Kathryn Irene Glascock
Kathryn Irene Glascock | |
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 Kathryn Irene Glascock, 1922 Mount Holyoke College yearbook | |
| Born | 1901 |
| Died | February 23, 1923 |
| Occupation | Poet |
Kathryn Irene Glascock (1901 – February 23, 1923) was an American poet. The Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest is named after her.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Glascock was born in 1901 to parents Hugh Grundy Glascock, an educator, and Etta (or Ella) Bodine Woods. She was raised in Culver, Indiana.[2] Glascock graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1922.[1][3]
At Mount Holyoke, she was editor of the school newspaper, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.[4] Glascock worked as a magazine editor in New York after college.
Legacy[edit]
In her memory, her parents established the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College in 1923. The contest became an intercollegiate event in 1924.[1] In addition, Glascock's parents also published a collection of her poetry entitled, Poems, and had one of her poems, "Daylight," published in Poetry Magazine.
She died there in 1923, from pneumonia.[4]
Poetry[edit]
- Poems. Garden City, N.Y. : Country Life Press, 1923.[5]
- "Daylight," Poetry Magazine, Volume 22, May 1923, Page 83.[6]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c Horner, Joyce (2017-02-16). "Glascock Poetry Contest". Mount Holyoke College. Archived from the original on 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
- ^ Mount Holyoke College, Llamarada (1922 yearbook): 159.
- ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bodine/n1508.htm [dead link]
- ^ a b "Academy Mourns Loss of Miss Irene Glascock". The Culver Citizen. 1923-02-28. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ ABAA Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine at search.abaa.org
- ^ Poetry magazine: Historical Index Archived 2006-07-10 at the Wayback Machine at www.poetrymagazine.org
External links[edit]
- Mount Holyoke College Archives: Glascock Contest
- Glascock Poetry Contest Archived 2012-04-04 at the Wayback Machine
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