Bibliography
A bibliography of published books and essays.
Not Hope But Possibility, Fireball Press, 2020.
An essay on Literature of Restoration, Second Wind, edited Avraham and Culver. Fireball Press, Santa Cruz, CA, 2020.
The Burden of Light, Hand to Hand Publishing, 2019.
Deena Metzger in conversation with Sharon Weil throughout the book Changeability, Sharon Weil, Archer, 2018.
A Rain of Night Birds, Hand to Hand Publishing, 2017.
“The Burden of Light”, Poem, Messenger, July 14, 2017, Vol. 1 No. 13.
“An Opening”, poem, “Topanga Messenger” July 2-15, 2015.
“Looking for a Path With a Heart”, poem, A Higher Form of Politics: the Rise of a Poetry Scene, Sophie Rachmuhl, Otis Books, 2015.
“A Brief History of a Feminist Mind”, talk for the “WCLA Women Writers Series in alliance with the Feminist Majority Foundation /Ms.Magazine”, February 27, 2014, posted on “Trivia” website Issue 16 Voices of Feminism, June 2014.
“How to Start a Dream Theatre”, essay, “Dream Network Journal”, Spring 2014.
“Bear Medicine for the World”, essay, “Storytelling Magazine”, June/July 2013.
“A Dream About President Obama” and “Dreaming Another Language: She Will Not Kill”, dreams, “Dream Network Journal: Important People in our Dreams”, Winter 2013.
Photo of Deena from the 1982 Vesta Awards, on page 91 “The Woman’s Building & Feminist Art Education 1973-1991”, edited by Marguerite Elliot & Maria Karras, Otis College of Art and Design, 2012.
“The Plight of the Elephant People”, essay about a dream, “Dream Network Journal”, Autumn 2012.
“I Am No Longer Afraid, ” excerpt from “Tree: Essays and Pieces,” “Patient Poets”, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Medical Humanities UCSF, 2012.
“Return at the Turn of the Labyrinth,” “Called By the Dead,” poems and foreword and some photos, “Landscape of Soul and Story,” Blurb 2012
La Negra Y Blanca: Fugue and Commentary, Hand to Hand, 2011.
Feral, Hand to Hand, 2011.
“Women as Both Healer and Wounded” and “Women as Both Teacher and Student”, excerpts from autobiographical novel “Feral”, in “Evolving Women’s Consciousness”, compiled & explored by Dr. Carol Francis, Make Life Happen Publishing, 2011.
Excerpt from “La Negra y Blanca”, “Line Zero”, editors Renda Belle Dodge, Laura Pieroni, Bailey Shoemaker Richards, Issue 5, 2011.
“Miracle at Canyon de Chelly” in “Lighting a Candle” edited by Molly Young Brown, Psychosynthesis Press, 2010.
Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems, Red Hen Press, 2009.
“Alliance in the Selous”, essay in Tanzania Safari: Future Guardians of Peace, 2009
“Walking the Creek”, “Bread Offerings”, “Oh Great Spirit”, poems, “Sisters Singing”, edited by Carolyn Brigit Flynn, Wild Girl Publishing, 2009.
“Becoming One Being Distinct”, poem, “Los Angeles Times Magazine”, May 4, 2008.
Song from “Ruin & Beauty” & other excerpts, “Prayers for Hope and Comfort”, Maggie Oman Shannon, Conari Press, 2008.
Photo of Deena in Africa, “Ode”, June 2008.
“Eye to Eye”, “A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant and a Prayer” edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle, Villard Books 2007.
Article about Deena Metzger in “LA Weekly”, Vol. 29 / No. 25, 2007.
Excerpts from poems “The Indians Call it Heart”, “Desertion”, excerpt from dream, “Dreams Against the State”, excerpts from “The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them”, “The Book of Hags”, “Tree”, poems? “Alchemy”, “Under the Sorrow Tree”, “What Shakes Me”, “Song”, “Women Dreaming-Into-Art”, Patricia Ariadne, Ph.D., Galde Press, 2006
From Grief Into Vision: A Council, Hand to Hand, Topanga CA, 2006.
Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn, Red Hen Press, Granada Hills CA, 2005.
“The Soul of Medicine”, essay, “Sacred Illness Sacred Medicine, Elik Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005.
“Awakening Gatha” poem, “Cosmo Doogood’s Urban Almanac”, Eric Utne, Cosmo’s Urban Almanac, 2005.
Excerpts and comments by Deena Metzger, Consciousness in Action” Andrew Beath, Lantern books, 2005.
“I Am No Longer Afraid”, poem, “Witness to Pain”, edited by Nieves Pascual, Peter Lang 2005.
“Feasting the Dead”, poem, “Chance of a Ghost: An Anthology of Contemporary Ghost Poems”, edited by Gloria Vando and Philip Miller, Helicon Nine Editions, 2005.
Excerpt from the novel “Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn,” “A Lake in the Mind”, poem, “The Los Angeles Review”, Number 2, Red Hen Press, 2005.
“Katrina: Our Chernobyl”, featured article, “American Holistic Medical Association Newsletter” Fall 2005 vol. VIII no. 4.
“Might There be a Thousand Words for Light”, poem, “The Los Angeles Review”, Number 1 – 2004, Red Hen Press.
“Healing” poem, Poet Healer, compiled with introductions by Chip Spann, foreword by Pat Schneider, art by Thomas Minor, Sutter’s Lamp, 2004.
“The Last Word” poem, “A Conversation With Deena Metzger” Conversation between Deena Metzger and Alan Fox, November 19, 2003, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century, edited by Alan C. Fox, Frieda C. Fox Foundation 2004.
“Revamping the World: On the Return of the Holy Prostitute” essay, “Face to Face”, edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson, North Point Press, 2004.
“I Am No Longer Afraid”, poem, “Body Images in Medicine and the Arts”, A&S 304, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Summer 2004.
“Warrior” poster, High Times, No. 342, February 2004.
“The Warrior, An Homage to Deena Metzger”, photograph of a sculpture of Deena Metzger in “The Bible Series”, by Charles Sherman.
“Shamanic Healing Quest”, article about Deena Metzger, “Whole Life Times”, Maryam Henein, December 2003.
“The First Roots Creep Up”, poem, Sisters of the Earth” 2nd Edition, edited by Lorraine Anderson, Vintage Original 2003, 1st edition published 1991.
Book review of “Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory & Practice of Healing”, Bodhi Tree Book Review”, Issue 28, Winter 2002 / Spring 2003.
