Who is Alice Corbin

Alice Corbin Henderson (April 16, 1881 – July 18, 1949) was an American poet, author and poetry editor.

Early life and education

Alice Corbin was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother died in 1884 and she was briefly sent to live with her father's cousin Alice Mallory Richardson in Chicago before returning to her father in Kansas after his remarriage in 1891.

Corbin attended the University of Chicago, and in 1898 published a collection of poetry The Linnet Songs. In 1904 she rented a studio in the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago, and it was there she met her future husband, William Penhallow Henderson, a painter, architect and furniture designer, who was teaching there at the time. They married on October 14, 1905.

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Alice Corbin Poems

• Muy Vieja Mexicana
  I've seen her pass with eyes upon the road-
  An old bent woman in a bronze-black shawl,
  With skin as dried and wrinkled as a mummy's,
  As brown as a cigar-box, and her voice...

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Comments about Alice Corbin

• _therealib: “it doesn’t matter how small the space you’re pack life in, that space is as big as the universe” — alice corbin henderson
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• Clownabis: someone compared me and corbin to that alice girl and her husband (alice &fern)
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