K. Curtis Lyle
K. Curtis Lyle was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He was a founding member of the Watts Writers Workshop, joining it in 1966 and becoming a
prominent member of the Los Angeles renaissance the group represented. He has taught, lectured and read his poetry in performance in the major intellectual and urban centers of North America. Lyle is committed to restoring poetry to the forefront of performing and ritual arts, with call and response, back-up voices, the echoing of words and phrases, musical and vocal dialogues and harmonies, and choral effects of all kinds forming the high human voice and speaking from a fundamental grounding in unity and ecstatic religious experience, there, seeking community and communion.
His published works are: Sometimes I go To Camarillo and Sit in the Lounge (1967); Fifteen Predestination Weather Reports (1973); Drunk on God & From Out of Nowhere (1975); Washerwoman (1983); The Mystic Marriage (1985); Alabama (1992); Electric Church (1992); Sippin From the Holy Grail in Downtown Atlantis (1992); Self Defense (1994); The Word From Johannesburg (1994); Migrations (1994); Curandera (1997).
He currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri where he works for the St. Louis American, weekly African American newspaper. He is their award-winning culture critic. He continues to write poetry and work in other extended forms.
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