On December 15, 1913, Muriel Rukeyser was born 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, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1935.
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Muriel Rukeyser - Poet | Academy of American Poetsry
Tags: NEA Fellow
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The Life of Poetry, Chapter 1
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Brooks, H. D., and Rukeyser: Three Women Poets in the First Century of World Wars
<span>On December 15, 1913, Muriel Rukeyser was born 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, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1935. Her subsequent books of poetry would be inspired by certain events she witnessed, including the Scottsboro trial in Alabama, the Gauley Bridge tragedy in West Virginia, and the civil wa Summary
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