Bibliographies of work by lesbian poets and books and chapbooks published by small presses.
Nairne Holtz has compiled and continues to update an extensive bibliography titled, Annotated Bibliography of Canadian Literature with Lesbian Content. This exceptional resource can be accessed here:
Foster, Jeannette Howard. Sex Variant Women in Literature. New York, NY: Vantage Press, 1956.
Foster, Jeannette Howard. Sex Variant Women in Literature. London, UK: Muller, 1958.
Foster, Jeannette Howard. Sex Variant Women in Literature. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1975.
Foster, Jeannette Howard. Sex Variant Women in Literature. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1985.
Editor Note: The history of printing of Foster's book is interesting as it demonstrates some of the power of lesbian small presses and the interests of lesbians as a reading community. Foster published the book first in 1956 through Vantage Press, a vanity press based in New York. It was then reprinted by the feminist press in Baltimore, MD, Diana Press, in 1975. In 1985, Barbara Grier, the owner of Naiad Press with her partner, reissued the book. Naiad Press was a large publisher of lesbian fiction.
Joanne Passet has written an excellent biography of Jeannette Howard Foster titled, Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster. (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2008.
Becker, Robin. Personal Effects. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1976.
Becker, Robin. Backtalk. Cambridge: Alice James Books, 1982.
Becker, Robin. Giacometti's Dog. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 1990.
Becker, Robin. All-American Girl. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
Becker, Robin. The Horse Fair: Poems. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Becker, Robin. Venetian Blue. Pittsburgh: Frick Art & Historical Center, 2002.
Becker, Robin. Domain of Perfect Affection. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.
The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Dyke. New York, NY: 13th Moon, Inc., 1977.
Lesbian Short Fiction. Edited with Nona Caspers. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1990.
Voyages Out 2: Lesbian Short Fiction. Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1990.
Revolutionary Blues and Other Fevers: Poetry. Publisher unknown, 1984.
25 Years of Malcontent. Boston, MA: The Good Gay Poets, 1976.
A Distant Footstep on the Plain. Publisher Unknown, 1981.
After Touch. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975
Apples & Oranges: My Journey through Sexual Identity. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Beyond Gay or Straight: Understanding Sexual Orientation. With Martin B. Duberman. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.
Books & Life. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1989.
Duration. Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1983.
From a Glass House. New York, NY: Ikon, 2007.
If You Like Difficulty. Brownsville, VT: Harbor Mountain Press, 2007.
Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover: Stories. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1980.
Mother, Sister, Daughter, Lover: Stories. London: Women's Press, 1985, 1980.
A Movement of Poets: Thoughts on Poetry and Feminism. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1982.
The Prosperine Papers. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1988.
The Prosperine Papers. London, Women's Press, 1988.
Sinking Stealing: A Novel. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1985.
Sinking, Stealing. London: Women's Press, 1985.
Waking at the Bottom of the Dark. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1979.
Tribe. San Francisco, CA: Pearlchild, 1977.
Journey. San Francisco, CA: Pearlchild, 1977
Tribes. Browerville, Minn. : Ox Head Press, 1990
The bird escapes. Sebastopol, CA (P.O. Box 2455, Sebastopol 95473): Earthy Mama Press, 2001.
Forty Acres and a Mule. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1973.
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1984 (reprint 1990).
Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds. New York, NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, Bookspan, 2000.
Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1993.
The Bowl Speech. San Francisco, CA: Interval Press, 1975.
The Common Woman. Oakland, CA: Womens Press Collective, 1973, 1980.
Descent to the Butch of the Realm. Oakland, CA: Inanna Institute, 1970s (?).*
Descent to the Roses of the Family. Iowa City, IA: Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, 1986.*
Edward the Dyke and Other Poems. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1971.
Elephant Poem Coloring Book. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1972.
The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition. San Francisco, CA: Spinsters, Ink, 1985.
The Inheritance. St. Paul, MN: printed at the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, 1981.*
The Judy Grahn Reader. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 2009
Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling: New & Selected Poems (1966-2006). Los Angeles, CA: Red Hill Press, 2008.
Really Reading Gertrude Stein: A Selected Anthology with Essays by Judy Grahn. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1989.
Mundane's World: A Novel. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1988.
The Queen of Swords (Poems). Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1987.
The Queen of Swords. Oakland, CA : Judy Says, 1994.
The Queen of Wands: Poetry. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.
Sacred Blood. Unknown, 1981.*
She Who: A Graphic Book of Poems. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1977.
Spider Webster's Declaration: He is Singing the End of the World Again. San Francisco, CA: Interval Press, 1983.*
A Woman is Talking to Death: Poem. Illustrations by Karen Sjöholm. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1977.
The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977, with an introduction by Adrienne Rich. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1978.
The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1978
The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy Grahn, 1964-1977. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980.