“God Wrestlers,” essay, The Women’s Seder Sourcebook, edited by Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfield, Tara Mohr and Catherine Spector, Jewish Lights Publishing, 2003.
“Healing in Community”, essay, Tikkun, March / April 2003.
“Healing Stories: An Interview with Deena Metzger”, Gaian Voices, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2003.
Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing, Hand to Hand, Topanga CA, 2002.
Living the Ritual, interview, Elik Press, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2002.
“The Alef-bet of Peaceful Invocation”, “Pumbedissa”, Vol. 8 2002.
“Dialogue Between Deena Metzger and Andrew Beath”, “Consciousness and Global Change”, Andrew Beath, 2002.
“Mandlovu” and “A Lake in the Mind”, poems, “The Soul Unearthed”, edited by Cass Adams, Sentient Publications, 2002
Essay in “Where Peace Begins”, compilation by Kerri Hikida, “Whole Life Times”, December 2002.
Poem excerpt, “Let us Learn the secret languages of light again…” California the Beautiful: Spirit and ‘Place, Text compiled and edited by Peter Beren, Photographs by Galen Rowell, VIA Books, SF, 2002.
Excerpt from “Tree”, “Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos”, edited by Kim Addonizio and Cheryl Dumesnil, Warner Books 2002.
Poem by Deena Metzger, “EarthLight”, Fall 2001.
“Call to Readers on Animal Intent and Agency,” “Earthlight” June 2001.
“God in your Form of Beauty Be With Us,” poem, Blue Mountain, A Spiritual Anthology Celebrating the Earth, ed., F. Lynne Bachleda, Menasa Ridge Press, Birmingham Alabama, 2001.
The Other Hand, Red Hen Press, Palmdale CA, September 2000.
“Two Writers in a Friendship of Unabashed Exposure : Barbara Myerhoff and Deena Metzger,” Lilith, Volume 25, No. 2, Summer 2000. Winner Simon rockower Award/ American Jewish Press Association, Excellence in Special Sections or Supplements Magazine, June 2001.
“Miracle at Canyon de Chelly,” reprinted in Stubborn Light, The Best of the Sun, Volume III, edited by Sy Safransky, Sun Publishing Co., Chapel Hill, NC, 2000.
“Inside a House One is Truly Alone,” Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millenium, edited by KateGale and Mark E. Cull, Red Hen Press, Palmdale, CA, 2000.
“Speaking with Elephants,” story and “Do Not Tell Me What You Know” poem, “EarthLight Magazine”, Issue 34, Summer 1999.
“The Warrior, An Homage to Deena Metzger”, photograph of a sculpture of Deena Metzger in a catalog for a show in Taipei, Taiwan, by Charles Sherman.
“Waking in the Morning,” Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest”, Wayne Muller, Bantam, NewYork, April 1999.
“Birth and Rebirth in the Eleusinian Mysteries,” Divinations, ed. by Jay Livernois, Spring Journal 66, Woodstock, Conn. 1999.
“Waking in the Morning”, “Sabbath Rest”, Wayne Muller, Lion Publishing, 1999.
“God, in your form of Beauty, be with us,” Prayers for A Thousand Years, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, Harper San Francisco, 1999.
“Animals in Danger”, interview, “The Service Learning Bookshelf”, Cathryn Berger Kaye, ABCD Books, 1999.
“The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine by Robert Bly and Marion Woodman, “review in “Common Boundary”, Bethesda, Md. January / February 1999.
“Call for a Global Council of Elders and All Beings”, essay, “Whole Life Times”, May 1998.
“Secret and Hidden Intelligences and Endless Worlds of Delight,” prose poem, Santa Monica Review, Santa Monica College, Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 98.
“NiSh’ma,” Sh’ma, Vol, 29, Number 556, November 1998, 1001 Watertown St, # 3B, West Newton, MA 02465
Excerpt from “The Work to Know What Life is,” poem, “Pillow”, Lily Pond, Celestial Arts, 1998.
“A Love of Words: How Independent Booksellers have become an Endangered
Species.” 1998, L.A. Glue and World Wide Free Press on the Internet.
“Elder Councils: A Call for Wisdom,” New Dimensions, Vol, 25, #3, May-June 1998.
“My Life with Wolf,: from “Coming Home,” Intimate Nature, in Utne Reader, Minneapolis, Minn. March-April 98.
“Alliances with the Animals,” Vision Magazine, San Diego, CA March 1998
“Multiple Selves—Expanding Our Notion of Identity,” interview by Valerie Andrews, Intuition Magazine, S. F., January/February 1998.
Intimate Nature: Women’s Bond with Animals, edited with Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson, Ballentine, New York January 1998.
“In Celebration of a Scar”, photo & excerpt from “Tree”, “Stewed, Screwed & Tattooed, by Madame Chinchilla, Isadore Press, 1997.
“Writing the Gateway to the Inner World,” interview by Michael Toms in The Well of Creativity New Dimensions, Hay House, Carlsbad, Ca. 1997.
“Heal the Life,” essay on healing and community, The Messenger, The Santa Monica Mountains News and Arts Publication, November 6th -20th 1997.
“What Deena Thinks,” interview by Valerie Wolf, in The Messenger, The Santa Monica Mountains News and Arts Publication, July31-August 13, 1997, Vol 21, No. 15.
“Four Corners Make a Year”, essay, The Center Post, Vol. 9, Num. 2, Fall 1997.
“The 11th Commandment Brought Down from Sinai,” Lilith, Vol 22 #2, Summer 1997.
“A Return to the Real World,” review of Charlene Spretnak’s The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World, New Age Journal, August 1977.
“The Bird in the Heart of the Tree,” poem, Storming Heaven’s Gate: An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women, ed by Amber Coverdale Sumrall and Patrice Vecchione, Plume Books, Penguin Group, July 1997.
TREE: Essays & Pieces, Including The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them and four essays on Healing: “Healing Circles;” “Personal Disarmament;” “Revamping the World: On the Return of the Holy Prostitute” and “Healing the Planet/Healing Ourselves; North Atlantic Books, Berkeley CA, 1997
“Interview: Deena Metzger” by Sandra Hyde, Crone Chronicles, P.O. Box 81, Kelley, Wyoming, 83011, #30, Spring Equinox 1997.
“A Lake in the Mind,” poem, The Soul Unearthed, ed. by Cass Adams, Tarcher/Putnam, N.Y. 1996.
“Recollections of Anais Nin,” two pieces in Recollections of Anais Nin by her Contemporaries, ed. by Benjamin Franklin V, Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1996.
