@booklet {10866, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Acceptance Speech{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally November 6, 2016}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. as \“Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).\” In Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 15-18.\ 

}, month = {2017}, pages = {42-45}, publisher = {Dancing Foxes Press}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, abstract = {

The speech the author would give upon being elected President saying that she will establish a Department of Women and a Department of Culture, make the White House a homeless shelter, provide free education and transportation, and begin the process of banning cars, among other changes. The female author, who uses the pronoun they, ran an \“openly female\” write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-1992. The poem \“I Want a President,\” by Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) was written in honor of the campaign.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-4399-1623-0}, url = {http://dfpress.us/Transcript_IWAP\%201_13\%20-\%20for\%20print.pdf}, author = {Eileen Myles (b. 1949)} }