Donna Kate Rushin (born 1951),[1] popularly known as Kate Rushin, is a Black lesbian poet. Rushin's prefatory poem, "The Bridge Poem", to the 1981 collection This Bridge Called My Back is considered iconic. She currently lives in Connecticut.[2]
"Reeling Memories For My Father." Callaloo 23, no. 1 (2000): 188–189.[8] Reprinted in Callaloo 24, no. 3 (2001): 885–86.
"The Tired Poem: Lost Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman." In Feminism and Community, edited by Weiss Penny A. and Friedman Marilyn, 77–82. Temple University Press, 1995.[9] Reprinted in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, ed. Barbara Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2000): 247–251.
"The Black Back-Ups." Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, ed. Barbara Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2000): 60–63.
"Instructions from the Flight Crew to a Poet of African Descent Living in a State of Emergency." Callaloo 22, no. 4 (1999): 976–976.[10]
"Rosa Revisited" in Teaching the art of poetry: the moves, A, Baron Wormser and A, David Cappella (Routledge, 1999): 305–306.
"A Pacifist Becomes Militant and Declares War." In My Lover is a Woman – Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems, Lesléa Newman (Ballantine Books, 1999): 211–214.
"Six Poems." The Radical Teacher, no. 42 (1992): 22–23.
"Living in My Head." The Women's Review of Books 1, no. 2 (1983): 15.[12]
"The Brick Layers." The Women's Review of Books 1, no. 2 (1983): 15.[13]
"This Bridge Poem." In This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Kitchen Table Press, 1983; reprinted State University of New York Press Albany, 2015): xxxiii-xxxiv. Republished in Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, ed. Carole McCann and Seung-kyung Kim (Routledge, 2013): 266–267.
^*Rushin, Kate. "The Tired Poem: Lost Letter from a Typical Unemployed Black Professional Woman." In Feminism and Community, edited by Weiss Penny A. and Friedman Marilyn, 77–82. Temple University Press, 1995.
^Bowen, Angela (2021), [https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol22/iss8/32
"1988 Introductory Speech by Angela Bowen for Kate Rushin receiving the Grolier Poetry Prize," Journal of International Women's Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 8, Article 32.