Deena Metzger at her home in Topanga, CA, in 2013.
Born
1936 (age 87–88) Brooklyn, New York, US
Occupation
Novelist
poet
healer
teacher
Language
English
Alma mater
Brandeis University
Notable works
Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems, La Negra y Blanca
Deena Metzger (born 1936) is an American writer, healer, and teacher whose work spans multiple genres including the novel, poetry, non-fiction, and plays. Metzger is a creative writing teacher and feminist scholar. In the 1960s and 1970s Metzger was a member of the Critical Studies faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, taught English at Los Angeles Valley College, and was on the faculty of the Feminist Studio Worship. Metzger also founded the writing program at Woman's Building in Los Angeles. Metzger was a contributing editor to Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture that ran from 1977 to 1980 in Woman's Building.[1]
Metzger is also known for her image in Hella Hammid's 1977 photograph, sometimes referred to as "The Warrior," or “Tree” poster, in which the post-mastectomy Metzger stands in a celebratory pose.[2] She first introduced and convened Daré, monthly gatherings for community and individual healing in 1999 and then ReVisioning Medicine in 2004. Her novel La Negra y Blanca won the 2012 Oakland Pen Award for Literature.[3][better source needed]
^Klein, Jennie (2009). "Goddess: Feminist Art and Spirituality in the 1970s". Feminist Studies. 35 (3): 588–589. JSTOR 40608393.
^Bolaki, Stella (2011). "Re-Covering the Scarred Body: Textual and Photographic Narratives of Breast Cancer". Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. 44 (2): 1–17. doi:10.1353/mos.2011.a440539. S2CID 142943479 – via Project MUSE.
DeenaMetzger (born 1936) is an American writer, healer, and teacher whose work spans multiple genres including the novel, poetry, non-fiction, and plays...
widely circulated images is the Tree Poster, which portrays writer DeenaMetzger, a close friend of Hammid's. Hammid was also a remote viewer who worked...
Sikivu Hutchinson Norman M. Klein Max Kozloff Saul Landau Anthony McCann DeenaMetzger Larry Miller Maggie Nelson Carl Oglesby Arlene Raven Janet Sarbanes...
Between Women and Animals, eds., Barbara Peterson, Brenda Peterson and DeenaMetzger, Ballantine Books, 1999, ISBN 9780449911228 The World in Us: Lesbian...
Cornell University Press. pp. 265–294. Tim Asch Jay Ruby Stuart Goldman DeenaMetzger Andrews, Susan (23 October 2009). "Legends Asch and Myerhoff Inspire...
Christopher Wagstaff 2012 Melinda Palacio, Michael Warr, Aurora Harris, DeenaMetzger, Ed Sanders, Mary Mackey, Jesmyn Ward 2011 Devreaux Baker, N. Banerjee...
Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, Linda Hogan, DeenaMetzger, Brenda Peterson (Editors), Ballantine & Random House Earth, Wind, and...
of the maps that covered the walls of the small gallery space. Poet DeenaMetzger scrawled a description of her rape on one of the walls. She Who Would...
2001 Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, Linda Hogan, DeenaMetzger, and Brenda Peterson, Ballantine, 1998. "Ah, Wilderness Is Paradise...
editor, and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt – poet, activist, and teacher DeenaMetzger – writer Michelle Cliff – writer and literary critic Pat Parker – poet...
from the original on June 20, 2023. Retrieved June 21, 2023. Campbell, Deena. "The 2023 Beauty Game-Changers Awards". Marie Claire. Archived from the...
(basketball), Preston Robert Tisch (football), George Young (football) and James Metzger (lacrosse). Among those serving on its Advisory Committee are Marty Appel...
Edens-Shaffer, supervising producers; Erin O'Brien, Kim Kilbey, Dan Martin and Deena Katz, senior producers; Tara West, Joshua Firosz, Renana Barkan and Josh...
from the original on June 20, 2023. Retrieved June 21, 2023. Campbell, Deena (September 18, 2023). "The 2023 Beauty Game-Changers Awards". Marie Claire...
(featuring Jennifer Holliday as Effie Melody White, Demetria McKinney as Deena Jones, Christopher Jackson as Curtis Taylor Jr., Milton Craig Nealy as James...
August 21 Bronze Maurice Greene Athletics Men's 100 m August 22 Bronze Deena Kastor Athletics Women's marathon August 22 Bronze Courtney Kupets Gymnastics...
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