series/Beyond Baroque Books, 2015). This video is a production of www.Poetry.LA