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CURRICULUM VITAE

PREPARED IN 2015

□ JUDY GRAHN

□ (JUDITH R. GRAHN, Ph.D.)

□ Poet, Writer, Mythologist, Social Theorist

□ Professor at large, Mythology, Women’s and LGBT Spirituality, Literature, and Creative Writing teacher

□ Home Address: 330 A Cowper Street, Palo Alto, California, 94301

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□ Phone: 650 330-1331, cell: 510 325-8381

□ Email: judygrahn@

□ Web sites:

EDUCATION

□ Ph.D. in Integral Studies, Concentration in Women’s Spirituality, from California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, July, 1999. Dissertation: Are Goddesses Metaformic Constructs? An Application of Metaformic Theory to Goddess and Menarche Rituals in Kerala, South India with five months field research. Dissertation advisers: Elinor Gadon (chair), Lucia Birnbaum, and Betty De Shong Meador.

□ San Francisco State University, San Francisco, BA in Women Studies, 1984.

□ University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (audit only) 1966-67, emphasis on anthropology.

□ Howard University, Washington, D.C. 1963-65, emphasis on sociology.

□ Montgomery Junior College, Takoma Park, Maryland 1962-3, emphasis on literature.

□ Washington School of Medical Techniques, Washington, D.C. 1961, emphasis on applied science.

□ Raton Community College, Raton, New Mexico, 1959, emphasis on philosophy.

□ New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1958-59.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE, Academic Positions

□ SOFIA UNIVERSITY, Professor, Executive Core Faculty, Women’s Spirituality Master’s Program, co-director and teacher from 2012-2014.

□ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES, Adjunct Professor, MFA program, 2009-2013.

□ INSTITUTE OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY, Associate Core Faculty, and Co-director, Women’s Spirituality Master’s Program, 2008-2012.

□ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES, Adjunct Professor, Writing, Consciousness, and Creative Inquiry Master of Fine Arts Degree Program, 2008-2012

□ INSTITUTE OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY, Research Faculty 2007.

□ NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA, MA/MFA: Creative Inquiry Program, Co-founder, 2001. Director, and core faculty, Fall 2002-2007.

□ NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA, MA: Women’s Spirituality Master’s Program, Co-director, Fall 2002-Fall 2007; Director, Fall 2001; core faculty 1998-07.

□ NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA, MA: Writing and Consciousness Master’s Program, core faculty, 1998-01.

□ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES, Women’s Spirituality Ph.D. program lecture/workshop (Queen of Swords) Spring Quarter, 1996; lecture (Metaformic Theory) Spring Quarter, 1997; Women’s Spirituality Master’s Program, course “Blood, Bread, and Roses” (Metaformic Theory), Spring Quarter, 1995-1998.

□ NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA, Poetics Department, course “Three Modernist Women,” Fall Quarter, 1999; course “Really Reading Gertrude Stein,” Fall Quarter, 1990 (Graduates and Undergraduates)

□ NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA, Poetics Department, course “Riding with the Amazons,” Lesbian History and Myth, Spring Quarter, 1988.

□ STANFORD UNIVERSITY, English Department, course “Stein from Gertrude Stein to MephistophleStein,” Spring Quarter, 1986. (Graduate level)

□ NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA, course “The Highest Apple: Sappho and Lesbian Poetry,” Summer, 1985.

PUBLICATIONS

NONFICTION BOOKS:

□ A Simple Revolution: the Making of an Activist Poet (memoir), Aunt Lute Press, 2012.

□ Blood, Bread, And Roses: How Menstruation Created The World, Beacon Press, 1993, 1994, Introduction by Charlene Spretnak.

□ Really Reading Gertrude Stein, The Crossing Press, 1989.

□ The Highest Apple: Sappho And The Lesbian Poetic Tradition, Spinster’s Ink, 1985

□ Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, Beacon Press, 1983, 1984; revised edition, 1990; Triangle Publishing edition 1996.

❖ COLLECTION OF PROSE, POETRY, AND FICTION

□ The Judy Grahn Reader, Aunt Lute Press, 2009.

❖ POETRY BOOKS

□ love belongs to those who do the feeling (collection), Red Hen Press, 2008

□ Mental, (chapbook), Serpentina Press, 2008.

□ women are tired of the ways men bleed, (chapbook), Belladonna Press, 2014; Serpentina Press, 2008.

□ The Queen Of Swords (book-length poem). Beacon Press, 1987.

□ Descent To The Roses Of A Family, (chapbook) Iowa City Women’s Press, 1986.

□ The Queen Of Wands (book-length poem), The Crossing Press, 1982, 1983.

□ The Work Of A Common Woman (collection), Diana Press, 1978; St. Martin’s Press, 1981, 1982; The Crossing Press, 1983, 1985. England edition, OnlyWomen’s Press, 1985.

