I lived from 1884-1944.
I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
Eunice Tietjens nee Hammond was a co-editor of the influential magazine Poetry a well as a widely read poet in her own right
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Eunice Tietjens was born Eunice Hammond in Chicago in 1884.
Her early poems appeared in the magazine Poetry in 1913 and she was invited to join the magazine's editorial staff the same year.
She was a popular editor, very understanding of contributors needs and as such made a good foil to Harriet Monroe when the later appointed her as joint editor. The two, Tietjens and Monroe became firm friends and Tietjens maintained her working relationship with Poetry for the rest of her life.
Though now not very widely read, Tietjens was a poet of considerable note in her time. In a contemporary review it was said "that old fashioned type of mind that that enjoys the same things repeated in the same form ad infinitum will have no use for Mrs. Tietjens when she vigorously kicks what she regards as the swaddling hands of rhyme aside."
It is said that Tietjens, of all the female writers associated with the Chicago Renaissance, came closest to adopting a colloquial voice.
JS
Links of interest include
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/awia/gallery/tietjens.html
My poetry
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate an
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Beneath my window in a city street
A monster lairs, a creature huge and grim
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The stone grows old.
Eternity is not for stones.
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CANNOT always feel his greatness.
Sometimes he walks beside me, step by step,
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Space, and the twelve clean winds of heaven,
And this sharp exultation, like a cry, after the slow six thousand
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The drug clerk stands behind the counter
Young and dapper and debonair....
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COME, sprite, and dance! The sun is up,
The wind runs laughing down the sky
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