Muriel Rukeyser

She dedicated the book to Jane Cooper , Muriel Rukeyser , a friend lost track of named Eileen, and in loving memory of Zora Neale Hurston , Nella Larsen , and Jean Toomer , the...

A year later, in 1926 MMC enrolled at Annie Wright Episcopal Boarding School in Tacoma. She would travel home to Seattle some weekends by boat or on the Interurban streetcar. Further elaborating on different...

Other friends who not of this group but who were important to CMC included several distinguished writers: Eudora Welty , Katherine Anne Porter , Tennessee Williams , Elizabeth Ames (director of the writers' community at...

Her nurturing friendship with Muriel Rukeyser never recovered from her ceasing to deal with Rukeyser's intimate Monica McCall as her agent. Rukeyser wrote her a letter of reproach in May 1975; Walker wrote back at...

At Sarah Lawrence, she wrote later, everyody understood that writing was about your heart and your soul and . . nobody cared about what you wore or if your hair was done the right way....

Here AR studies various global and national issues of the past and present, such as the Persian Gulf War, poverty, and the struggles of homosexuals, and Jewish-, African-, and Irish-Americans. Florence Howe has judged that...

AR writes here on June Jordan , Audre Lorde , Muriel Rukeyser , and Wallace Stevens , among others. She reiterates her passionate belief in the links between poetic, personal, and social consciousness and activity:...

Of this collection Poetry magazine asserted: Feeling is channeled into a style that is direct and sharp, honest speech pared down to essentials.Muriel Rukeyser wrote (in words that appeared on the jacket of...

Focussing her political activity on military, nuclear, and environmental issues, DL was not a feminist. She claimed never to have made an aesthetic decision based on my gender.Kate Daniels has charged her with myopia...

With her fellow poet Muriel Rukeyser and others, DL became active in opposing the war in Vietnam as an initiator of Writers and Artists Protest against the War in Vietnam .

After this novel AW changed her literary agent from Monica McCall (who had launched her career but who she felt was too formal to communicate with her without stress) to Wendy Weil . This move...

Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman

Desmond MacCarthy had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939...

AW 's first book, Once: Poems (containing thirty pieces), was published through the agency of Muriel Rukeyser and Monica McCall . It was dedicated to Howard Zinn .

AW said she felt at the time that she was fighting for her own life. She wrote the story with tears pouring down my cheeks.Muriel Rukeyser sent it to Hughes, who proved victorious...