Susanna Rich

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Susanna Rich is a bilingual Hungarian American, Fulbright Fellow (Budapest), Collegium Budapest Fellow, and distinguished professor emerita at Kean University. An Emmy Award nominee for poetry, Susanna wrote and tours her musical Shakespeare’s *itches: The Women v. Will; ashes, ashes: A Poet Responds to the Shoah; and Shout! Poetry for Suffrage. She is author of five poetry collections, most recently Beware the House. “Vocabulary Lesson” appears in her manuscript “Still Hungary.”

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Vocabulary Lesson

Susanna Rich  | 
Issue 75.1 Fall 2025

I learn too late / how to unclog / my throat—