“On the Return of the Holy Prostitute”, Green Egg, ed. Maerian Morris, Vol. 29, No. 112 March-April, 1996.
“Brief Notes on a Friendship Between Anais Nin and Deena Metzger,” and “At the Border,” in Anais Nin: A Book of Mirrors, ed. Paul Herron, Sky Blue Press, Huntington Woods, Michigan, 1996.
“Oh Great Spirit,” Animals As Teachers & Healers, by Susan Chernak McElroy, New Sage Press, Troutdale, Oregon, 1995, reprinted by Ballentine 1997.
“Ruminations” by Deena Metzger and Michael Ortiz Hill, The Heart of Marriage: Discovering the Secrets of Enduring Love, by Cathleen Rountree, Harper Collins 1996.
“The Eleventh Commandment; Vision from Mt. Sinai”, excerpt from Deena Metzger’s journal, “EarthLight”, Winter 1996, Issue 24.
“Sunday, August 1, 1977” excerpt from “Tree”, Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse, edited by Gavin Dillard, Daedalus Publishing Company 1996.
To Tell the Truth, review of “Writing for Your Life”, New Age Journal, January/February 1995.
“Stories that House Our Souls,” Nourishing the Soul, edited by Anne Simpkinson, Charles Simpkinson & Rose Solari, A Common Boundary Reader, HarperSF, 1995.
“Walking with Neruda,” and “Wild,” Grand Passion, The Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, edited by Suzanne Lummis and Charles H. Webb, Red Wind Books, Los Angeles 1995.
“The Work to Know What Life Is,” On the Wings of Eros, compiled by Alicia Alvarez, Conari Press, 1995.
Interview with Deena Metzger, Thresholds Quarterly, Vol. 13 No. 3, School of Metaphysics Associates Journal, 1995.
“Tree/Woman/Wisdom: Images of Healing From Deena Metzger’s Work”, an essay about Deena by Nancy Corson Carter, Bodies of Knowledge, Proceedings, Duke University, October 27-28, 1995.
“Writing for Health”, article about Deena Metzger, by Heather Conn, “Common Ground”, September 1995.
“Facing the Fear and Welcoming the Creative”, excerpt from “Writing For Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds”, and an interview with Deena, The Monthly Aspectarian, March 1995, Vol. 16, No. 7
“Dagbok Som Terapi”, KK, 1995.
Tree poster photo in article Breast Cancer as Teacher in Napra Trade Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, S;pring 1994.
Tree poster photo in San Jose Mercury News, July 10, 1994.
Tree poster referred to in article “Where to Get Your Best Tattoos and How to Buy Fresh, Parisian French Accents in a Can” by Rhea J. Côté Robbins, who was inspired to get a similar tattoo, in Le Forum, Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 1994.
Tree poster photo in Canadian Women Studies: Women and Health, Summer 1994, Vol. 14, No. 3.
Tree poster photo on cover of Breast Plates a 1994 photo calendar.
Tree poster photo in Henne magazine, August/September 1994.
“Singing to the Dead,” and “Oh Great Spirit,” The Soul of Nature, edited by Michael Tobias and Georgianne Cowan, Continuum, New York, 1994.
“Personal Disarmament,” The Awakened Warrior, edited by Rick Fields, Tarcher/Putnam, New York, 1994.
Quotes from “Writing For Your Life” and “Healing the Shoah” and also a telephone conversation with Deena Metzger on December 2nd, 1992, “My Name Is Chellis & I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization,” Chellis Glendinning, Shambala Publications, 1994.
“Silencing the Songs of the Sea: Drowning out the Whales”, essay, “Whole Life Times”, July 1994.
Writing For Your Life, A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds, Harper San Francisco, 1992. Scrivere Per Crescere, Astrolabio, Rome Italy, 1994.
“Shy”, “The Erotic Edge”, edited by Lonnie Barbach, Dutton, New York, NY, 1994.
“Burying Our Dead, Pablo Neruda,” poem. Psychological Perspectives, #28, Fall-Winter 1993.
“Writing for Your Life”, excerpt from book Writing for Your Life, Ms. Volume III, Number 5, Spring 1993.
“Tree”, poster photo & poem, “Common Ground”, Spring 1993, Issue no. 42.
“Trusting Your Imagination”, book review by Eden Stone of Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds in New Age Journal, June 1993.
Quote from Deena from “Meeting the Shadow” in newsletter “The Addiction Letter”, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 1993.
“Human Rage Devastating to the World of Wildlife, Op-Ed, Valley Edition, “Los Angeles Times”, Sunday, Nov. 7, 1993.
“Rebuilding Our Lives with Sanity,” Voices on the Threshold of Tomorrow. 145 view of the new Millennium, edited by Georg Feuerstein & Trisha Lamb Feuerstein, Quest Books, Illinois, 1993.
Excerpts from, Tree, On Women Turning 50, Cathleen Rountree, HarperSF, S.F. CA., 1993.
“On Prayer”, “Worlds of Jewish Prayer”, edited by Shohama Harris Wiener and Jonathan Omer-Man, Aronson, 1993.
Excerpt from “Personal Disarmament,” The Path of Transformation, Shakti Gawain, Nataraj Publishers, Mill Valley, CA., 1993.
“Goddess Chant,” Seasonal Dance, edited by Janice Broch & Veronica Macler, Samuel Weiser, Inc. Wheaton ME, 1993.
“Tree” poster photo and book review, “Cure”, Horizon Pacific International, 1993.
“Tree” poster on cover of Ten Percent UCLA, December 1993
“Goddess Chant,” Turning of the Wheel”, Stanley J.A. Modrzyk, Samuel Weiser, Inc. 1993.
“Dreaming the Road,” poem, Poetry LA 1-21 A Celebration; edited by Helen Friedland, Peggor Press, L.A. 1993
How Will I Survive? – Interview on documentary film, directed by Johanna Demetrakis, produced by Mark Harris, 1993, Gal Productions, 2623 E Foothill Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 584-9515.
“She Said We’d Never Fall in Love Again,” poem, The Time of Our Lives, Women Write on Sex after 40, Edited by Dena Taylor and Amber Coverdale Sumrall, The Crossing Press, Freedom CA, 1993.
Quote from “Writing for Your Life: Finding Meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling”, in “Once Upon a Time”, “Yoga Journal” July/August 1993.
Book Review on “Writing for Your Life”, Common Boundary, March/April 1993
“Inclusion”, dialogue with editor William Ney, The New Combat, Summer 1992
“Personal Disarmament,” reprinted in Ordinary Magic, edited by John Welwood, Shambhala, Boston and London, 1992.
