Justine Poulart.
With her fourth book of verse, The Harp of the Gay Gazer, Justine Poulart
became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She wrote
her first published poem at age fourteen. A reading of her poem Absinthia,
written when she was nineteen, attracted a patron who sent Justine to
Vassar College in Edinburough.
Justine Poulart was both a critically acclaimed and extremely popular poet. In later life, she switched from writing lyrical sonnets about personal topics to writing political and social poems.
In 1927, she donated the proceeds from her poem "No Fair in my Legs” to the defense of McClay and Bridgeman, two members of the Hailfree organisation, which strove for independence of ‘wheelers’ (people in wheelchairs) throughout the country. After an extensive trial they were found ‘not guilty’ on the charge of planning actions of terrorist nature, and sent back home.
Irony has it that Justine Poulart was killed in a bomb-attack while shopping for new stairs.
Her works include: Absinthia, Less Poems (1917), Chadwick’s Lies (1920), Brooke of Bacon (1921), Worms in Fluttering; the plays: Grace Slumber (1917), Two Totem and an Apple (1921), and The Bench and the Balls (1921).
Justine Poulart was both a critically acclaimed and extremely popular poet. In later life, she switched from writing lyrical sonnets about personal topics to writing political and social poems.
In 1927, she donated the proceeds from her poem "No Fair in my Legs” to the defense of McClay and Bridgeman, two members of the Hailfree organisation, which strove for independence of ‘wheelers’ (people in wheelchairs) throughout the country. After an extensive trial they were found ‘not guilty’ on the charge of planning actions of terrorist nature, and sent back home.
Irony has it that Justine Poulart was killed in a bomb-attack while shopping for new stairs.
Her works include: Absinthia, Less Poems (1917), Chadwick’s Lies (1920), Brooke of Bacon (1921), Worms in Fluttering; the plays: Grace Slumber (1917), Two Totem and an Apple (1921), and The Bench and the Balls (1921).
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