Towards a Visionary Poetics: A Female Gaze
Curated by the poet-scholars Yosefa Raz and Shoshana Olidort, Towards a Visionary Poetics: A Female Gaze features literary work on the place(s) where women’s voices, poetics, and prophecy meet, shift the ground, and create something new. In her introduction, Olidort writes: “The poems and prose reflections assembled in this folio represent just a few slices in the vast range of contemporary perspectives on what it means to envisage, as people who are not cis male, a different kind of world than the patriarchal one we inherited. If prophecy is, at its core, about the power of language, these explorations imagine how we might wield language to do something other than what’s been done with it before: to reclaim the past, rather than try to predict the future; to seek transformation, not transcendence, in our material world.”
- Intro – Shoshana Olidort
- The Return of the Repressed: Women Poets & the Sacred – Alicia Ostriker
- Ars Poetica & New Moon Practice – Alicia Jo Rabins
- Notes on Female Visionary Poetry: Trans Women Poets Writing Themselves into Existence – Zoe Tuck
- Prophets of the Underworld – Shoshana Olidort
- Tumbletumbledown – Rachel Perets
- Feels Blind – Sara Larsen
- A Few Short Talks on Women & Prophecy – Yosefa Raz
- Last Dance – Sheikha Hlewa
- Outro – Yosefa Raz
