“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.
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
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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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.
