Julene T Weaver

Poet

Seattle, WA
Washington US

Author's Bio

Julene Tripp Weaver, a native New Yorker, has an undergraduate degree in creative writing and women's studies from CUNY where she studied with Audre Lorde, Louse DeSalvo and Joan Larkin. After relocating to Seattle she completed a masters in counseling and worked in AIDS services for twenty-one years. MoonPath Press will publish her fourth poetry collection, Slow Now With Clear Skies, by June 2024. Three prior books include, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS, Finishing Line Press, 2017, which won the Bisexual Book Award, four Human Relations Indie Book Awards, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards; No Father Can Save Her, Plain View Press, 2011; and a chapbook, Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues, Finishing Line Press, 2007. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including: HEAL, Autumn Sky Poetry, The Seattle Review of Books, Poetry Super Highway, As it Ought To Be, Feels Blind, Verse-Virtual, HIV Here & Now, Mad Swirl, Journal of the Plague Years, Global Poemic, MookyChick; recent anthologies include: Poets Speaking to Poets: Echoes and Tributes, Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice.

She is an "Artivist" in the Through Positive Eyes Project that works to stop AID stigma. She is writing a memoir about her life and work as a long term survivor of AIDS. Essay publications include: The GuardianMollyhouseHags on FireThe Muse (McMaster University), But You Don’t Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and other Super Heroes Battling Invisible Illness. .

Since 1988, she has practiced Continuum Movement. She ran Muse To Write Circles for ten years integrating movement to evoke body-centered writing, with workshops at Seattle's Cancer Life Line. She created two spoken word performance pieces: The Wailing Wall, focused on her work with AIDS, and Spin the Bottle, with her writing about women's sexuality. Both these pieces used words, experimental voicing, and Continuum Movement. She studied with Tom Spanbauer and his trademarked Dangerous Writing, and did a year-long memoir intensive with Anne Liu Kellor.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Letters to the World Poets from the Wom-Po Listserv (Red Hen Press, 2008)
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Tattoos on Cedar (Washington Poets Association, 2006)
Books:
truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS (Finishing Line Press, 2017)
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No Father Can Save Her (Plain View Press (Austin, TX), 2011)
Chapbook:
Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
Journals:
Arabesques Review
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Arnazella
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knock
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Las Cruces Poets and Writers Magazine
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Nerve Cowboy
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Off the Coast
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Penitalia
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Pilgrimage
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Pontoon
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Words' Worth
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Writer's Almanac
Prizes won: 

truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS won the Bisexual Book Award for Poetry, 2017 & was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Third Place Prize for Poetry, 2005 Unfinished Works Competition, AIDS Service Foundation Orange County Case Walking An AIDS Case Manage Wails Her Blues, Nerve Cowboy Chapbook Contest, Third Place Prize, 2006

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry by Reginald Shepherd, Poem Revised: 54 Poems; Revisions, Discussions by Robert Hartwell Fiske, Editor, King of Shadows by Aaron Shurin, Big Towns, Big Talk by Patricia Smith, In The Heart of The Heart of Another Country by Etel Adnan

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Callicoon
Raised in: 
Kenoza Lake, NY
New York
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Last update: Jan 21, 2024