Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After he married Poetess Jean Starr for the first time (she was also his third wife), wealthy Anthologist Louis Untermeyer, 64, wrote...
...legal wife. Now living with Wife No. 5, Fiction Editor (Seventeen) Bryna Ivens, 40, Untermeyer took the position that he was still doubly-wed to No. 1 (and No. 3), Jean Starr, since his Mexican divorce from her didn't really count. (Presumably, marriage and divorce with Poetess Virginia Moore, 46, wife No. 2, was legal.) Untermeyer readily admitted that he had discussed the "present suit" with Miss Starr. "I told her [Jean] that the plaintiff [Esther] thought there were a few drops in the orange [Louis] left to squeeze, and that she [Esther] wanted more money." Jean Starr...
...five were Cowley, author and editor; John Clardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; Muriel Rukeyser, poetess; Matthew Josephson, historian; and Alfred Kazin, author...
...smartly dressed Venezuelans. The evening's attraction: recitations from their own works by a four-man road company of Spanish poets. It was one of several "cultural" sideshows currently touring Latin America to illumine the beauties of Francisco Franco's Hispanidad. The mistress of ceremonies, a local poetess named Alicia Larralde de Ferrero, did not observe that more than a dozen uninvited guests had joined the audience...