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October 19, 2018
 

We May No Longer Consider the End

 
Ruth Ellen Kocher
Ruth Ellen Kocher reads "We May No Longer Consider the End."

About This Poem

 

“I’m working on a prose book called Notes on Whiteness that recalls my experiences growing up as a black girl in a working-class white family. I’ve been trying to articulate how my white father understood my anger and helped me to weaponize it as a way to survive a world he knew was cruel to me. He knew what I’d be up against. He wanted to raise ‘a young lady’ but also wanted to make sure I could fight and win.”
Ruth Ellen Kocher

 

Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of Third Voice (Tupelo Press, 2016). She is a professor of English and divisional dean for Arts and Humanities at the University of Colorado–Boulder. She lives in Erie, Colorado.

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Third Voice

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October Guest Editor: Ross Gay

 

Thanks to Ross Gay, author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), who curated Poem-a-Day this month. Read more about Gay and our guest editors for the year.

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