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Kate Rushin

  • “I'm sick of seeing and touching / Both sides of things / Sick of being the damn bridge for everybody.”

    • Kate Rushin,
    • "The Bridge Poem," in Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds., This Bridge Called My Back ()

  • “I cultivate / Being Uppity / It's something / My Gramom taught me.”

    • Kate Rushin,
    • "Family Tree," in Patricia Bell-Scott et al., eds., Double Stitch ()

Kate Rushin, U.S. poet, educator

(1951)

Full name: Donna Kate Rushin