The Work of a Common Woman. London: Onlywomen, 1985.
True to life adventure stories. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1978.
True to life adventure stories. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1983.
Online Journal
Metaformia: A Journal of Menstruation and Culture. http://www.metaformia.org/
Sound Recordings
History of Lavender. Los Angeles, CA: Pacifica Radio Archive, 1983.
Judy Grahn, 4-13-83. San Francisco, CA: American Poetry Archive at the Poetry Center San Francisco State University, 1983.
Judy Grahn Poetry Reading, Nov. 20, 1985. Michael Davidson, 1985. Cassette Tape.
Judy Grahn 10.2.1974 Reading. San Francisco, CA : Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives, 1974. Cassette Tape.
Lesbian Concentrate. Oakland, CA: Olivia Records, 1977. LP recording.
Where Would I Be Without You: The Poetry of Pat Parker and Judy Grahn. Los Angeles, CA: Olivia Records, 1976.
A Woman is Talking to Death & Other Poems. Washington, DC: Watershed Foundation, 1990. Cassette tape.
The Women Weavers with Judy Grahn Ntozake Shange, and others. Tarabu Betserai, executive producer Tarabu Betserai. North Hollywood, CA: Pacifica Radio Archives, 1989.
Films
Gloria Anzalduá and Judy Grahn. San Francisco, CA: American Poetry Archives, San Francisco State University, 1988.
Last call at Maud's. Paris Poirier, Director. New York, NY: Water Bearer Films, 1993. DVD, 77 minutes.
Women Working in Literature. Kathleen Fraser, Director. San Francisco, CA : Poetry Center/American Poetry Archives, 1991. VHS.
EDITORS NOTE:
This bibliography was challenging to construct because Grahn is one of the most widely circulated lesbian-feminist poets during the 1970s and 1980s. I have omitted a complete bibliography of publications of individual poems. There are particular citations of which information is incomplete or confusing in library database and I have not examined the source. These citations are followed by an asterisk (*). I welcome feedback to correct, clarify and expand this entry.
Compiled December 2007
By Julie R. Enszer
Primary Works
Building Some Changes. Venice, CA: NewBooks published by Beyond Baroque Foundation, 1976.
A Packet Beating Like a Heart. Los Angeles, CA: Books of a Feather Press, 1981.
Ordinary Wisdom. Los Angeles, CA: Paradise Press, 1981; reissued, Los Angeles, CA: Red Hen Press, 2005.
Artemis In Echo Park. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1991.
Women’s Studies Chronicles. 1998.
Passing. Los Angeles, CA: Red Hen Press, 2002.
The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho. Los Angeles, CA: Red Hen Press, 2007.
Anthologies
The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave; The Geography Of Home: California’s Poetry of Place; Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals; Grand Passion: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond; California Poetry: From The Gold Rush to the Present; and Another City: Writing From Los Angeles.
Secondary Works
Boutilier, Nancy. Review of Passing. New York, NY: Lambda Book Report, Feb/Mar2003.
Enszer, Julie R. Review of The Islands Project. New York, NY: Lambda Book Report, Spring 2007, volume 15, issue 1.
Gioia, Dana, Chryss Yost, & Jack Hicks, editors. California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2003, p. 242.
Iknadossian, Armine. "Lesbian Legacy: Eloise Klein Healy’s Quest for Sappho." Media Cake eMagazine, issue 2, Summer 2007, http://www.mediacakemagazine.com/cake_spring_07_031.htm, accessed December 26, 2007.
Kort, Michele. “Words, Writers, Women” in From Site to Vision: The Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture, edited by Sondra Hale and Terry Wolverton. ebook, http://womansbuilding.org/fromsitetovision/, accessed December 26, 2007.
Sexton, Elaine. Interview with Eloise Klein Healy. New York, NY: Lambda Book Report, Spring 2007, volume 15, issue 1.
Kim, Willyce. Curtains of Light: Poems. Oakland, CA: W. Kim, 1971.
Kim, Willyce. Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid. Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1985.
Kim, Willyce. Dead Heat. Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1988.
Kim, Willyce. Eating Artichokes. Oakland, CA: Woman's Press Collective, 1972.
Kim, Willyce. Under the rolling sky. [Oakland, CA?]: Maud Gonne Press, 1976.
Larkin, Joan. My Body: New and Selected Poems. Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 2007.
Larkin, Joan. A Garden. [A Broadside.] New York, NY: Center for Book Arts, 2005.
Larkin, Joan. Boston Piano: For George Moffitt, 1907-1964. Brooklyn, NY: Belladonna Books, 2003.
Larkin, Joan, ed. A Woman Like That. New York: HarperCollins World, 2001.
Larkin, Joan. A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. New York, NY: Avon Books, 1999.
Larkin, Joan. If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1998.
