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Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982.
Maxine Kumin (Filadelfia, 6 giugno 1925 – Warner, 6 febbraio 2014) è stata una poetessa e scrittrice statunitense
Maxine Kumin, a former U.S. poet laureate, was the author of eighteen poetry collections - her awards included the Pulitzer Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award, the Poet’s Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost medals.
An enduring presence in American poetry, Maxine Kumin’s career spanned over half a century. Maxine Kumin (née Winokur) was born to a Reform Jewish family in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She attended Catholic and public schools before earning a BA and MA from Radcliffe College and married Victor Kumin…
19 apr 2024 · Maxine Kumin (born June 6, 1925, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 6, 2014, Warner, New Hampshire) was an American Pulitzer Prize -winning poet, novelist, essayist, and children’s author.
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Maxine free-lanced as a medical writer and wrote poetry and short verse essentially in the closet. Her breakthrough came with the publication of a four-line poem in 1953 in the Christian Science Monitor .
Maxine Kumin is the author of 18 collections of poetry, from her first collection, Halfway, published in 1961 when she was 36 years old to her final collection, And Short the Season, published in 2014 after she died at the age of 88.
