#joan larkin

[poetrysmackdown]

#round1 #poetry #poll #maya angelou #joan larkin

[gatheringbones]

[“Several contributors to A Woman Like That acknowledged that exploring the territory of their own coming out in writing was unexpectedly difficult. Seasoned writers told me how arduous, even painful, it was to explore coming-out memories that had long been held under pressure at a depth. One novelist said that her family’s rejection of her as an open lesbian had been too agonizing to revisit; she was unable to complete her story. Another, author of a soul-searching memoir and surely no coward, wrote a haunting piece about her first erotic experience with a woman, but withdrew it when she remembered that the words “lesbian and bisexual” would appear in the book’s subtitle.

These are indeed powerful words. I am deeply indebted to the writers who are free to embrace them.

Many writers in this collection recall childhood desire, embryonic lesbian hunger, and the innocence and mystery of those feelings on the brink of collision with the straight world. One writer asserts that she was “born queer,” while another confesses to the sin of “converting”—implying that, contrary to current rules of political correctness, some feel they have chosen to be lesbians. Some write with youthful ebullience and wit of adventures as “sex-positive” lesbians, with almost a gasp of surprise at the seeming absence of oppression in their lives. A handful write of uncommonly loyal families that nurtured independence in childhood and remain a source of strength to their unconventional daughters. Some contributors write of harsh punishment rendered for sexual nonconformity and of the survival skills and moral intelligence they have wrested from their experiences. Two write of their incarceration in mental institutions as young gay women, and of the exhilaration of release. Another, stunned by the abrupt firing of teachers rumored to be lesbians, learns that even a “progressive” environment may be unapologetically homophobic; her knowledge of danger ultimately empowers her to speak against injustice. One writer, who tells of coming out to the sons of whom she has lost custody, speaks of having cracked open their small universe—a shattering, but one that allows light and the possibility of new knowledge and connection.

A number of writers in this collection tell coming-out stories that are not about a single defining moment but rather about a continuum of experience. They recall many passages—a gradual shedding of false selves, an ongoing process of self-discovery and self-naming. One writer, nearly deported from the U.S. for her outspoken political writing, equates coming out with the freedom to explore deeper places in her own psyche. A writer in her seventies tells movingly of her failure to name herself a lesbian at a reunion of those who as children were transported to safety in England to escape the Nazi death camps. Next year, she resolves, she will come out to them. Another, Another, in the form of a diary of a week in the present year, reminds us that, regardless of how secure our identities, we are forced to come out as lesbians each time we intersect with the heterosexual world, or remain invisible as we have been for centuries.”]

Joan Larkin, from a woman like that: lesbian and bisexual writers tell their coming out stories, 2000

#joan larkin #lesbian literature #bi literature #terra preta #horror! horror! horror! #currently reading

[moonlightsapphic]

#sapphic poetry #sapphic poem #lesbian poetry #lesbian poem #long distant love #long distance relationship #cottagecore #cottagecore sapphic #sapphic poet #sapphic writer #want #pansexuel #joan larkin #wlw #sapphic #gay #lesbian #bisexual #bi #queer #lgbtq pride #girls who love girls #pansexual #lgbtq+ #non binary #love is love #pan #lgbt #wholesome #mspec

[milkymarble]

valentine’s comedown

josé olivarez, joan larkin, alex dimitrov, lucia restrepo bralley

#valentines day #february #vintage #sonic youth #kim gordon #jose olivarez #joan larkin #alex dimitrov #web weaving #poetry #spilled ink #poem #new poets club #original poetry #new writers on tumblr #collage

[pityroad]

Want, Joan Larkin

[pdf transcript here]

#Joan Larkin #want #queer poetry #love #somehow town mouse and country mouse vibes

[garadinervi]

A Sign / I Was Not Alone, The voices of poets Honor Moore, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Joan Larkin reading from their work, RG22-50, Out & Out Books, 1977 (download here). Design: Lynne Reynolds. Engineer, editing: Peggy Sendars. Photography: Trudy Rosen. Photograph of Peggy Sendars: Pam Camhe

#graphic design #poetry #reading #vinyl #cover #back cover #honor moore #adrienne rich #audre lorde #joan larkin #lynne reynolds #peggy sendars #trudy rosen #pam camhe #out & out books #1970s

[tumanaa]

#I love this one so much😭 #wlw #sapphic #lesbian #lesbian poetry #Joan Larkin

[andwestillhadhours]

Joan Larkin, from an unknown collection.

