Maxine Kaplan Cassin, 1927-2010
Maxine Kaplan Cassin wrote poetry throughout her life, using her degrees in philosophy to inform her word choices and thoughts. She was also an editor who influenced other poets. Along with Everette Maddox and Yorke Corbin, she edited the first Maple Leaf Rag anthology (1980). In her editorship of the New Orleans Poetry Journal Press, she was among the first publishers to give public voice to the early works of such nationally known poets as Donald Hall, Sylvia Plath, and Vassar Miller. Cassin established a poetry award for graduate students at the University of New Orleans. In her Three Love Poems by a Native, chosen from many of her poems, you can sense her memory of her hometown.
Maxine Kaplan Cassin. Photograph, ca. 1974. Courtesy of Dan Cassin.
Maxine Kaplan Cassin. Photograph, ca. 2005. Courtesy of Dan Cassin.
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