Muriel Rukeyser

Overview

Muriel Rukeyser born Manhattan, NY December 15, 1913 (d. 1980). Poet; socialist; jailed in New York and Washington, DC for civil disobedience; arrested Scottsboro, 1933. Opposed Spanish Civil War, Vietnam War.

Quotations

"Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness." (1949, Life of Poetry; photo Albany U)