Grace Conkling
{{short description|American poet}}
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| name = Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling
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| caption = Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling
| birth_name = Grace Walcott Hazard
| birth_date = {{birth date|1878|02|07}}
| birth_place = New York City
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1958|11|15|1878|02|07}}
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| nationality = American
| other_names =
| occupation = Poet, English Professor
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| spouse = Roscoe Platt Conkling
| children = Hilda Conkling
Elsa Kruuse
}}
Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling (February 7, 1878 – November 15, 1958) was an American author, a poet and an English professor.
Background
Grace Walcott Hazard was born in New York City on February 7, 1878. She earned a bachelor of letters degree at Smith College and then taught at the Graham School in New York. Hazard moved to France to study music, but she became ill and returned to the United States.
In 1905, Hazard married Rose Platt Conkling, and they lived on a ranch in Mexico.
{{cite web
| title = Grace Hazard Conkling: 1878–1958
| publisher = Poetry Foundation
| url = http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/grace-hazard-conkling
| date =
| accessdate = 22 July 2016}} Conkling had two daughters, Hilda and Elsa. She died at the age of 80 on November 15, 1958.(1958) "Rites for Mrs.,Grace Conkling." New York Times
Career
In 1914, Hazard taught English at Smith College where she remained till she retired in 1947. She was a trustee of the Cummington School of the Arts, run by her colleague Katherine Frazier in western Massachusetts.{{Cite book |last=Spiegelman |first=Willard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=apVuEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Katherine+Frazier%22+Cummington&pg=PT63 |title=Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt |date=2023-02-28 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-525-65827-6 |language=en}}
Conkling attracted wide attention as the teacher of her little daughter, Hilda Conkling, whose Poems by a Little Girl (1920) displayed great ability at an early age. Grace copied down her daughter's poems as they were spoken, which is the only record that exists of Hilda's work.Sapir, Edward, Conkling, Grace Hazard, and Driscoll, Louise (1919). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20572283 "Concerning Hilda Conkling."] The Poetry Foundation
Writings
Her collected volumes of verse include:
- Afternoons of April (1915)
- Wilderness Songs (1920)
- Flying Fish: A Book of Songs and Sonnets (1926)
- Witch and Other Poems (1929)
References
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External links
- [https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/4/resources/346 Grace Hazard Conkling papers] at the Smith College Archives, Smith College Special Collections
- {{cite web
| title = Grace Hazard Conkling: 1878–1958
| publisher = Poetry Foundation
| url = http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/grace-hazard-conkling
| date =
| accessdate = 22 July 2016}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Grace Conkling}}
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Category:Poets from New York City
Category:MacDowell Colony fellows
Category:20th-century American poets
Category:20th-century American women writers
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