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Author: Rita Mae Reese

Rita Mae Reese is the author of The Book of Hulga. Her work has won numerous awards, including a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner Fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation award. She designs Lesbian Poet Trading Cards for Headmistress Press and is the Literary Arts Director at Arts + Literature Laboratory in Madison, WI. She is currently at work on a novel.
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Sappho’s Series of Lesbian Poets: Charlotte Mew’s Rebellious Music

Mary Meriam and Rita Mae Reese
Charlotte Mew

“I try to imagine being with Charlotte Mew on March 24, 1928, the day she killed herself. Let me befriend her. Let me do and say things to ease her pain and save her.

“I’m a lesbian poet from the year 2020, Charlotte, who adores your poems, how they transform your torment into art.

“If I couldn’t save Mew on that day in 1928, perhaps I could save her poems.”

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