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Kathryn Irene Glascock

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Kathryn Irene Glascock
A young white woman with wavy bobbed hair
Kathryn Irene Glascock, 1922 Mount Holyoke College yearbook
Born1901
DiedFebruary 23, 1923
OccupationPoet

Kathryn Irene Glascock (1901 – February 23, 1923) was an American poet. The Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest is named after her.[1]

Early life and education

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Glascock was born in 1901 to parents Hugh Grundy Glascock, an educator, and Etta (or Ella) Bodine Woods. She was raised in Culver, Indiana.[2] Glascock graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1922.[1][3]

At Mount Holyoke, she was editor of the school newspaper, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.[4] Glascock worked as a magazine editor in New York after college.

Legacy

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In her memory, her parents established the annual Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College in 1923. The contest became an intercollegiate event in 1924.[1] In addition, Glascock's parents also published a collection of her poetry entitled, Poems, and had one of her poems, "Daylight," published in Poetry Magazine.

She died there in 1923, from pneumonia.[4]

Poetry

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  • Poems. Garden City, N.Y. : Country Life Press, 1923.[5]
  • "Daylight," Poetry Magazine, Volume 22, May 1923, Page 83.[6]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Horner, Joyce (2017-02-16). "Glascock Poetry Contest". Mount Holyoke College. Archived from the original on 2018-03-20. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  2. ^ Mount Holyoke College, Llamarada (1922 yearbook): 159.
  3. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bodine/n1508.htm [dead link]
  4. ^ a b "Academy Mourns Loss of Miss Irene Glascock". The Culver Citizen. 1923-02-28. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-08-11 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ ABAA Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine at search.abaa.org
  6. ^ Poetry magazine: Historical Index Archived 2006-07-10 at the Wayback Machine at www.poetrymagazine.org
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