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...Although today her poetry sometimes reflects New Testament themes, Kumin??s grade school conversion didn’t last long. “I am utterly and completely faithless,” she says now, “but I have a definite fondness for Jesus...
...decade after the Stegner setback, Kumin would mostly keep her verses private. But although Stegner’s crass criticism might have stifled Kumin??s development as a writer, it also taught her a valuable lesson: “never, never, ever to put a student down that way. And I’m pleased to say I never have,” testifies Kumin, whose long teaching career has included posts at over a dozen schools, including Brandeis, Columbia, MIT, and Princeton...
...Kumin was born Maxine Winokur in 1925, the fourth child—and only daughter—of a South Philadelphia pawnbroker. The family lived in suburban Germantown; the hillside location of the Winokur family home was later immortalized in Kumin??s “Halfway,” the title poem of her 1961 anthology...
...Kumin??s parents were Reform Jews, but from kindergarten through second grade, they let their daughter attend the nearby convent instead of walking a mile each way to the local public school. When Kumin came home with a stolen rosary at the end of second grade, however, her parents pulled her out of classes at the convent, realizing that their daughter was rapidly embracing Catholic dogma. “I formed an unspoken bond with Jesus,” Kumin says. In “Halfway,” she writes...
...made a pact with myself that if I didn’t sell any [poetry] before I had this child, I would give it up.” Three months before Danny’s birth, The Christian Science Monitor accepted a four-line ditty by Kumin??a perhaps-inauspicious beginning to what would become an illustrious professional career...