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invitinghistory: "Gloria Mundi," a poem about the Titanic published by Eunice Tietjens in 1914. It was described by a contemporary: "Many efforts have been made to put into poetry the Titanic disaster, but none of them, it seems to us, has had any more poetic value than is found in this..."

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to writer and poet Eunice Tietjens (July 29, 1884), author of “Profiles From China“(1917) et al.

ScottAndPark: Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to win the coveted Pulitzer. Other honors received throughout her lifetime include Poetry magazine's Eunice Tietjens Prize.

WomanToday2: During this time, Rich also received the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize from Poetry Magazine. Rich and Conrad hosted anti-war and Black Panther fundraising parties at their apartment. 19/

JeannieLoyd: Vintage 1930s The Gingerbread Boy, Pictures Nina Jordan, Classic Fairy Tale, by Eunice Tietjens, Nursery Decor, Children's Stories, Whitman

nadmussen: Just stumbled across this 1922 essay by Eunice Tietjens advocating against "folk simplicity" tropes in translating Chinese poetry. "Such a poet as T. S. Eliot, in our own day, is still much too unsophisticated to have written a T'ang poem."

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to writer and poet Eunice Tietjens (July 29, 1884), author of “Profiles From China“(1917) et al.

TheRealSPA: Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to win the coveted Pulitzer. Other honors received throughout her lifetime include Poetry magazine's Eunice Tietjens Prize.

adamm0rgan: "It was the perfect flower of adolescence, the triumph of wide-eyed and high-hearted ineptitude. It was a blaze of courage and a mine of foolishness. It was delicious." —Eunice Tietjens on The Little Review and —Anyone who's ever started a lit mag

MelanieJaxn: Beautiful&rich is an old friendship, Where light has lingered, intimate&long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all- save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song." ~ Eunice Tietjens

NewberryLibrary: On August 8, 1912, Margery Currey wrote excitedly to her friend Eunice Tietjens to report on the Progressive Party convention in Chicago & describe her own efforts to ensure that women's suffrage became part of the party's platform.

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to writer and poet Eunice Tietjens (July 29, 1884), author of “Profiles From China“(1917) et al.

peter_masiakos: Thinking about my Twitter friends this morning as I read this poem by Eunice Tietjens. circa 1918-1920.

MichaelGranzen: The post-modern lament: I have too many selves to know the one/ In too complex a schooling was I bred,/ Child of too many cities who have gone/ Down all bright cross-roads of the worlds desires,/ And at too many alters bowed my head/ Too light too many fires. Eunice Tietjens

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to writer and poet Eunice Tietjens (July 29, 1884), author of “Profiles From China“(1917) et al.

charleslaughlin: I like

chinarhyming: Today Eunice Tietjens 1915 poem My Servants, written in Wuxi...

chinarhyming: Eunice Tietjens 1915 poem The Dandy, written in Wuxi about the morning bird walkers...

chinarhyming: A Eunice Tietjens poem on the Hanyang Arsenal & Iron Works from 1915....

chinarhyming: The Sikh policemen of Shanghai remembered in this pre-WW1 poem

chinarhyming: Eunice Tietjens pre-WW1 poem about Peking's Altar of Heaven today....

chinarhyming: Starting today & throughout January on my blog -

chinarhyming: A little project for the start of the new year recovering the China poetry of Eunice Tietjins....

manas_akram: Boy of the Desert. Eunice Tietjens. 1928 1st w/DJ

manas_akram: LEAVES IN WINDY WEATHER by Eunice Tietjens, 1929 1st Ed

scaifea: Reviewed Boy of the South Seas by Eunice Tietjens on LibraryThing

happybdauthors: happy birthday Eunice Tietjens! American journalist, poet, fiction writer

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to writer and poet Eunice Tietjens (July 29, 1884), author of "Profiles From China"(1917) et al.

NewberryLibrary: Covering Chicago soldiers in WWI, Eunice Tietjens wrote that they had a "hope that was like a clean prairie wind."...



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