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Poet: Kate Rushin

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So it's a gorgeous afternoon in the park. It's so nice you forget our Attitude. The one your mama taught you. The one that says Don't-Mess-With-Me. You forget until you hear all this. Whistling and lip smacking. You whip around and say. I ain't no damn dog. It's a young guy. His mouth drops open. You lie and smile and say. Then five minutes later. Hey you Sweet Devil. Hey Girl come here. You tense sigh calculate. You know the lean boys and bearded men. Are only cousins and lovers and friends. On the back...

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After funerals, everyone goes berserk:. They sell the rings, hide the policies, dig up. The money jar, stiff the undertaker,. Toss the antique child’s rocker, the ceramic. Pie plates, and the tintypes of all our Indian. Ancestors. They kill the roses, disown in-laws. And second spouses, chain the Doberman. To the mimosa, refuse to reveal the cole slaw. Recipe, cuss out the woman preacher, junk. The upright piano, and the glass and cherry bookcase. They unbolt the door for the copper plumbing crooks,.

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Click on date for details. Robert Rue Reading Series, Hygenic Art , New London CT. Celebrate Me Cultural Bazaar.

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Kate Rushin Reads The Black Backups. NPR Weekend Edition Saturday. August 28, 2004. Kate on the web. Nisha Agarwal: This Bridge Called My Back: A Retro Look at Women of Color and Power, The Huffington Post. Varieties of Feminist Theory Blog:. Anzaldúa and Rushin: Identities. NEA’s/Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Out Loud.

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I’ve had enough. I’m sick of seeing and touching. Both sides of things. Sick of being the damn bridge for everybody. Can talk to anybody. I explain my mother to my father. My father to my little sister. My little sister to my brother. My brother to the white feminists. The white feminists to the Black church folks. The Black church folks to the ex-hippies. The ex-hippies to the Black separatists. The Black separatists to the artists. The artists to my friends’ parents…. I’ve got to explain myself.

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Firebrand Books, 1993. Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives. Ed Carole McCann and Seung-kyung Kim. Callaloo, Volume 24, Number 3, Summer. 2001 (The Johns Hopkins University Press). Callaloo, Volume 23, Number 1, Winter. 2000 (The Johns Hopkins University Press). Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Ed Barbara Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2000). Teaching the art of poetry: the moves. A, Baron Wormser and A, David Cappella (Routledge, 1999). Lesléa Newman (Ballantine Books, 1999).

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Mommy and I climb up to. St Anne De Bow-Pray on our knees. Praying the prayer on the sign on each step. The alter is a mountain of braces and crutches. Thrown away by the healed people. Daddy lets us stop at the restaurant. I ask Mommy if they have French food. The big hotel room is all fringes. Patterns, textures, carved tables and chairs. Must be like this. The chambermaid picks up my Tiny Tears doll. She wears a uniform like in the movies. And asks me questions in French.

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Is the author of. Firebrand Books). Her The Bridge Poem appears in. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. A ground-breaking feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Recipient of the Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize and the Grolier Poetry Prize, her work is widely anthologized and has been published in such journals as.