□ A Woman Is Talking To Death, Women’s Press Collective, 1974, 1975; Diana Press, 1976, 1978; Inland Publications, 1989.

□ She Who, Women’s Press Collective/Diana Press, 1977.

□ Edward The Dyke And Other Poems (collection), The Women’s Press Collective, 1971, 1972.

□ The Common Woman Poems, self-published, 1969; Women’s Press Collective, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, Diana Press, 1978.

❖ AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SHORT FICTION, AND NOVEL

□ “Prescience,” story, in Mission at Tenth, Randall Babtkis, editor, 2013.

□ “Widows,” short story, in A Woman Like That, Joan Larkin, editor, 1999.

□ “Riding the Dragon’s Breath,” in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 29, Gale Research Group, 1998.

□ “Green Toads of the High Desert,” short story, His\Hers Anthology, Alyson Press, Spring 1997.

□ “Rats at the Door of Love,” short story, ZYZZYVA Magazine, Spring, 1996.

□ Mundane’s World, ecotopian novel, The Crossing Press, 1988.

□ “Boys at the Rodeo,” short story, True to Life Adventure Stories, Judy Grahn, editor, Diana Press, 1978. (Reprinted in five anthologies, including in Blue, Too, Wendell Ricketts, editor, Four Cats Press, 2014.)

❖ PLAYS and place of production

□ Queen of Swords, New College of California, 2004.

□ Queen Of Swords, UC Santa Cruz, 1995.

□ Queen Of Swords, Miami, Fla, 1994.

□ Queen Of Swords, Los Angeles, 1994.

□ March To The Mother Sea, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, 1989.

□ Queen Of Swords, San Francisco, 1988.

□ Queen Of Wands, London, Edinburgh, Bath, Amsterdam, San Francisco, 1986.

□ Queen Of Wands, Ithaca, NY, 1985.

□ Edward the Dyke, The Glines, NYC, 1984.

□ She Who, Los Angeles, San Francisco, 1974.

□ The Cell, Antioch College, Ohio, 1968.

❖ ARTICLES AND ESSAYS

□ “A Romance of Poets,” in Elders and Visionaries of the Women’s Spirituality Movement, ed. Miriam Dexter and Vicki Noble, Teneo Press, 2015.

□ “Dragonfly Dances,” in Dark Matter, Sinister Wisdom Online, Lise Weil, ed., 2015.

□ “Goddess Is Alive, But How Do We Know?” forthcoming in an anthology, ed. Anne Keys, to be published by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, 2015.

□ “Mysteries of Menstruation,” in Voices of the Sacred Feminine: Conversations to Re-Shape Our World, Karen Tate, ed. Washington USA: Change Makers Books, 2014.

□ Interview Profile, Curve Magazine, May 2014.

□ “It’s an Apple,” interview with Lisa Moore for Los Angeles Review of Books, August, 2013.

□ “Asking for Dreams,” Interview for FEMSPEC, Batya Weinbaum, editor, 2012.

□ “Microbia,” first delivered as a talk at Association for the Study of Women in Mythology conference, SF, 2012.

□ “Ecology of the Erotic in a Myth of Inanna,” International Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Glenn Hartelius, ed., 2011.

□ “Mariamma, Cosmic Creation Goddess,” Goddesses in World Culture, Vol.1, Patricia Monaghan, ed. Praeger. 2010.

□ “Goddess Is Metaformic,” in Trivia: Voices of Feminism Issue 10. 2009.

□ “Cultural Obversity,” in Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, 2008.

□ “MOOSE, FOOSE, and FAMOSE,” reprinted in Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, 2008.

□ “Goddess Mothers of the Blood of Life, Part One,” in Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, 2007.

□ “Are Wars Metaformic?” in Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, 2006.

□ “The Emergence of Metaformic Consciousness,” in Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture, 2005; .

□ “Tracks,” catalogue for G/L/B/T project, James Hormel Collection, SF Library, March, 2005.

□ “Ground Zero”, an account of the founding of the Lesbian-feminist social movement of the early 1970’s. Published in The Whole World Is Watching. Harold Adler, editor, Fall 2000.

□ “MOOSE, FOOSE AND FAMOSE: Origin Stories for Our Time,” delivered as a talk to the Jung Symposium on Myth and Politics, 1995, sponsored by Sen. Bill Bradley, published in a collection The Vision Thing: Myth and Politics, Thomas Singer, ed., Routlege and Kegan Paul, 1999.

□ “Marija Gimbutas and Metaformic Theory,” in From the Realm of the Ancestors, An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas, edited by Joan Marler, Knowledge, Ideas & Trends Press, 1997.

