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Kate Rushin
BornDonna Kate Rushin
1951 (age 72–73)
Occupation
  • Poet
NationalityAmerican
EducationOberlin College
Genre
  • Fiction
  • poetry
Notable works"The Bridge Poem"
Notable awardsRose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize; Grolier Poetry Prize
Website
katerushinpoet.com/index.php/about/

Donna Kate Rushin (born 1951),[1] popularly known as Kate Rushin, is a Black lesbian poet. Rushin's prefatory poem, "The Bridge Poem", to the 1981 collection This Bridge Called My Back is considered iconic. She currently lives in Connecticut.[2]

Education[edit]

Rushin was raised in Lawnside, New Jersey.[1] She obtained a Bachelor of Art's degree from Oberlin College, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Brown University.[2] In 2021, she became Poet in Residence in the English Department of Connecticut College.[3][4]

Publications[edit]

  • The Black Back-Ups (Firebrand Books, 1993).[5]
  • "After the Accident." Callaloo 23, no. 1 (2000): 192–193.[6]
  • "Word Problems." Callaloo 23, no. 1 (2000): 190–191.[7]
  • "Reeling Memories For My Father." Callaloo 23, no. 1 (2000): 188–189.[8] Reprinted in Callaloo 24, no. 3 (2001): 885–86.
  • "The Tired Poem: Lost Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman." In Feminism and Community, edited by Weiss Penny A. and Friedman Marilyn, 77–82. Temple University Press, 1995.[9] Reprinted in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, ed. Barbara Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2000): 247–251.
  • "The Black Back-Ups." Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, ed. Barbara Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2000): 60–63.
  • "Instructions from the Flight Crew to a Poet of African Descent Living in a State of Emergency." Callaloo 22, no. 4 (1999): 976–976.[10]
  • "Rosa Revisited" in Teaching the art of poetry: the moves, A, Baron Wormser and A, David Cappella (Routledge, 1999): 305–306.
  • "A Pacifist Becomes Militant and Declares War." In My Lover is a Woman – Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems, Lesléa Newman (Ballantine Books, 1999): 211–214.
  • "Six Poems." The Radical Teacher, no. 42 (1992): 22–23.
  • "Comparative History: Our Stories." Callaloo, no. 39 (1989): 290-91.[11]
  • "Living in My Head." The Women's Review of Books 1, no. 2 (1983): 15.[12]
  • "The Brick Layers." The Women's Review of Books 1, no. 2 (1983): 15.[13]
  • "This Bridge Poem." In This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Kitchen Table Press, 1983; reprinted State University of New York Press Albany, 2015): xxxiii-xxxiv. Republished in Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, ed. Carole McCann and Seung-kyung Kim (Routledge, 2013): 266–267.

Awards[edit]

  • Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize[1]
  • Grolier Poetry Prize[1][14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d "Kate Rushin". Lift Every Voice | African-American Poetry. Library of America. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Kate Rushin". Kate Rushin Poet. 22 April 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Kate Rushin". Connecticut College.
  4. ^ "Kate Rushin". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
  5. ^ Rushin, Kate (1993). The Black Back-Ups. Firebrand Books.
  6. ^ Rushin, Kate (2000). "After the Accident". Callaloo. 23 (1): 192–193. doi:10.1353/cal.2000.0067. ISSN 1080-6512. S2CID 162145058.
  7. ^ Rushin, Kate (2000). "Word Problems". Callaloo. 23 (1): 190–191. doi:10.1353/cal.2000.0066. ISSN 1080-6512. S2CID 201791768.
  8. ^ Rushin, Kate (2001). "Reeling Memories for My Father". Callaloo. 24 (3): 885–886. doi:10.1353/cal.2001.0208. ISSN 1080-6512. S2CID 161549700.
  9. ^ *Rushin, Kate. "The Tired Poem: Lost Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman." In Feminism and Community, edited by Weiss Penny A. and Friedman Marilyn, 77–82. Temple University Press, 1995.
  10. ^ Rushin, Kate (1999). "Instructions from the Flight Crew to a Poet of African Descent Living in a State of Emergency". Callaloo. 22 (4): 976. doi:10.1353/cal.1999.0189. ISSN 1080-6512. S2CID 162146206.
  11. ^ Rushin, Kate (1989). "Comparative History: Our Stories". Callaloo (39): 290–291. doi:10.2307/2931563. ISSN 0161-2492. JSTOR 2931563.
  12. ^ Rushin, Kate (November 1983). "Living in My Head". The Women's Review of Books. 1 (2): 15. doi:10.2307/4019445. ISSN 0738-1433. JSTOR 4019445.
  13. ^ Rushin, Kate (November 1983). "The Brick Layers". The Women's Review of Books. 1 (2): 15. doi:10.2307/4019446. ISSN 0738-1433. JSTOR 4019446.
  14. ^ Bowen, Angela (2021), [https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss8/32 "1988 Introductory Speech by Angela Bowen for Kate Rushin receiving the Grolier Poetry Prize," Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 8, Article 32.

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