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Reading about the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, I found this:

Edna St. Vincent Millay, the first woman to have received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, has been inducted into the American Poet's Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, joining literati such as Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, and William Faulkner. Millay is the unofficial patron saint of activists because of her famous line, "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-it gives a lovely light."

The American Poet's Corner was inspired by the one at Westminster Abbey. The cathedral has been in construction since 1892; they anticipate several more decades of work on it.

Daniel Haberman was born in New York City in 1933. He attended the Walden School, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the graduate school of New York University. He was educated in the secondhand book shops of Manhattan, and by two years of study with Edward Dahlberg. In 1983 he was asked to create America's Poets' Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and became the Cathedral's first Poet in Residence. In 1988, he and his wife, pianist Barbara Nissman, left New York to live on a farm in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia ; but he continued to serve as an elector to the Poets' Corner until his death in 1991.

Thank you, as always for the 'sunshiney' words, fruitcake.

( Don't you like that line I highlighted? )

My favorite kind of embroidery....

I wonder if she kept the dramatic persona over the years?

I don't want to enter the discussion in the 'girlfriend' thread, but I will say here that the appreciation of thoughtful biography, the abundance of 'Collected Letters of __ "

- even television shows like the A&E Biography series show our abiding interest in the lives of 'others'. Even fictional stories fascinate.

So I think that simple questions about k.d.s life come from the most natural curiosity.

There's a huge difference between Princess Diana being pursued through the streets of Paris by paparazzi ,and someone on a fan board asking if anyone has heard what k.d.'s girlfriend has done for a living. (IMHO. )