Joan Larkin

Joan Larkin’s sixth book of poems, Old Stranger, is forthcoming in 2024 from Alice James Books. Her published work  includes Blue Hanuman (Hanging Loose Press, Spring 2014); Legs Tipped with Small Claws (Argos chapbook, 2012); My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose, 2007); and from previous decades: Cold River, A Long Sound, Housework, and Sor Juana's Love Poems, translated with Jaime Manrique. Editor of several anthologies of poetry and prose, she edited Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time with the late Carl Morse. Grace Hazard Conkling Poet in Residence at Smith College from 2012 to 2015, she has taught at Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence, and Drew University, among many other places. A lifelong teacher, she co-founded Out & Out Books during the 1970s feminist literary explosion.