Larkin, Joan. Glad Day: Daily meditations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1998.
Larkin, Joan. Cold River: Poems. New York : Painted Leaf Press, 1997.
Larkin, Joan and Carl Morse, eds. Gay and Lesbian Poetry In Our Time. New York: St Martin's Press, 1988.
Larkin, Joan. A Long Sound: A Book of Poems. Penobscot, ME: Granite Press, 1986.
Larkin, Joan. The Women Writers Calendar: 1983. Trumansberg, NY: The Crossing Press, 1982.
Larkin, Joan and Elly Bulkin, eds. Lesbian Poetry. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.
Larkin, Joan. Housework: Poems. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975.
Larkin, Joan and Elly Bulkin, eds. Amazon Poetry: An Anthology. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975.
The First Cities. New York, NY: Poets Press, 1968.
Cables to Rage. London, UK: Paul Breman, 1970.
From a Land Where Other People Live. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1973.
New York Head Shop and Museum. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1975.
Coal. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1976.
Between Our Selves. Point Reyes, CA: Eidolon Editions, 1976.
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1978.
The Black Unicorn: Poems. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1978.
The Black Unicorn: Poems. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1995, 1978.
The Cancer Journals. Argyle, NY: Spinsters, Ink, 1980.
Zami, a new spelling of my name. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1982.
Zami, a new spelling of my name. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1982.
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name. London, UK: Pandora, 1996, 1982.
Chosen Poems, Old and New. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1982.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Trumansburg, NY : Crossing Press, 1984.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 2007.
I Am Your Sister: Black women organizing across sexualities. New York, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1985.
Our Dead Behind Us: Poems. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1986.
Apartheid U.S.A./Freedom Organizing in the Eighties. With Merle Woo. New York, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1986
A Burst of Light: Essays. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988.
Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, 1990.
Undersong: Chosen Poems, Old and New. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1992.
The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1993.
Zami; Sister outsider; Undersong. New York, NY: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1993.
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1997.
The Cancer Journals. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books, 1997.
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde. Byrd, Rudolph P, Johnnetta B. Cole, and others. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Movement in Black: the collected poetry of Pat Parker, 1961-1978. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1999.
Jonestown & other madness: poetry. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1985.
Movement in Black : the collected poetry of Pat Parker.[Foreword by Audre Lorde; introduction by Judy Grahn; graphics by Wendy Cadden, Irmajean, Karen Sjoholm.] Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1978.
Pit stop. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1973, 1975.
Child of myself. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1972, 1974.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. The Sound of One Fork. Chapel Hill, NC: Night Heron Press, 1981.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. We Say We Love Each Other. Spinster Ink/Aunt Lute Press, 1984.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. We Say We Love Each Other. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Press, 1992.
Bulkin, Elly, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith. Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism and Racism. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1984.
Bulkin, Elly, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith. Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism and Racism. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Press, 1988.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Crimes Against Nature. Firebrand Press, 1989.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991. Firebrand Press, 1992.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/He. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Press, 1995.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/He. Los Angeles, CA: Alyson Press, 2008.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. Walking Back Up Depot Street. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.
Pratt, Minnie Bruce. The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
The Best of It. New York: NY: Grove Press, 2009.
The Niagara River. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2005.
Say Uncle. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2000.
Elephant Rocks. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1996.
Flamingo Watching. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press, 1994.
Strangely Marked Metal. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press, 1985.
Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends. Fairfax, CA: Taylor Street Press, 1983.
Looking at Women: Poems. New York: Violet Press, 1971, 1980.
Dyke Jacket: Poems and Songs. New York: Violet Press, 1975, 1976, 1980.
Goddess of Lesbian Dreams: Poems and Songs. New York: Violet Press, 1980.
Winant’s work as a visual artist is included in Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History by Harmony Hammond (New York: Rizzoli, 2000).
13th Moon is a journal which began publishing in 1973 and continues publishing today. For more information see the current website, http://www.13thmoon.net/
The complete archives of Heresies, a feminist art journal, are available as downloadable PDF files here:
http://helios.hampshire.edu/nomorenicegirls/heretics/#archive1
Poetry in The Furies
The Furies, a lesbian/feminist monthly, began publishing in January 1972. A total of nine issues of the magazine were published until it ceased in 1973.
PDFs of all issues (except one noted below) are available online from RainbowHistory.org.
Volume 1, January 1972
Four poems from Judy Grahn’s Edward the Dyke and Other Poems are included on page 7.
The poems are: “A History of Lesbianism,” “I’m not a girl,” “V. Detroit Annie, hitchhiking,” (one of "The Common Woman Poems") and “in the place where.”
