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Muriel Rukeyser

Born in 1913, Muriel Rukeyser drew on many different sources of inspiration and used her poetry as a mode of social protest...
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		Politics and Patriotism
		Howl, Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg

		America by Robert Creeley

		America by Claude McKay

		America by James Monroe Whitfield

		American History by Michael S. Harper

		American Names by Stephen Vincent Benét

		Bomb Crater Sky by Lam Thi My Da

		Children of Our Era by Wislawa Szymborska

		Dear George Bush by Kristin Prevallet

		December 2, 2002 by Juliana Spahr

		Delicate Cluster by Walt Whitman

		Election Day, November, 1884 by Walt Whitman

		Election Year by Donald Revell

		Exquisite Candidate by Denise Duhamel

		Exquisite Politics by Denise Duhamel

		Fellini in Purgatory by Jean Valentine

		Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind by Carl Sandburg

		I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes

		In a Country by Larry Levis

		it: a user’s guide by Evie Shockley

		Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

		Modern Declaration by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds by Eleanor Lerman

		Patriotics by David Baker

		Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander

		Thanksgiving Letter from Harry by Carl Dennis

		The Condoleezza Suite [Excerpt] by Nikky Finney

		To Roosevelt by Rubén Darío

		Poems about Rebellion
		On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art by Frank O'Hara

How We Did It
by Muriel Rukeyser




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December 7, 1976 From the Academy Audio Archive Listen to this recording in the latest Poetcast