Words cannot adequately express the sadness I feel upon learning that Judith Arcana has died. Judith was a friend, a mentor, and an unwavering supporter of my work. Our literary community and the reproductive rights movement have lost a guiding light, a true hero. Judith was a dedicated activist who risked bodily harm to protect women as a Jane, yet even after Roe v. Wade was overturned, never gave up. She had an easy smile and a great sense of humor.
In 2017 Judith Arcana interviewed me and my wife and Printed Matter Vancouver co-founder Toni Lumbrazo Luna for KBOO Radio’s Poetry and Everything.
The found material poems in Judith Arcana’s Flowstone Press book Announcements from the Planetarium gave me the courage to email Flowstone publisher Michael Spring to ask if he would read my manuscript featuring twenty years of collage poems. Spring wrote back and agreed to take a look. In 2018 Flowstone Press accepted the manuscript, Message from the Vessel in a Dream, for publication. The book was my my first full-length poetry book.
Learn more about Judith Arcana on her website.
Christopher Luna
PRINTED MATTER VANCOUVER 