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Text continues: "Four Sunday afternoon readings by writers--lesbians, gay men, pro-feminists--whose work embodies gender-liberating and postpatriarchal values--and who otherwise have few forums, spoken or printed, to make their work known." Poster serves as a schedule of poetry readings.

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Title Open lines

Subject Gay writers (subject), Lesbian writers (subject), New York State Council on the Arts (corporate name), Poetry (subject)

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Place New York (states), USA (countries)

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Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

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Publisher New York (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

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Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-45150

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All readings are at 5:00 o'clock
at Washington Square Church
135 West Fourth Street

@ HATTIE GOSSETT
northern Harlem. enjoys: thinking conversating reading writing jazzing &
opposing patripower. poems, essays in Heresies #15: Racism Is the Issue; Condi-
tions Eight; and THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: WRITINGS OF RADICAL
WOMEN OF COLOR (Persephone Press, 1981). forthcoming: my soul looks
back in wonder/wild wimmin don’t git no blues.

@ FREDDIE GREENFIELD
Boston. With Fag Rag Collective. Member of Guilt Relief Tour. Former boxer,
addict, carnival hustler, prisoner. Work in Fag Rag, Gay Sunshine, Gay
Community News. Author of MONEY HONEY (unpublished) and AMUSEMENT
BUSINESS: AND THEN SOME (Good Gay Poets, Boston, 1976).

@ ASIAN LESBIANS OF THE EAST COAST

This collective of artists, writers, and political organizers seeks to support other
asian lesbians as well as the work of other agencies and people in struggle
against racism, sexism, and homophobia. Essays, graphics, poetry by collective
members in Feminary, Sojourner, Island Lesbians, Golden Phoenix, Taking
Control, Lesbian Insights, New Woman’s Times, etc.

@ THE BLACKHEART COLLECTIVE
NY. This collective of black gay men creates programs of music, dance, and
poetry and also publishes BLACKHEART, whose first issue was called Yemonja
and whose second issue is centered on the work of prisoners. This Open Lines
program is dedicated to the Year of the Woman in South Africa.

@ CHERRIE MORAGA
N.Y. A Chicana poet and “‘politica,’”’” Moraga helped found Kitchen Table:
Women of Color Press. Work in LESBIAN POETRY (Bulkin, Larkin, eds.,
Persephone Press, 1981); BEARING WITNESS/SOBREVIVIENDO: AN
ANTHOLOGY OF NATIVE AMERICAN/LATINA ART ANDLITERATURE (Calyx,
vol. 8, no. 2), etc. Co-editor of THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK and of
CUENTOS: STORIES BY LATINAS (Kitchen Table Press, 1983) and author of
LOVING IN THE WAR YEARS (South End Press, Boston, 1983).

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SUNDAY

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@ SEDITIOUS DELICIOUS
N.Y. Seditious Delicious magazine prints anti-authoritarian poetry in any style,
traditional to punk/reggae lyrics, including prose poems and experimental
poems. ‘We'll print those that most poetically and scrumptiously subvert the
system of statism, patriarchy, racism, militarism, classism, lesbian and gay
oppression, ageism, or any of the other nasty power trips we have to put up
with.” For OPEN LINES, editor/publisher Bru Dye has organized a program of
representative contributions to SD.

@ PAULA GUNN ALLEN
El Cerrito, Ca. is a Laguna Pueblo/Sioux/Lebanese/American with work in

| LESBIAN POETRY; BEARING WITNESS/SOBREVIVIENDO (Calyx, vol. 8, no. 2);
NEW LESBIAN WRITING (Cruikshank, ed., Grey Fox Press, 1984); etc. Editor of
STUDIES IN AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE (MLA, 1983) and author of three
books of poetry and the novel THE WOMAN WHO OWNED THE SHADOWS
(Spinsters Ink, San Francisco, 1983), Allen is a visiting lecturer in Native
American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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SUNDAY

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@ RUDY KIKEL
Boston. Poems, essays, reviews in Gay Community News, The Advocate, Fag
Rag, Gay Sunshine, Massachusetts Review, Christopher Street, etc. Selection in
A TRUE LIKENESS: LESBIAN & GAY WRITING TODAY (Picano, ed., The Sea
Horse Press, 1980). Poetry co-editor of Bay Windows, Boston. Author of
SHAPING POSSIBILITIES (Imaginary Press, Cambridge, 1980) and LASTING
RELATIONS (The Sea Horse Press, 1984).

