Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Shana Gulko '00, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No.13   March 13, 2000

Visiting Writers Series to Feature Feminist Author Judy Grahn, who has been called the literary founder of lesbian feminism, will visit Ithaca College March 20–24 as the third author in the writing program’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. In addition to working with students and faculty in the classroom, Grahn will take part in two public presentations. On Tuesday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Clark Lounge, Grahn will participate in a panel discussion titled "Women’s Rituals." Moderated by assistant professor of writing Katharyn Howd Machan, the discussion will also include Protestant chaplain Eileen Winter, assistant professor of anthropology Barbara Johnson, and local artist Deborah Jones. Grahn will also hold a poetry reading on Thursday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Muller Chapel. Both events are free and open to the public. The author of 13 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, Grahn has given over 800 readings and workshops in the United States and abroad. She is currently codirector of the women’s spirituality M.A. program and a Ph.D. core faculty member at the New College of California. Among her many honors, Grahn has received the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, the Lambda Book Award for Nonfiction, and the Poem of the Year Award from American Poetry Review. A collection of her poetry, The Work of a Common Woman, was listed in Publisher’s Weekly as one of the 20 most influential women’s books in the two decades from 1972 to 1992. She was also honored with the 1996 establishment by Publisher’s Triangle of the continuing Judy Grahn Award for lesbian nonfiction. Grahn’s best-known works include The Queen of Swords; The Queen of Wand; Really Reading Gertrude Stein; Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds; Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World; and the ecofeminist novel Mundane’s World. Grahn has read her own work on six half-hour videos for the American Poetry Archives. Composers such as Calvin Hampton and Ellie Armer have set her poems to music, and the dance troupe Dance Brigade based a performance, narrated by actress Olympia Dukakis, on her Plainsong. The series previously hosted writers William Kennedy and Joy Williams. For more information contact Howd Machan at 274-3325.

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