Volume 2, February 1972
Seven poems from Rita Mae Brown’s The Hand That Rocks the Cradle are included on pages 12-13. The poems are: “The New Lost Feminist: A Triptych,” “For Lydia French,” “Sappho’s Reply,” “The Self Affirms Herself,” “ Canto Cantare Cantavi Cantatum,” “Song to a Handsome Woman,” and “The Bourgeois Questions.”
Other items of interest: Article by Helaine Harris, “Out of the O Zone,” opens with a poem by June Slavin title, “After Monterey Pop” (page 2.) Article by Jennifer Woodul on Emily Dickinson titled “Much Madness is Divinest Sense” (page 8.) Advertisement for Judy Grahn’s Edward the Dyke and Other Poems (page 23.)
Volume 1, issue 3, March-April 1972
No poetry.
Other item of interest: Text advertisement for Look at Women by Fran Winant, published by Violet Press including this advertisement “Violet Press is looking for material for a gay women’s anthology. Send your poems, songs, book reviews, essays, drawings and cartoons to them and include a stamped self-addressed return envelope.”
Volume 1, issue 4, May 1972
No poetry.
Correction to the poem “After Monterey Pop” on page 16.
Volume 1, issue 5, June-July 1972
Four poems from Pat Parker’s Child of Myself are included on page 4. The poems are: “A Moment Left Behind,” “With the sun,” “Let me come to you naked,” “Exodus (To my husbands, lovers).”
Other item of interest: “A Manifesto for the Feminist Artist” by Rita Mae Brown.
Volume 1, issue 6, August 1972
No poetry.
Other items of interest: Advertisement for Shameless Hussy Books including books by Alta, Susan Griffin, Paul Mariah, and Pat Parker, Advertisment for Diana Press, Lesbian Printshop, Printing, Tyepsetting, Layout, Graphics.
Volume 1, issue 7, Fall 1972
Poem by E. Sharon Gomillion on the cover, “We’re doing it in our schools. Poems on page 8 & 9: Susan Baker, “And Arab” and “Snapshots on Connecticut and K,” E. Sharon Gomillion, “My Love Called Me Today” and “Black Woman,” Merritt Wilson, “Diana, “I await, “Go from me lovely flower, and “A Preference,” Lee Lally, “Hurricanes, “For Meg at Clyde’s,” and “You Were Burying Us Before We Were Dead.”
Volume II, issue 1
Missing from online collection.
Volume II, issue 2
Journeys on the Living, poems by Linda Koolish: “My Neighbor is Thirty-Three” and “Conversation with my Mother” (page 3.) From Eating Artichokes by Willyce Kim, “Poem for Zahava,” “Eating artichokes,” and “The next woman” (page 4.)
New York Poems, poems by Lee Lally (page 8-11), “Time Square,” “New York Will Break Your Heart, Baby,” “W. 139th & Broadway,” Stop Light E 4th & 1st Avenue,” “234 E. 4th Street, “7th Ave. Broadway Local,” “East Village-Thompson St & E. 3rd St.” “Thompson Square and 7th Street,” Avenue B/E. 5th & 6th St.,” “Moon Poem,” “43rd St. between 7th and 8th Avenue,” “It is smooth,” and “Avenue of the Americas.”
Volume II, issue 3 Final Issue
Prose poem, "unnatural woman," by Diane O'Flynn.
"Oranges at Wandegeya" by Jay Williams.
"R St." by Keegan.
13th Moon Press published books as well. This bibliography is of the books published by 13th Moon Press. The list is from WorldCat and, I believe, is incomplete.
Bissert, Ellen Marie. The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Dyke. New York, NY: 13th Moon, Inc., 1977. (Reviewed in Sinister Wisdom.)
Cain, Mary Ann. Down from Moonshine: A Novel. Fort Lee, NJ: 13th Moon Press, 2009.
Piercy, Marge. Martha as the Angel Gabriel. New York, NY: 13th Moon, Inc., 1977.
Piercy, Marge. For the Furies. New York, NY: 13th Moon, Inc., 1982.
Piercy, Marge. Listening to a Speech. New York, NY: 13th Moon, Inc., 1983.
Piercy, Marge. A Day in the Life. Albany, NY: 13th Moon, 1996.
Cowell, Pattie. Women poets in pre-Revolutionary America, 1650-1775. [New York, NY?] 13th Moon, 1979.
Wood-Thompson, Susan. Crazy Quilt: Poems. Washington, DC: Crone Books, 1980
Arnold, June. The Cook and the Carpenter: A Novel by the Carpenter. Plainfield, VT: Daughters, Inc., 1973.
Beal, M. F. Angel Dance. Plainfield, VT: Daughters, Inc., date unknown.
Boyd, Blanche M. Nerves: A Novel. Plainfield, VT, Daughters, Inc., 1973.
Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit Jungle. Plainfield, VT, Daughters, Inc., 1973.
