Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman
Judy Grahn, “Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman” from love belongs to those who do the feeling: New & Selected Poems (1966-2006). Copyright © 2008 by Judy Grahn. Reprinted by permission of Red Hen Press.
Source: love belongs to those who do the feeling: New & Selected Poems (1966-2006) (Red Hen Press, 2008)
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Poet Judy Grahn
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Subjects Living, Growing Old, Time & Brevity, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Social Commentaries, Gender & Sexuality
Biography
Poet, activist, and scholar Judy Grahn was born in Chicago and grew up in New Mexico. She joined the Air Force but was discharged at 21 for being openly gay. A central member of the west coast feminist poetry movement of the 1970s, Grahn received a PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies. In a 2009 essay for the Boston Review on the poetry of the women’s movement, poet Honor Moore spoke of hearing Grahn read her . . .
Poems by Judy Grahn
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SUBJECT Living, Growing Old, Time & Brevity, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Social Commentaries, Gender & Sexuality
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
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