“Re-vamping the World: On the Return of the Holy Prostitute”, essay, Pagans for Peace, Issue #57 (Volume 6, No. 4) November 15th 1992.
Excerpt from “What Dinah Thought” & review of it, “The Issue is Power”, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Aunt Lute Foundation Books, 1992.
“The Journal as Activity and Genre,” with Barbara Myerhoff, reprinted in Remembered Lives, edited with an introduction by Marc Kaminsky, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1992.
“This Body: My Life, The Practice of Creativity and Healing,” audio tapes, Sounds True Recordings, 735 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 1992.
A Sabbath Among the Ruins, Parallax Press, Berkeley, 1992.
“Finding a Sabbath Among the Ruins” poem, Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing, edited by Anthony Signorelli and Paul MacAdam, Inroads Press, Minneapolis 1992. Also in “On the Bus: A New Literary Magazine, edited by Jack Grapes, Danelia Wild, Bombshelter Press, 1992.
“Miracle at Canyon de Chelly,” reprinted in Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart, edited by Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield, HarperSF, 1992.
Interview in Visionary Voices, Women on Power, Interviews by Penny Rosenwasser, Aunt Lute Press, San Francisco, 1992.
“The Work to Know What Life Is,” The Erotic Impulse, edited by David Steinberg, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Los Angeles, CA. 1992.
“Writing for Your Life” ad, “Feminist Bookstore News”, November/December 1992.
From What Dinah Thought, Sexual Harassment, Women Speak Out, edited
Sumrall\Taylor, Crossing Press, 1992.
Tree poster and poem, in Pilgrimage, Volume 18, Number 1, January/February 1992.
“The Secret Teachings: In Pursuit of the Wild & Chaotic”, essay, Whole Life Times, November 1992.
“Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves”, essay, Whole Life Times, April 1992.
“Something in the Belly”, essay, “Messenger”, December 3-16 1992.
“Looking for the Faces of God”, excerpt, “Messenger”, December 19, 1991 – January 15, 1992.
Breaking the Silence: Jewish Feminists Tell Their Stories, produced by Naomi Newman of the Traveling Jewish Theatre. From the Series Heart of Wisdom as broadcasted on American Public Radio This program explores that process through the lives and stories of seven feminist writers. E.M. Broner, Marcia Freedman, Susan Griffin, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Deena Metzger, Judith Plaskow and Savina Teubal trace their life journeys and their struggles to find their voices.
“Healing the Planet, Healing Ourselves”, reprinted in Cooperation, edited by Allan Combs, “The World Futures General Evolution Studies”, Volume 4, Gordon and Breach, Philadelphia.
“Personal Disarmament and the Nation-State Within,” Turning Wheel, Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Berkeley, CA Fall 1991. From a talk at the first Institute on Engaged Buddhism, Oakland, August, 91.
“Through the Fences,” Word of Mouth, Volume 2, Short-Short Stories by 100 women Writers. Edited by Irene Zahava. The Crossing Press, Freedom CA 1991.
Interview, Coming into our Fullness, On Women Turning Forty, Cathleen Rountree, The Crossing Press, Freedom CA. 1991.
“Healing the Planet/Healing Ourselves,” “World Futures”, Guest Editor, Allan Combs, Vol. 31, Number 2-4, 1991.
“Writing about the Other,” Meeting the Shadow, Eds. Connie Zweig, Jeremiah Abrams, Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1991.
Excerpt from “Revamping the World: On the Return of the Holy Prostitute”, “Utne Reader”, 1985, excerpt from “Healing” poem, “Her Soul Beneath the Bone” & “Poet Healer”, “I Am No Longer Afraid”, poem, “Witness to Pain” & “Her Soul Beneath the Bone”, excerpt from “The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them & Tree”, excerpt from “Tree”, “Through the Goddess: A Woman’s Way of Healing”, Patricia Reis, Continuum, 1991.
“ Sheila and I Watch the Sunset Turn Red and Gray”, poem in “Women of the 14th Moon”, edited by Dena Taylor and Amber Coverdale Sumrall, The Crossing Press Freedom, California, 95019, 1991.
“Healing the Planet, Healing Ourselves,” Talk at Conference, “Women’s Voices in Troubling Times”, sponsored by Women’s Alliance, U.C. Berkeley, March 1991.
“Healing the Planet, Healing Ourselves,” The Elmwood Newsletter, Vol. 7, #1, Spring Equinox, 1991.
“Connect/Reject” essay and “Leavings”, poem, Sacred Fire, Summer 1990.
“Healing the Shoah: Humble Visions and Small Miracles,” Anima, Chambersburg, PA, Fall Equinox, 1990, Vol. 17 #1.
“Aspiring to Integrity”, essay, In Context, No.26, Summer 1990.
Quote by Deena Metzger on being a poet, West Word 2, Winter/Spring 1990.
Tree photo on cover of Bulletin, Oklahoma County Medical Society, April 1990.
“Maguay,” poem, Bakunin, Vol. 1, # 3, Davis, CA., Autumn 1990.
“Personal Disarmament: Negotiating with the Inner Government,” ReVision, Washington D.C. Vol. 12, No. 4, Spring 1990.
“What Dinah Thought”, excerpt, Lilith, Spring 1990.
“Leavings” and “No Words for Rumi”, poems, Inquiring Mind, Fall 1990.
“The Necessity of the Imagination,” The Elmwood Newsletter, Berkeley CA., Vol. 6, No. 1., Spring Equinox 1990.
“Four Meditations,” Dharma Gaia, A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology, edited by Allan Hunt Badiner, Parallax Press, Berkeley, CA, 1990.
From “Walking With Neruda,” Word of Mouth, 150 Short-Short Stories by 90 Women Writers, Crossing Press, anthology ed by Irene Zahava, Freedom, CA. 1990.
“Gathering the Sparks, a talk, Poetry Flash, Berkeley CA. #204, March 1990.
“The Tree is Thrown in the Light,” and “Wild,” Gridlock: an anthology of poetry about Southern California, ed. Elliot Fried, Applezaba Press, P.O. Box 41324, Long Beach, CA 90804, 1990.
“Re-vamping the World: On the Return of the Holy Prostitute”, To Be a Woman: The Birth of the Conscious Feminine, edited by Connie Zweig, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1990.
“Negotiating Peace Within”, interview with Michael Toms, New Dimensions, Volume 17 Number 6, November – December 1990.
“Shadows/Silence” excerpt from “Skin”, Cradle And All, edited by Laura Chester, Faber and Faber, 1989.