@ ROSARIO MORALES
Cambridge, Mass., is ‘“a New York Puerto Rican, born in 1930, been a radical
since | was 19. I’ve farmed in Puerto Rico, studied anthropology, borne and
raised three delightful people.’ Work in Heresies #15, Areito, Sojourner. Also in
THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK and CUENTOS: STORIES BY LATINAS.

@ ASSOTTO SAINT
NLY. Born in Haiti and lives in New York City with his significant other, Jaan. They
have a techno-pop band called Galiens. Author of such theater pieces as RISING
TO THE LOVE WE NEED and MINDSHAFT. BLACK FAG, a performance art
piece, appears in Blackheart 2: The Prison Issue.

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SUNDAY

Four Sunday afternoon readings by
writers—lesbians, gay men, pro-
feminists—whose work embodies
gender-liberating and postpatriarchal
values—and who otherwise have
few forums, spoken or printed,

to make their work known.

‘“-. .you know that i know that all this doubting is a trap laid out in the
patripower days of long ago to keep me/us from doing what we know
got to be done... i was born into this life the child of houseniggahs
and... i been struggling trying to get home ever since.”’

‘‘oi gevalt on the mamie shvoren/
huh huh wadya say/...
i sd take it out mister/
your cock not your money/honey//

‘‘he sd you carnival people
sure talk funny/i sd
rd the papers lately/’’

This Open Lines program, centered on asian lesbian poetry and herstory,
has been facilitated by Ekau Amoy Hall, cofounder of ALOEC, and by the
poet Chea Villanueva.

‘“TYemonja] fell passionately in love with a male adodi (homosexual) and
since then she has been the protectress of all the adodi. . . It is here, the
creative principle of the universe, to the Mother of ALL waters to our
blue water planet that we pay homage and say ‘lya modupe,’ thank you
mother.”

‘Loving in the war years/calls for this kind of risking/without a home to
call our own/I've got to take you as you come/to me, each time like a
stranger/all over again. . ./refusing our enemy, fear.’

‘Simply put, if the spirit and sex have been linked in our oppression,
then they must also be linked in the strategy toward our liberation.”’

‘I want you to listen, all you/who gorge yourselves on the pain of this
world/I want you to listen/because | want you to know we are here/WE
ARE HERE/and we intend to raise hell/before we disappear.”

‘“My steps are tides: one/universe at a time takes its five-sided fall/from
my body, where thunder lives, hidden.’’

‘And remembered the voice of the woman, who sat in the shadows and
spoke, saying ‘There are no curses. There are only descriptions of what
creations there will be.’”’

‘Recently, | asked/you if you minded my being/queer. You said: ‘No, |
like it./lt means you won’t be having a/wife and children. And so you/
won't be happy either.’ ’’

‘| never told my children stories. | said | couldn’t make things up. ‘Go
ask your father. He makes things up all the time.’”’

‘Struggling for my space, i’ve been surviving on a shoestring, and i got all
this anger to deal with, but i found the strength to be who i seek to be:
Assotto Saint, a poet and my crazy black gay rhythms’Il ring rough for
years to come.”’

‘i release it to you like birds”’

The artists-will be available for conversation after the readings. Admission is by suggested contribution of $2.50.

The 1984 Open Lines readings are dedicated to the memory of Charles Bergner, 1949-1983, trustee of Washington Square Church, whose joyous support of

Open Lines is but one of the many marks of love he left us.

These Open Lines readings are made possible by Carl Morse and Washington Square Church with support from Poets & Writers, Inc., which is funded by the
Literature Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. This flyer was made possible through generous contributions by Dennis Sturtevant and
Thomas Von Foerster.

Inherited Values

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