Word: strobel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today Poetry's editorial desk is in an office on Erie Street, the Bohemian fringe of the Gold Coast. Harriet Monroe's desk is shared by two poets whom she "discovered" when they were undergraduates: Marion Strobel, a youngish (52), energetic grandmother who coaxe? subsidies for Poetry from well-to-do friends of her socially prominent doctor-husband, and writes whodunits in her spare time; and tall, handsome George Dillon, 40, an elusive bachelor who won a 1932 Pulitzer Prize for a volume of lyrics (The Flowering Stone...
...constant stream of visitors makes the editorial office pleasantly chaotic. On Saturdays the staff, and any friends who happen by, adjourn to an Italian restaurant for a long lunch. Says Marion Strobel: "Then we all dangle our feet in Lake Michigan and otherwise behave like poets...
...STROBEL...