Hall, Nancy Lee. A True Story of a Drunken Mother. Plainfield, VT: Daughters, Inc., 1974.
Lagerlöf, Selma. The Treasure. Plainfield, VT, Daughters, Inc., 1973.
Mortimer, Penelope. The Pumpkin Eater. Plainfield, VT, Daughters, Inc. 1975
Nachman/Dykewomon, Elana. Riverfinger Women. Plainfield, Vt. : Daughters, Inc., 1974.
Wittig, Monique. The Opoponax. Plainfield, VT: Daughters, Inc., 1966.
The above list was compiled using WorldCat.
In the fifth issue of Sinister Wisdom (1978), Harriet Desmoines wrote the essay, "RETRIEVED FROM SILENCE: My Life and Times with Daughters, Inc." At the conclusion of the essay is this list of books published by Daughters, Inc.
Angel Dance by M. F. Beal $5.00
Applesauce by June Arnold $5.00
Born to Struggle by May Hobbs $3.50
The Cook and the Carpenter by the carpenter $3.50
Daughters in High School edited by Frieda Singer $4.80
Early Losses by Pat Burch $3.50
Happenthing in Travel On by Carole Spearin McCauley $4.00
I Must Not Rock by Linda Marie $5.00
In Her Day by Rita Mae Brown $4.50
Lover by Bertha Harris $4.50
Nerves by Blanche Boyd $3.50
The Opoponax by Monique Wittig $4.50
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer $4.00
Riverfinger Women by Elana Nachman $4.00
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown $4.00
Sister Gin by June Arnold $4.00
The Treasure by Selma Lagerlof $3.00
A True Story of a Drunken Mother by Nancy Lee Hall $3.50
You Can have It When I'm Through with It $4.00
by Betty Webb Mace
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Brown, Rita Mae with illustrations by Sue Sellars. A Plain Brown Rapper. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1976.
Brown, Rita Mae. Songs to a handsome woman. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1973. Digitized: http://books.google.com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/books?id=NE5aAAAAMAAJ
Brown, Rita Mae. The hand that cradles the rock. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1974.
Budapest, Zsuzsanna Emese, Helen Beardwomon, and Carol Clement. Selene, the most famous bull-leaper on earth. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1976.
Bunch, Charlotte and Nancy Myron. Class and feminism; a collection of essays from the Furies. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1974.
Clement, Carol and Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest. 1977 a year and a day calendar. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1976.
Cheney, Joyce and Marcia Deihl. All our lives : a women's songbook. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1976.
Czarnik, Casey and Coletta Reid. The day before : a graphic datebook of our female ancestors. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1975.
Foster, Jeannette H. Sex variant women in literature. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1975.
Gidlow, Elsa. Sapphic songs : seventeen to seventy. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1976.
Gomillion, E. Sharon. Forty acres and a mule. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1973.
Grahn, Judy. True to life adventure stories. Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1978.
Grier, Barbara and Coletta Reid. Lesbian lives: biographies of women from the Ladder. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1976.
Grier, Barbara and Coletta Reid. The Lesbians home journal : stories from the Ladder. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1976.
Grier, Barbara and Coletta Reid. The Lavender herring : lesbian essays from the Ladder. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1976.
Myron, Nancy and Charlotte Bunch. Lesbianism and the women's movement. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1975.
Parker, Pat. Movement in Black : the collected poetry of Pat Parker. [Foreword by Audre Lorde; introduction by Judy Grahn; graphics by Wendy Cadden, Irmajean, Karen Sjoholm.] Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1978.
Raeschild, Sheila. Lessons in leaving. Baltimore, MD: Diana Press, 1974.
Easter Day Press, based in Washington, DC, published two books.
Dykes for an Amerikan Revolution. Washington, DC: Easter Day Press, 1971.
Notes toward a Women's Analysis of Class. Washington, DC Easter Day Press, 1970.
Bergé, Carol. The Doppler Effect. Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1979.
Dahlen, Beverly. A Letter at Easter: to George Stanley. Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1976.
Jaffer, Frances. Any Time Now. Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1977.
Kitrilakis, Thalia. Nostos. Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1979.
Makcey, Mary. One Night Stand. Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1976.
Moore, Honor. Leaving and Coming Back. Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1981.
Rich, Adrienne Cecile. Twenty-One Love Poems. Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1976.
Rich, Adrienne Cecile. Twenty-One Love Poems (2nd edition). Emeryville, CA: Effie's Press, 1977.
Anderson, Lori. Cultivating Excess. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Barrington, Judith. History and Geography. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Barrington, Judith. Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2000.
Barrington, Judith. Lifesaving: A Memoir. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2000.
Barrington, Judith. Trying to Be an Honest Woman. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Barrington, Judith. Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2000.
Barrington, Judith. Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, Second Edition. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2002.
Bateman, Claire. Friction. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1998.
