Creator Bio
Eleanor Wilner
b. 1937
Poet Eleanor Wilner was born in Cleveland and studied at Goucher College and Johns Hopkins University. Active in civil rights and peace movements, she has written poems that reflect her views on feminism, justice, the environment, and war. A poet in residence at numerous universities, Wilner teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. She received a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, the Juniper Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Miriam’s Song
What if Miriam were remembered just as a person rescuing her brother Moses rather than as the heroine responsible for saving the man who would redeem the Jewish people from bondage?