Creator Bio
Ruth Whitman
1922–1999
Born in New York and then living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ruth Whitman explored her Jewish and American heritage in poems and translations. An instructor at Radcliffe College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she served as the poetry editor of the Radcliffe Quarterly and received numerous awards for her writing, including the Alumnae Recognition Award from Radcliffe, the Bunting Fellowship, and awards from the Fulbright Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Bubba Esther, 1888
She was still upset,
she wanted to tell me,
she kept remembering
his terrible hands:
how she came, a young girl
of seventeen, a freckled
fairskinned Jew from Kovno
to Hamburg with her uncle
and…