UniVerse is the first collection of the early poems of Dajenya. 
Inspired by direct personal experience as a queer woman born to
an African-American father and a Euro-American mother at a time,
(1953), when such marriages were rare, Dajenya’s poetry takes on
issues of race, sexuality, spirituality, trauma, drug recovery, friendship,
and her strong feelings about war, patriarchy and more.  This collection,
her first to be published in her own book, contains some of her best
poetry from the years 1965 through 2000.  

Some of Dajenya’s poetry has also been published in 5 anthologies:
Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out,(Alyson Publications,1991),
Sister/Stranger: Lesbians Loving Across the Lines, (Sidewalk Revolution Press, 1993),
Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries & Visions, (The Haworth Press,1995),
What I Want From You: Voices of East Bay Lesbian Poets, (RAW ArT Press, 2006), and
Smash the Church, Smash the State! : The Early Years of Gay Liberation,
City Lights Books, 2009), in addition to various publications including Sinister Wisdom,
Women’s Peace Journal, Rites of Passage, Anything That Moves, Women’s Recovery
Network, and more.

You can view samples of Dajenya's poems from this and other books on the Poems page.
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