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Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. [1] She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. [ 2 ]
Lord Weary's Castle, Robert Lowell's second book of poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 when Lowell was only thirty. Robert Giroux, who was the publisher of Lowell's wife at the time, Jean Stafford, also became Lowell's publisher after he saw the manuscript for Lord Weary's Castle and was very impressed; he later stated that Lord Weary's Castle was the most successful book of ...
He was poetry editor of The New Republic (1920–33), mentoring Louise Bogan. [11] He organized the National Survey of the Negro Theater (1939), for the Rockefeller Foundation. [12] The posthumous book Poems, of Torrence's selected poetry, was published in 1952. He chose works that reflected his values, compassion for others, sense of injustice ...
February 4 – Louise Bogan, 72 (born 1897), American poet, United States Poet Laureate; February 19 – Edsel Ford, 41 (born 1928), American poet; March 26 – Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, 82 (born 1888), American poet; March 28 – Nathan Alterman, 59 (born 1910), Israeli poet, journalist and translator
Louise Bogan retires after 38 years as poetry critic for The New Yorker. Tish literary magazine, founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1961 and published intermittently thereafter, prints its last issue. Poets associated with the magazine included Frank Davey, Fred Wah, George Bowering, and, briefly, bpNichol when he lived in ...
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
Travel site Lonely Planet named Toulouse the best city to visit in 2025, but I found the French city felt like an underwhelming college town.
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather: Winner [16] Howard M. Feinstein: Becoming William James: Finalist Michael Mott: The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton: Finalist [17] 1986: Elizabeth Frank: Louise Bogan: A Portrait: Winner John Hope Franklin: George Washington Williams: A Biography: Finalist Frida Scheps Weinstein