Kumin, Maxine

Kumin, Maxine

 orig. Maxine Winokur

(born June 6, 1925, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) U.S. poet. She studied at Radcliffe College. Her poetry, written primarily in traditional forms, deals with loss, fragility, family, and the cycles of life and nature. Her New Hampshire farm inspired Up Country (1972, Pulitzer Prize); later collections include the acclaimed The Retrieval System (1978), Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief (1982), Nurture (1989), and Connecting the Dots (1996). She wrote numerous children's books, some with Anne Sexton, as well as novels and short stories.

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Kumin, Maxine (b. Winokur) (1925–  ) poet, writer; born in Philadelphia. She studied at Radcliffe (B.A. 1946; M.A. 1948), and married in 1946. She taught at Tufts (1958–61; 1965–68), Princeton (1977; 1979; 1981–82), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984) among other institutions. A writer of fiction, children's books, essays, and poetry, she was named poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (1981–82). She is best known for poems of the Northeast, as in Up Country: Poems of New England (1972). She lived in Warner, N.H.