Lola Ridge: The Radical Modernist We Won’t Forget Twice

March 6, 2018 #activism, #Anarchist, #boston review, #essay, #feminism, #feminist critique, #History, #katherine anne porter, #Lola Ridge, #poem, #poetry, #poets, #sacco and vanzetti, #women writers, #women's history

One tall, thin figure of a woman stepped out alone, a good distance into the empty square, and when the police came down at her and the horse’s hooves beat over her head, she did not move, but stood with her shoulders slightly bowed, entirely still. The charge was repeated again and again, but she was not to be driven away. A man near me said in horror, suddenly recognizing her, “That’s Lola Ridge!”
—Katherine Anne Porter, “The Never-Ending Wrong”

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