George Elliston
George Elliston (1883-1946) was an American journalist born in Kentucky. Elliston was raised in Mt. Sterling, Ky., and graduated from Covington High School. She worked as a reporter for the Cincinnati Times-Star and later as the Society Editor for that newspaper.[1]
She married Augustus Coleman in 1907 and lived briefly with him in St. Louis. She and Coleman separated, and Elliston lived simply and alone in Cincinnati for the remainder of her life.[2]
Upon her death in Madisonville, Ohio, in 1946, Elliston bequeathed $250,000 to the University of Cincinnati to establish a chair "to promote the cause of poetry." The University of Cincinnati inaugurated the Elliston Poet-in-Residence Program in 1951. [1]
Notable George Elliston Poets
- John Ashbery
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- Robert Frost
- Alice Fulton
- Louise Glück
- Albert Goldbarth
- Marilyn Hacker
- Donald Hall
- Michael Harper
- Jane Hirshfield
- John Hollander
- Richard Howard
- Randall Jarrell
- Donald Justice
- Carolyn Kizer
- David Lehman
- Denise Levertov
- Philip Levine
- Robert Lowell
- Heather McHugh
- Marilyn Nelson
- Mary Oliver
- Molly Peacock
- David St. John
- Louis Simpson
- Gary Soto
- Gary Snyder
- Stephen Spender
- William Stafford
- Ellen Bryant Voigt
- David Wagoner
- C.D. Wright
- Jay Wright
References
- ^ a b "Brown, Dale, "When Poets Were Hip"". Cincinnati Magazine. June 2003. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Norris, Melissa Cox, "A Poet's Legacy"". Retrieved May 11, 2011.