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Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, biographer, novelist, screenwriter and political activist. She wrote across genres and forms, addressing issues related to racial, gender and class justice, war and war crimes, Jewish culture and diaspora, American history, politics, and culture.
Muriel Rukeyser was a poet, playwright, biographer, children’s book author, and political activist. Indeed, for Rukeyser, these activities and forms of expression were linked.
Muriel Rukeyser was born on December 15, 1913, in New York City. She attended Vassar College for two years and then moved back to New York where she took classes at Columbia University. Her first collection of poems, Theory of Flight (Yale University Press, 1935), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1935.
Bridging the old Left and the New, international and domestic politics, foremother and front-runner, Muriel Rukeyser’s career poses profound challenges to the conventional schools and period divisions through which we narrate twentieth-century literary and political history.
Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet whose work focused on social and political problems. Rukeyser attended private schools and in 1930–32 was a student at Vassar College. During that time she contributed poems to Poetry magazine and other periodicals.
On the Timeliness—and Timelessness—of Muriel Rukeyser’s Far-Reaching Poetry. Natasha Trethewey Considers the Essential Role of Poetry in Our Lives. By Natasha Trethewey. June 3, 2021. My earliest encounter with the poems of Muriel Rukeyser was in a seminar on contemporary American poetry in my first year of graduate school.
I met Muriel the next spring—1977—at the Roethke Poetry Festival at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, an hour and a half from New York. Roethke had taught at Lafayette—his first teaching job, in the thirties.