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In 1919, poet/librarian/teacher Ina Coolbrith began meeting with kindred literary spirits at her home in San Francisco. "I want," she said, "the Circle to live and be ever widening... to perpetually keep the history and literature…of California alive...." Today, about 200 members of the Ina Coolbrith Circle continue to pursue her mission to ...
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Ina Donna Coolbrith (born Josephine Donna Smith; March 10, 1841 – February 29, 1928) was an American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Called the "Sweet Singer of California", [1] she was the first California Poet Laureate and the first poet laureate of any American state.
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Ina Coolbrith Park is located on San Francisco’s Russian Hill. She is buried at Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery, in a grave that was unmarked until 1986, when the Ina Coolbrith Circle erected a headstone there. Editor and poet Ina Coolbrith was born Josephine Smith to Mormon parents in Nauvoo, Illinois. Her uncle, Joseph Smith, was the ...
The Ina Coolbrith Circle met once a month, first at the St. Francis Hotel, then in the Assembly Room of the San Francisco Public Library, and later at the Western Women's Club. More of a social club than a platform for established poets, the Circle sponsored lecture presentations, poetry readings, musical programs and annual poetry contests.
Ina Coolbrith Circle. 149 likes. We are a community of poets, writers, historians, artists & readers who appreciate & nurture the history of poetry and literature by & about Californians.
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Background. The Ina Coolbrith Circle was organized in 1919 in memory of Ina Coolbrith, California's first poet laureate. The stated purpose of the Circle was the study of the history and literature of California, the discussion of member's works, and the assembling and presentation of their personal and literary reminiscences.
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