“Pilgrimage to Auschwitz,: Op-ed Los Angeles Times, Aug. 19, 1989. Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, and Seattle Times.
“Ovation,” “Moon in Taurus,” Touching Fire, “Erotic Writings by Women”, edited by Louise Thornton, Jan Sturtevant & Amber Coverdale Sumrall, Carroll and Graf, New York, 1989.
“The Buddha of the Beasts,” poem, Creation, Orinda, Calif. Vol. 5 No 2, May/June 89. Also “The Elmwood Newsletter”, Vol. 4, # 4, Winter Solstice 1988.
What Dinah Thought, Viking/Penguin, October 1989.
Looking For the Faces of God, Parallax Press, November 1989.
“Invoking the Grove,” Healing the Wounds, The Promise of Ecofeminism, Ed. by Judith Plant, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa., Santa Cruz, CA. 1989.
“Endangered Species,” poem, The Dolphin’s Arc, Poems of Endangered Creatures of the Sea, ed, Elisavietta Ritchie, SCOP Publications, College Park, MD., 1989.
“Leavings, Invocation,” poems, Invocation L.A., eds Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster, Naomi Quinonez, West End Press, Albuquerque, NM., 1989.
“Silence,” song, music by Betsy Rose, recorded by Betsy Rose on “In My Two Hands,” Parallax Music, 1988.
“Warrior/Tree Poster”, ad in The Feminist Bookstore News, August 1988.
“Guatemala, a Christmas Journey,” article, Anima, Vol. 15, No. 1, Chambersburg, PA, Fall Equinox, 1988.
“Owl; Canta,” poems, The Jacaranda Review, ed. Bruce Kijewski, Dept. of English, UCLA, 90024, Vol. III, No. 2, Fall/Winter 1988.
From, What Dinah Thought, Skin:Shadows/Silence, and The Woman Who… Deep Down, The New Sensual Writing by Women, ed Laura Chester, Faber & Faber, 1988
“I am no longer afraid,” and Poster, Her Soul beneath the Bone, edited by Leatrice H. Lifshitz, University of Illinois Press, 1988
“The Work to Know What Life Is,” prose poem, Erotic By Nature, ed. David Steinberg, Shakti Press, Red Alder Books, Spring 1988.
“Miracle at Canyon de Chelly,” The Sun, Chapel Hill, NC., #146, Jan. 1988.
“The Feminine Emerging,” Yoga Journal, Berkeley, CA. # 78, Jan./Feb. 1988.
“No Words for Rumi,” poem, Redstart Eight Plus, Wichita Kansas # I, No. XII, December 1987.
“Lilith,” poem, Electrum, #39, Fall/Winter/ 1987
“Heat,” “Raspberries,” “What Feeds Us,” poems, Yellow Silk, Albany, CA., #24, Autumn 1987.
“Wilderness: The New Mysteries,” Gnosis Magazine, San Francisco, CA., #4, Spring/Summer 1987.
“The Spiritual Dance,” A Dialogue with Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Deena Metzger & Reb Zalman Schacter, presented by A Traveling Jewish Theatre, San Francisco, CA., November 16, 1986; On Audio cassette [Traveling Jewish Theatre]; Gnosis Magazine, San Francisco, CA., #4, Spring/Summer 1987.
“Tables,” poem, Tsunami, Los Angeles, #1, June 1987
“The Holy Prostitute and the Beloved Enemy” article/talk, The Pathways Journal, Introductory Issue, September 1987.
“Tree” poster, “Peace Press Graphics 1967-1987: Art in the Pursuit of Social Change”, edited by Ilee Kaplan and Carol A. Wells.
“Who Knows What The Thirst Is For”, “Priests and Magicians”, “How Do You Know The Beggar At The Door Is Not An Angel?”, “Alchemy”, “Sparks”, “Exodus”, “Maybe A Brother Is Addressing His Sister”, poems and Introduction by Deena, Shirim, ed. Marc Steven Dworkin, Intermedia Productions, Volume V, Number II, October 1986.
“In the Beginning There was Humming, and “The Tree on the Mountain,” excerpts from novel, What Dinah Thought in Hear the Silence, Irene Zahava, editor, Crossing Press, September 1986.
“Blood Oranges,” story, Erotic Interludes, Lonnie Barbach, editor, Doubleday, Fall 1986.
“Two Worlds, A Letter from Deena Metzger,” The Sun, Chapel Hill, NC. Issue 129, August 1986.
Excerpts “Earth Songs”, edited by Irene Zahava, The Crossing Press, 1986.
“Transmission letter,” abridged, The Sun, Chapel Hill, NC. Issue 128, July 1986.
Interview by Chellis Glendinning, “Five Faces of the Feminine, ‘Dream- Weaver Susan Griffin, healer Deena Metzger, priestess Joan Hull, warrior Judy Hurley, hearth-keeper Kit Sawyer…: Yoga Journal, Berkeley, CA. May/June 1986.
“In the Morning Walking,” poem, “Electrum”, Tustin, California, Spring, 1986. (Also interview: “To Keep the Dreams Coming, Deena Metzger” by Sylvia Rosen.)
Dreams Against The State, 3 act play, directed by Steven Kent, Seven Stages, Atlanta, GA., March, April 1986; Performed in homes and community centers in Los Angeles, September-November 1981.
“The Holy Prostitute,” workshop (available on tape) Antioch University, Seattle Washington, Women’s Spirituality Conference, March, 1986.
“Retrospective,” poem, 1986 Lunar Calendar, Luna Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986.
Crossing Press, 1989; Iron Mountain, Florence, Colorado, Spring 1986, Vol. 1, No. 4; Reprinted (in expanded form) Anima, Chambersburg, Pa., Vol. 12, No. 2, Spring equinox 1986. Green Egg, 1996.
Excerpts from “Tree”, A Voice of Her Own, Marlene A. Schiwy, Ph.D., Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Letters about “Re-vamping the world: On the return of the Holy Prostitute” published in Utne Reader, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August/September 1985. Utne Reader No.12 Oct./Nov. 1985 and No. 13 Dec./Jan. 1986.
“Re-vamping the world: On the return of the Holy Prostitute.” Utne Reader, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August/September 1985. Reprinted in: To Be A Woman, The Birth of the Conscious Feminine, ed. Connie Zweig, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. Los Angeles; “Critique”, ed. Bob Banner, P.0. Box 91980, West Vancouver,B.C., V7C 4S4. #33, Spring 1990; Enlightened Sexuality, Essays on Body-Positive Spirituality, ed. George Feuerstein, The
“Nairobi Conference: Mission of Peace,” L.A. Woman, Los Angeles, California, September 1985.
