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Texas poets wed
On this day in 1927, Texas poets Vaida Stewart and Whitney M. Montgomery
married. Vaida was born in Childress in 1888; Whitney was born near
Eureka, Texas, in 1877. They established their home in Dallas and in May
1929 launched Kaleidoscope (later Kaleidograph), which
they issued monthly until 1954 and quarterly from 1954 to 1959. Both Vaida
and Whitney Montgomery won numerous prizes from the Poetry Society of
Texas and from the Texas Institute of Letters, of which Whitney was
president in 1940. Vaida Stewart Montgomery died in 1959, and Whitney
Maxwell Montgomery died in 1966.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- MONTGOMERY, VAIDA STEWART
- MONTGOMERY, WHITNEY MAXWELL
- KALEIDOGRAPH
- POETRY SOCIETY OF TEXAS
- TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS
- WOMEN AND LITERATURE
- LITERATURE
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