Gould, Janice

Books:
Beneath My Heart: Poetry. Firebrand Books, 1990.
Alphabet. May Day Press, 1996.
Earthquake Weather: Poems. University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Doubters and Dreamers. University of Arizona Press, 2011.
The Force of Gratitude. Headmistress Press, 2017.
Seed. Headmistress Press, 2019.

Books Edited by Gould:
A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant. Sinister Wisdom; Inanna Publications, 2019.
Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary Indigenous Poetry. With Dean Rader. The University of Arizona Press, 2003.

Essays:
“The Problem of Being ‘Indian’: One Mixed-Blood’s Dilemma.” In De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography, edited by Sidonie Smith and Julie Watson. University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
"Speaking a World into Existence," The Women's Review of Books 9, no. 10/11 (1992): 12. doi:10.2307/4021318.
“A Maidu in the City of Gold: Some Thoughts on Censorship and American Indian Poetry.” In The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women, edited by Connie Fife. Sister Vision, 1993.
“Disobedience (in Language) in texts by Lesbian Native Americans,” Ariel 25, no. 1 (1994): 32-44.
"American Indian Women's Poetry: Strategies of Rage and Hope," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 20, no. 4 (Summer, 1995): 797-817. https://doi.org/10.1086/495022
“Telling Stories to the Seventh Generation: Resisting the Assimilationist Narrative of Stiya.” In Reading Native American Women: Critical/Creative Representations, edited by Inés Hernández-Avila. Altamira Press, 2005.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2016.1145486
"Singing, Speaking, and Seeing a World." In Placing the Academy: Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity, edited by Jennifer Sinor and Rona Kaufman. University Press of Colorado, 2007.
Review of Crazy Brave: A Memoir, by Joy Harjo. "The Warrior Spirit," The Women's Review of Books 30, no. 4 (2013): 21-22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24430480.
“Lesbian Landscape,” Journal of Lesbian Studies 20, no. 3/4 (2016): 342-351.

Thesis & Dissertation:
“Between Two Realms: Problems of Return in American Indian Women’s Literature.” MA thesis., University of California,
1987.
“’I Give You Back’: Memory, Language, and Transformation in Joy Harjo’s Poetry.” PhD diss., University of New Mexico, 2000.

Selected Poems:
"Nightfall," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 12, no. 3 (1992): 151. doi:10.2307/3346646.
"What Happened to My Anger?" Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 12, no. 3 (1992): 152-53.
"Outside Language," American Poetry Review 22, no. 4 (1993): 34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27781207.
"I Learn a Simple Lesson About Our Society," Callaloo 17, no. 1 (1994): 105-07. doi:10.2307/2932067.
"Your Fury," Prairie Schooner 72, no. 4 (1998): 125-26. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40634999.
"Prayer," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 23, no. 2 (2002): 62-63. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3347385.
"Spring," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 23, no. 2 (2002): 63-64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3347386.
doi:10.2307/3346647.
The Poetry Foundation. "Janice Gould." Accessed March 2, 2025. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/janice-gould.

Anthologies in which Gould Appears:

Cochran, Jo, ed. Bearing Witness / Sobreviviendo: An Anthology of Native American / Latina Art and Literature. Calyx, 1984.
Brant, Beth, ed. A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women. Firebrand Books, 1988.
Roscoe, Will, and Gay American Indians, eds. Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
McEwan, Christian, ed. Naming the Waves: Contemporary Lesbian Poetry. Crossing Press, 1989.
Anzaldúa, Gloria, ed. Making Face, Making Soul = Haciendo Caras : Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color. Aunt Lute Foundation Books, 1990.
Barrington, Judith, ed. An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality. Eighth Mountain Press, 1991.
Dunn, Sara, and Alan Scholefield, eds. Poetry for the Earth. Fawcett Columbine, 1992.
Penelope, Julia, and Susan J. Wolfe, eds. Lesbian Culture: An Anthology. Crossing Press, 1993.
Pollack, Sandra, and Denise D. Knight, eds. Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1993.
Bruchac, Joseph, and the Association for Study of American Indian Literatures. Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival. University of Arizona Press, 1994.
Gillan, Maria M., and Jennifer Gillan, eds. Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry. Penguin Books, 1994.
Perreault, Jeanne Martha, and Joseph Bruchac, eds. Critical Visions: Contemporary North American Native Writing. University of Alberta, 1994.
Sarris, Greg, ed. The Sound of Rattles and Clappers: A Collection of New California Indian Writing. University of Arizona Press, 1994.
Harjo, Joy, and Gloria Bird, eds. Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writing of North America. W. W. Norton & Co., 1998.
Anderson, Carolyn Dunn, and Carol Comfort, eds. Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers. Aunt Lute Books, 1999.
Reid, Catherine, and Holly Iglesias, eds. His Hands, His Tools, His Sex, His Dress: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers. Alice Street Editions, 2001.
Dubin, Margaret Denise, ed. The Dirt Is Red Here: Art and Poetry from Native California. Heyday Books, 2002.
Alexander, M. Jacqui, ed. Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!: Feminist Visions for a Just World. Edgework books, 2003.
Johasz, Suzanne, ed. A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women, Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Hogeland, Lisa Maria, ed. The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Vol 1: 17th through 19th Centuries. Aunt Lute Books, 2004.
Ochoa, María, and Barbara K. Ige, eds. Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence. Seal Press, 2007.
Driskill, Owo-Li, Daniel Health Justice, Deborah A. Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti, eds. Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature. University of Arizona Press, 2011.
Water, Luke Warm, and Lucille Day, eds. Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California. Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016.
Fuhrman, CMarie, and Dean Rader, eds. Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. Tupelo Press, 2019.

Scholarly Work about Gould's Poetry:
Brant, Beth. "Giveaway: Native Lesbian Writers," Signs 18, no. 4 (1993). 944-47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174915.
Tatonetti, Lisa. "The Emergence and Importance of Queer American Indian Literatures; Or, 'Help and Stories' in Thirty Years of SAIL." Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, 19, no. 4 (2007): 143-70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20737397.
Tatonetti, Lisa. "Indigenous Assemblage and Queer Diasporas in the Work of Janice Gould." In The Queerness of Native American Literature, 144-73. University of Minnesota Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1287nt2.8.

Bibliography compiled by Amy Hong