Carlisle, Andrea with Mary Narkiewicz (Illustrator). The Riverhouse Stories: How Pubah S. Queen and Lazy LaRue Save the World. Portland, OR:The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
David, Almitra. Between the Sea and Home. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Hartman, Cherry, Julie Sheldon Huffaker, and Nancy Coffelt (illustrator). The Fearless Flyer: How to fly in Comfort and Without Trepidation. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1995.
Hochman, Anndee. Everyday Acts And Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Klepfisz, Irena. Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Klepfisz, Irena. A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New (1971-1990). Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Lee, Elaine (editor). Go Girl! The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1997.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1998.
Livia, Anna. Incidents Involving Mirth. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2000.
Livia, Anna. Minimax. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Mitchell, Karen. The Eating Hill. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Words Under the Words. Portland, OR:The Eighth Mountain Press
Selected Poems, 1994.
Roy, Lucinda. The Humming Birds. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1995.
Seaton, Maureen. Fear of Subways. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Wilson, Barbara. Cows and Horses. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1993.
Woody, Elizabeth and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Illustrator). Seven Hands, Seven Hearts. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1994.
Zepatos, Thalia. Adventures in Good Company: The Complete Guide to Women's Tours and Outdoor Trips. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2000.
Zepatos, Thalia. Journey Of One's Own. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2000.
Zepatos, Thalia. A Journey of One's Own, 3rd Edition; Uncommon Advice for the Independent Woman Traveler. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2003.
Zepatos, Thalia. A Journey of One's Own (Second Edition). Uncommon Advice for the Independent Woman Traveler. Portland, OR: The Eighth Mountain Press, 2000.
Loftin, Elouise. Barefoot Necklace: Pome. Brooklyn, NY: Jamima House Press, 1975.
Aguilar, Mila D. A comrade is as precious as a rice seedling. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1987.
Clarke, Cheryl. Narratives: poems in the tradition of Black women. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983.
Combahee River Collective. The Combahee River Collective statement: Black Feminist organizing in the seventies and eighties. Albany, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1986.
Davis, Angela Y. Violence against women and the ongoing challenge to racism. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1985.
Gómez, Alma and Cherríe Moraga. Cuentos: stories by Latinas. New York, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983.
Hull, Gloria T. Healing heart: poems, 1973-1988. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1989.
Lorde, Audre. Need: a chorale for black woman voices. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1990.
Lorde, Audre. I am your sister: Black women organizing across sexualities. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1985.
Lorde, Audre and Merle Woo. Apartheid U.S.A. / freedom organizing in the eighties. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1986.
Moraga, Cherríe and Gloria Anzaldúa. This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color. New York, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983.
Omolade, Barbara. It's a family affair: the real lives of black single mothers. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1986.
Smith, Barbara. Home girls: a Black feminist anthology. New York, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983.
Yamada, Mitsuye. Desert run: poems and stories. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1988.
Yamada, Mitsuye. Camp notes and other poems. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1992.
Yamamoto, Hisaye. Seventeen syllables and other stories. Latham, NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1988.
The Freedom Organizing Pamphlet Series
The Freedom Organizing Pamphlet Series presents current issues, strategies, and resources focusing upon the political concerns of women of color in a highly accessible format. Each pamphlet includes a Resource Listing of organizations and publications and comes individually shrink-wrapped with a wearable button reflecting the pamphlet's theme. The Freedom Organizing Series provides a much needed antidote to the repression of the eighties.
#1: The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing in the Seventies and Eighties. With a new Foreword by Barbara Smith.
This classic articulation of Black feminist theory and practice, has been anthologized in numerous collections and is now available for the first time in pamphlet form. (Includes button: BLACK FEMINISM LIVES!)
$3.25 paper, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 28 pages ISBN 0-913175-05-6
#2 Apartheid U.S.A. by Audre Lorde and Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause: Freedom Organizing in the Eighties by Merle Woo.
An African American and an Asian American poet make the connections between South African apartheid and North American racism. Woo chronicles the divestment movement at the University of California, Berkeley, and the wide-ranging coaltions that have grown out of student anti-apartheid organizing. (includes button: NO TO APARTHEID, NO TO RACISM)
$3.50 paper, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 28 pages ISBN 0-913175-06-4
#3 I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities by Audre Lorde.
The international acclaimed author challenges homophobia as a divisive force, particularly among Black women.
(Includes button: Universal NO symbol slashed across HOMOPHOBIA)
$2.95 paper, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 12 pages ISBN 0-913175-07-2
#4 It's a Family Affair: The Real Lives of Black Single Mothers by Barbara Omolade.
In her article which originally appeared in The Village Voice, omolade, a teacher, activist, and Black single mother, provides a factual and supportive look at the challenges that Black single mothers face and offers some practical strategies for change.