□ “Something Lives Over On the Other Side,” in Dia Logos, Journal of the Institute for Women’s Arts, Mysteries and Sciences, 1995

□ “How Menstruation Shaped the Human Body,” in Lesbian Words: State of the Art, Masquerade Books, 1995, edited by Randy Turoff

□ “The Common Woman, A Map of Seven Poems,” in Inversions, edited by Betsy Warland, Press Gang Publishers, Vancouver, Canada, 1991

□ “Healing From Incest Through Art,” in She Who Was Lost Is Remembered: Healing From Incest Through Creativity, edited by Louise Wisechild, Seal Press, Seattle, 1991

□ “Drawing in Nets,” in Conversant Essays, Contemporary Poets on Poetry, edited by James McCorckle, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1990. Also in Gallerie, a Canadian journal of women’s art and culture, 1988.

□ “Flaming Without Burning, The Role of Gay People in Society,” The Advocate, March, 1985.

□ “Vessels of Life and Death: Gay Spirituality in 1986,” The Advocate, December, 1986.

□ “Menstruation: From Sacred to the Curse and Beyond,” in The Politics Of Women’s Spirituality, Charlene Spretnak, ed. Doubleday, New York, 1982.

□ “The Queen of Bulldikery,” Chrysalis Magazine, Los Angeles, 1980.

□ Three short articles published in Lesbians Speak Out, Oakland, The Women’s Press Collective, 1973. “Lesbians as Women,” November, 1969; “Lesbians as Bogeywomen,” 1970; “Camouflage,” January, 1971.

□ “The Purple Fist,” speech delivered to Gay Conference, November 1969, self published, one copy at Northwestern University Library.

□ “A Lesbian Speaks Her Mind,” by Christine Cummings (pseudonym), in Sexology Magazine, October, 1966.

FOREWORDS

Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology, Katharyn Howd Machan, ed., 2012.

Lady of Largest Heart, Betty De Shong Meador; University of Texas Press, 2000.

Movement in Black, Pat Parker; Diana Press, 1978.

EDITOR

True to Life Adventure Stories, Volume I, The Crossing Press, 1981.

True to Life Adventure Stories, Volume II, Diana Press, 1978.

Lesbians Speak Out, the Oakland Women’s Press Collective, 1973, 1974.

Woman to Woman, the Women’s Press Collective, 1970, 1971.

RECORDINGS, FILMS, AND VIDEOS

□ Interviewed for film on ecology, Feed the Green. Jane Caputi, producer. University of Florida, 2015.

□ Lunarchy, Judy Grahn and Anne Carol Mitchell, poetry and music CD, 2010.

□ Detroit Annie, hitchhiking, by Judy Grahn, Video by Pamela Roumen, 2009.

□ Detroit Annie, hitchhiking, Four Poems by Judy Grahn with Anne Carol Mitchell, CD, 2008.

□ The Earth Will Turn Over, CD by vocal group She Who, from Grahn’s poem, featuring “the woman whose head is on fire” from She Who (1972) 2005.

□ “Green Toads of the High Desert,” short story recorded by WIND, distributed to numerous radio stations in the US, June 1999.

□ A Menarche Ritual, Kerala, South India, a video Grahn filmed in South India and edited with Dianne Jenett, Serpentina Productions, 1998.

□ “Green Toads of the High Desert,” story, recorded at Reed College, distributed to 40 cable TV, Spring, 1997.

□ Stolen Moments, documentary film with Grahn featured along with Audre Lorde and others, National Film Board of Canada, history of lesbian movement, 1997.

□ Interviewed for documentary on menstruation, “In the Moon Hut,” Canadian television production, 1996.

□ Last Call At Maude’s, 1993, documentary of a lesbian community bar, in which Grahn is included speaking and reading some short poems.

□ Women Working In Literature, narrated by Kathleen Fraser, American Poetry Archives, The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1992. Video anthology of poetry.

□ A Woman Is Talking To Death And Other Poems By Judy Grahn, Watershed, Washington, D.C., 1991 (cassette recording)

□ MARCH TO THE MOTHER SEA: Healing Poems For Baby Girls Raped At Home, LavenderRose Productions, Oakland, Ca. 1990

□ Lesbian Concentrate, Olivia Records, Oakland, Ca. 1978, an anthology on vinyl

□ WHERE WOULD I BE WITHOUT YOU, The Poetry Of Pat Parker And Judy Grahn, Olivia Records, Oakland, Ca., 1975, vinyl recording

□ American Poetry Archives has six half-hour videos of Judy Grahn reading her poetry. Several other videos of performances are at Cloud House, San Francisco. Grahn’s keynote speech for the first Outwrite Conference is on video and may be obtained through Outwrite Magazine, San Francisco, or the Outwrite Conference.

