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| Robin Morgan (poet) | |
|---|---|
| Name | Robin Morgan |
| Birth date | 1941-01-29 |
| Birth place | New York City |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Poet; feminist activist; editor; journalist |
| Notable works | The Anatomy of Freedom; Sisterhood Is Powerful; The Mer-Child; Saturday’s Child |
Robin Morgan (poet) is an American poet, critic, activist, and editor whose work spans poetry, feminist theory, journalism, and organizational leadership. She is known for combining literary craft with political engagement through connections to movements and institutions such as Second-wave feminism, National Organization for Women, Ms. Magazine, and international forums including the United Nations. Her career intersects with figures and entities ranging from Simone de Beauvoir and Gloria Steinem to organizations like Planned Parenthood and events such as the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women.
Born in New York City in 1941, Morgan was a child performer on programs associated with NBC and agencies linked to Radio City Music Hall and CBS. Her upbringing involved contact with theatrical institutions like Broadway companies and agencies representing child actors associated with figures such as Carolyn Keene-era studios and managers tied to the Golden Age of Radio. She received formative exposure to cultural venues including The New York Times coverage, theatrical circles connected to Ethel Merman, and literary salons frequented by individuals associated with Poetry magazines and publishing houses like Random House.
Morgan pursued informal and formal study in creative writing and literature, engaging with networks tied to institutions such as Columbia University, Barnard College, and workshops influenced by poets connected to The New Yorker and Poetry Magazine. Her early publishing contacts included editors and small presses affiliated with movements around Beat Generation writers and contemporary poets who contributed to anthologies by houses like Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Harper & Row.
Morgan’s literary output includes poetry collections, essays, and anthologies that place her alongside poets and critics such as Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, and T. S. Eliot-era editors. Key collections attributed to her name include books comparable in placement to titles by W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas in small press catalogs and major publishing lists by houses like Little, Brown and Company and Penguin Books. Her poetry has appeared in periodicals connected to editors at The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and literary reviews associated with universities such as Harvard University and Yale University.
She edited and compiled anthologies in the tradition of influential collections by Katherine Anne Porter and Margaret Atwood editors, bringing together voices analogous to Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, bell hooks, Ursula K. Le Guin, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange. Her thematic concerns align her with movements and works addressing patriarchy and power as in texts by Simone de Beauvoir and Kate Millett.
Morgan became prominent in the Second-wave feminism movement, collaborating with leaders such as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, and organizations like National Organization for Women and National Women’s Political Caucus. She authored and edited manifestos and anthologies that influenced campaigns similar to those led by Susan B. Anthony-era organizations and modern groups like NOW and Code Pink. Her leadership roles connected her to conferences and international gatherings including the United Nations conferences on women and global civil society convocations comparable to summits attended by delegates from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Morgan founded and directed initiatives analogous to advocacy projects sponsored by Ford Foundation grants and coordinated with policy and lobbying circles interacting with lawmakers from United States Congress committees and non-governmental coalitions such as Greenpeace and Planned Parenthood. Her activism addressed issues also central to campaigns by Ms. Magazine, Time, and The New York Times Magazine, placing her in dialog with journalists and public intellectuals including Barbara Ehrenreich and Naomi Wolf.
As an editor and journalist Morgan worked in magazine and book publishing arenas alongside editors and publications such as Ms. Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Time Magazine, and literary journals linked to Columbia Journalism Review. She edited anthologies and collections that intersected with the work of publishers like Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin, Knopf, and independent presses associated with figures such as Leymah Gbowee-era editors.
Her editorial projects brought together writers connected to networks including HarperCollins-published novelists, poets represented by Poets & Writers, and essayists who appeared in forums like The Paris Review and Granta. Morgan’s journalism engaged with topics covered by reporters from The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, BBC News, and columnists in The Guardian.
In later decades Morgan taught, lectured, and participated in panels alongside academics and public intellectuals from universities like Harvard University, Columbia University, Rutgers University, New York University, and Smith College. She appeared on stages and at festivals associated with institutions such as Ted Conferences, Hay Festival, Eastern Connecticut State University-style campuses, and humanities forums like The National Humanities Center.
Her speaking engagements connected her with activists and cultural figures similar to Angela Davis, Cornel West, Hilary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and writers who lecture at the Library of Congress and institutions funded by organizations like the Guggenheim Foundation and MacArthur Foundation.
Morgan’s personal associations include friendships and professional ties with poets, novelists, and activists such as Adrienne Rich, Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, Gloria Steinem, and editors at major publishing houses and periodicals. Her legacy is reflected in archives and collections held by repositories comparable to Schlesinger Library, Library of Congress, and university special collections at institutions like Columbia University and New York University. She has been discussed in critical studies alongside scholars affiliated with Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, and journals that publish scholarship on figures like Judith Butler and bell hooks.
Category:American poets Category:Feminists