Episode 96: Judy Grahn
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In this conversation, poet, activist, teacher and scholar Judy Grahn discusses her latest book Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power, published by Nightboat Books. She and Rachel—who also has lifelong connection to the stories of Inanna through her mother, Diane Wolkstein—examine the importance of these origin stories to modern-day activism and identity politics. Grahn also talks about cultural feminism, origin stories, metaformic philosophy, ritual, anti-racism, and what a long view of history can teach younger activists.
Books and Selected Other Work by Judy Grahn
POETRY
Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling: New & Selected Poems (1966-2006) (Red Hen Press, 2008)
The Queen of Swords (Beacon Press, 1987)
The Queens of Wands (Crossing Press, 1982)
The Work of a Common Woman: Collected Poetry (1964–1977) (St. Martin's Press, 1982)
She Who (Women's Press Collective/Diana Press, 1977)
A Woman is Talking to Death (Women's Press Collective, 1974)
Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (Women's Press Collective, 1971)
The Common Woman Poems (Women's Press Collective, 1970)
NONFICTION
Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power (Nightboat Books, 2021)
Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit: Living in a Sentient World (Red Hen Press, 2021)
A Simple Revolution: the Making of an Activist Poet (Aunt Lute Books, 2012)
with Lisa Maria Hogeland, The Judy Grahn Reader (Aunt Lute Books, 2009)
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (Beacon Press, 1984)
Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World (Beacon Press, 1993)
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