□ KPFA Pacifica archives has complete ten-tape recording of Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984.

TRANSLATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION

□ The Work of a Common Woman, Spanish translation by Marisol Gomez-Sanchez, for Huerga & Fierro, Publishers, in current negotiation.

□ Poems translated for publication in anthologies: (Thai) “A Dream of Helen,” in Thailand, US Department of Information, 1999; (Spanish) excerpts from “She Who,” Queen of Wands and “The Common Woman Poems” in Diez Poetas Norteamericanas, Venezuela, 1995; (Spanish) Amor de Mujeres, Argentina, 1994; (Spanish) selections from Queen of Wands, in Poesia Estadounidense, Venezuela, 1990; (Dutch) “Descent to the Roses of the Family,” in Lust & Gratie, Amsterdam, 1989; (German) “A Woman Is Talking to Death” in Frauenoffensive, 1983; (Italian) excerpts from “She Who” and “A Woman Is Talking to Death” in Storie de Ordinaria Poesia, 1982. Spanish translations of “A Woman Is Talking to Death” were reportedly smuggled into both Spain and Cuba in the late 1970’s.

□ Various poems in English have been published in journals and newsletters in Japan, Australia, India, Canada, England, Greece, Italy, Spain, and other countries. The Work of a Common Woman was published in England in 1985 by Onlywomen Press.

□ Online publication: World Poetry Translation Project: five poems, in 50 languages:

□ A Woman Is Talking to Death online:

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AWARDS, NOTICES, GRANTS, AND PARADES

□ Golden Crown Trailblazer’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian Literature, July, 2014.

□ Lifetime Achievement Grand Marshall, SF Gay Pride Parade, June, 2014.

□ Before Columbus Foundation’s 2013 American Book Award, for A Simple Revolution.

□ U.S.A. Book of the Year Award Nominee for A Simple Revolution, 2013.

□ Northern California Book Award Nominee for Creative Nonfiction, Northern California Book Publishers, for A Simple Revolution, 2013.

□ Silver Medal Award from Independent Publishers, (IPPY) for A Simple Revolution, 2013.

□ “Serpentina’s Enheduanna Award for Excellence,” in Women-Centered Literature, for A Simple Revolution, 2013.

□ Lambda Literary Award finalist for Lesbian Memoir, for A Simple Revolution, 2013.

□ One of twenty American poets publishing Best Book of the Decade, for love belongs to those who do the feeling. Anis Shivani, Huffington Post, March 18, 2010.

□ Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, for love belongs to those who do the feeling, 2009.

□ “Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement Award,” California Institute of Integral Studies, September, 2003.

□ “Woman of the Year” Award, Gay/ Lesbian/Bi/Transgendered Historical Society of San Francisco; 2001.

□ Inducted into “International Educator’s Hall of Fame”, African-American Youth-on-the Move, D-Q University, June, 1999.

□ Grand Marshall of Seattle Gay Pride Parade with theme of Grahn’s 1984 book, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, June, 1998.

□ Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation grant to research and write the early founding of the Lesbian/feminist movement on the West Coast, April, 1996.

□ Publisher’s Triangle, establishment of “The Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award,” in 1996.

□ Publisher’s Triangle Bill Whitehead Award, “Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian Letters,” 1995 (following Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich).

□ In 1992 The Work of a Common Woman was listed in Publisher’s Weekly as one of the twenty most influential women’s books in the two decades from 1972 to 1992.

□ In 1992 Judy Grahn was named by Lambda Book Report as one of the ten most influential people (and one of the three most influential Lesbian authors) in Gay and Lesbian publishing in the decade of the 1980’s.

□ In 1992 Judy Grahn was selected by all five major US poetry centers to tour them as part of a Lila Wallace Foundation national program.

□ “Pioneer Gay Writer Award,” Outlook Foundation, 1989.

□ Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, 1989, for Really Reading Gertrude Stein.

□ Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Novels, nomination, 1988, for Mundane’s World.

□ “Women of Words Award,” Women’s Foundation, San Francisco, 1985, with Alice Walker and Tillie Olsen.

□ Gay Book of the Year Award, American Library Association, 1985, for Another Mother Tongue. Now called “The Stonewall Award.”

□ Before Columbus Foundation’s 1983 American Book Award, for The Queen Of Wands.

□ National Endowment for the Arts individual grant, for poetry, 1980.

□ “Poem of the Year Award,” American Poetry Review, 1979, for A Woman Is Talking To Death.

CRITICAL ATTENTION (Selected)

Books including critical chapters on Grahn’s poetry:

□ Rich, Adrienne, “’Candidates for My Love’: Three Gay and Lesbian Poets,” in A Human Eye: Essays on Art and Society. WW Norton, 2009.

