“ANNA REVELS IN BEAUTY AND SACREDNESS, A TESTAMENT TO DEFIANTLY VOWING TO NOT LIVE IN FEAR. SHE WRITES OF A NEW BEGINNING, INFORMED BY TRAGEDY BUT REFUSING TO BE DEFINED BY IT: ‘WE OPENED/ THE WINDOWS OF OURSELVES, SENT THE NIGHT OUT SEARCHING/ FOR OUR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION LIKE A RAVEN/ FOR THE END OF THE FLOOD.’ ”
— KARA LEWIS, WRITE POETRY
ABOUT ANNA
Anna Goodman Herrick (Netflix, Oprah Winfrey Network, Emily Dickinson Museum) is the author of A Speaker is a Wilderness: Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole. They have performed at Bloomsday on Broadway, Patagonia’s Earth Day, and Artist Uprising at the El Paso Border. In 2025, the City of Los Angeles commissioned Anna to create and perform new work honoring “Californian women who shifted culture.”
OUT NOW
A Speaker is a Wilderness:
Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole
“This is a powerful new volume of poetry from a fierce, feminist perspective.”
— Broad Street Review, The Best Books I’ve Read So Far, editor’s picks
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“Listening to Anna Goodman Herrick read a poem made the hair on my arm stand up. I wonder if we could measure the effects of good poetry on electrodermal activity.”
—Timothy Green, Editor, Rattle Magazine
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“Performer, poet, and filmmaker Anna Goodman Herrick brings to her collection a deep knowledge and a bold, imaginative palette. Her poems affirm and celebrate our power to reimagine ourselves and the world.”
— Stephanie Barbé Hammer, The Jewish Book Council
SAT JUNE 6 • GUEST SPEAKER • WEST HOLLYWOOD PRIDE • DYKE MARCH
Celebration Stage, Santa Monica & Robertson Ave, West Hollywood, CA
Learn more
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SUN MAY 31 • LOVE LETTERS TO OUR WORRIES FROM INSIDE THESE BODIES
A Queer and Trans-centered Generative Poetry Workshop, Junior High LA, Glendale, CA
Tickets
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THUR FEB 26 • PURIM & THE POETRY OF RESISTANCE
Poetry Workshop, Through RitualWell, Online
Register
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SUN FEB 15 • LETTERS FROM OUR INNER KNOWING
Through Queer Reset, Shumei Gardens, Los Angeles
Queer Reset: A daylong retreat of Queer-led writing, yoga, movement, Japanese tea ceremony, sound bath, massage & more, on Joan Didion’s former estate.
Tickets
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EVENTS & APPEARANCES
WATCH: POEMS, PERFORMANCES, & CONVERSATIONS FROM A SPEAKER IS A WILDERNESS:
DIASPORA PRAYER OF A REFUGEE’S GRANDCHILD
POEM, MUSIC + FILM BY ANNA GOODMAN HERICK
Gallery & Events Tour & VR
Anna Goodman Herrick on poetry
PERFORMING WONDER
At Stories Bookstore
Event with Los Angeles Press
Remind the world we are all
so much more sacred than we are scared.
