1869, Ep. 142 w/ Eric Keenaghan & Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, editors of The Muriel Rukeyser Era

1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast

Learn about the new book here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%): https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771750/the-muriel-rukeyser-era/#bookTabs=1 Read the transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/XqLGFhSLcHCvbI8HZPT3omPq7w8?utm_source=copy_url Eric Keenaghan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author of Queering Cold War Poetry. Rowena Kennedy-Epstein is Associate Professor of gender studies and twentieth- and twenty-first-century women's writing at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Unfinished Spirit and editor of Rukeyser's Savage Coast. We spoke to Eric and Rowena about Muriel Rukeyser’s life and legacy, why much of her writing was actively suppressed during her time, and how reading Rukeyser’s prose helps us better understand her ideas, her career, and her poetry.