The Resume

(December 15, 1913-February 12, 1980)
Born in New York City, New York
Poetry collections include 'Theory of Flight' (1935), 'U.S. 1' (1938), 'A Turning Wind' (1939), 'Wake Island' (1942), 'Elegies' (1951), 'Body of Waking' (1958), 'The Outer Banks' (1967), 'The Speed of Darkness' (1968), '29 Poems' (1972) and 'The Gates' (1976)
Wrote the children's picture books 'I Go Out' (1962), 'Bubbles' (1967), 'Mazes' (1970) and 'More Night' (1981)
Famous lines include 'Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry' and 'The universe is made of stories, not of atoms'

Why she might be annoying:

Critic Thomas Stumpf said of her political-themed poems, 'This is verse that, like rolled oats, is unappetizing but good for you.'
She was a reporter for the 'Daily Worker,' the newspaper of the American Communist Party.
Her marriage to painter Glynn Collins lasted six weeks.
She traveled to Hanoi as an unofficial 'peace ambassador.'

Why she might not be annoying:

When her sister was born, her books were thrown out to make room in the nursery.
She contracted typhoid fever in an Alabama jail after she was arrested while covering the Scottsboro Boys trial for a student newspaper.
She worked for the graphic division of the Office of War Information during WWII.
Adrienne Rich called her 'our 20th century Coleridge, our Neruda, and more.'
The Dictionary of Literary Biography noted, 'By her own choice, her life was not bland or sheltered.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 20th Century Poets
• Bisexuals
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 55]
• Children's Book Authors
• Guggenheim Fellowship Grant Recipients
• I Attended Columbia
• I Attended Fieldston [Bronx]
• I Attended Vassar
• I Died in 1980 (Ranked: 66)
• I Had a Stroke [Cerebral Vascular Accident]
• I Have Diabetes
• I Married and Divorced in the Same Calender Year
• I Married for Less than Two Years
• I Mothered Children Out of Wedlock
• Newspaper Journalists/Editors/Publishers
• Our Marriage Didn't Make It To Our First Anniversary
• Poets
• Profiles 35751-36000 (Ranked: 35933)

Year In Review:

In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying