Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995)

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Jane Kenyon (1947 - 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was born in 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in the midwest. She earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1970 and an M.A. in 1972. While a student at the University of Michigan, Kenyon met the poet Donald Hall; though he was some twenty years her senior, she married him in 1972, and they moved to Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home .. Continue..

Some of Jane Kenyon Poems

Let Evening Come

Wash

Happiness

Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks

Biscuit

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