Taggard Marries Kenneth Durant
Poet involved
What happened
On March 10, 1935, Genevieve Taggard married Kenneth Durant, a journalist who worked for TASS, the Soviet news agency. The couple settled in New York and spent their free time at Gilfeather, their farm near East Jamaica, Vermont, which became a beloved retreat and a source of poetic inspiration.
Literary impact
The marriage to Durant, a fellow left‑wing intellectual, deepened Taggard's engagement with international politics and reinforced her socialist commitments. The Vermont farm provided a rural counterpoint to her urban life, and the landscape of the Green Mountains began to appear with increasing frequency in her poetry, lending her work a new pastoral dimension.
Source: Encyclopedia.com