Deena is quoted in an article by Irene Marian Borger about Barbara Myerhoff, “Ms. Magazine”, June 1985.
“Breakfast Letter, poem, and Interview, Northridge Review, Northridge California, Fall 1985, Vol.3, No.2
Panelist, workshop leader, Peace Tent, Non-Governmental Forum, U.N. conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya, July 1985.
Excerpts from “Scars On the Body Politic”, as poems, Shirim, ed. Marc Steven Dworkin, Intermedia Productions, Los Angeles, California, Spring, 1985.
“Canticle to the Goddess” song, composed by Evan Hodkins, inspired by Deena Metzger and Kaitlin Mullin, The Heart of the Vessel, audio tape, School of Alchemy, Boulder CO.
Goddess Medley, Deena Metzger, Morning Feather, Will Shepardson /Greenham Common, Reclaiming Tape, P.O. Box 14404 San Francisco, CA 94104.
“Cancer is the Answer,” article, “The Sun”, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Issue #110, January, 1985.
“The Trees Ask Me Home”, poem, “The ‘85 Lunar Calendar”, Luna Press.
“Empty Dachas,” poem, honorable mention, Alice Jackson poetry prize, “Electrum Magazine”, Santa Ana, Calif. October 1984.
“Shechina” keynote lecture, Jewish Women’s Spirituality Conference, UCLA/USC Hillel, October 1984.
“The Bull Dancer,” story, “The Work to Know What Life Is,” poem, “Pleasures, Women Write Erotica”, ed. Lonny Barbach, Doubleday, Fall, 1984.
“Moon in Taurus,” poem, New Letters, Kansas City, Missouri, Summer, 1984.
“Julio Cortazar–Dead or Alive?” book review and article, “L.A. Weekly”, July 20-26, 1984.
“Time to Love,” song, (music by Charlie Murphy,) on record, tape, Canticles of Light, Out Front Music, 1984.
“The Trees Ask Me Home,” and poster, Minding the Earth, Alameda, Calif, June 1984.
“The Revolution, Children and Theater,” “L.A. Weekly”, Los Angeles, May 25-31, 1984.
“Out of Fire and Madness: Theatre and Children in Nicaragua”, Cultural Democracy, Washington D.C., Issue #30, Spring, 1984.
“Connect/Reject” winner Writing on Relationship Contest. “Los Angeles Weekly”, Los Angeles, April 6-12, 1984. Republished in The Sun, Issue 109, Chapel Hill North Carolina, December 1984; In Context, #10, Summer 1985 Sequim, WA.
“And Yet You Were A Leaf;” “Which of These Forms Have You Taken?” and poster, “The Sun”, Issue 101, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 1984.
“Letter to Demeter,” 1984 Lunar Calendar, Boston, Luna Press 1984.
“When the Heart Speaks”, interview, The Sun Magazine, 1984.
“Dreams Against the State”, play, “Dreamworks”, Kenneth Atchity, Vol. 3, No. 4. Human Sciences Press, 1983-84.
The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them [a novel in dramatic form] and Tree [diary/novel.] Two works in one volume. Wingbow Press, Berkeley, October 1983. (First printing, Peace Press, Los Angeles, 1981.]
Tree (diary/novel, published in translation as Linfa). Milan: Compograf Edizionl La Salamandra, Spring 1978.
“That Old Bitch Again,” review of Widows, by Ariel Dorfman, Los Angeles, “Los Angeles Weekly”, November 18-24, 1983.
Quote and award in “The First Decade: Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Woman’s Building, 1983.
“Scars on the Body Politic,” excerpts, Shirim, ed. Marc Steven Dworkin, Intermedia Productions, Vol. II No. II, Los Angeles, October 1983.
“Desertion” and “Hagar Speaks”, poems, Shirim, ed. Marc Steven Dworkin, Intermedia Productions, Vol II, March 1983.
“Revamping the World,” paper delivered to A Conference of Feminist Art and Culture in the Eighties, California State university at Long Beach, October, 1983.
Shadow Letters, runner-up chapbook competition, Watermark Press, Huntington Bay, New York, September 1983.
“Cobblestones: Journal From an Island,” “Anima, Vol. IX,2”. Chambersburg, PA. Spring Equinox 1983.
“Apprentices of Freedom: A Response.” Theaterwork, Vol III, 3. St. Peter, Minn. March/April 1983.
“Dreams Against the State: A Conversation with the playwright Deena Metzger and the director Steve Kent”, Theaterwork Magazine, January/February 1983, Volume 3, Number 2.
“The Trees Ask Me Home”, poem, LA All Star Poetry Meet, compiled by Jack Grapes, Bombshelter Press, 1983.
Poster. (Mastectomy-tattoo image with excerpt from Tree published 1982. Photo by Hella Hammid, poster designed by Sheila de Bretteville. Third printing, 1989. Reproduced in over twenty publications.
“The Trees Ask Me Home,” “Shadow Letters,” and “Valyermo/ Naomi,” “The Listening Life”, ed. Isabelle Ziegler. Long Beach, CA: Artaban 307, 1982.
“Do Poems Have Gender or Sex?” “Dreaming the Road,” and “Threnody for Camellia,” “Poetry LA 4”, ed. Helen Friedland. Los Angeles: Poetry/LA, 1982.
“Returning: The Eleusinian Mysteries,” Theaterwork, Vol. 11,5. St. Peter, Minn. July/August 1982.,
From “Shadow Letters,” and A Memoir, The Brooklyn College Alumni Literary Review, 3, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1982
“There is time… There is no time…” Theaterwork, St. Paul, Minn. Vol I no.6 & Vol 2 no. I, Sept/Dec 1981. p. 23
Workshops on the Eleusinian Mysteries and Creative Writing at Aegean Women’s Studies Institute, sponsored by San Francisco State University, Molivos, Greece. July, 1981.
The Axis Mundi Poems, Los Angeles: Jazz Press, 1981
Selected poems, Finalist Nimrod third annual Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Mark Strand, judge. June 1981
“Succubus/Succulent/Succumb,” “Amorotica: New Erotic Poetry”, ed. Elliot Fried. Long Beach, CA: Deep River Press, 1981.
“What Rough Beast,” reprinted from Voyages, included in D.C. Magazines: A Literary Retrospective, ed. Richard Peabody. Washington, D.C.: Paycock Press, 1981.
“Defeats,” “Changing Landscapes”, ed. Isabelle Ziegler. Long Beach, CA: Artaban 307, 1981.