(Includes button: Black Single Mothers: We Are Family)
$3.50, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, ISBN 0-913175-10-2
#5 Violence Against Women and teh Ongoing Challenge to Racism by Angela Y. Davis.
Scholar and activist, Davis analyzes the complex racial history of rape in this country and why race and class, as well as gender oppression, must be eradicated in order to end violence against women.
(Includes button: Fight Racism, Fight Rape)
$3.50 paper, 20 pages, ISBN 0-913175-11-0
Bulkin, Elly, Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith. Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1984.
Clausen, Jan. A Movement of Poets: Thoughts on Poetry and Feminism. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1982.
Allison, Dorothy. The Women Who Hate Me. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1983.
Clausen, Jan. Waking at the Bottom of the Dark. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1979.
McDaniel, Judith. Metamorphosis, and Other Poems of Recovery. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1986.
Shannon, Edna Wright. Twentieth Century Pioneer. Brooklyn, NY: Long Haul Press, 1987.
Broumas, Olga. From Caritas: Poem 3. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1978.
Bulkin, Elly and Joan Larkin. Amazon poetry: an anthology of lesbian poetry. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975.
Clausen, Jan. After touch. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975.
Creighton, Jane. Ceres in an open field. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1980.
Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Women and support networks. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1979.
Goodman, Bernice. The lesbian: a celebration of difference. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1977.
Hacker, Marilyn. Taking notice. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1980.
Jordan, June and Lynne Reynolds. Unemployment: monologue. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1978.
Kaye, Melanie. Carrington. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1978.
Klepfisz, Irena. Periods of stress: poems. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975, 1977.
Lapidus, Jacqueline. Starting over: poetry. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1977.
Larkin, Joan. Housework: poems. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975.
Lorde, Audre. Uses of the erotic: the erotic as power. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1978, 1982.
Newman, Felice and Ellen Weiss. Frances Holt. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1978.
Out & out pamphlet. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Out & Out Books, 1977.
Rich, Adrienne Cecile, Honor Moore, Audre Lorde, Joan Larkin and others. A sign/I was not alone. [Audio] Brooklyn, NY: Out & out Books, 1977, 1979.
Russ, Joanna. On strike against God. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1980.
Sherman, Susan. Women poems, love poems. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1977.
Smith, Barbara. Toward a black feminist criticism. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1977, 1980.
Tanenhaus, Beverly. To know each other and be known: women's writing workshops. Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1978.
Beck, Evelyn Torton. Nice Jewish girls: a lesbian anthology. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1982.
Bloch, Alice. The law of return: a novel. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1983.
Bloch, Alice. Lifetime guarantee: a journey through loss and survival. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.
Blue, Shelley. The fourteenth witch: poetry. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1977.
Bulkin, Elly. Lesbian fiction: an anthology. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.
Bulkin, Elly and Joan Larkin. Lesbian poetry, an anthology. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.
Cliff, Michelle. Claiming an identity they taught me to despise. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980.
Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898. Woman, church & state: the original exposé of male collaboration against the female sex. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980, 1893.
Gearhart, Sally Miller. The wanderground: stories of the hill women. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1978, 1979.
Gearhart, Sally, Miller and Susan Rennie. A feminist tarot. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1977, 1981.
Klepfisz, Irena. Keeper of accounts. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1982.
Lorde, Audre. Zami, a new spelling of my name. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1982.
Moraga, Cherríe and Gloria Anzaldúa. This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981.
Toder, Nancy. Choices. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980.
Wolfe, Susan J. and Julia Penelope. The coming out stories. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1980.
Archival Material from Persephone Press
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01189
Persephone Press was founded in 1976 in Watertown, Massachusetts, by a lesbian-feminist collective called Pomegranate Productions. Its first publication, The Feminist Tarot, helped subsidize the first National Women's Spirituality Conference, Through the Looking Glass, held in Boston in April 1976. The goal of Persephone Press was to produce innovative material to foster lesbian sensibility and to effect social change by building a successful publishing company and communications network. Two of its three founders, Gloria Z. Greenfield and Pat McGloin, served as financial administrator and director of marketing respectively. Persephone Press was sold to Beacon Press in 1983.
Andrews, Bruce. Edge. Washington, D.C., Printed by Arry Press for Some of Us Press, 1973.
Baker, Susan. "She's a Jim-dandy." Washington, DC: Some of Us Press, 1970.
Baker, Susan. Snapshots at Connecticut and K. Washington, DC: Some Of Us Press, 2000.
Cox, Ed. Blocks. Washington, DC: Some of Us Press, 1973.
Dlugos, Tim. High There: Poems. Washington, DC, Some of Us Press 1973.
Dreyer, Lynne. Lamplights Used to Feed the Deer. Washington, DC: Some of Us Press, 1974.
