Creator Bio
Robin Becker
b. 1951
Robin Becker, a poet and educator, grew up in Philadelphia, taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and now is a professor of English and women’s studies at Pennsylvania State University. Among Becker’s honors are the Virginia Faulkner Prize, the Strousse Award, the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The New Egypt
I think of my father who believes
a Jew can outrun fate by owning land.
Slave to property now, I mow
and mow, my destiny the new Egypt.
From his father, the tailor, he learned not
to rent but to own…