"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
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✒ American poet, playwright, biographer, children’s book author, and political activist, #MurielRukeyser passed away #OTD 12 February 1980. #Poetry #Literature #Theatre
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. #MurielRukeyser #authentic #rebellion #subversion
Born on this day in 1913, Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet and activist whose work united poetry with social justice. Known for The Book of the Dead, she believed poetry could reveal truth, create connection, and inspire change.
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” #MurielRukeyser
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✒️ #MurielRukeyser, American poet (The Book of the Dead), was #BOTD 15 December 1913. #Poetry #Literature
The Book of the Dead by #MurielRukeyser is an incredible collection of documentary poetry from @wvupress.bsky.social
"A poem does invite, it does require."
-- Muriel Rukeyser
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Poem Muriel Rukeyser Tlived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane, the newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, the news would pour out of various devices, Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. I would call my friends on other devices; They would be more or less mad for similar reasons. Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, Considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values. As the lights darkened, as the lights of night brightened, We would try to imagine them, try to find each other. To construct peace, to make love, to reconcile waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other, Ourselves with ourselves. We would try by any means to reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves, to let go the means, to wake. Tlived in the first century of these wars.
pretty sure that she's one of the very best poets for the circumstances at hand #MurielRukeyser
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
Painters In the cave with a long-ago flare a woman stands, her arms up. Red twig, black twig, brown twig. A wall of leaping darkness over her. The men are out hunting in the early light But here in this flicker, one or two men, painting and a woman among them. Great living animals grow on the stone walls, their pelts, their eyes, their sex, their hearts, and the cave-painters touch them with life, red, brown, black, a woman among them, painting. - Muriel Rukeyser 1913 – 1980
Muriel Rukeyser: a fearless voice of activism and poetry, who bridged art with social justice. 🌍 Her work embraced truth and the power of the human spirit, challenging us to imagine and act for a better world. Celebrate her legacy of courage and craft. #MurielRukeyser #Poetry
Happy World Poetry Day 2025! 🌐✨✨✨🌐
Theme-'Poetry as a bridge for peace and inclusion'.
Here is a poem by Muriel Rukeyser entitled 'Wherever' taken from her collection 'Breaking Open' 1973.
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I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane, The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, The news would pour out of various devices Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. I would call my friends on other devices; They would be more or less mad for similar reasons. Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, Considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values. As the lights darkened, as the lights of night brightened, We would try to imagine them, try to find each other, To construct peace, to make love, to reconcile Waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other, Ourselves with ourselves. We would try by any means To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves, To let go the means, to wake. I lived in the first century of these wars.
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Poem (lived in the first century of world wars)
#MurielRukeyser writing in 1935:
"Over us is a striking on the walls of the sky,
here are the dynamos, steel-black, harboring flame,
[....]
here we require proof in solidarity,
iron on iron, body on body, and the large single beating."
#AmericanPoetry
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
✒ American poet, playwright, biographer, children’s book author, and political activist, #MurielRukeyser passed away #OTD 12 February 1980. #Poetry #Literature #Theatre
NEW #TYPELOOP: Starts with #MurielRukeyser then a plea and ends with a prayer. More details: jessicaesch.com/collections/....
Thx @rowena-ke.bsky.social and @openingfield.bsky.social for your stamina + good work.
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#eyesopenarmswide #fillintheblanks #typewriterart #typewriterlove #RUKEYSERFOREVER
I've found some comfort in the Muriel Rukeyser poem that opens, "I lived in the first century of world wars.
Most mornings I was more or less insane."
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#Resist #SelfCare #Poetry #MurielRukeyser
Found this in my files - an essay by poet Muriel Rukeyser with her edits in it. It is a copy given to me years ago by a friend who was her assistant . #murielrukeyser #womenpoets #politicalpoetry #jewishpoets #howpoetsgetmade
From"Elegy in Joy"by #MurielRukeyser
in time of war
What shall we feed?
I cannot say the end.
Nourish beginnings,let us nourish beginnings.[...]
Love that gives us ourselves, in the world known to all
new techniques for the healing of the wound,
and the unknown world.
One life,or the faring stars.
"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
-- Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser sitting on a bench and turned toward the camera.
Happy birthday, Muriel Rukeyser. You were and remain a marvel. #HSBARS #murielrukeyser
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/muriel...
✒️ #MurielRukeyser, American poet (The Book of the Dead), was #BOTD 15 December 1913. #Poetry #Literature
This is the most audacious landscape. The gangster's / stance with his gun smoking and out is not so / vicious as this commercial field, its hill of glass. #MurielRukeyser #TheBookofTheDead
The other day I was trying to remember when I saw Allen Ginsberg read at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Today, of all days, I opened Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry and found the ticket. Serendipity, coincidence, sign? #poetry #allenginsberg #murielrukeyser
In one week, come join me & Rowena Kennedy-Epstein as we discuss #murielrukeyser with the Flow Chart Foundation and celebrate the release of The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose! Follow the link. Below to register for this Zoom event.
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This essay prefacing this poetry collection is everything I aspire to.
#murielrukeyser #thebookofthedead #hawksnest #gauleybridge #catherinevenablemoore #unioncarbide #EJ #slowviolence #envhist
So world weary. Thankful that @monaeltahawy is tweeting fierce and beautiful passages from #murielrukeyser to stave off the doom.
