Category: Resource
Founder/Editor: Undisclosed
E-mail Address: JulieREnszer@gmail.com
Description:
This electronic archive is conceived as a place to digitally preserve lesbian poetry and its ephemera and present them to not only scholars, but also poets and general readers. With this launch in December 2008, there are three items, the introductory material to Amazon Poetry, published in 1975; the introductory material to Lesbian Poetry, published in 1981; and the complete chapbook A Movement of Poets by Jan Clausen, published in 1982. The Lesbian Poetry Archive is a project undertaken from both love and fear. The love is for poetry written by lesbians. Since I first encountered May Sarton’s Letters from Maine (a volume blessedly available from the B. Dalton Bookstore at the mall in Saginaw, MI) as a teenager, I have been searching for and gathering lesbian poetry around me as a way to both sustain and nourish myself. At every point in my life, I have turned to lesbian poetry as a way to understand my own experiences as a lesbian and to gather information and experiences of other lesbians living in the world at different locations and in various times. In my fantasy life as a reader, I was striving with these poets to create meaning through shared experiences.
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