Born Elizabeth Roberta Winters on July 20, 1911, in New York City, she was always a bright child who skipped grades and graduated with her bachelor's degree in 1931 at 20. She then graduated with her postgraduate degree in 1940 and began a rich life devoted to writing and teaching.
She met Paul Alexander Bartlett in 1941, a fellow writer and artist. They were married in 1943 and had one child, a son, born in 1945.
Overall, she published 16 collections of poetry, a thousand individually published poems, and a host of essays, short stories, and translations.
In 1968, she invented the twelve-tone form of poetry. She also founded the Literary Olympics around 1982.
Elizabeth died on August 12, 1994. To learn more, check out her Wikipedia page.
We are reading from Behold This Dreamer, a book of poetry published in 1959.
