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Madeline DeFrees

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Madeline DeFrees (November 18, 1919 - November 11, 2015) was an American poet.

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Madeline DeFrees (1919-2015). Courtesy Madeline DeFrees.

Life[]

Born in Ontario, Oregon, DeFrees lived in Seattle, Washington.

She received a B.A. in English from Marylhurst College, and an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Oregon.

She joined the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in 1936 and was known by the name, Sister Mary Gilbert until she was dispensed of her religious vows in 1973.

While still a nun, she taught at the University of Montana, in Missoula, from 1967 to 1979.[1] She has also taught at Holy Names College and the University of Massachusetts.

After her retirement in 1985, DeFrees held residencies at Bucknell University, Eastern Washington University, and Wichita State University, and served on the faculty of the Pacific University low-residency MFA program in Forest Grove, Oregon. She continued to teach, lecturing at the low-residency MFA program of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts (Whidbey Writers Workshop) in January 2009.

DeFrees authored 2 chapbooks, 2 non-fiction books, and 8 poetry collections, including Spectral Waves, Copper Canyon Press, 2006.

DeFrees died in Portland, Oregon on November 11, 2015, at age 95.[2][3]

Recognition[]

Blue Dusk (Copper Canyon Press, 2001) won the 2002 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Washington Book Award.

Spectral Waves won the 2007 Washington State Book Award for Poetry.

DeFrees also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • From the Darkroom. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964.
  • When Sky Lets Go: Poems. New York: G. Brazillier, 1978.
  • Imaginary Ancestors: Poems (chapbook). Missoula, MT: Smoke Root Press, 1978; Seattle, WA: Broken Moon Press, 1990.
  • Magpie on the Gallows. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1982.
  • The Light Station on Tillamook Rock. Corvallis, OR: Arrowood Books, 1990.
  • Possible Sibyls: New Poems. Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press, 1991.
  • Double Dutch (chapbook). West Sacramento, CA: Red Wing Press, 1999.
  • Blue Dusk: New and selected poems, 1951-2001. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2001.
  • Spectral Waves: New and uncollected poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.

Non-fiction[]

  • The Springs of Silence. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1953.
  • Later Thoughts from the Springs of Silence. Indianapois, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962.

Juvenile[]

  • The Dawn of History: A first book in history for the grades. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1931.

Edited[]

  • The Cool Coughins: An anthology of poems by students of Montana elementary and secondary schools. Missoula, Mont. : Montana Arts Council, 1971.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Guide to the Madeline DeFrees Papers at the University of Montana
  2. ↑ "The Seattle Review of Books - Madeline DeFrees, 1919 - 2015". seattlereviewofbooks.com. 13 November 2015. http://seattlereviewofbooks.com/notes/2015/11/13/madeline-defrees-1919-2015/. 
  3. ↑ "Madeline DeFrees (1919-2015)". https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/defrees_madeline_1919_//. Retrieved 10 September 2020. 
  4. ↑ Search results = au:Madeline DeFrees, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, June 30, 2014.

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