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Ginger · 12-06-2012, 10:21 PM

I'm looking forward to reading the L.A. Times online tomorrow morning. By then they will have announced the Poet Laureate of California. I know who's going to get it—a reporter from the L.A. Times told a friend of mine out there and he told me (well, he hinted quite obviously, LOL).

Kay Ryan from San Jose California was the U.S. Poet Laureate a couple years back. I love her work and flirted shamelessly with her when she came through NYC to read a while back. I'm always happy when a woman, especially an older woman, and I have to admit, an older butch, gets a big prize.

I was beside myself when Wyslawa Szymborska got the Nobel Prize for Literature. She's not a lesbian, that's not what I'm saying. She was a brilliant brilliant old woman who wrote with passion till she died last February.

I have always loved Judy Grahn, too, from way way back. Another butch poet. I wish she were getting the California Poet Laureate at the very least and she deserves the U.S. one, IMO but I'm glad this other person (TBA!) is getting it now. Twenty years ago I saw Judy Grahn read somewhere and had her sign her books for me and she kept saying, Don't I know you from somewhere? I was levitating off the ground.

I love those old dyke poets.

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Ginger Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme lesbian Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: East coast Posts: 2,416 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 5,829 Thanked 12,295 Times in 2,057 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I'm looking forward to reading the L.A. Times online tomorrow morning. By then they will have announced the Poet Laureate of California. I know who's going to get it—a reporter from the L.A. Times told a friend of mine out there and he told me (well, he hinted quite obviously, LOL). Kay Ryan from San Jose California was the U.S. Poet Laureate a couple years back. I love her work and flirted shamelessly with her when she came through NYC to read a while back. I'm always happy when a woman, especially an older woman, and I have to admit, an older butch, gets a big prize. I was beside myself when Wyslawa Szymborska got the Nobel Prize for Literature. She's not a lesbian, that's not what I'm saying. She was a brilliant brilliant old woman who wrote with passion till she died last February. I have always loved Judy Grahn, too, from way way back. Another butch poet. I wish she were getting the California Poet Laureate at the very least and she deserves the U.S. one, IMO but I'm glad this other person (TBA!) is getting it now. Twenty years ago I saw Judy Grahn read somewhere and had her sign her books for me and she kept saying, Don't I know you from somewhere? I was levitating off the ground. I love those old dyke poets.