Taggard Accepts Professorship at Bennington College
Poet involved
What happened
In 1932, Genevieve Taggard accepted a professorship at Bennington College in Vermont, where she taught until 1934. The college's progressive educational philosophy and rural setting appealed to her, and the position allowed her to continue writing while contributing to the development of a new kind of liberal arts institution.
Literary impact
Teaching at Bennington placed Taggard at the heart of an innovative educational experiment and connected her with other progressive intellectuals. The Vermont landscape, with its rugged beauty and quiet farms, would inspire her later poetry and her eventual decision to purchase a farm in the state, grounding her work in a deep sense of place.
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