Judy Grahn (Part 2)

This is part two of Cindy Shearer’s conversation with Judy Grahn.

Judy Grahn’s poetry fueled the Feminist and Lesbian-Feminist movements in the US and numerous other countries—and since the late 1960s has used her poetic voice for economic and social justice, anti-racism, and ending violence against women. She has published fourteen books including the poetry collections love belongs to those who do the feeling and Hanging On Our Own Bones; a collection of four decades of writing, The Judy Grahn Reader; an ecotopian novel Mundane’s World,; and five nonfiction books, including Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds; Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World , and a memoir, A Simple Revolution: the Making of an Activist Poet. She holds more than twenty awards, including two Lambda Literary Awards, two American Book Awards, a Foremothers of Women’s Spirituality Award, a Stonewall Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Judy is also an acclaimed professor, having developed and taught in graduate programs in women’s spirituality  at New College of California, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and CIIS. The poet Ron Silliman has written:“Judy Grahn has done more to create a women’s literature than any other writer in the past half century.”