Barbara Guest

Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Barbara Guest (1920-2006) is one of the few women of her generation associated with the New York School of poetry, a group of poets — including John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara, and James Schuyler — who were inspired by the modern painters and musicians of the 1950s and ’60s. Guest is also known for her biography of the poet H.D., Herself Defined: The Poet H. D. and Her World. She was awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America.