Léonie Adams

Léonie Fuller Adams (born December 9, 1899 in Brooklyn , New York City , † June 27, 1988 in New Milford , Connecticut ) was an American poet .

Life

After attending school, she studied at Barnard College and graduated in 1922 with a Bachelor of Arts (AB).

Their literary activity began in 1922 with the publication of the anthology Those Not Elect . During a Guggenheim scholarship received between 1928 and 1930 , she published another volume of poetry, High Falcon & Other Falcons , in 1929 , which was followed by the anthology This Measure in 1933 . In addition, she was a teacher for the English language at many colleges such as the Washington Square College from 1930 to 1932, the Sarah Lawrence College from 1933 to 1934, the Bennington College from 1935 to 1937 and from 1941 to 1944 and at the New Jersey College for Women of Rutgers University from 1946 to 1948.

Between 1947 and 1968 she was a lecturer at Columbia University , where she gave workshops on poetry , among others, in which David Medalla took part. In 1948 she was the poetry advisor of the Library of Congress United States Poet Laureate and was an official poet of the United States for one year.

For her volume of poems Poems, a Selection , published in 1954 , she received the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1955 alongside Louise Bogan . In addition, she became a member of the Academy of American Poets . Since 1951 she was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Members: Léonie Adams. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 12, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Adams, Léonie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Adams, Léonie Fuller (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American poet
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH	June 27, 1988
Place of death	New Milford , Connecticut

[1] Members: Léonie Adams. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 12, 2019 .