Kathleen Foster Campbell Explained

Kathleen Foster Campbell (born 12 November 1897^[1] in Larne, Ireland^[2]  - 10 April 1991 in Fresno, California^[3]) was an Irish-born American poet. She was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club.

Life

Kathleen Foster was born in Larne, Ireland, and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She attended the University of Chicago to study poetry. Through the newly formed Poetry Club, Campbell became a close friend of Janet Lewis, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Gladys Campbell. She married Gladys' brother, Donald Campbell, an attorney. The couple lived in Chicago until Donald Campbell's retirement, when they moved to Carmel, California.

Published work

• 1940: Poetry: 'Not Fragments', 'Wake'
• 1941: Poetry: Reviews 'The Gap of Brightness' by F. R. Higgins and New Zealand Poems by Eileen Duggan, Androscoggin by Marsden Hartley, Angle of Earth and Sky by David Morton, 'Two Islands', 'Time and Low Tide'
• 1949: Poetry: 'Old Letters'.

Footnotes

1. Web site: United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, entry for Kathleen Knox Foster, 1923 . FamilySearch . 28 December 2023.
2. Poetry, February 1940, Vol 55 No 5 page 287
3. Web site: California Death Index, 1940-1997, Kathleen Foster Campbell, 10 Apr 1991 . FamilySearch . 28 December 2023.

External links

• Kathleen Foster Campbell Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.