Word: poetesses
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...common practice for a pipsqueak versifier to identify himself with a better poet by stealing his lines. But for a minor poetess to accuse a minor poet of stealing her queer numbers is something again. Last week Nathalia Crane, Brooklyn child "prodigy," author of a book called Lava Lane which amazed critics by its pomposity, its facility, its jaw-dislocating decasyllabics, and by the fact that it had been written by a person not yet adolescent, wrote a letter to the editor of the New York World in which she intimated certain things about Joseph Auslander, author of Sunrise Trumpets...
...anyway. Grace is a little girl of thirteen who has already had many articles in the papers. Her mother lived in New Jersey. But do not think that she is any relation to the better murderers of that state. She is a poetess of the first water, having already received many prizes, including the Pulitzer (She is an American), the Harvard Advocate Conference Prize, and fifty dollars from the Fleischman Company for the following...
What lies in store for patrons of the Metropolitan Opera behind the quizzical title, The King's Henchman, remains entirely to be seen and heard. But it heads the prospectus of Director Gatti-Casazza and there was a stir last year when its authors, Composer Deems Taylor and Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, were commissioned to contrive an all-native opera. The music is finished; Deems Taylor is in Europe. And last week came news that, despite the ravages of a long illness, the pale and slender young librettist had finished a first draft...
...issue. Gas Engineer-Violinist Conkling is the son of B. F. ("Dry Feet") Conkling, the engineer who abandoned the sinking General Slocum "without getting his feet wet," when she sank with 1000 casualties in the East River, Manhattan (1904). He is likewise onetime husband of Grace Hazard Conkling, poetess-in-waiting to the Manhattan column of Franklin P. Adams (famed as "F. P. A."); father to adolescent Poetess Hilda Conkling...
Said her father: "We have the doddering Markham with nothing to do but attack a little poetess he has never seen. . . . Libel claims will be instituted if anyone goes beyond...