SEPTEMBER 29 -OCTOBER 6
PALM SPRINGS
WOMEN'S WEEK
A WEEK OF LESBIAN CULTURE
SATURDAY, October 5th
POETRY JAM - A TRIBUTE TO LESBIAN POETS
Day 7. POETRY JAM - A TRIBUTE TO LESBIAN POETS – Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019
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Noon - 2pm
A Tribute to Lesbian poets including June Jordan, Adrienne Rich and many others whose work has been a major influence on the lives of women. Wine and appetizers.
Djembe player: Yardenna Aaron
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LOCATION: Palm Springs Women’s Club, 314 S. Cahuilla, PS 92262
TICKETS: $20
Participating Poets:
Jennifer Abod
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Jennifer Abod is an award winning filmmaker and activist who has been writing poems since childhood. She has shared her work at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, 522 Salon, Out Loud: A Cultural Revolution’s showcase, I Am Your Sister, and other venues. Her latest poem, “Turning Point,” will appear in the upcoming edition of Sinister Wisdom, 2020.
TaShia Asanti
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Ifalade TaShia Asanti is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and author of 7 books. She hosts her own TV talk show, The Window, on Adulawo TV Network. TaShia was named a fellow by the distinguished Lambda Literary Association and is a recipient of the Audre Lorde Black Quill Award for her work in creating positive images of women in the arts. More about her work can be found
Librecht Baker
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Librecht Baker is the author of Vetiver (Finishing Line Press), an English Professor, and a Sundress Publications' Assistant Editor. She was part of The Vagrancy’s 2018-2019 Playwrights’ Group and the Eastside Queer Stories Playwright Festival 2019. Baker has attended Ragdale, VONA/Voices, and Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat. She has a MFA from Goddard College.
Maylei Blackwell
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Maylei Blackwell is an interdisciplinary scholar activist and oral historian. She is an Associate Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and Women's Studies Department at UCLA.
Maylei has authored the book ¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement (2011), and “Encountering Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms” (2003), “Whose Feminism, Whose History? Reflections on Excavating the History of (the) US Women’s Movement (s)” (1998).
Antonieta Gimeno
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Theatre Artist, Educator
Antonieta Gimeno Cardona is a bilingual Mexican, lesbian, single mother and cultural worker, who uses theatre and writing, supporting lesbians/women and youth of color, to find their voices and solutions to complex problems.
Dorothy Randall Gray
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Host of this event, Dorothy R. Gray is a best-selling author, award-winning visual artist, global activist and Los Angeles Poet-in Residence. She is a board member of the International Women's Writing Guild and executive director ofWomen Writers and Artists Matrix. A former Audre Lorde Poet-in Residence at Hunter College, her work has been featured in numerous anthologies and in six published books - including her latest, Sharing the Same Sky. She has shared the dais with the Dalai Lama in India, been a featured poet in Iceland, and boogied with James Baldwin in NYC.
Queen Hollins
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​Queen is the author of "Pussy Power" and has performed her poetry in Bali, Jamaica, ULOAH, Michigan Women's Festival, San Pedro Arts Center and many other venues.'
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30 Years of Earth Stewardship
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20 Years of Black Gnostics Studies
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Priestess of Ifa
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Minister of the Universal Life Church
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Science of Mind Practitioner
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Certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor
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Practitioner of Native American Spirituality
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10 Years in Afrikan Dance Troupe Dembrebrah, 1998-2008
Bonnilee Kaufman
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A Lambda Literary Fellow & QueerWise emeritus, Bonnilee Kaufman’s poetry has appeared in several publications: Ghosts of the Holocaust, Milk and Honey-A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry, BayLaurel, Conceptions Southwest, River’s Voices, Sinister Wisdom, The Brillantina Project and Selfish.
Doris Reed
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Doris is a Los Angeles based poet who has been writing for over 35 years. Her poetry has appeared in Essence, Science of Mind, Heritage, Dysonna and Kalon Women’s magazines, the Los Angeles Sentinel. Additionally, she was a judge for Get Lit’s 4th Annual Classic Slam, highlighting high school poets from the Los Angeles Area and has been a guest speaker on the podcast, Buzzards Radio of Love.
Music from her CD appeared in the movie, Fair Game. Her children’s book, The Spider and The Fly, was the basis for a pilot children’s TV show out of Playa Vista, California.