Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS

by Julene Tripp Weaver (Contributor), Kelly Norman Ellis, Raymond Berry (Contributor)

As HIV continues to change life on this planet, encouraging tough conversations about sex, sexual orientation, healthy relationships and trust, it invigorates those young and old to challenge the status quo of silence. Editors Kelly Norman Ellis and M.L. Hunter have assembled established and emerging writers and artists from around the globe, such as American Book Award and Pew Fellowship winner Lamont B. Steptoe; renown poet and educator Tony Medina; and Emmy award-winner Kwame Dawes, for this haunting and inspiring collection of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction that paints living portraits of HIV/AIDS.

Genres: Poetry

203 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 2010

About the author

Julene Tripp Weaver, a psychotherapist and writer in Seattle, has four poetry collections; Slow Now With Clear Skies (MoonPath Press, 2024); truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS (Finishing Line Press, 2017), which won the Bisexual Book Award in 2018, four Indie Press 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 poems have appeared in HEAL, Autumn Sky Poetry, The Seattle Review of Books, Poetry Super Highway, As it Ought To Be, Feels Blind, and elsewhere. Anthologies include: Poets Speaking to Poets: Echoes and Tributes, Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice, and I Sing the Salmon Home.

Reviews

[Nina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need to state upfront that I have 2 poems in this anthology, and the topic is very important to me, so my review is somewhat biased. There is a bit of prose as well as poetry in this collection. Well-known and new voices are included. The poems cover anger,fear, hope, despair, pain (both physical and psychic), and love.

[Julene · Rating 4 out of 5]

My poem "After the Care Conference" is published in this striking book that addresses poetry, prose and art on HIV/AIDS.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have a poem in this anthology--previously published in the Fall/Winter '06-'07 issue of Hayden's Ferry Review.