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Writer • Performance Poet • Multidisciplinary Artist • Speaker
“Listening to Anna read this 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
Poetry readings
Museum programming
University lectures
Keynote performances and speaking
Commissions: performances, publishing, multidisciplinary exhibitions
Artist talks
Writing workshops
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Commission and publishing invitations
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Appearances, Guest Speaking, & Teaching
Recent Highlights
Featured in Newsweek (2026)
Featured speaker at West Hollywood Pride Dyke March (2026)
Commissioned by the City of Los Angeles (2025)
Featured by Medical News Today (2025)
Author of A Speaker is a Wilderness (Monkfish)
Featured speaker at the Emily Dickinson Museum
Selected Venues & Events
ArtCenter College of Design
West Hollywood Pride mainstage
Emily Dickinson Museum
Patagonia’s Earth Day
Root Division Gallery
Alena Museum
NEARCON (Lisbon, Portugal)
Signature Programs
Love Letters to Our Worries
Writing from the Queer and Trans Body
Writing Poetry from Your Inner Knowing
The Sacred as Resistance
Creative Liberation Theology
Queer and Trans Futurism/ Activist Futurism
Narrative “Medicine:” Rewriting Our Story
More about Anna’s appearances and events:
Featured in Newsweek June 2026 as a queer leader in LGBTQ+ advocacy and representation, Anna Goodman Herrick was a Guest Speaker at West Hollywood Pride 2026. They have guest taught, performed, and shared their work at: ArtCenter College of Design, Patagonia’s Earth Day, Bloomsday on Broadway (featuring Stephen Colbert), Artist Uprising at the El Paso border with V (fka Eve Ensler), Root Division Gallery, the Alena Museum, and NEARCON in Lisbon, Portugal. Anna has created and performed new work for Radio Bloomsday (ft. Alec Baldwin and Jerry Stiller reading James Joyce and Samuel Becket).
In 2025, the City of Los Angeles commissioned Anna to create and perform new work, to honor “Californian women who have shifted culture.”
Anna has been featured at the Emily Dickinson Museum’s Phosphorescence Poetry Series, presenting "contemporary creativity that echoes Dickinson’s own revolutionary poetic voice."
An on-staff hospice chaplain and grief counselor to both families and medical staff, Anna’s poetry and teaching modalities have been used in group counseling, meditation retreats, and featured in Medical News Today for their healing affects. Anna has taught, including on writing from self-connection and honoring ourselves as sacred, around the U.S. Deeply pluralistic towards collective liberation and safety for all, Anna has taught queer and trans-centered communities, Vedanta (Hindu) Monastery attendees, and social justice retreats, including guiding progressive rabbis to write new, more inclusive poetic liturgy rooted in abolition and liberation theology.
WATCH: ANNA GOODMAN HERRICK ON PERFORMANCE
READING WONDER , WITH THE LOS ANGELES PRESS, THE SACRED ANTHOLOGY RELEASE; AT STORIES BOOKSTORE & CAFE, 2023
Anna Goodman Herrick is an author, performance poet, and multidisciplinary artist who has presented their work at universities, literary organizations, and cultural institutions internationally.
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