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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]
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| Born | Donna Kate Rushin 1951 (age 72–73) |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Oberlin College |
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| Notable works | "The Bridge Poem" |
| Notable awards | Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize; Grolier Poetry Prize |
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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]
- 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.
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