Publications and Links:

Joan Annsfire is a poet, writer, longtime political activist and retired librarian who lives in Berkeley California.Her collection, "Distant Music," published by Headmistress Press is now available. Click here for reviews.

Her poetry has appeared in the following anthologies: "11/9: The Fall of American Democracy," "Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival,""Uprooted: An Anthology on Gender and Illness." “Times They Were A- Changing:Women Remember the 60s & 70s,” and “99 Poems for the 99% Anthology,” “The Other side of the Postcard” edited by devorah major,  The “Queer Collection,” 2007, edited by Gregory Kompes, “The Cancer Poetry Project Anthology” edited by Karin Miller ,“The Venomed Kiss,” edited by Anita M. Barnard and Michelle Rhea and “Milk and Honey,” edited by Julie Enszer and online in Counterpunch web site’s: “Poet’s Basement,” “Lavender Review,” “ OccuPoetry,” ” The SoMa Literary Review,” and  in print in journals such as The Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly, Sinister Wisdom: (many issues), The 13th Moon, Bridges and The Evergreen Chronicles.

Her memoir pieces and short stories in: “Identity Envy,” Harrington Lesbian Literary Review and Sinister Wisdom. 

Her blog, lavenderjoan: somewhere under the rainbow, is a union of the personal and the political.

More links to online work:

Reality Show--Rising Phoenix Review

Market Street--Rising Phoenix Review

Wilderness--Birdland Journal

Return to the Hot Spring--Birdland Journal

Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival

Why I Write

Across the Table--Lavender Review

Distant Music--Lavender Review

Dharma Drama: Anak Sastra Literary Journal, 

Why is it so hard for lesbians in relationships? Lavender Review

Insomnia--Lavender Review

Strike Day in Oakland--99 Poems for the 99 Percent

Anniversary--CounterPunch Poet's Basement

Liberation--CounterPunch Poet's Basement

Once--CounterPunch Poet's Basement

Once--Occupy Poetry

Occupation--Unison

Poetry and Poets in Rags

Are Lesbians Being Written Out of the LGBT Community?--LGBTicons

Transgender Rights Push Us All Toward Equality

Once--World News?

Event Horizon--Occupoetry

Identity Envy excerpt

"Identity Envy" article in Jweekly