{{Short description|American poet (born 1951)}} {{BLP primary sources|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox writer | name = Kate Rushin | image = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Donna Kate Rushin | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = {{hlist |Poet}} | nationality = American | citizenship = | education = Oberlin College | alma_mater = | period = | genre = {{hlist |Fiction |poetry}} | subject = | movement = | notableworks = "The Bridge Poem" | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize; Grolier Poetry Prize | signature = | website = {{url|https://katerushinpoet.com/index.php/about/}} | portaldisp = }}
'''Donna Kate Rushin''' (born 1951),<ref name="Lift Every Voice">{{cite web|url=https://www.africanamericanpoetry.org/kate-rushin|title=Kate Rushin|website=Lift Every Voice {{!}} African-American Poetry|publisher=Library of America|access-date=March 14, 2023}}</ref> popularly known as Kate Rushin, is a Black lesbian poet. Rushin's prefatory poem, "The Bridge Poem", to the 1981 collection ''This Bridge Called My Back'' is considered iconic. She currently lives in Connecticut.<ref name="website">{{cite web|title=Kate Rushin|url=https://katerushinpoet.com/index.php/about/|website=Kate Rushin Poet|date=22 April 2018 |access-date=10 July 2020}}</ref>
==Education== Rushin was raised in Lawnside, New Jersey.<ref name="Lift Every Voice" /> She obtained a Bachelor of Art's degree from Oberlin College, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Brown University.<ref name=website/> In 2021, she became Poet in Residence in the English Department of Connecticut College.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/kate-rushin/|title=Kate Rushin|publisher=Connecticut College}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kate-rushin|title=Kate Rushin|website=Poetry Foundation|access-date=March 14, 2023}}</ref>
==Publications== * ''The Black Back-Ups'' (Firebrand Books, 1993).<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Black Back-Ups.|last=Rushin|first=Kate|publisher=Firebrand Books|year=1993}}</ref> * "After the Accident." ''Callaloo'' 23, no. 1 (2000): 192–193.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rushin|first=Kate|date=2000|title=After the Accident|journal=Callaloo|volume=23|issue=1|pages=192–193|doi=10.1353/cal.2000.0067|s2cid=162145058 |issn=1080-6512}}</ref> * "Word Problems." ''Callaloo'' 23, no. 1 (2000): 190–191.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rushin|first=Kate|date=2000|title=Word Problems|journal=Callaloo|volume=23|issue=1|pages=190–191|doi=10.1353/cal.2000.0066|s2cid=201791768 |issn=1080-6512}}</ref> * "Reeling Memories For My Father." ''Callaloo'' 23, no. 1 (2000): 188–189.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rushin|first=Kate|date=2001|title=Reeling Memories for My Father|journal=Callaloo|volume=24|issue=3|pages=885–886|doi=10.1353/cal.2001.0208|s2cid=161549700 |issn=1080-6512}}</ref> Reprinted in ''Callaloo'' 24, no. 3 (2001): 885–86. * "The Tired Poem: Lost Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman." In ''Feminism and Community'', edited by Weiss Penny A. and Friedman Marilyn, 77–82. Temple University Press, 1995.<ref>*Rushin, Kate. "The Tired Poem: Lost Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman." In ''Feminism and Community'', edited by Weiss Penny A. and Friedman Marilyn, 77–82. Temple University Press, 1995.</ref> Reprinted in ''Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology'', ed. Barbara Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2000): 247–251. * "The Black Back-Ups." ''Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology'', ed. Barbara Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2000): 60–63. * "Instructions from the Flight Crew to a Poet of African Descent Living in a State of Emergency." ''Callaloo'' 22, no. 4 (1999): 976–976.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rushin|first=Kate|date=1999|title=Instructions from the Flight Crew to a Poet of African Descent Living in a State of Emergency|journal=Callaloo|volume=22|issue=4|pages=976|doi=10.1353/cal.1999.0189|s2cid=162146206 |issn=1080-6512}}</ref> * "Rosa Revisited" in ''Teaching the art of poetry: the moves'', A, Baron Wormser and A, David Cappella (Routledge, 1999): 305–306. * "A Pacifist Becomes Militant and Declares War." In ''My Lover is a Woman – Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems'', Lesléa Newman (Ballantine Books, 1999): 211–214. * "Six Poems." ''The Radical Teacher'', no. 42 (1992): 22–23. * "Comparative History: Our Stories." ''Callaloo'', no. 39 (1989): 290-91.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rushin|first=Kate|date=1989|title=Comparative History: Our Stories|journal=Callaloo|issue=39|pages=290–291|doi=10.2307/2931563|issn=0161-2492|jstor=2931563}}</ref> * "Living in My Head." ''The Women's Review of Books'' 1, no. 2 (1983): 15.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rushin|first=Kate|date=November 1983|title=Living in My Head|journal=The Women's Review of Books|volume=1|issue=2|pages=15|doi=10.2307/4019445|issn=0738-1433|jstor=4019445}}</ref> * "The Brick Layers." ''The Women's Review of Books'' 1, no. 2 (1983): 15.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rushin|first=Kate|date=November 1983|title=The Brick Layers|journal=The Women's Review of Books|volume=1|issue=2|pages=15|doi=10.2307/4019446|issn=0738-1433|jstor=4019446}}</ref> * "This Bridge Poem." In ''This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color'', edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Kitchen Table Press, 1983; reprinted State University of New York Press Albany, 2015): xxxiii-xxxiv. Republished in ''Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives'', ed. Carole McCann and Seung-kyung Kim (Routledge, 2013): 266–267.
==Awards== *Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize<ref name="Lift Every Voice" /> *Grolier Poetry Prize<ref name="Lift Every Voice" /><ref>Bowen, Angela (2021), [https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss8/32
"1988 Introductory Speech by Angela Bowen for Kate Rushin receiving the Grolier Poetry Prize," ''Journal of International Women's Studies'', Vol. 22, Issue 8, Article 32.</ref>
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== External links == * [https://katerushinpoet.com/index.php/about/ Official website]
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