“Mating” (poem), The San Fernando Valley: Past and Present, ed. Lawrence C. Jorgenson. North Hollywood, CA: Pacific Rim Research, 1981.
From “Shadow Letters,” Zero V. Los Angeles: Zero Press, 1981.
“Do Bo Trees Ever Remember the Buddhas Who’ve Slept Beneath Them?”, poem, “Beyond Baroque Foundation Obras”, Fall 1980.
“The Eleusinian Mysteries: A Journey of Personal Transformation/A Contemporary Re-Enactment.” Two-week workshop in Greece, co-led with Steve Kent, using poetry, theatre, myth, writing, music and ritual to recreate the rites as contemporary ceremonies of personal transformation and exploration. Fall 1980, 1990.
“Where Are Your Green Eyes” (story), “Anima VI, 2”. Chambersburg, PA: June 1980.
From Axis Mundi Poems, Jazz 6. Santa Cruz, CA: Jazz Press, 1980.
“The Journal as Activity and Genre: Or Listening to the Silent Laughter of Mozart,” Semiotica XXX. The Hague: Mouton, 1980.
“Letters to Demeter IV,” “Loon,” and “Trespassing,” poems,
“Poetry LA 1”. Los Angeles: Poetry/LA, 1980.
Life Not Death in Venice (co-writer and co-interviewer). Video documentaries on the art and culture of a community of elderly Jews in Venice, California. Directed by Barbara Myerhoff; sponsored by the Department of Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California. Spring 1980.
“Reclaiming Grandmothers,” a collaborative performance of poetry and storytelling, with Barbara Myerhoff, Ph.D., at the Manhattan Theatre Club, New York. April, 1980.
Not As Sleepwalkers (staged reading). Leader of writing workshop and principal author, working under a grant from NEA. This dramatic piece was developed in a New Moves workshop for women over sixty and under thirty; it was produced at the Woman’s Building in June 1977, toured California in 1977 and 1978, and was performed at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles in 1980.
Writer’s in Performance/The Poetry Series at the Manhattan Theatre Club, “Reclaiming Grandmothers, with Barbara Myerhoff. April 21, 1980
“The Poet’s Voice” (selected poems and photographs), Theta Cable Television series, Los Angeles. January 1980. (Available on cassette.)
“Self Portrait of a Woman Alone” (poems and slides/shadow images), performed at the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles. September 1979. Some poems and images in Jazz 5. Los Angeles, 1980.
Desert Journal (journal to be used as voice-over in screen play, Desert of the Heart, by Donna Deitch from novel of the same name by Janice Rule). Desert Heart Productions, July 1979.
“Missing…,” eight poems by Ariel Dorfman. Translated by Deena Metzger and Luis Galvez. “In These Times III, 9”. Chicago: January 17-23, 1979; Index on Censorship VIII, 3. London: May/June 1979; Jazz 6. Los Angeles, Winter 1980.
“Dreams Against the State”, a brief description of the play, Dreamworks”, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1980.
“Circle of Stories” (theatre review), Parabola IV, 4. New York, 1979.
“Dear Diary” (paper on ‘The Journal as Activity and Genre’ as presented to the American Anthropological Association, 1977), with Barbara Myerhoff, Ph.D., “Chrysalis”. Winter, 1979.
“To Come Upon the Tree Slowly,” “Neither Fish Nor Fowl,” from “Xochimilco Poems,” “The Gramercy Review III, 1”. Los Angeles: Winter 1979.
Songs (lyrics, Deena Metzger; music, Caitlyn Mullin), performed at the Woman’s Building, September, 1979. “Goddess Chant” published, performed and recorded by various artists in U.S. and Europe, including Charlie Murphy 1979-1991. Seasonal Dance, ed., Janice Borch & Veronica MacLer, Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1993
“On the way to My Grandmother’s House: She is the Wolf” (prose), rara avis. Los Angeles: Summer 1979.
“Even the Still Air Needs Something to Carry,” “She Said We’d Never Fall in Love Again,” “The Elements Are Those Which Open,” from “Errato Poems,” and “Mating,” from “Xochimilco Poems,” Bachy 14. Los Angeles: Spring/Summer 1979.
“Icon,” From “Looking for the Faces of God,” “Persona (newsletter of masked theatre) III, 2. Richmond”, IN: Summer, 1979.
From “Scars on the Body Politic,” “Love Stories by New Women”, ed. Charleen Swansea and Barbara Campbell. Charlotte, NC: Red Clay Books, 1978; London: Women’s Press, 1979; New York: Avon Books, 1980-81.
Dark Milk (poetry), Los Angeles: Momentum Press, September 1978.
Excerpt in “The New Diary”, Tristine Rainer, J.P. Tarcher, 1978.
“Woman Talk – The Politics of Conversation and Various Asides on Woman’s Culture, Water Coolers, W.C.s and Children,” Issues in American History, ed. Joseph Boskin. Beverly Hills, CA: Glencoe Press, 1978.
Selected Poems (“Elementary Survival Dance,” “Crimes Against Soft Birds,” “Naming Us By Our Eyes,” “Moonshine,” “The Woman Who Swallows the Earthquake Gains Its Power”) “The Streets Inside: Ten Los Angeles Poets” (anthology), ed. Bill Mohr. Los Angeles: Momentum Press, 1978.
“Return to Earth” (poem), “LA Weekly. December 21, 1978”.
“The Woman Who Swallows the Earthquake Gains Its Power” (poem), “Chrysalis” 6. Los Angeles: Fall 1978.
“Endangered Species” (poem), “The Gramercy Review II, 4”. Los Angeles: Autumn 1978.
“Its Happening… In New Haven, L.A., New York” (theatre review), “MS Magazine VI, 12”. New York: June 1978.
The Book of Hags: a radio play in the form of a novel. Dramatized by Everett Frost. Produced for KPFK, Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles, 1976. Published on cassette, Black Box, Washington DC, 1977. Available for purchase here.
Women & Space (narrative tape and slide presentation for the exhibit “Women in American Architecture: Historic Contemporary Perspective”). The Brooklyn Museum, February, 1977.
“It is Always the Woman Who Gets Raped,” “The Journal of American Psychiatry” XXXIII, 4. Washington, D.C.: April-May, 1976. Reprinted in The Rape Victim, ed. Deanna R. Nass, Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1977; and Issues in American Society, ed. Joseph Boskin. Beverly Hills, CA: Glencoe Press, 1978.
