The Poetry of Your Ancestors

Anna Goodman Herrick is the author of A Speaker is a Wilderness: Poems on the Sacred Path from Broken Whole (Monkfish, 2024). She works at the intersection of spirituality, sacred words, and human rights, towards collective liberation. Anna has performed her poetry at the Emily Dickinson Museum and One Billion Rising’s Artist Uprising at the El Paso Border, and shared her work at the Library of Congress, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Bloomsday on Broadway. She has recent and upcoming poetry in Spirituality + Health Magazine, Rattle, and the Los Angeles Press. Anna has created work for television and branded content for platforms like Teen Vogue, Sony, ABC Family, Oprah Winfrey Network, MTV, and the Sundance Channel, and created installations based on her poetry for museums and galleries worldwide.