Helen Hennessy Vendler was born in Boston in 1933. She studied chemistry at Emmanuel College, a Roman Catholic school for women in Boston, and went to the University of Louvain after graduation on a Fulbright fellowship. She took her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1960 with a dissertation on Yeats, a.
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JH: Other than for those early mentors like Will Jumper, who has influenced your work? TK: I’ve had many friends with whom I’ve exchanged poems, including you, Judith, but none whom I think of as