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Kate Rushin
After graduating from high school, Rushin attended Oberlin College, where she majored in Theatre and Communications. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and moved to Boston, where she taught at South Boston High School. She also took a position as an adjunct professor, teaching courses on Black women writers.
In 1993, Rushin published her first poetry collection, The Black Back-Ups. Around this time, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, where she studied under poet Michael S. Harper. Rushin later taught at Wesleyan University, where she was writer-in-residence and director of the Center for African American Studies. Additionally, she was an instructor at Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, where she led workshops and poetry outreach programs.
Rushin was a fellow at both the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts and at Cave Canem. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and journals, including Callaloo. Her best-known poem, “The Black Back-Ups,” was featured in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith (2000). She is the winner of the Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize and the Grolier Poetry Prize. She currently serves as an artist and instructor in the Hartford Poetry Outreach Program.
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Introduction
Poem, Akasha (Gloria) Hull
I. The Blood--Yes, the Blood
For a Godchild, Regina, On the Occasion of Her First Love, Toi Derricotte
The Damned, Toi Derricotte
Hester's Song, Toi Derricotte
The Sisters, Alexis De Veaux
Debra, Michelle T. Clinton
If I Could Write This in Fire, I would Write This In Fire, Michelle Cliff
The Blood--Yes, The Blood: A Conversation, Cenen and Barbara Smith
Something Latino Was Up With Us, Spring Redd
"I Used to Think", Chirlane McCray
The Black Back-Ups, Kate Rushin
Home, Barbara Smith
II. Artists Without Art Form
"Under The Days": The buried Life and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké, Akasha (Gloria) Hull
The Black Lesbian in American Literature: An Overview, Ann Allen Shockley
Artists Without Art Form, Renita Weems
I've Been Thinking of Diana Sands, Patricia Jones
A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women, Jewelle L. Gomez
What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow: A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Akasha (Gloria) Hull
III. Black Lesbians--Who Will Fight For Our Lives But Us?
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Contributors: Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Scarp, Michelle T. Clinton, Willi (Willie) M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Framework, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Ballplayer, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Saxist, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Psychologist, Kate Rushin, Ann Gracie Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Writer, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Zimmer, and Renita J. Weems.About the Author