[New-Poetry] Jane Cooper RIP

[JforJames at aol.com]

Jane M. Cooper, Faculty Emerita, Helped Create SLC’s Writing  Program
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 
 
Jane Marvel Cooper, poet, Professor and Poet-in-Residence Emerita at Sarah  
Lawrence College, died peacefully at Pennswood Village, Newtown, P.A., on  
October 26th from complications due to Parkinson's Disease. 
 
Jane Cooper joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College in 1950, where she  
remained as a teacher and poet in residence until her retirement in 1987.  
Together with Grace Paley, Jean Valentine, Muriel Rukeyser and others, Cooper  
helped develop and enhance the College’s writing program that became one of the  
most distinguished in the country.  On her retirement after 37 years on the  
writing/literature faculty an endowed scholarship in her name was created to  
support a writing student




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