Rukeyser's innovations in docupoetics
In 1936, just a year after winning the Yale Younger Poet’s Prize, the twenty-two-year-old Muriel Rukeyser arrived in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, the site of one of the worst industrial disasters in United States history, to work on her next poetry project.
On Susan Landers's 'Franklinstein': queer / neighborhood / preservation
It’s often the closing thoughts of critical works in and around urban history that show the author at their most utopian.