Joan Larkin

geb. 1939 in Massachusetts. BA am Swarthmore College, MA in Englisch an der University of Arizona und MFA in Stückeschreiben am Brooklyn College. Veröffentlichte seit 1975 zahlreiche Gedichtbände. Sie lehrte am Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence College, Goddard College und Columbia College Chicago, gegenwärtig am MFA Program in Poetry Writing an der Drew University.

Auszeichnungen

Lambda Literary Award, 1997
Lambda Literary Award für Nonfiction 2000
Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry 2007
Academy of American Poets Fellowship 2011
Fellowships in poetry and playwriting from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Bibliographie

Buchveröffentlichungen

Housework: Poems. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975. ISBN 0-918314-02-X
A Long Sound: A Book of Poems. Penobscot, ME: Granite Press, 1986. ISBN 0-9614886-1-1
The Women Writers Calendar: 1983. Trumansberg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1982.
Cold River: Poems. New York : Painted Leaf Press, 1997. ISBN 0-9651558-5-4
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, ISBN 0-9651558-6-2, reprinted, University of Wisconsin Press, 2003) ISBN 0-299-18704-7
Glad Day: Daily meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1998. ISBN 978-1-56838-189-3
If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1998. ISBN 978-1-56838-192-3
A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. New York, NY: Avon Books, 1999.
Boston Piano: For George Moffitt, 1907-1964. Brooklyn, NY: Belladonna Books, 2003.
A Garden. [A Broadside.] New York, NY: Center for Book Arts, 2005.
My Body: New and Selected Poems. Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 2007. ISBN 9781931236744
Legs Tipped with Small Claws. Argos Books, 2012.

Herausgeberin

Larkin, Joan and Elly Bulkin, eds. Amazon Poetry: An Anthology. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975. ISBN 0-918314-07-0
Larkin, Joan and Elly Bulkin, eds. Lesbian Poetry. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981. ISBN 0-930436-08-3
Larkin, Joan and Carl Morse, eds. Gay and Lesbian Poetry In Our Time. New York: St Martin's Press, 1988. ISBN 0-312-02213-1
A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell their Coming Out Stories (Avon/Bard Books, 1999) ISBN 978-0-380-80247-0
Larkin, Joan, ed. A Woman Like That. New York: HarperCollins World, 2001.

Medien

A Sign I Was Not Alone (LP recording of poets Adrienne Rich, Honor Moore, Audre Lorde, Joan Larkin, New York: Out & Out Books, 1980)