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Weldon Kees
Born
Harry Weldon Kees

(1914-02-24)February 24, 1914
Beatrice, Nebraska, U.S.
DisappearedJuly 18, 1955
Marin County, California, U.S.
StatusMissing for 68 years, 11 months and 5 days
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska (BA)
University of Denver (MS)
Occupations
  • Poet
  • painter
  • musician
  • filmmaker
Years active1934–1955
Known forThe Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, Fall Quarter, The Ceremony and other stories
MovementAmerican poetry, Beat Generation
SpouseAnn (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.

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difficult title to see; regrettable, as it contains the film score by Weldon Kees. Kees was primarily a poet, painter and short story author whose music making...

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the popularity of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the rediscovery of Weldon Kees and John Allan Wyeth. He also co-founded the annual West Chester University...

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School, for his clinical internship partly because Jurgen Ruesch and Weldon Kees had recently published a book called Nonverbal Communication (1956)....

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Carpenter film The Fog. It is also the subject of a poem by Weldon Kees, "The Exposed Reef." Kees, together with filmmaker and photographer William Heick...

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novel-in-verse Robinson Alone was inspired by the life & work of poet Weldon Kees and his alter-ego persona-character "Robinson". Her debut novel, O, Democracy...

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Review of Books. Retrieved 28 November 2012. Kees, Weldon (June 2003). Robert E. Knoll (ed.). Weldon Kees and the Mid-Century Generation: Letters, 1935-1955...

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The Joy of Life

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credits music from legendary 1950s icon (and probable Golden Gate suicide) Weldon Kees. The film is dedicated to the memory of Mark Finch, who committed suicide...

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Walker Winslow

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Walker and Helen became friends of Weldon Kees and his wife Ann, after they rented an apartment near the Kees. Weldon Kees had known not only of Helen's novel...

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Whittaker Chambers

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York Times Book Review editor Harvey Breit, and poets Howard Moss and Weldon Kees. A struggle had arisen between those, like Theodore H. White and Richard...

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Wilder Hobson

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playing piano and guitar. A biography of Time colleague Weldon Kees includes a reminiscence of Kees on piano and Hobson on trombone in the Greenwich Village...

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Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute

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worked here from 1960 to 2004. Anthropologist Gregory Bateson and poet Weldon Kees also worked here in the 1950s with psychiatrist Jurgen Ruesch. Ruesch...

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Doane University

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gaiashkibos – executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs Weldon Kees – poet, painter, filmmaker, and jazz musician Joseph D. Leitch – US Army...

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Donald Justice

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University of Michigan Press. Kees, Weldon; Wojahn, David (2003). Justice, Donald (ed.). The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Third ed.). Bison Books....

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Milton Sills

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Boulevard. Sills was the favorite actor of poet Weldon Kees as a child, and Sills' Men of Steel influenced Kees' poem "1926". The Pit (1914) as Corthell The...

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Leonard Thiessen

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Thiessen's professors included Dwight Kirsch, Louise Austin, Mari Sandoz, Weldon Kees, and Loren Eiseley. He was active in two fraternities, first in Phi Sigma...

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Apokatastasis

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Tauris. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-84885-087-3. Irwin, John (2017). The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence. Baltimore, Maryland: JHU Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-4214-2261-9...

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Caresse Crosby

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Cartier-Bresson,René Char, Paul Éluard, Jean Genet, Natalia Ginzburg, Victor Hugo, Weldon Kees, Robert Lowell, Henri Matisse, Henry Miller, Eugenio Montale, Anaïs Nin...

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February 24

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English-Swedish architect, designed The Ark and Byker Wall (d. 2005) 1914 – Weldon Kees, American author, poet, painter, and pianist (d. 1955) 1915 – Jim Ferrier...

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List of poets from the United States

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(1923–2016) Sarah Kay W. B. Keckler (born 1966) John Keene (born 1965) Weldon Kees (1914–1955) Bill Keith (1929–2004) Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951) X...

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Robert Niemi

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dissertation Music Out of an Abyss: A Critical Study of the Fiction of Weldon Kees he graduated with a Ph.D. in English in 1991. Since 1990 Niemi taught...

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Provincetown Art Association and Museum

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involved with Forum 49, a summer-long program series in 1949 organized by Weldon Kees, Fritz Bultman, and Cecil Hemley to challenge views on art. The rise...

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