Gloria Oden, American poet and academic (d. 2011)
Gloria Catherine Oden (October 30, 1923 – December 16, 2011) was an American poet, editor and retired professor of English. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for Resurrections, a collection of poems that responded to the unsolved murder of her mother and sister in their home in Washington, D.C.
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