mthunter22, Author at The Muriel Rukeyser Living Archive

Muriel Rukeyser, Zombie Necromancer

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Joe Sacksteder I don’t care for this new zombie renaissance. And I don’t mean that like I’m afraid of zombies or something. I just think that 1). it’s a default subject matter for horror writers, 2). all interesting scenarios and subject matters were long ago exhausted, and 3). our current fascination with the genre points to disturbing cultural predilections. So I was surprised when reading a new compilation put out by Butler University’s Pressgang Press, Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings, that my favorite story was Amiee Bender’s Among Us. Briefly, it starts as [...]

mthunter222012-11-23T22:27:20+00:00November 23, 2012|Ruke Blog|0 Comments

Synecdoche, West Virginia

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Joe Sacksteder This past spring I was attending a Creative Writing Department meeting here at Eastern Michigan University, and one of my colleagues mentioned a list of literary terms that we’re supposed to make sure all of our Intro students are familiar with. I immediately became nervous and scouted the room for other people who looked like they might have never heard of this list. Either everyone was pretty good at pretending–Ah yes, the list!–or I was the only one who missed the memo. I discreetly obtained a copy of the list without anybody [...]

mthunter222012-11-16T18:08:00+00:00November 16, 2012|Ruke Blog|2 Comments

Important Poetry

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Joe Sacksteder One good thing about the gym that I go to is that people are always leaving behind old issues of Harper’s and The New Yorker, allowing me to cancel both of my subscriptions in exchange for getting them like a month or two late. Last week somebody left behind the September 2012 issue of The Sun (score!), and a piece of non-fiction called "Ten Days in November" by Eric Anderson caught my eye. In the first of the ten days, Anderson is addressing an Intro to Poetry class: The worst thing you [...]

mthunter222012-11-10T01:54:39+00:00November 10, 2012|Ruke Blog|5 Comments

Why Muriel Rukeyser? Why a website just for her?

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Elisabeth Däumer Friends, colleagues, and students have asked me: Why Rukeyser? What's so special about her? Why create a Muriel Rukeyser website? Why make her the focus of an interdisciplinary online "meeting place"? I've been thinking how best to say this and have come up with four primary reasons: 1. Her poetry makes things happen--it has a peculiar type of energy which emerges when it's read in groups. 2. We still don't know how to read her work. We seem to figure out how to read some of her poems--for instance "Book of the [...]

mthunter222012-06-16T12:20:33+00:00June 16, 2012|Ruke Blog|4 Comments

Thoughts on “Searching/Not Searching: Writing the Biography of Muriel Rukeyser”

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Elisabeth Däumer I just read Kate Daniels' piece "Searching/Not Searching: Writing the Biography of Muriel Rukeyser" (Poetry East 16-17, Spring/Summer 1985, pp. 70-93). It's a great essay! One of the most honest essays I have read about Muriel Rukeyser. Daniels reflects upon the curious desire to write the life of somebody else--what draws us to that task, what is it we are looking for, what do we see, what do we not see, and why. She asserts that "the biographical method is a self-reflexive one, depending as much on the character and experience of [...]

mthunter222012-06-15T12:38:42+00:00June 15, 2012|Ruke Blog|1 Comment

Rukeyser’s indentations

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Elisabeth Däumer So, I am curious, why are the lines indented the way they are in Rukeyser's poem "For My Son"? What is the difference between: You come from poets, kings, bankrupts, preachers, attempted bankrupts, builders of cities, salesmen, the great rabbis, the kings of Ireland, failed drygoods storekeepers, beautiful women of the songs, great horsemen, tyrannical fathers at the shore of ocean, the western mothers lookng west beyond from their windows, the families escaping over the sea hurriedly and by night-- the roundtowers of the Celtic violet sunset, the diseased, the radiant, fliers, [...]

mthunter222012-05-15T16:41:50+00:00May 15, 2012|Ruke Blog|0 Comments

How to read Rukeyser?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Elisabeth Däumer It seems right to begin this blog on the new Rukeyser website by exploring the different ways of reading that Rukeyser's poetry invites or compels us to engage in. This semester, I am guiding an independent study on Rukeyser with Chelsea Lonsdale, a student who will join EMU's graduate program in Written Communication in the fall (2012) and who is currently completing an undergraduate thesis on craft--the "craft" of composition and "craft" if I understand her correctly in general. So part of what we'll do together is to "read" individual poems by [...]

mthunter222012-05-15T12:36:46+00:00May 15, 2012|Ruke Blog|6 Comments

Site Under Construction

This site is still under construction, but more poems are added each week. Once the site is complete, it will serve as a lively and comprehensive resource for reading, exploring, and teaching the poet Muriel Rukeyser’s multi-facetted work and broad range of interests, from poetry and the visual arts to religion, history, science, and technology. Let us know if you are interested in contributing to the site--for instance, by writing short essays about individual poems or submitting other original work on Muriel Rukeyser, including pedagogical resources. We are regularly adding Poems, Prose, Long Poems written by Rukeyser to the website. [...]

mthunter222012-02-08T18:18:14+00:00February 8, 2012|Uncategorized|0 Comments

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