□ Gale, Kate. Poets Subverting Gender Roles, “Judy Grahn: The Glass Wall that Separates”. VDM, Germany, 2009.

□ Moffet, Joe. The Search for Origins in the Twentieth Century Long Poem: Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon. West Virginia University Press, 2007.

□ Garber, Linda. Lesbian Identity Poetics: Class, Race and the Roots of Queer Theory. Columbia University Press, Fall, 2001.

□ Ostriker, Alice Suskin, Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. University of Michigan Press, 2000.

□ Dehler, Johanna. Fragments of Desire: Sapphic Fictions in the Work of HD, Judy Grahn, and Monique Wittig. Peter Lang. European University Studies, 1998.

□ Whitehead, Kim. The Feminist Poetry Movement. University of Mississippi Press, 1997.

□ Keller, Lynn, “Helen, Your Strength/Is in Your Memory: Judy Grahn’s Lesbian Warriors and Gynocentric Tales of the Tribe,” Chapter Two in Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women, University of Chicago Press, 1997.

□ Rich, Adrienne. “Judy Grahn: Power and Danger,” in On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. W.W. Norton & Company, 1995 (1978).

□ Orenstein, Gloria, The Flowering of the Goddess, Harper and Rowe, 1992.

□ Zimmerman, Bonnie, The Safe Sea of Women, Beacon Press, 1990.

□ Davidson, Michael. Chapter Four, “Appropriations: Women and the San Francisco Renaissance” in The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century, Cambridge University Press, 1989. Excerpt on site Modern American Poetry, .

□ Meador, Betty De Shong, Uncursing the Dark, Chiron Press, 1989.

□ Ostriker, Alice Suskin. Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America, Beacon Press, 1986.

Book including chapter on Grahn’s Metaformic Theory:

□ Fisher, R. Michael. The World’s Fearlessness Teachings: A Critical Integral Approach, 2009.

Film on Grahn’s Metaformic Theory:

□ Poomaram or A Flowering Tree, 60 minute documentary by award winning filmmaker Vipin Vijay, Kerala, South India, 2007.

Journal Devoted to Judy Grahn and Pat Parker’s Poetry in their 1976 album “Where Would I Be Without You”:

□ Enszer, Julie and Cheryl Clarke, eds. The Journal of Lesbian Studies, Routlege and Kegan Paul publishers, 2015. Articles on Grahn by

Dissertations with chapters on Grahn’s Poetry and Press:

□ DeLong, Joe. Excuses for Emotion. Chapter Four: Adrienne Rich, Judy Grahn, June Jordan. University of Cincinnati, 2013.

□ Enszer, Julie R. The Whole Naked Truth of Our Lives: the Lesbian Print Movement in the United States from 1969-1989. University of Maryland, 2013.

□ Neziri, Jill M. Revising the Sacred: Embodied Spiritual Encounters in the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker, Judy Grahn, Gloria Anzaldua, Audre Lorde, and Susan Howe. 2012. Fordham University.

□ Keith, Melissa Dawn. Cantatas of the Wild: Memoir, Mysticism and Modern Feminist Poetry (H.D., Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Susan Griffin, Judy Grahn). 2012. UC Berkeley.

□ Ewing, Eileen. Speaking the Borders: Intersections of Prose, Poetry, and Identity in the Writings of Paula Gunn Allen, Judy Grahn, and H.D., 2011, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

□ Lovejoy, Helen Marie. Genre and Trauma: The Role of Form and the Shaping of Meaning in Women’s Poetry of Violence. (Judy Grahn, Ntozake Shange, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, Dorothy Allison, Laura Esparaza). University of California Riverside, 2011.

□ Moffett, Joe W. Origins and the Twentieth Century Long Poem (Judy Grahn, Geoffrey Hill, Derek Walcott), 2004. West Virginia University.

□ Gale, Kate. Poets Subverting Gender Roles, 2003, Claremont Graduate University.

□ Chapin, John Philip. Transforming Subjects: Readings of Toni Morrison, Judy Grahn, Leslie Feinberg, and Leslie Marmon Silko, 1998. University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

□ Fisher, Delia. Never-Ending Story: Reforming Hero in the Helen Epics of H.D. and Judy Grahn, 1997.

□ Maciunas, Billie. Crossing Boundaries: Lesbian as Metaphor (comparison of Brazilian poet Ana Cristina Cesar and Judy Grahn), 1996.

□ Garber, Linda. Lesbian Identity Poetics: Judy Grahn, Pat Parker and the Rise of Queer Theory, 1996, Stanford University.

□ Short, Kayann. Publishing Feminism in the Feminist Press Movement, 1969-1994. University of Colorado, 1994.

