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Weldon Kees
Born
Harry Weldon Kees
(1914-02-24)February 24, 1914
Beatrice, Nebraska, U.S.
Disappeared
July 18, 1955 Marin County, California, U.S.
Status
Missing for 68 years, 11 months and 5 days
Alma mater
University of Nebraska (BA) University of Denver (MS)
Occupations
Poet
painter
musician
filmmaker
Years active
1934–1955
Known for
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, Fall Quarter, The Ceremony and other stories
Movement
American poetry, Beat Generation
Spouse
Ann (sep. 1954)
Harry Weldon Kees (February 24, 1914 – disappeared July 18, 1955) was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Despite his brief career, Kees is considered an important mid-twentieth-century poet of the Beat generation, and peer of John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell. His work has been immensely influential on subsequent generations of poets writing in English and other languages and his collected poems have been included in many anthologies. Harold Bloom lists the publication of Kees's first book The Last Man (1943) as an important event in the chronology of his textbook Modern American Poetry as well as a book worthy of his Western Canon.
Western Canon. WeldonKees was born in Beatrice, Nebraska, to John Kees, a hardware manufacturer, and Sarah Green Kees, a schoolteacher. The Kees family was...
difficult title to see; regrettable, as it contains the film score by WeldonKees. Kees was primarily a poet, painter and short story author whose music making...
the popularity of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the rediscovery of WeldonKees and John Allan Wyeth. He also co-founded the annual West Chester University...
School, for his clinical internship partly because Jurgen Ruesch and WeldonKees had recently published a book called Nonverbal Communication (1956)....
Carpenter film The Fog. It is also the subject of a poem by WeldonKees, "The Exposed Reef." Kees, together with filmmaker and photographer William Heick...
novel-in-verse Robinson Alone was inspired by the life & work of poet WeldonKees and his alter-ego persona-character "Robinson". Her debut novel, O, Democracy...
Review of Books. Retrieved 28 November 2012. Kees, Weldon (June 2003). Robert E. Knoll (ed.). WeldonKees and the Mid-Century Generation: Letters, 1935-1955...
credits music from legendary 1950s icon (and probable Golden Gate suicide) WeldonKees. The film is dedicated to the memory of Mark Finch, who committed suicide...
Walker and Helen became friends of WeldonKees and his wife Ann, after they rented an apartment near the Kees. WeldonKees had known not only of Helen's novel...
York Times Book Review editor Harvey Breit, and poets Howard Moss and WeldonKees. A struggle had arisen between those, like Theodore H. White and Richard...
playing piano and guitar. A biography of Time colleague WeldonKees includes a reminiscence of Kees on piano and Hobson on trombone in the Greenwich Village...
worked here from 1960 to 2004. Anthropologist Gregory Bateson and poet WeldonKees also worked here in the 1950s with psychiatrist Jurgen Ruesch. Ruesch...
gaiashkibos – executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs WeldonKees – poet, painter, filmmaker, and jazz musician Joseph D. Leitch – US Army...
University of Michigan Press. Kees, Weldon; Wojahn, David (2003). Justice, Donald (ed.). The Collected Poems of WeldonKees (Third ed.). Bison Books....
Boulevard. Sills was the favorite actor of poet WeldonKees as a child, and Sills' Men of Steel influenced Kees' poem "1926". The Pit (1914) as Corthell The...
Thiessen's professors included Dwight Kirsch, Louise Austin, Mari Sandoz, WeldonKees, and Loren Eiseley. He was active in two fraternities, first in Phi Sigma...
Tauris. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-84885-087-3. Irwin, John (2017). The Poetry of WeldonKees: Vanishing as Presence. Baltimore, Maryland: JHU Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4214-2261-9...
Cartier-Bresson,René Char, Paul Éluard, Jean Genet, Natalia Ginzburg, Victor Hugo, WeldonKees, Robert Lowell, Henri Matisse, Henry Miller, Eugenio Montale, Anaïs Nin...
English-Swedish architect, designed The Ark and Byker Wall (d. 2005) 1914 – WeldonKees, American author, poet, painter, and pianist (d. 1955) 1915 – Jim Ferrier...
(1923–2016) Sarah Kay W. B. Keckler (born 1966) John Keene (born 1965) WeldonKees (1914–1955) Bill Keith (1929–2004) Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951) X...
dissertation Music Out of an Abyss: A Critical Study of the Fiction of WeldonKees he graduated with a Ph.D. in English in 1991. Since 1990 Niemi taught...
involved with Forum 49, a summer-long program series in 1949 organized by WeldonKees, Fritz Bultman, and Cecil Hemley to challenge views on art. The rise...