Judy Grahn Boeken

Path-breaking lesbian poet & scholar Judy Grahn returns to the stories of Inanna the Mesopotamian goddess of erotic love and justice to reimagine the contemporary world.

Exploring themes of love and community, this collection showcases Judy Grahn's powerful poetry, spanning her influential works and new pieces from 1997 to 2008. Her writing, rooted in significant social movements over the past four decades, is described as foundational and provocative. Readers often find her poetry uplifting, as it engages both the mind and heart. Grahn emphasizes that love encompasses more than romance, extending to the connections within communities and the deeper realms of earth and spirit.

This book gathers poems on Goddesses by accomplished poets from around the world. The Goddesses invoked are Aruru, Atabeyra, Brigid, Cybele, Dalia, Friya, Kali, Nana Buruku, Neeli Mariamman, Nyx, Saraswati, Xori, and Zemyna. The poets are Ann Filemyr, Annie Finch, Judy Grahn, Anna Halberstadt, Yona Harvey, Jurgita Jasponyte, Raina Leon, Mary Mackey, Marianela Medrano, Monica Mody, Purvi Shah, Richelle Slota, and Arundhati Subramaniam. Each poem is followed by the poet's comments and some information on the Goddess.A video of these poems performed by the poets is being produced by Poetry Witch Ritual Theater in conjunction with the book. Both projects are created as part of the 2021 Symposium of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, honoring the centennial of Marija Gimbutas. The mission of Poetry Witch Press is to serve the needs of Poetry Witch Community; to support the return of the Divine Feminine through poetry and magic; and to share and celebrate the art and craft of meter, form, and rhythm. Poetry Witch Press was founded by poet Annie Finch in 2021.

Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit is a personal study conveyed in thought- provoking nonfiction and creative nonfiction stories of psychic and empathic reach-across between unlikely beings: human and insect, human and lizard, human and coyote, and of course many cats.