□ Piedmont-Marton, Elisabeth Hayes: The ‘Rival Government’: Epic Poetry, Culture and Gender in Twentieth Century American Literature, 1992

□ Hellner, Nancy Ann. Marginal Laughter: Humor in Contemporary American Lesbian/Feminist Drama, 1992

□ Musher, Andrea Susan. Vital Connection: The Poetics of Maternal Affiliation in Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Lucille Clifton and Judy Grahn, 1989.

Dissertations using Grahn’s Metaformic Theory:

□ Moser, Mary Beth. The Everyday Spirituality of Women in the Italian Alps, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2013.

□ Jordan, Nane Ariadne. Inspiriting the Academy: Weaving Stories and Practices in Living Women’s Spirituality, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2011.

□ Brown, Jennifer. Positive Menstruation, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, 2007

□ Brown, Laura K. Blood Rumors, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2003.

□ Grenn, Deborah J. For She Is the Tree of Life: Shared Roots Connecting Women to Deity, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2003.

□ Grove, Margaret. An Iconographic and Mythological Convergence: Gender Motifs in Northern Australian Aboriginal Rock Art, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1998.

Critical Essays and Articles on Grahn’s Work (partial list):

□ Moore, Lisa. “Lisa L. Moore on Judy Grahn,” At Length Magazine, April 2014;

□ batTzedek, Elliot Femynye. “On Living with a Poem for 20 Years: Judy Grahn’s

“‘A Woman Is Talking to Death’”. Trivia: Voices of Feminism, vol 12, 2012.

□ Katz, Judith. “The Judy Grahn Reader and: A Human Eye” Essays on Art and Society, 1997-2008” (review). Feminist Formations, Volume 22, Issue 2, 2010.

□ Ehlers, Sarah E. “Reading Judy Grahn Now: Midcentury Women Poets from the Mimeograph to You Tube. Paper Presented at American Literature Association (ALA) Conference. San Francisco, CA. May 27, 2010.

□ Backus, Margot Gayle, “Judy Grahn and the Lesbian Invocational Elegy: Testimonial and Prophetic Responses to Social Death in ‘A Woman Is Talking to Death,’” Signs, Summer 1993.

□ Case, Sue-ellen, “Judy Grahn’s Gynopoetics: The Queen of Swords,” Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall, 1988.

□ Avi-Ram, Amitai F. “The Politics of the Refrain in Judy Grahn’s A Woman Is Talking to Death,” Women and Language, Spring, 1987. Excerpt on site Modern American Poetry, .

□ Abbott, Steve, “Judy Grahn: Creating a Gay and Lesbian Mythology,” Advocate, September, 1984.

□ Carruthers, Mary, “The Re-Vision of the Muse: Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, Olga Broumas,” Hudson Review, Summer 1983. Excerpt on site Modern American Poetry, .

□ Rich, Adrienne, “Power and Danger: The Work of a Common Woman by Judy Grahn,” in Grahn, 1978.

ANTHOLOGIES

□ Anthologies: Approximately 180, including two from WW Norton, three from Oxford University Press, and numerous mainstream college literature textbooks, such as Literature, Class, and Culture and Exploring Poetry from Addison Wesley Longman, Literature, Composition and Critical Thinking or Worlds of Fiction or Arguing About Literature from Prentice-Hall. Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, from Prentice-Hall. Recently: The Wide Shore, Columbia University Press, 2016. Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement, Miriam Dexter Robbins and Vicki Noble, eds., 2015. Community Voiceworks, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2015. Lavender Review: Poems from the First Five Years, Mary Meriam ed., Headmistress Press, 2015. Blue,Too. Wendell Ricketts, ed. Fourcats Press: 2014. Voices of the Sacred Feminine. Karen Tate, ed. Changemakers Press: 2014. Subjects of anthologies vary widely, entitled Mondo Marilyn, Real Things, Flowering of the Soul, Home Fronts, Arc of Love, The Whole World Is Watching, ranging from literature to mythology, from spirituality to romance; from sexuality to contemporary political issues, from local to multinational collections. Other titles: Irresistible Sonnets, Headmistress Press, 2014; Oxford Anthology of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, Oxford University Press, 2013; Poems from the Women’s Movement, Honor Moore, ed., 2009; The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Aunt Lute Press, 2008; “Detroit Annie, Hitchhiking,” included in The Addison Street Anthology, and embedded in Berkeley’s artful “sidewalk poetry walk,” 2005; The Petaluma Poetry Walk 10 Year Anthology, Geri DiGiorno and Bill Vartnaw, eds., 2005.

