May Swenson

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Swenson, May (28 May 1913 - 4 December 1989)

Swenson, a poet and member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, wrote In Other Words, New Poems (1987). She was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.

Swenson was an honorary member of the Secular Humanist Society of New York.

Correspondence

Of humanism she wrote in 1989 to Warren Allen Smith {WAS}:

• I subscribe to Secular Humanism. Thank you for taking notice of the opinions of women, which I think, was not the case in the questionnaire some 40 years ago.

{GL; WAS, 4 February 1989}