The Glascock Contest's Distinguished History
Posted: April 24, 2006
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Sylvia
Plath |
Begun in 1923
as a memorial to Kathryn Irene Glascock '22,
the competition has long connected talented student poets with
distinguished professional poets. Since 1924, the first year the
competition had contestants from other schools, 27 Mount Holyoke
women have placed either first or second.
Former Glascock
winners who later became prominent poets include:
- Sylvia Plath
(Smith College)
- Donald Hall
(Harvard University)
- James Merrill
(Amherst College)
- Kenneth
Koch (Harvard University)
- Gjertrud
Schnackenberg '75
(Mount Holyoke College)
- Mary Jo
Salter, Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities,
came in second in 1976 as Radcliffe
College’s
representative.
Past judges
include:
- W. H. Auden
- Elizabeth
Bishop
- Louise Bogan
- Robert Frost
- James Merrill
- Sylvia Plath
- John Crowe
Ransom
- Adrienne
Rich
- Stephen
Spender
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