5/22/2023 0 Comments S he by minnie bruce pratt![]() Her loss and grief shaped her morality and led her to a life of activism for women’s rights and specifically lesbian rights. Living in Fayetteville, North Carolina, at the time, she lost custody of her two sons under the state’s “Crime Against Nature” law. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina.Īfter her ten-year-old marriage, Pratt divorced her husband in 1975 to live as a lesbian, upending her life as a privileged white heterosexual woman. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Alabama in 1968, where she met her ex-husband. Born in 1946 in Selma, Alabama, Pratt grew up in Centreville. The following excerpts of poems are all sourced from this collection. My Poetry Corner October 2020 features the poem “Going Out of Business” from the poetry collection Inside the Money Machine (2011) by Minnie Bruce Pratt, a lesbian-feminist award-winning poet, educator, and activist. ![]()
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