Louise Bogan was a poet from Livermore Falls, Maine. She studied at Boston Girls’ Latin School and Boston University. She published many collections, including Body of This Death (1923), Dark Summer (1929), and The Sleeping Fury (1937). In 1945, she was the first woman to be elected to the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (later renamed the U.S. Poet Laureate). Later, she reviewed poetry for The New Yorker for nearly four decades. Bogan received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1968. She died in 1970 in New York City.
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