Performances

□ Grahn has given over 1,000 readings and presentations, mostly in the US, in all kinds of venues, including Yale University, Brown University, Smith College, Wellesley College, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers University, Reed College, Middle Tennessee University, University of New Mexico, University of Texas, UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, University of Southern California, University of Illinois, University of Nebraska, University of Iowa, University of North Carolina, University of Washington, University of Oregon, St. Mark’s Church, The Glines Theater, Walker Art Center; and also in Vancouver, Victoria, Montreal and Winnipeg in Canada; at Judy Grahn Conferencia in Santiago, Chile; and at Kerala University, and the Maharajah’s College for Women in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, South India.

□ Yearly Performances: Women Against Violence, held in November at Civic Center, San Francisco, and at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, Ca. Enheduanna’s Birthday, held in May at Sofia University, Palo Alto, Ca.; La Luna Negra, sponsored by Mission Cultural Center (Adrian Arias), featuring Grahn and her students from Creative Inquiry MA/MFA and Women’s Spirituality MA, New College of California along with featured Latina performers from Mission Cultural Arts; March, 2004-2007.

□ Recent presentations of new poems: Watershed Poetry Festival, Berkeley; Humboldt State University; SF Main Library, Dance Mission Theater in SF; Geffen Theater, LA, with Deena Metzger; Milk and Honey in Sebastopol, with Anne Carol; California Institute of Integral Studies, with Anne Carol; “Mental” at Mission Dance Theater, and at Napa Spring Goddess Festival, “women are tired of the ways men bleed,”: Poema Mujer, at Mission Cultural Arts Center, San Francisco, Spring 2005; reading in benefit of midwives in Guatemala, at Belladonna in Berkeley, Fall 2004; at Lilith Fair, Napa, Summer 2004. Readings in benefit of Women Against Femicide on the Mexican Border, at New College of California and Belladonna, Spring 2004. Speech, “Expanding Communities in Women’s Spirituality,” at “Body and Soul Conference,” New College of California, May 3, 2003.

□ Music: At least twelve composers have put her work to music, including Anne Carol on two cds. Also: High Risk band, a 45 record; Leslie Hassberg; Vinsantos; Calvin Hampton; the She Who chorus; the punk band Maximillion; Pamela J. Marshall; Alison Burns; and Ellie Armer. These works have been performed variously at the San Francisco DeYoung Museum, Rockefeller Center, Columbia University and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and various summer festivals as well as coffee houses, bars, community centers, churches, and other venues.

□ Music performance: Composer-singer Ani Di Franco reads Grahn’s poetry at her own performances (2002-3 tours) at, for example, Lincoln Center, New York. Other composers have used country-folk, jazz, classical, chorale, rap, and new music genres. Grahn has put her own work to music using electronic sounds and eight track recording, and performed it in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta and the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (1989).

□ Dance: Three dance troupes have performed various Grahn poems: Anne Bluethenthal and Company in Carinyo (2007) and in a tour of the mid-west (1989); Krissy Keefer and the Dance Brigade choreographed and performed excerpts from “A Woman Is Talking to Death,” and Arisika Rizak danced “Plainsong” read by actress Olympia Dukakis.

❖ PRESENTATIONS (Recent, Selected)

□ “She Looks Divine in Green,” Reading and poetry workshop live stream with artist Shiloh McCloud, Healdsburg, 2015.

□ Narrator for Gertrude Stein’s “The World Is Round,” performed with six acapella singers at venues in San Francisco and Berkeley, November, 2015.

□ Reading, The Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, Manhattan NYC, April 2014.

□ Reading, Pratt Institute Brooklyn, April, 2014.

□ Reading, SF Poetry Center, SF State University, March, 2014.

□ Reading and talk with Susan Griffin, for WordTemple, Sebastopol, Ca. 2013.

□ Reading for A Simple Revolution, Modern Times Books, SF, 2013.

□ Keynote: “Goddess Is Alive but How Do We Know?” Association for the Study of Women in Mythology Conference, San Francisco, 2012.

□ Series of Community Readings with both older and younger lesbians, “Struggle Then and Now,” in San Francisco and Berkeley, sponsored by Aunt Lute Press, 2011-2012.

□ Presentation, with Dianne Jenett, for Pagan Alliance Conference on Earth-Based, Nature-Centered Polytheistic and Indigenous Faiths, Unitarian Universalist Church, San Francisco, September 24, 2011.

□ Keynote Powerpoint talk with Q&A: “God Is Gay,” at Expanding the Circle Conference, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, February, 2011; and at Antioch University Los Angeles, October 1, 2011.

□ Presentation on Gertrude Stein, “Five Stories” exhibit, Jewish Museum of San Francisco, May, 2011.

□ Paper: “Helen, Goddess of Capitalism,” at American Academy of Religion, WESCOR, Santa Clara University, 2009.

□ Panel: “From WAVE to WEB,” Association of Women in Psychology, Newport, Rhode Island, March, 2009.

