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My Good Judy

The My Good Judy Foundation’s mission is to serve the community through literary, critical, educational and live performance programs; to support artists and academics seeking to make a contribution in the area of queer cultural studies; and to honor the work and legacy of pioneering poet/activist/thinker Judy Grahn.

My Good Judy offers a one to six week residency for artists, critical writers, poets, playwrights, thinkers, and performers. [Read More…] about My Good Judy

Book Recommendations

The Complete Works of Pat Parker, Sinister Wisdom Press, 2016.
This is the essential Parker collection. Not only does this volume contain all the poetry she published in her previous books—Child of Myself, Pit Stop, Womanslaughter, and Movement in Black—it also has a rich supply of prose, plays and previously unpublished poems. [Read More…] about Book Recommendations

What People Say

Judy Grahn is the direct inheritor of that passion for life in the woman poet, that instinct for true power, not domination, which poets like Barrett Browning, Dickinson, H.D., were asserting in their own very different ways and voices.

ADRIENNE RICH
from On Lies, Secrets, and Silence

People always ask me about my favorite musicians but no one ever asks about my favorite poets. When I was nineteen I discovered the poetry of Judy Grahn, and I was so moved by "A Woman Is Talking to Death", it’s still one of my favorite poems ever, in the world.

ANI DIFRANCO

Judy Grahn has done more to create a women’s literature than any other writer in the past half century.

RON SILLMAN