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Harryette Mullen

Biography Harryette Mullen

Harryette Mullen (born July 1, 1953), Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles, is an American poet, short story writer, and literary scholar.

Mullen graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975 and earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1990. She is on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles where teaches American poetry, African-American literature, and creative writing. Previously, Mullen was a faculty fellow of the Cornell University Society for the Humanities and a Rockefeller fellow at the Susan B. Anthony Institute at University of Rochester.

Harryette Mullen is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Muse & Drudge, published by Singing Horse in 1995. Her other books include Tree Tall Woman (Energy Earth, 1981), Trimmings (Tender Buttons, 1991) and S*PeRM**KT (Singing Horse, 1992). Her short fiction has been published in numerous anthologies. She has worked in the Texas Commission on the Arts' Artists in the Schools program and taught at Cornell University. Harryette Mullen currently teaches African-American literature and Creative Writing at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Poetry collections

  • Tree Tall Woman, 1981
  • Trimmings, 1991
  • S*PeRM**K*T, 1992
  • Muse & Drudge, 1995
  • Sleeping with the Dictionary, 2002
  • Blues Baby, 2002,
  • Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, Muse and Drudge, 2006
  • Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary, 2013
  • Broken Glish: Five Prose Poems. New York: Center for Book Arts. 2013.

Shedding Skin

Harryette Mullen

if your complexion is a mess

Harryette Mullen

mister arty martyr

Harryette Mullen

arrives early for the date

Harryette Mullen

the essence lady

Harryette Mullen

Conversation in Isolation

Harryette Mullen

sun goes on shining

Harryette Mullen

Still Waiting

Harryette Mullen

Sapphire’s lyre styles

Harryette Mullen

From Tanka Diary

Harryette Mullen

All She Wrote

Harryette Mullen

Black Nikes

Harryette Mullen

Tanka Diary [Awakened too early on Saturday morning]

Harryette Mullen

Tanka Diary [Don’t need picket fences, brick wall]

Harryette Mullen

Muse & Drudge [why these blues come from us]

Harryette Mullen

Muse & Drudge [just as I am I come]

Harryette Mullen

Wipe That Simile Off Your Aphasia

Harryette Mullen

We Are Not Responsible

Harryette Mullen

Way Opposite

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[up from slobbery]

Harryette Mullen

Sleeping with the Dictionary

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[Of a girl, in white]

Harryette Mullen

[marry at a hotel, annul ’em]

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[Kills bugs dead.]

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[it’s rank it cranks you up]

Harryette Mullen

[if your complexion is a mess]

Harryette Mullen

[go on sister sing your song]

Harryette Mullen

Elliptical

Harryette Mullen

Any Lit

Harryette Mullen

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