Womxn of Naropa Reading

Initiated by alumna Lark Fox as a way to celebrate the women who broke the cultural barrier on the male dominated, homo-social environment of the literary world, Women of Naropa has been many things:

“…being packed into the basement student lounge, belly dancers, pianists, death rituals, sound miracles (one year we almost had no sound system), bahnu writing one off love poems, BLH scolding the reading style of young poets, a plastic shower curtain backdrop, homemade programs and broadsides in cafes, wait lists of readers, always Anne, always flowers, always crowds, always cookies, always ritual and always poems…”

Always students, Alumnx, and Faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics come together each year to celebrate ancestors past present and future in the space of poetics.

We’ve shifted from Women to Womxn in order to allow a broader spectrum of the embodiment of what it is to be female, feminine, femme, butch, dyke, all the way to the epicene body horizon. The feminine principle is inherent to the writing process as embryonic and nurturing language into being. This is the evolution of our sangha as cohort as lineage.

read more about Womxn of Naropa & select recordings from our archive for poetry month here.

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students, alumnx, staff & faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics