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    Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later
    Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later
    Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later
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    Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later

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    Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later troubles the importance of time in lesbian life. Combining temporal designations of what once was, the present, and the future, Once and Later features two interviews; one of Joan Larkin, a veteran poet, by poet Sandra Tarlin, and another of filmmaker Catherine Crouch interviewed by Carolyn Gage. Once and Later also features remembrances of lesbian who have shaped the world and lesbian history to inspire new generations of lesbians.

    Special Features:
    • Sandra Tarlin Interviews Joan Larkin
    • Carolyn Gage Interviews Catherine Crouch
    • Roberta and Fairfax Arnold Remember Their Mother, June Arnold
    • Merril Mushroom Remembers Julia Penelope

    Creative Work By

    Dominika Bednarska
    Gina Bernard
    Cassandra Christenson
    Devi Lockwood
    Hawk Madrone
    Wye Marley
    Liz Moyer
    Kate Reavis
    Ebonie Sade
    Becky Thompson
    Rachel Stallard

    And More!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSinister Wisdom
    Release dateJun 29, 2017
    ISBN9781944981099
    Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later
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    Sinister Wisdom

    Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language to reflect our diverse experiences and to enhance our ability to develop critical judgment as lesbians evaluating our community and our world.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Notes for a Magazine

      Sandra Tarlin

      Soul Survival: A Conversation with Joan Larkin

      Hawk Madrone

      Muphin, Tai Chi

      Liz Moyer

      Then we’d have to have a hamburger and then we’d break up again

      joan cofrancesco

      NYC 1981

      Becky Thompson

      LGBT Street Workers

      She Had Some Birds

      Rachel Stallard

      July

      Just Outside of the Kentucky Line

      The Daughters (Roberta and Fairfax)

      Art is Politics

      Devi Lockwood

      In Cora’s Livingroom

      the obelisco de buenos aires and the washington monument are similar

      Lisa Helgesen

      Beige Crepe

      In an October House

      Darla Himeles

      What Will the Neighbors Say?

      Between My Ribs

      Kate Reavis

      The Morning After

      Dominika Bednarska

      Fresh But Heavy

      Blood: A Prose Poem

      Eboni Sadé

      Souls of Soles

      Moonlit Women

      Gina Bernard

      Wreckage

      Proof

      Heather Rick

      Night Shift

      Louise Moore

      The Estuary

      Wye Marley

      River Visit

      Cassandra Christenson

      Roses On Wallpaper

      Soft to Full Roses

      Sarah Magdalena Love

      When I Knew Nothing

      t’ai freedom ford

      lucky number 7 (or indications that i’d be a lesbian)

      Icarus, a woman

      Carolyn Gage

      Intensely Personal, Intensely Political: Interview with Lesbian-Feminist Filmmaker Catherine Crouch

      Merril Mushroom

      Call Her Lesbian: Julia Penelope

      Book Reviews

      Notes for a Magazine

      The theme for this issue, Sinister Wisdom 89, is Once and Later. This theme combines two temporal designations: once and again with now and later. By mashing these two phrases together, by remixing the ideas about time in each, I invite you to think simultaneously about what once was and what later might be. This simultaneous, mind-bending thinking about once and later is a yogic challenge for our minds and our bodies. We can never go back to a past that is over, nor can we fully imagine or understand the future that we are trying to create. All we can do is remember what once was, celebrate what is today, and agitate for what we want to be later. This issue evokes all three of these processes simultaneously. Once [and again, now] and Later.

      Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later includes four special features for your reading and thinking pleasure. Two interviews anchor the issue. Poet Sandra Tarlin interviews Joan Larkin, a poet with a long and storied career. Larkin just won two important awards, a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for 2011 and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Larkin is a poet at the heights of her powers. The interview is illuminating.

      Playwright and activist Carolyn Gage interviews filmmaker Catherine Crouch. Crouch is a beloved filmmaker, translating lesbian life into provocative and important films. Crouch does not recoil from controversy or from asking hard questions. In this interview, Gage and Crouch discuss Crouch’s oeuvre, including her most recent work. Both interviews capture the vibrancy of lesbian creativity and express the intensity of production of lesbian and feminist culture.

      Two other special features are remembrances of lesbians whose work helped to create the world that we live in today. Roberta and Fairfax Arnold remember their mother, June Arnold, novelist, publisher, organizer, and all around firebrand. June Arnold died in 1981; today Roberta and Fairfax are working to ensure that their mother’s work remains and continues to influence new generations of lesbians.

