Judy Grahn
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| Born: | July 28, 1940 (age 66) Chicago, Illinois, United States |
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| Occupation: | poet |
| Nationality: |  American |
Judy Rae Grahn (born July 28, 1940, in Chicago) is an American poet. She has written many lesbian / feminist works.
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[edit] Activities
Grahn was a member of the Gay Women's Liberation Group, the first lesbian feminist collective on the west coast, founded around 1969. The collective established A Woman's Place, a bookstore, and The Women's Press Collective, an all-woman publisher.
The Women's Press Collective (WPC) began in Oakland in 1969, with a barrel mimeograph machine, and ultimately was closed in 1978 due to the vandalization of the press and equipment. Diana Press was an offshoot of the WPC. WPC titles included A Woman is Talking to Death, Lesbians Speak Out, and Edward the Dyke.
Grahn is the co-director of the Women's Spirituality MA program and Program Director of the MFA in Creative Inquiry at the New College of California. She also initiated and edits the online academic journal Metaformia.
[edit] Writings
Grahn's poetry collections include: Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (1971) A Woman is Talking to Death (1974) She Who (1977) The Queen of Wands (1982) The Work of a Common Woman: Collected Poetry (1964-1977) (1984) The Queen of Swords (1990)
Other publications include:"Ella in a Square Apron, Along Highway 80" (1971), Another Mother Tongue (1990, on the history of lesbian and gay culture), Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World (1994) and Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition (1985).
Grahn has also written a novel, Mundane's World (1988).
[edit] Judy Grahn award
In 1997, Publishing Triangle, an association of lesbians and gay men in publishing, established the Judy Grahn award to recognize the best nonfiction book of the year affecting lesbian lives.
[edit] External links
- Grahn, Judy article in glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture
- Modern American Poetry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign website on Grahn: biographical information, analyses of several poems, excerpts from interviews. Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry.
- Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture
- Serpentina website founded by Dianne Jenett and Judy Grahn to support research, projects, and social activism in women's spirituality.
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