Louise driscoll poet biography

Life.
Born in Poughkeepsie, educated by private teachers and in the public schools of Catskill, N.Y. Miss Driscoll first attracted attention by a poem called "Metal.
Louise Driscoll (January 15, 1875 - July 24, 1957) was an American poet.

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by George J. Dance

Louise Driscoll (1875-1957) was an American poet.^[1]

Life[]

Driscoll was born in Poughkeepsie, New York.^[1]

She lived most of her life in Catskill, New York, where she worked as a librarian.^[1]

She contributed poems and stories to Poetry magazine from 1913 to 1929.^[2]

Recognition[]

In November 1914 Driscoll's poem "The Metal Checks" won the top prize in Poetry magazine's's contest for best war poem, beating out contributions by Richard Aldington, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, and Wallace Stevens.^[1]^[2]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

Play[]

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.^[3]

Poems by Driscoll[]

Old Roofs

References[]

Notes[]

↑ ^1.0^1.1^1.2^1.3"Louise Driscoll," Rendezvous with Death: American poems of the Great War (edited by Mark W. Van Wienen). University of Illinois Press, 2002, 285. Google Books, Web, May 7, 2015.
↑ ^2.0^2.1Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, "When Women Write the First Poem: Louise Driscoll and the 'w
October

When my hills stand ablaze with gold and red,
   And I can hear the harsh-voiced leader cry
   As wild geese, like a necklace on the sky,
Are seen for a brief moment overhead,
Then I remember what my lover said.
   No bird of Spring, however joyously
   Singing arpeggios on a lilac tree,
Can speak to me so plainly of the dead.
   October, bringing gaudy mysteries,
With smell of burning leaves and dripping sound
As frost freed nuts come dropping to the ground,
   With late, red apples glowing on the trees
   Like lanterns at some feast of memories,
The spell of death and silence has unbound.

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Louise Driscoll (1875-1957)
from The Garden of the West, 1922

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

Louise Driscoll biography

John S. Turner, A skein of geese flying above Tesco, Broughton Park (detail).
Queer Places:
Town of Catskill Cemetery Catskill, Greene County, New York, US
Louise Driscoll (January 15, 1875 - July 24, 1957) was an American poet. She was a member of the Poetry Society American. The editors of Poetry, Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson included in their 1917 selection for The New Poetry: An Anthology poems by Louise Driscoll. According to Adrienne Munich and Melissa Bradshaw, authors of Amy Lowell, American Modern, what connects these poets is their appartenance to the queer sisterhood.
Louise Driscoll was born in 1875 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, the daughter of John Leonard Driscoll (1837–1941) and Louise Dezendorf (1839–1903). She was educated by private teachers and in the public schools of Catskill, New York. Driscoll first attracted attention with a poem about World War One, titled “Metal Checks,” which received a prize of one hundred dollars from “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse,” after being chosen as the best poem about the war, beating out contributions by Richard Aldington, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, and Wallace Stevens