Ruth Witt-Diamant
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Ruth Witt-Diamant, a professor at San Francisco State University from 1931, founded and was the first director of the SFSU Poetry Center in 1954. In her youth, she traveled and taught English poetry in Japan, becoming good friends with the Tokugawa family. She hosted many famous poets in her guest room when she owned the house at 1520 Willard Street. Among the writers who slept here were Anais Nin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Stephen Spender, and Theodore Roethke.
The Ruth Witt-Diamant Poetry Prize is awarded in her name by San Francisco[??].[1]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Lois Silverstein, Ph.D. (2006). UNDER THE CANOPY: WRITING IN THE CONSULTING ROOM (html). Seminars and Education Programs. Retrieved on October 4, 2006.