□ Tribute to Pat Parker, with Avotcja, Mary Watkins, Melanie DeMoore, Linda Tillery, et al. at la Pena in Berkeley, January 2009, February 2010, February 2011, February 2012, March 2013.

□ “Metaforming Live!” Judy Grahn with musician songwriters Animal Prufrock and Anne Carol Mitchell, opening for Ani DiFranco’s West Coast Tour, 14 performances in California, Oregon, Washington, and Canada, April 5-April 23, 2008. Venues included the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco; the Orpheum Theater, L.A., the Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Oregon.

□ SISTER COMRADE: A Celebration of the Lives of Pat Parker and Audre Lorde, with Angela Davis, Judy Grahn, Jewelle Gomez, Linda Tillery, Cherrie Moraga, Mary Watkins, Melanie DeMoore, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Clare Coss, Holly Near, in Oakland, November 3, 2007.

□ “The Power of Women’s Blood,” a powerpoint presentation for “Goddess Is Alive!” series at Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, September, 2007

□ Solo Presentation, Judy Grahn Conferencia, “Women’s Blood of Life,” Santiago, Chile, and “La Encuentra” in Andes Mountains, Chile, presenting Metaformic Theory, January, 2007

□ “Judy Grahn and Anne Carol,” poetry with musical accompaniment, June 8, 9, 10 at Mission Dance Studio in San Francisco, part of Anne Bluethenthal’s dance production, Cariňo, which also uses Grahn’s poem, “The Mother of all bowls,” 2007.

□ “Lady of Largest Heart,” script-writing in collaboration with Betty De Shong Meador and Olympia Dukakis, performed at New College of California (one night) and Marin Theater Workshop (two nights) 2006.

□ Panels, American Academy of Religion and National Women’s Studies, in Berkeley and Oakland, 2007

□ Readings, at Breaking Borders, and Mission Cultural Center (La Negra Luna), and Napa Valley Women’s Festival, and Pizza and Poetry--2006

□ “Judy Grahn: Local Legend and Feminist Visionary,” a two hour retrospective at

Belladonna Art Gallery in Berkeley, 2005

□ “Metaformic Theory” a talk with powerpoint to Radical Anthropology Group, arranged by Chris Knight, London, 2005.

□ Reading with musician Anne Carol, at The MakeOut Room, San Francisco, sponsored by Charlie Anders, 2005.

□ Featured Reader, (“A Woman Is Talking to Death”) with Harry Britt, Harvey Milk Memorial at New College of California, 2005

□ Featured Reader, “Poetry at the Ruskin,” sponsored by Red Hen Press, Los Angeles, 2004.

□ Featured reader, Annual “Poetry Walk,” in Petaluma, California, September, 2003.

□ Keynote Speaker, “Body and Soul Conference,” New College of California, at which Grahn was honored with a retrospective presented by four colleagues.

□ Theorist Panel, “Menstruation: Blood, Body, Brand,” International Conference on Menstruation and Culture, Liverpool, England, January, 2003.

□ “Celebration of the Word” poetry reading with Janice Mirikatani and slam poets, at Unitarian Church of San Francisco, September, 2001.

□ Seattle Poetry Reading, with Michael McClure, April, 2001.

□ Distinguished Visiting Writer, Ithaca College, April, 2000.

□ National Women’s Studies Association, individual reading (with Alix Kates Schulman) and panel on collaborative learning. Albuquerque, June, 1999.

□ “Language of the Goddess Conference”, Presentation of South India research and videos, with Dianne Jenett and Elinor Gadon, San Francisco, May, 1998.

□ International Anthropology and Ethnography Association, presentation of research and panel on collaborative learning, Williamsburg, Virginia, June 1997.

□ Presentation on Inanna’s Descent Myth, with Betty De Shong Meador, Global Program, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, Spring, 1997.

□ Symposium on Myth and Politics, sponsored by Sen. Bill Bradley and Jung Society, Bolinas, January, 1995.

❖ WORKS IN PROGRESS

□ Finishing a collection of eco-spiritual stories, and other true encounters with nonhuman beings, including creatures, plants, ghosts, and spirits.

□ Forthcoming publication, Hanging on Our Own Bones, a collection of Grahn’s nine-part poems with essays about them written by the author and others. Red Hen Press, Los Angeles.

□ Writing a book of essays continuing Metaformic Consciousness.

□ Beginning a third book-length poem, “The Queen of Cups,” an exploration of four goddess mythologies concerning their relevance for current times.

□ Completing research and writing essays and possibly a book, “The Woman Who Would Be Job,” a comparison of the long poems of Poet-Priestess Enheduanna of Ur, ca. 2350, and certain parts of “The Book of Job.”

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