Larkin, Joan

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.
• A Long Sound: A Book of Poems. Penobscot, ME: Granite Press, 1986.
• The Women Writers Calendar: 1983. Trumansberg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1982.
• Cold River: Poems. New York : Painted Leaf Press, 1997.
• Glad Day: Daily meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1998.
• If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1998.
• 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.
• Larkin, Joan and Elly Bulkin, eds. Lesbian Poetry. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.
• Larkin, Joan and Carl Morse, eds. Gay and Lesbian Poetry In Our Time. New York: St Martin's Press, 1988.
• Larkin, Joan, ed. A Woman Like That. New York: HarperCollins World, 2001.