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January 28, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."

- Muriel Rukeyser

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The front covers of three books by Muriel Rukeyser, photographed against a white background. From left to right, The Gates: Poems; The Life of Poetry; and Out of Silence.
July 9, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
-- Muriel Rukeyser

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December 16, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

― Muriel Rukeyser

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The front covers of three books by Muriel Rukeyser.
June 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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NEW #TYPELOOP: Starts with #MurielRukeyser then a plea and ends with a prayer. More details: jessicaesch.com/collections/....

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January 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Islands, Muriel Rukeyser
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Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) was an American poet, essayist, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, and political activist.

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April 21, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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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
December 9, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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"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
February 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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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
November 5, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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pretty sure that she's one of the very best poets for the circumstances at hand #MurielRukeyser
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.
June 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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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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March 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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"A poem does invite, it does require."
-- Muriel Rukeyser

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August 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/muriel...

✒️ #MurielRukeyser, American poet (The Book of the Dead), was #BOTD 15 December 1913. #Poetry #Literature
December 15, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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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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November 8, 2023 at 5:10 PM
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#Poetry
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Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
by Muriel Rukeyser
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.
May 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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#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
Metaphor to Action - Muriel Rukeyser
Originally published in Theory of Flight (1935) Whether it is a speaker, taut on a platform, who battles a crowd with the hammers of his words, whether it is the crash of lips on lips after absence an...
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March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/muriel...

✒ American poet, playwright, biographer, children’s book author, and political activist, #MurielRukeyser passed away #OTD 12 February 1980. #Poetry #Literature #Theatre
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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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
January 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The Book of the Dead by #MurielRukeyser is an incredible collection of documentary poetry from @wvupress.bsky.social
The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser
The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser is collection of non-fiction poetry about the Hawk’s Nest tunnel disaster of the 1930s.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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
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
April 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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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
December 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#Poetry
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#MurielRukeyser

Poem (lived in the first century of world wars)
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.
March 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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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.
From “Elegy in Joy”
We tell beginnings: for the flesh and the answer
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January 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. #MurielRukeyser #authentic #rebellion #subversion
December 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/muriel...

✒️ #MurielRukeyser, American poet (The Book of the Dead), was #BOTD 15 December 1913. #Poetry #Literature
December 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM