Quote of the day
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
Hayden Carruth

Born: August 3, 1921
Died: September 29, 2008 (aged 87)
Bio: Hayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.
Known for:
- Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey (1996)
- Collected shorter poems, 1946-1991 (1992)
- Toward the distant islands (2006)
- From snow and rock, from chaos (1973)






