JOAN LARKIN
Joan Larkin’s My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press) received the Publishing Triangle’s 2008 Audre Lorde Award. David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times has called Larkin’s voice “unsentimental, ruthless and clear-eyed. . . . This is poetry without pity, in which despair leads not to degradation but to a kind of grace.” Larkin’s previous books include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor Juana’s Love Poems (co-translated with Jaime Manrique), and Cold River, winner of the Lambda Award for poetry.
Larkin co-founded the independent press Out & Out Books as part of the feminist literary explosion of the 1970s and co-edited the groundbreaking anthologies Amazon Poetry and Lesbian Poetry with Elly Bulkin and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time with Carl Morse. Her anthology A Woman Like That was nominated for Publishing Triangle and Lambda prizes for nonfiction in 2000. Larkin has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
She has a B.A. degree from Swarthmore, an M.A. in English from the University of Arizona, and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brooklyn College. She has served on the writing faculties of Brooklyn, Sarah Lawrence, Goddard, and New England Colleges and as Distinguished Visiting Poet at Columbia College Chicago and Wichita State University.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Poetry
Housework (Out & Out Books, 1975)
A Long Sound (Granite Press, 1986)
Cold River (Painted Leaf Press, 1997)
Sor Juana’s Love Poems/Poemas de Amor (in Spanish and English,
Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Joan Larkin, Jaime Manrique; Painted
Leaf Press, 1997, reprinted, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press, 2007)
Prose
If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations (Hazelden, 1998)
Glad Day: Daily Meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgender People (Hazelden, 1998)
Collections Edited
Amazon Poetry: An Anthology (with Elly Bulkin, Out & Out Books,
1975)
Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology (with Elly Bulkin, Persephone
Press, 1980)
Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time: An Anthology
(with Carl Morse, St. Martin’s Press, 1988)
A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell their Coming
Out Stories (Avon/Bard Books, 1999)
Recording
A Sign I Was Not Alone (LP recording of poets Adrienne Rich, Honor Moore,
Audre Lorde, Joan Larkin, New York: Out & Out Books, 1980)
Limited Editions
“A Garden,” letterpress broadside (Center for Book Arts, NYC, 2005)
“Waste Not,” letterpress broadside (Bridge Press, Vermont, 2005)
Boston Piano (Belladonna limited edition poetry chapbook, June 2003)
"Hard Differences” (letterpress broadside, American Populist Poetry
Series, 1980)
Plays: Staged Readings, Productions, Scripts
The AIDS Passion, staged reading, Mt. Holyoke College, April 1995
The Living, staged reading, Huntington Theater Company, Boston,
December 1996; full production, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, June 2000
The Hole in the Sheet, book and lyrics for a klezmer musical farce, music
by Steve Elson (currently seeking production)
Wiretap, Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater, NYC, December 2001,
staged reading by Brooklyn College Theater Department. Script published online at Lodestar Quarterly
Brother Dust, a hip-hop version of Sophocles’ Antigone (currently
seeking production)
If You Were Going to Get a Pet. Script published online at at Tarpaulin Sky
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