In her last decade Muriel had a coterie of young women assisting her.
Muriel read for me on at least two occasions--in the second or third
reading of the first series I ever directed, and in a very long group
reading I put together for WBAI Radio in NY (the other readers were Charels
Reznikoff, Rochelle Owens, Toby Olson, Joel Oppenheimer and Quincy
Troupe--those were the days), and her assistants arrived with her, which
means that I must have met Dworkin at least on those occasions. Helping
Muriel was a good thing to do, but there were so many that listing it as a
bio note would be like saying of me "he gave a reading to Muriel Rukeyser."
Mark
At 06:15 AM 4/12/2005, you wrote:
>Good obit in the Washington Times:
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45447-2005Apr11?language=printer
>
>Here's an eye-grabbing detail:
>
> > She also worked as a waitress, teacher, receptionist, salesclerk,
> factory worker and
> > assistant to poet Muriel Rukeyser, who encouraged her literary aspirations.
>
>Dominic
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