#joan larkin #typography #poetry #unknown poem

[iamdangerace]

Joan Jett (post-Runaways/ pre-Blackhearts) Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) from her debut solo album, Bad Reputation (1980/2005).

#joan jett #ジョーン・ジェット #joan marie larkin #bad reputation #do you wanna touch me (oh yeah) #lea hart #kenny laguna #john earle #phil simmons #jeff peters #cd rip #audio post #it's only rock'n'roll but... #cover song #but fuck the glitterman

[forestgreenlesbian]

whats the best love poem of all time

#poem about love. not necessarily love poem i guess #too hard to pick one. song of the anti-sisyphus is up there #want by joan larkin & wikipedia article about love with plenty of citations by bob schofield. love is big lines love is terrible aches etc! #& anne carson o small sad ecstasy of love. i did a road trip all over my mind and heart and there you were #kneeling by the roadside with your little toolkit fixing something

[timehascomeagain]

Some of my favourite endings to poems :) ❤

#Hi tash 1. a little tooth by thomas lux 2. dream song 29 by john berryman 3. want by joan larkin 4. end of poetry by ada limon 5. when i say #loving me is kind of like being a chicago bulls fan by hanif abdurraqib 6. love and the deli counter by jill mcdonough #7. good bones by maggie smith 8. jessica tells me to take a chill pill by angie sijun lou 9. novel by arthur rimbaud

[arutai]

Joan Jett (1976)

#joan jett #joan marie larkin #unknown provenance

[clemsfilmdiary]

Broadcasting Christmas (2016, Peter Sullivan)

12/8/23

#Broadcasting Christmas #Hallmark #Countdown to Christmas #Dean Cain #Melissa Joan Hart #Cynthia Gibb #Jackee Harry #Richard Kline #Susan Shalhoub Larkin #TV movie #Christmas #romance #news #television #news anchors #reporters #competition #nepotism #exes #New York #talk show #talk show hosts

[poetrysmackdown]

welcome to the 2023 tumblr poetry smackdown

tumblr has developed something of a canon of poetry over the past couple years, and i figured others might enjoy getting a chance to voice their opinions on a few of those poems! poems i chose for the poetry smackdown had to be more or less widely read on tumblr (generally 10k+ notes, most with more or spread across compilations), and relatively short so as to make voting easier. they also had to be complete—there are a lot of popular lines floating around on tumblr that are excerpted from very long poems and/or poems that are inaccessible via internet, and those aren't included here. a handful of poets are represented here twice reflecting my sense of their popularity, but i arranged the bracket in such a way that it won't be able to stay that way past round 2 at the latest. if i missed a poem that is super popular i'm sorry, that said the bracket is staying as is because this was a shit ton of work to put together and i don't want to. ty.

you can get to the polls by following the links below or going to the #round1 tag on my blog. you can also send me propaganda if you want via ask and i'll post it/add it to the next round's post if the poem wins.

happy voting!

sincerely amelia @poetriarchy :)

ROUND 1: ENDS JULY 17 at 6pm EDT

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin vs. "Butter Dish" by Leonard Cohen (cow poems)

"Poem" by Langston Hughes vs. "A Meeting" by Wendell Berry

"Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love." by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. "My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task" by Jon Pineda

"Hammond B3 Organ Cistern" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. "Hong Kong" by Sue Zhao

"someone will remember us" (fragment by Sappho trans. Anne Carson) vs. "Wait" by Faraj Bou al-Isha trans. Khaled Mattawa

"The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel vs "Invisible Fish" by Joy Harjo

"Want" by Joan Larkin vs. "Come, and Be My Baby" by Maya Angelou

"Swan" by Mary Oliver vs. "How I Go to the Woods" by Mary Oliver

"The Orange" by Wendy Cope vs. "The Tenor of Your Yes" by Mary Ruefle

"Here There Are Blueberries" by Mary Syzbist vs. "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón

"To The Young Who Want to Die" by Gwendolyn Brooks vs. "A Litany for Survival" by Audre Lorde

