TWA Poets: Maxine Kumin

1925 - 2014

It’s the birthday of Maxine Kumin born in Philadelphia (1925). Her family was Jewish, but she went to Catholic school. She said, “In kindergarten at the Covenant Sisters of Joseph, conveniently next door to the house I grew up in, I was told stories of martyrdom and saints. This reinforced what I already knew from observing my father’s dedication to wor…