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Rukeyser

American  
[roo-kahy-zer] / ˈru kaɪ zər /

noun

  1. Muriel, 1913–80, U.S. poet.


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“I’m inspired to be as out loud and proud as Halle Berry was about menopause,” said Rukeyser, who created “Sex/Life” for Netflix.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024

And William L. Rukeyser of Davis, Calif., pointed out that we still use the expression “Drop a dime” on someone.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2021

It is certainly a good thing to have the “Essential” poetry of Jordan and Muriel Rukeyser in print, but it is wrong to imagine that they are somehow outliers.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2021

Purely in a mechanical sense it fits, in that it's a series created by a woman, Stacy Rukeyser, whose eyes presumably work.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2021

I mean, Muriel Rukeyser, I think, was the first to start, you know, writing about something like breast feeding and being a lesbian and having children and the domestic life or the body, women’s bodies.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2020

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