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American poet and author

Maxine Kumin (June 6, – February 6, ) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in –^[1]

Biography

Early years

Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur on June 6, in Philadelphia, the daughter of Jewish parents, and attended a Catholic kindergarten and primary school. She received her B.A. in and her M.A. in from Radcliffe College of Harvard University. In June she married Victor Kumin, a Harvard graduate and engineering consultant; they had three children, two daughters and a son. In , she studied poetry with John Holmes at the Boston Center for Adult Education. There she met Anne Sexton, with whom she started a friendship that continued until Sexton's suicide in Kumin taught English from to and to at Tufts University; from to she was a scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. She also held appointments as a visiting lecturer and poet in Maxine w. kumin biography husband!