Edgcomb, Gabrielle Simon. Moving Violation. Washington, DC: Some of Us Press, 1973.
Gibson, Margaret. Lunes: Poems. Washington, DC: Some of Us Press, 1973.
Holland, William. How Us White Folks Discovered Rock and Roll. Washington, DC, Some of Us Press, 1973.
Inman, P. What Happens Next. Washington, D.C., Some of Us Press, 1974.
Joselow, Beth. Ice Fishing. Washington, DC: Some of Us Press, 1974.
Lally, Lee. These Days. Washington, DC: Diana Press for Some Of Us Press, 1972.
Lally, Michael. The South Orange Sonnets. Washington, DC: Some Of Us Press, 1972.
Randolph, Leonard. Scar Tissue. Washington, DC: Corporate Press for Some Of Us Press, 1973.
Slater, Robert. A Rumor of Inhabitants. Washington, DC: Some of Us Press 1974
Schuchat, Simon. Blue Skies. Washington, DC: Some of Us Press, 1973
Winch, Terence. Boning Up. Washington, DC: Some Of Us Press, 1972.
Zahniser, Ed. The Ultimate Double Play. Washington, DC: Some of Us Press, 1974.
Editor Note: Some of Us Press is not a lesbian or feminist press as the others in this archive, but the publication of Lee Lally's chapbook in conjunction with Diana Press sparked my interest in the press. There are a number of chapbooks by women on the list as well that I have note reviewed. There is some information about Lee Lally available on this blog: http://douglangsdcpoetryblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/lee-lally.html
I would be happy to receive email correspondence from anyone with information about Some of Us Press.
King, Martha. Women & Children First. Brooklyn, NY: Two and Two Press, 1975.
Lewis, Harry and Marc Shanker. Spring. Brooklyn, NY: Two & Two Press, 1975.
Sherman, Susan. America. Brooklyn, NY: Two & Two Press, 1974.
Sherman, Susan. Women Poems, Love Poems. Brooklyn, NY: Two and Two Press, 1975.
Greenspan, Judy. To lesbians everywhere: poems. New York, NY: Violet Press, 1976.
We are all lesbians: A Poetry Anthology. New York, NY: Violet Press, 1973.
Winant, Fran. Dyke Jacket: Poems and Songs. New York, NY: Violet Press, 1975, 1976.
Winant, Fran. Goddess of lesbian dreams: poems and songs. New York, NY: Violet Press, 1980.
Winant, Fran. Looking at Women: Poems. New York, NY: Violet Press, 1971.
Chesman, Andrea and Polly Joan. Directory of Women Writing. Newfield, NY: Women Writing Press, 1977.
Colbert, Alison. Let the Circle Be Unbroken: Poems. New York, NY: Women Writing Press, 1976.
Joan, Polly. No apologies. New York, NY: Women Writing Press, 1975.
Berkeley Music Collective songbook. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1975.
Gordon. Ann. Woman, carved of sun. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1974.
Grahn, Judy. Edward the dyke: and other poems. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1971.
Grahn, Judy. Elephant poem coloring book. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1972.
Grahn, Judy. A woman is talking to death; poems. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1974.
Grahn, Judy; illustrations by Wendy Cadden. The common woman. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1979.
Grahn, Judy. The common woman. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1973, 1980.
Isabell, Sharon. Yesterday's lessons. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1974, 1976.
Kim, Willyce. Eating artichokes. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1972. This chapbook is available for download as a PDF here: http://www.deepoakland.org/~deepoak/text?id=188
Lesbians speak out. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1974. (2nd edition, 1975.)
Molloy, Alice. In other words : notes on the politics and morale of survival [with comments and word trips, and excerpts from things I was reading during that time, that held my attention]. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1980.
Parker, Pat. Child of myself. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1972, 1974.
Parker, Pat. Pit stop. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1973, 1975.
Richards, Dell. The rape journal. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1974.
Save Joann Little. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1976.
Shipley, Donna and Karen Sjöholm. Six ears of corn: poetry. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1975.
Wilson, Carol. Lesbians speak out. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1974.
Woman to woman : a book of poems and drawings by women. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1970.
Women against electric shock treatment. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1970-78?.
The women's gun phamphlet: a primer on handguns. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1975.
Xarai, Max and Max Hammond. Witch dream: matriarchal comix. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1970s.
Xarai, Max. A witch dream presentation. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1970-1979?.
Zelima. Soy: poems. Oakland, CA: Women's Press Collective, 1974.
The 3rd edition of Barbara Grier's bibliography, The Lesbian in Literature, is completely reproduced at OutHistory.org including downloadable PDFs which are fully searchable.
To read, The Lesbian in Literature, click on this link: http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/The_Lesbian_In_Literature%2C_1967-1981
Heartfelt appreciation to OutHistory.org for making this important book available more broadly.