“Elementary Survival Dance,” “Gray Bird,” “The Cold Sun,” “The Vernal Equinox,” “Ceremony for Two Still Dancers,” (poems and extensive interview), “Bachy 10”. Los Angeles: 1977.
“Omens,” “Shabbat,” (poems), “Contemporary Women Poets, An Anthology of California Poets”. San Jose, CA: Merlin Press, 1977.
“Milk Fever” (play), “Momentum Magazine”. Los Angeles: October 1977. Performed at Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles: October 1977.
“In Her Image: Woman’s Culture” (excerpt from monograph of the same name), “Heresies 2”. New York: May 1977.
“The Blue Tone,” from The Book of Hags, “Chrysalis 1”. Los Angeles: January 1977.
“At the Beck and Call of Life: Social Change and Woman’s Culture,” with Barbara G. Myerhoff, Ph.D. Paper presented to annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. May 1976.
A discussion as part of a panel on rape, by Deena Metzger, “Mankind”, Vol. 5, #8, 1976.
“It is Always the Woman Who Is Raped” a topical paper, “The American Journal of Psychiatry”, 1976.
From The Book of Hags, Sinister Wisdom 1, 2. Charlotte, NC: July 1976.
From “Scars on the Body Politic,” Sinister Wisdom 1, 1. Charlotte, NC: July 1976.
“Little League Women” (poem), Sports in Literature. New York: David McKay, Spring 1976.
“Crimes Against Soft Birds,” “What the Bird Knows,” “Cows,” “Dawn,” “Daphne,” “Marketing,” “Confirmation” (poems), The Alley Cat Readings 2. Hermosa Beach, CA: Bombshelter Press, February 1976.
“Gray Bird”, poem, The Greater Golden Hill Poetry Express National Issue, Vol. II, Issue 1, 1976.
Skin: Shadows/Silence (novel), Reno, Nevada: West Coast Poetry Review, 1975.
“Art of Latin America” (slide presentation on revolutionary art and culture of Chile and Cuba), with Dr. David Kunzle. Los Angeles: Environmental Graphics, 1975.
A Letter of Introduction, Art: A Woman’s Sensibility. Valencia, CA: California Institute of the Arts, Spring 1975.
“Crimes Against Soft Birds” (poem), Peace News, London: May 1975.
“American Mother”, Latin American Perspectives, Volume 2, Number I, Spring 1975.
A paragraph about The Woman’s Building, the Woman’s Building Chicago 1893 the Woman’s Building Los Angeles 1973, Women’s Community Press 1975.
“Crimes Against Soft Birds”, poem, “Women’s Work, Woman’s Community Press 1975.
“The Diary: The Ceremony of Knowing,” “A Casebook on Anais Nin”, ed. Robert Zaller. New York: Meridian Books, 1974.
From Skin: Shadows/Silence, Bastard Angel 2. San Francisco: Spring 1974.
“Letter to a Young Woman Artist”, letter, “Anonymous Was a Woman”, director Miriam Schapiro, Feminist Art Program California Institute of the Arts, 1974.
“Woman’s Sensibility: A Seventh Sense”, interview on KPFK, in KPFK Folio, May 1974.
Chile: With Poems and Guns (hour-long film documentary). Co-producer, co-director, co-writer, co-editor, narrator. January, 1974.
“Woman” (poem), “Children of the Moon”, ed. Rochelle Holt. Birmingham, AL: Ragnarok Press, 1973.
“Teacher’s Bill of Rights,” WIN IX, 40. New York: December 1973.
“Silence as Experience,” College Composition and Communication XXIV, 3. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, October 1973.
“Little League Women,” “A Talisman for the New Year” (poems), “Rising Tides: 20th Century American Women Poets”, ed. Laura Chester and Sharon Barba. New York: Pocket Books, July 1973.
“Skin: Shadows SILENCE,” interview with Deena by Bill Robson, Holy Doors an Anthology of Poetry, Prose & Criticism, ed. William J. Robson, 1972.
Her Raven Tresses (radio documentary). KPFK, Pacifica Radio, 1972.
“A Talisman for the New Year” (poem), Venice Poetry Company Presents, ed. Ted Simmons. Venice, CA: 1972.
“Laboring” from Flying With a Rock, Everywoman III, 1. Los Angeles: February 1972.
“Daphne,” “Cows” (poems), Tree Three, Santa Barbara, CA: Winter 1972.
“Confirmations” (poem), “Mount Alverno Review”. Los Angeles: 1971.
“The Tree the Students at Pitzer Did Not See” (poem), Statement, 28 California State University at Los Angeles: Summer 1971.
“A Talisman for the New Year” (poem), “Southern California Lit Scene, I, 1”. Long Beach, CA: December 1970.
“Poetry as Attitude,” “College Composition and Communication XXXI, 1”. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, February 1970.
“The Revolution of Sensibility vs. The American Meatgrinder,” Statement 26. California State University at Los Angeles: Winter 1970.
Controversy Breeds Involvement (article about Deena’s poem “Jehovah’s Child”) by Dale Spina, Crown/70 Volume 21, 1970.
“The Book of Hags”, excerpt from the novel “The Book of Hags”, Networks, edited by Rochelle Dubois, Ragnarok Press 1970.
“Jehovah’s child : the case of Deena Metzger”, excerpts from a press conference that was held on Wednesday, September 17, 1969 concerning the case Deena Metzger and Leslie Hoag, both teachers at Los Angeles Valley College.
“Jehovah’s Child” (poem), Los Angeles Free Press. July 1969.
“Neatly Removed” (story), Spectrum XI, 1. University of California, Santa Barbara: Summer 1969.
“Apricot” (poem), “Pyramid 6”. Belmont, MA: 1969.
From “What Rough Beast,” “Beyond Baroque 1, 2”. Los Angeles: July 1969.
“Relevant Relevance,” “College Composition and Communication XX, 5”. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, December 1969.
Committee member for Year Two: Westside Poetry Center, 1969.
From “What Rough Beast,” “Voyages II, 3”. Washington D.C.: Fall 1968.
“Words” (poem), “23 California Poets”, Los Angeles: Ante-Echo Press, 1968.
“A Metaphor” from “What Rough Beast”, Ante III, 3. Los Angeles: Fall 1967.
“Appetite,” “Sow Anything” (poems), Ante III, 2. Los Angeles: Summer 1967.
“Variations on a Theme: A Study of ‘Exiles’ by James Joyce and ‘The Great God Brown’ by Eugene O’Neill,” Modern Drama, September 1965.
“Hart Crane’s Bridge: The Myth Active,” Arizona Quarterly XX, 1. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, Spring 1964.
