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October 30 Halloween Judy Grahn Extravaganza

Join Aunt Lute Books for an evening of performances paying tribute to Judy and her work. Featuring Lunarchy, the artistic fusion of poetry & music by Judy Grahn, Anne Carol Mitchell, and Jesse Olsen.

Also showcasing performances inspired by Judy’s writing...

“To The Mother Of All Bowls”

choreographed and performed by Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers

Selections from The Judy Grahn Reader

presented by writer and sex-positive feminist Susie Bright

Staged excerpt from The Queen of Swords

directed by playwright and actress Jovelyn Richards

Reading from “A Woman Is Talking To Death”

read by performance poet Daphne Gottlieb

And screening footage from...

Poomaram (A Flowering Tree), inspired by“Bread, Blood, & Roses”

written and directed by Indian filmmaker Vipin Vijay

1976 rendition of “A Mock Interrogation”

performed by The Wallflower Order, introduction by Krissy Keefer

Newly published book The Judy Grahn Reader will be available for discounted purchase, and book signing will follow program.

In the spirit of the event, costumes are encouraged! Judy will award a prize for the best one!

The Judy Grahn All Hallows' Eve Extravaganza

October 30, 2009
6:30pm Reception with light buffet

7:15pm Program begins

Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street, at Mission
San Francisco, CA 94110

Free Event

Call 415-826-1300 for further info

Gay - Lesbian - Spirituality - Foremother

The Common Woman’s Poet

YOU MIGHT ALREADY KNOW

Judy Grahn’s poetry has a legendary quality,
which you may have read or heard any number of
ways. You may know the slogan, “the common
woman is as common as good bread, and will rise….”
from one of her widely quoted “Common Woman Poems”.
You may have heard Ani DiFranco read “Detroit Annie”
at her Carnegie Hall concert in 2002. You may have
read about Judy on Modern American Poetry site, or
seen one of her poems at the World Poetry Translation
Project online site. You may have been shocked to see,
“I am the dyke in the matter…” as graffiti on an
overpass in London in the 1980’s, or seen Judy’s name
and picture on a placard carried by Argentine lesbian
activists at the Plaza de las Mujeres in Buenas Aires.

Or perhaps you studied “A Woman Is Talking to Death”
in a literature class in college, or took an evening to read
it to your best friend.

Judy with video camera

Then again, you may also know Judy as a cultural theorist,
a poet-philosopher of our times and ways. Another Mother Tongue:
Gay Words, Gay Worlds may hold a cherished space for you,
because it explores social meanings of queer lives. And most people do
love to have meaning. You may be one of the men or women who
wrote her a tender letter about this classic book.
And, you may be looking for a new direction, and love her new origin story
about who we are as evolving humans and ritual beings.
To learn about a philosophy that is sensible, inclusive, and
hopeful: at www.Metaformia.org please find an exciting journal of
menstruation and culture with a link to Blood Bread, and Roses: How
Menstruation Created the World, which you can read online.

JUDY GRAHN in Cyberspace

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