Léonie Adams

Léonie Adams
Fellow: Awarded 1928
Field of Study: Poetry
Fellow: Awarded 1929
Field of Study: Poetry
Competition: US & Canada
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1928:
Adams, Léonie: Appointed to do creative writing in poetry, and to translate the lyrics of François Villon, chiefly in Paris; tenure, twelve months from July 1, 1927.
Born December 9, 1899, at Brooklyn, New York. Education: Barnard College, B.A., 1922.
Poet.
Publications: “Those Not Elect,” a book of poems, 1925. Poems in “American Poetry, A Miscellany,” 1927. Poems and reviews in The New Republic, Poetry, The Saturday Review of Literature, The Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, The Measure, Palms, and Liberator.
1948-49
Poet Laureate, 1948-49