"Night Walk" by Franz Wright vs. "Meditations in an Emergency" by Cameron Awkward-Rich

"Summer Was Forever" by Chen Chen vs. "I'm not a religious person but" by Chen Chen

"How to Be a Dog" by Andrew Kane vs. "Scheherazade" by Richard Siken

"I'm going to Minnesota where sadness makes sense" by Danez Smith vs. "Dream Song 29" by John Berryman

"Having a Coke with You" by Frank O'Hara vs. "Having 'Having a Coke with You' with You" by Mark Leidner

ADDENDUM: at 6pm on July 17th (or possibly a day earlier if there's already a clear sweep), I will be releasing a one-day poll that will give voters the option to sub in "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver for the winner of matchup #8: "Swan" vs. "How I Go to the Woods". this is to help correct my significant oversight when I was remembering which two Oliver poems I've seen most on tumblr, and it's the only time I'm doing this kind of thing, so don't suggest it for any other poems after this please. that said, a sincere ty to @darkcomedies for first bringing its absence to my attention! and keep an eye out for this extra poll which i am calling ROUND 1.5: A HAIL MARY (OLIVER)

#poetry #poll #bracket #round1 #masterpost

[gatheringbones]

best books I read in 2023:

sophie strand, the flowering wand: rewilding the sacred masculine

alex iantaffi, gender trauma: healing cultural, social, and historical gendered trauma

matthew desmond, evicted: poverty and profit in the american city

betty dodson, sex for one: the joy of selfloving

ching-in chen, andrea smith, jai dulani, the revolution starts at home: confronting intimate partner violence within activist communities

robin stern, the gaslight effect: how to spot and survive the hidden manipulation others use to control your life

nick turse, kill anything that moves: the real american war in vietnam

lori fox, this has always been a war: the radicalization of a working class queer

arline t. geronimus, weathering: the extraordinary stress of ordinary life in an unjust society

roxanne dunbar-ortiz, not a nation of immigrants: settler colonialism, white supremacy, and a history of erasure and exclusion

eyal press, dirty work: essential jobs and the hidden toll of inequality in america

rabbi danya ruttenberg, on repentence and repair: making amends in an unapologetic world

michelle dowd, forager: field notes for surviving a family cult

starhawk, the empowerment manual: a guide for collaborative groups

betty dodson, orgasms for two: the joy of partnersex

timothy snyder, black earth: the holocaust as history and warning

kidada e. williams, I saw death coming: a history of terror and survival in the war against reconstruction

judy grahn, another mother tongue: gay words, gay worlds

jennifer m. silva, coming up short: working-class adulthood in an age of uncertainty

susanna clarke, piranesi

megan asaka, seattle from the margins: exclusion, erasure, and the making of a pacific coast city

starhawk, truth or dare: encounters with power, authority, and mystery

laura jane grace, tranny: confessions of punk rock’s most infamous anarchist sellout

molly smith, revolting prostitutes: the fight for sex worker's rights

richard c. schwartz, you are the one you've been waiting for: applying internal family systems to intimate relationships

timothy snyder, our malady: lessons in liberty from a hospital diary

peter levine, trauma and memory: brain and body in search for the living past

kylie cheung, survivor injustice: state-sanctioned abuse, domestic violence, and the fight for bodily autonomy

timothy snyder, bloodlands: europe between hitler and stalin

joan larkin, a woman like that: lesbian and bisexual writers tell their coming out stories

cj cherryh, hammerfall

#book recs tag

[butchrat]

"loving you is a survival instinct" butches loving butches, lesbianism, he's my girlfriend

Joan Larkin

Big theif

Chloe Sherman

Rhiannon Mcgavin

The neighborhood

Susan Matasovska

Julio cortazar

Big theif

Rio Romero

#butch #lesbian #genderqueer #wlw #Nblw #Nblnb #web weaving #poetry #words #art #poem #lgbt #gay #music #Masc #Masc lesbian #sapphism #Sapphic #gender abolition #gender identification #gender identity #he's my girlfriend #She's my boyfriend #Sweatermuppet #Silas would understand what I mean #rio romero #big thief #adrienne lenker #the neigbourhood lyrics #Susan Matasovska