I was so tickled to be featured in a series at Between The Lines, Michigan’s LGBT Newspaper. The writer Liam Clymer was a student of my Michigan buddy, Dr. Tim Retzloff. The print version ran a number of photos, including of my beloved Mike Hickey z’l. Sharing the piece below as images and as a … Continue reading Where Are They Now?
Presentation on Black Lesbian Periodicals – including slides. Continue reading Pentamerous Reflections on Black Lesbian Periodicals
It feels sadder and more final seeing the print version of The New York Times. An extraordinary writer, activist, comrade. I am missing Minnie Bruce Pratt and all of the future conversations we might have had every single day. Continue reading Minnie Bruce Pratt 1946-2023
Comments by Julie R. Enszer AWP March 2023, pre-recorded panel event Thank you all for joining us and what a pleasure to be here to celebrate Irena’s wonderful new book, Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected Poems 1971-2021. Thank you especially to Stephanie from Wesleyan University Press for organizing us, to the distinguished … Continue reading Irena Klepfisz and Her Work
With a fabulous group of colleagues, I am presenting at the NWSA conference today in Minneapolis, MN on the black lesbian newsletter, Onyx. My comments are below. If you are interested in exploring further, you can read the full archives of Onyx here: https://archive.org/details/glbthistoricalsociety?and%5B%5D=creator%3A%22onyx%22&sort=date A formatted copy of the presentation is below. Continue reading NWSA Presentation on Onyx
APR, American Poetry Review, is a dream publication of mine. I have been excited all year about this poem being published. It landed however amid a new excitement of my life, the little Saint Bernard puppy we call Alice. So I am late in posting this, but still delighted by this publication and filled with … Continue reading Poem in APR
Every since OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture published back in March, I’ve been carrying a task in my notebooks to put up a speech or two for folks to listen in on the conference. This project is a case of better late than never. Today I have finally succeeded in putting two … Continue reading Listen in at OutWrite
In my mind, one of the aspects of writing that this blog makes visible is failure. I am not sure if that is actually true or if it is just a fantasy of mine. Failure is a tough thing to write about, though honestly it surrounds us all every day. When I step into my … Continue reading This Started As Something Else
This weekend I was thrilled by a review of Queer Nature in the Gay and Lesbian Review which calls out my poem “Pervert.” The reviewer writes, “One of the best poems is Julie R. Enszer’s “Pervert,” in which a lesbian imagines how her sexual experience with a particular woman would go, with a wrenching change … Continue reading Queer Nature Review
I had the pleasure a week ago of doing a workshop on writing obituaries for the Lesbians Write On group. The request for the workshop was prompted by this blog post. I have been thinking since then about things to do when writing obituaries – and not just things NOT to do. Some of that … Continue reading Lesbian Legacies Workshop
Julie R Enszer, PhD