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November 11, 2015 (95 years old)
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Scorpio
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Madeline Defrees
Madeline DeFrees is an American poet born in Ontario, Oregon, living in Seattle, Washington. She joined the Jesuit Saints of Jesus and Mary in 1936 and took the name of Sister Mary Gilbert. She received a B.A. in English from Marylhurst College and an MA in Journalism from the University of Oregon. She regained her baptismal name in 1967 when she went to teach at the University of Montana. While in Missoula, she applied for an exemption from her oath, which she received in 1973. She taught at Holy Names College from 1950 to 1967, at the University of Montana from 1967 to 1979, and at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1979-1985. After retiring in 1985, DeFrees completed residency at Bucknell University, East Washington University and Wichita State University.
BornNovember 18, 1919 November 18, 1919, Ontario, Oregon
DiedNovember 11, 2015, Portland, Oregon
NationalityAmerican

About Madeline Defrees

Poet Madeline Defrees was born on November 18, 1919 in Oregon, United States (She dies at the age of 95, on November 11, 2015).

Blue Dusk, Magpie on the Gallows, and other works by American poet and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. For her poetry collection Spectral Waves, published in 2006, she won the Washington State Book Award.

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Madeline Defrees before becoming famous

Madeline Defrees was born in the Zodiac sign Scorpio (The Scorpion), and 1919 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Goat (羊).

Marylhurst College and the University of Oregon awarded her degrees. In 1964, she released her first collection of poetry, From the Darkroom.

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Sister Mary Gilbert was her name when she entered the Catholic Sisterhood in 1936.

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She grew up in the state of Oregon. She went on to teach in the graduate creative writing department at Pacific University in her home state.

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Poet Amy Clampitt, another American poet, was a contemporary of hers.

Amy Clampitt (1920 - 1994) (Poet)
Amy Clampitt (1920 - 1994)

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