TWA Poets: Edna St. Vincent Millay

1892 - 1950

It's the birthday of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, born in Rockland, Maine (1892). She was raised by her mother, who supported the family by making wigs and working as a nurse. By the time she was 14, she was publishing poems in the children's magazine St. Nicholas. Her mother couldn't afford to send her to college, but when she was 19, she entered a po…