Minnie Bruce Pratt's Poem Chosen for Former Poet Laureate's Column
The Writing Program congratulates Minnie Bruce Pratt, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Women's Studies, whose poem "Cutting Hair" was recently published by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser as part of the American Life in Poetry project.
"Cutting Hair"is from a book of poems in progress, Inside the Money Machine with Nothing to Lose. According to Pratt, the poems give the story of one beleaguered working person finding comfort and hope in how she and others like her live and struggle in a time of fearful crisis inside the "money machine" of capitalism—as well as glimpses of how they might change in the future. Work from the book-in-progress has also been published in the American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, The Progressive, Rethinking Marxism, and elsewhere in literary journals and magazines.
With a weekly readership of four million people, American Life in
Poetry provides newspapers and online publications with a free column
featuring contemporary American poems. Kooser chooses poems that he believes will be enjoyable and enlightening for newspaper readers, seeking to promote poetry and create a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.
Read "Cutting Hair" and Kooser's introduction.
--story by Emily Dressing
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