TWA Poets: Louise Glück

Born in 1943

It’s the birthday of poet Louise Glück, born in New York City in 1943. She grew up on Long Island, and her father, a Hungarian immigrant, helped invent the X-Acto knife. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University and her first book of poems, called Firstborn, was published in 1968. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The …