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Poet, activist, and scholar Judy Grahn was born in Chicago and grew up in New Mexico. Grahn’s honors include a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Book Review Award, an American Book Award, an American Library Award, and a Founding Foremothers of Women’s Spirituality Award. Since 1997 Triangle Publishers, after awarding Grahn a Lifetime Achievement Award in Lesbian Letters, have issued an annual Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award.

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Front Page Poem

the common woman is as common

as good bread

as common as when you couldn’t go on

but did.

For all the world we didnt know we held in common

all along

the common woman is as common as the best of bread

and will rise

and will become strong—I swear it to you

I swear it to you on my own head

I swear it to you on my common

woman’s

head

 

     ending lines of “VII. Vera, from my childhood”
     from The Common Woman Poems

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