      Julia Penelope died in January 2013. Penelope was a prodigious writer, thinker and theorist in the lesbian community. An advocate of women-only spaces and places, a linguist, a thinker, and educator, and a visionary, Penelope leaves a vibrant literary and political legacy. The very first article of published in Sinister Wisdom in 1976 was by Julia Penelope (then publishing as Julia Stanley.) She began,

      Today I offer my words to the women who created me in love and in life, in our lives, of whom I am and will be in this life. This is my telling of our history, of how I dreamed it, of how we came into our own sayings.

      Sinister Wisdom continues these tellings, and Merril Mushroom, a friend and comrade of Penelope, remembers her extraordinary life and work.

      In addition to these special features, Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later is chock full of new and exciting work, thinking, and analysis by lesbian poets and writers.

      Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later also features a new design. Sinister Wisdom is pleased to be working with SnoWar (Nieves Guerra) as a designer. This updated design is another step in our commitment to reimagine and reinvent Sinister Wisdom as a place to set fire to each other’s imaginations, as Catherine Nicholson and Harriet Desmoines envisioned thirty-eight years ago.

      This spring, Sinister Wisdom was on the road, meeting writers and readers along the eastern seaboard. In March, Sinister Wisdom was at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Professionals conference in Boston; in April, Sinister Wisdom visited the Rainbow Book Fair in New York. Many people approached the table saying, Sinister Wisdom? Wow! You are still publishing?!?!

      Yes, Sinister Wisdom is still publishing. These wonderful reactions about Sinister Wisdom, our history and our present incarnation, are gratifying. With your support, Sinister Wisdom can endure as a lesbian institution. Once and Later. Join us in these pages. Remember what was once, imagine what will be later.

      In sisterhood and struggle,

      Julie R. Enszer

      SOUL SURVIVAL: A CONVERSATION WITH JOAN LARKIN

      Sandra Tarlin

      Joan Larkin has a long and accomplished career as a poet, playwright, and editor. She cofounded Out & Out Books (1975–81) with Elly Bulkin, Jan Clausen, and Irena Klepfisz, and she coedited two groundbreaking anthologies with Elly Bulkin: Amazon Poetry (Brooklyn, NY: Out & Out Books, 1975) and Lesbian Poetry (Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981). With Carl Mo rse, Larkin coedited the noted anthology Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time: an anthology (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. She edited A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories (New York: Avon/Bard Books, 1999), a Lambda Award Finalist for Nonfiction, and is the author of If You Want What We Have: Sponsorship Meditations (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1998), and Glad Day: Daily Affirmations for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1998).

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      Larkin is the author of six books of poetry. Housework, her first collection, was published by Out & Out Books in 1975. My Body: New and Selected Poems (Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 2007) received the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award, and Cold River (New York: Painted Leaf Press, 1997), her third collection, was the winner of a Lambda Award. Her works of poetry also include A Long Sound (Penobscot, ME: Granite Press, 1986) and Legs Tipped with Small Claws (Brooklyn, NY: Argos Books chapbook, 2012). Blue Hanuman will be published by Hanging Loose in 2014. She is cotranslator of Sor Juana’s Love Poems/Poemas de Amor with Jaime Manrique (New York: Painted Leaf Press, 1997) and (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Larkin has won fellowships in poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is the 2011 recipient of the Academy of American Poets Fellowship and the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award.

      Larkin has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore, a MA in English from the University of Arizona, and a MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College. She has taught at Brooklyn College and Sarah Lawrence College, among many other places. She currently is the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet in Residence at Smith College for 2012–14 and serves on the faculty of Drew University’s MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation.

      More information about her work is available at www.joanlarkin.com

      This conversation between Joan Larkin and Sandra Tarlin took place in Brooklyn on August 20, 2012.

      Sandra Tarlin: Do you remember a particular song, nursery rhyme, prayer that first connected you to language?

      Joan Larkin: My parents gave me a copy of A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson––those were the first poems I remember reading, and I still know some of them by heart. I sang a lot as a kid. My father and older brother both played the piano, and we often sang after supper: folk songs, show tunes, art songs—everything from Stephen Foster to Mozart lieder, depending on who was playing the piano.

      My grandmother lived with us, and I used to watch her reading from her siddur, moving her lips. I was fascinated by the Hebrew letters, and she’d say them aloud to me. Her candle-lighting prayers, gestures, stories, all conveyed a sense of the sacredness of language.

      ST: What you’re saying about music, history, and the sacred in

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