“Poetry is still my first and last love.” — Eunice Tietjens | V2Melody

“Poetry is still my first and last love.”

Summing up the enduring importance of poetry throughout her life and career · Letter to Harriet Monroe, 1938

Eunice Tietjens

About Eunice Tietjens

Eunice Tietjens

29 July 1884–6 September 1944

Eunice Tietjens was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 29 July 1884, into a city whose energy, contradictions, and cultural ambitions would shape the rest of her life. She died in the same city on 6 September 1944, after a career that had carried her across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. During those…

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“Poetry is a living thing. I am not alone in the world today, nor am I touched by the sun. Poetry is alive.”

Expressing her awakening to poetry as a vital force rather than something confined to books · Memoir, The World at My Shoulder, 1938

“But from that evening some floodgate had broken in me and I was beginning to be awake.”

Describing the transformative effect of discovering a living community devoted to poetry · Memoir, The World at My Shoulder, 1938

“I'm terribly homesick for Poetry and Chicago and you!”

Revealing her deep attachment to Poetry magazine, Chicago and her literary friendships · Letter to Harriet Monroe, 15 April 1915