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Kathleen Foster Campbell

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Kathleen Foster Campbell was an American poet. She was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club.

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Life

Kathleen Foster was born in Larne, Ireland, and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She attended the University of Chicago to study poetry. Through the newly formed Poetry Club, Campbell became a close friend of Janet Lewis, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Gladys Campbell. She married Gladys' brother, Donald Campbell, an attorney. The couple lived in Chicago until Donald Campbell's retirement, when they moved to Carmel, California.

Published work

  • 1940: Poetry: 'Not Fragments', 'Wake'
  • 1941: Poetry: Reviews 'The Gap of Brightness' by F. R. Higgins and New Zealand Poems by Eileen Duggan, Androscoggin by Marsden Hartley, Angle of Earth and Sky by David Morton, 'Two Islands', 'Time and Low Tide'
  • 1949: Poetry: 'Old Letters'.
  • References

    Kathleen Foster Campbell Wikipedia