Grahn, Judy, 1940-

  • Judy Grahn: Poetry and interview

    Laura Knowles interviews poet, writer and author Judy Grahn (1940 – ). Grahn talks about her youth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, her impetus for writing The Common Woman Poems, and her recent interest in exploring women’s history. The interview is interspersed with Grahn reading from her own books of poetry, such as She Who,…

  • Judy Grahn and Grace Paley at the Women’s Building

    Poet and activist Judy Grahn and author Grace Paley speak at the Benefit for War Resisters League at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. The recording opens with the band Swing Shift performing the song “My girl.” Grahn’s reading here is the unedited version of the reading heard in AZ0456. Paley’s reading here is identical…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 30, 1982

    Production reel for the June 30, 1982 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced by Donna Allegra. Program includes tapes from the 1979 1st Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference in Washington, D.C., featuring 1) segments from the Combahee River Collective workshop on racism with Barbara Smith and Damita Frazier, and audience remarks from Zhane Gray…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 29, 1983

    Production reel for June 29, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced and hosted by Eileen Zalisk. Three parts: 1. “Nothing lights a fire like a dream deferred,” a series of dramatic readings on the feminist response to militarism, produced by Phaye Poliakoff & Adina Back. Blanche Jackson, Lizzie Olesker, Phaye Poliakoff and Cherise[sp?] Williams…

  • Lesbian purges in the military / produced by Karla Tonella

    Panel with four women who were in the military from 1946 until 1980 including Judy Grahn, author of “The Common Woman Poems”; Pat Bond from the film “Word is Out”; Sharon Isabel, author of “Yesterday’s Lessons”; Debra DeBont of the Women Veterans Information Network; and moderated by Sabrina Sojourner. Topics include inspiration to join the…

  • History of lavender / Judy Grahn

    Poet and author Judy Grahn reads “Sashay down the lavender trail”, the first chapter of her book “Another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds” (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984). She traces the tradition and history of gay and lesbian symbols and imagery using examples from Greek myth, Shakespeare, and African and Native American stories and also…

  • She who is electric / Judy Grahn.

    Women-loving poems by poet Judy Grahn (1940 – ), including She Who and The Common Women series. Also Edward the Dyke, a short story based on real experiences, in which a woman confused and ambivalent about lesbianism is confronted by her head-shrinker and his battery of pseudo-therapeutic analyses and methods. Judy is a radical lesbian,…

  • Judy Grahn reads her poetry

    Edited tape of a reading by poet Judy Grahn of new work at the San Francisco Women’s Building on June 22, 1980 as a benefit for the War Registers League. Also performing that night was Grace Paley. Contains sensitive language. Judy Grahn is a legendary figure in the Feminist poetry movement. Her most famous poem…

  • The Women weavers / executive producer Tarabu Betserai.

    Combination of readings and discussions with four major women writers: Judy Grahn, Notzake Shange, May Sarton, and Audre Lorde. The autors read selections of their own works, and discuss their writing, life, and art. Produced from segments originally produced by Ginny Z. Berson, Pam Scola, Helene Rosenbluth, and Penny Rosenwasser.|THE WOMEN WEAVERS / executive producer…

  • Women in the arts : in memoriam Marilyn Monroe / Judy Grahn, Anna Hartman, Naomi Lowinsky and Rachel Lowen.

    A poetry reading by Judy Grahn (1940 – ), author of “Edward the Dyke,” Anna Hartman, Naomi Lowinsky and Rachel Loden that is “…a coming together of women poets to reclaim our bodies from the winding sheet of history and celebrate the many forms of women loving women.” The reading was given as part of…