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Anna Goodman Herrick is an author, performance poet, and multidisciplinary artist whose work has been presented by museums, universities, literary organizations, and cultural institutions internationally.

Recent

  • Featured in Newsweek, queer thought leader in LGBTQ+ advocacy (June 2026)

  • Guest speaker, West Hollywood Pride (June 2026)

  • Commissioned by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (2025)

  • Featured by Medical News Today (2025)

  • Author of A Speaker is a Wilderness (Monkfish)

  • Featured speaker at the Emily Dickinson Museum

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“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

OUT NOW
A Speaker is a Wilderness:
Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole (Monkfish)

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Book cover for "A Speaker is a Wilderness" by Anna Goodman Herrick. The background features a collage of what appears to be Jewish or Middle Eastern scripture and ornamentation. The design includes pink and yellow mirrored disco balls and a pink landscape with a textured surface. The title is in large, bold yellow letters, and a subtitle, "Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken to Whole," is curved across the middle in yellow letters.

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“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

EVENTS & APPEARANCES

SAT JUNE 6‍ • GUEST SPEAKER‍ • WEST HOLLYWOOD PRIDE‍ • DYKE MARCH
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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
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THUR FEB 26 • PURIM & THE POETRY OF RESISTANCE
Poetry Workshop, Through RitualWell, Online
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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.
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WATCH: READINGS, PERFORMANCES, ART, CONVERSATIONS

Anna Goodman Herrick on poetry

DIASPORA PRAYER OF A REFUGEE’S GRANDCHILD
POEM, MUSIC + VIDEO ART BY ANNA GOODMAN HERICK
Gallery and Events Tour, and VR Experience

PERFORMING WONDER
At Stories Bookstore, with Los Angeles Press

Remind the world we are all
so much more sacred than we are scared.
Anna’s art and poetry, wearable

Display of black apparel including a T-shirt and hoodie with the words 'Scared Sacred', and a person wearing a leather jacket and striped shirt holding a shopping bag with the same words.