Gladys Campbell was a poet and teacher in Chicago

Chicago

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. As a student she was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club

University of Chicago Poetry Club

University of Chicago Poetry Club, a group formed in 1917 by students who wished to address the absence of modern poetry in the University of Chicago curriculum....

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Campbell attended the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 to study poetry and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1920 and a Master of Arts in 1943. Campbell was one of the early members of the University of Chicago Poetry Club

University of Chicago Poetry Club

University of Chicago Poetry Club, a group formed in 1917 by students who wished to address the absence of modern poetry in the University of Chicago curriculum....

. Campbell was close friends with George Dillon

George Dillon

George Hill Dillon was an American editor and poet. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida but he spent his childhood in Kentucky and the Mid-West. He graduated from The University of Chicago in 1927 with a degree in English...

, Charles Bell

Charles Bell

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, and Glenway Wescott

Glenway Wescott

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Campbell wrote poetry throughout her life and her poems appeared frequently in Poetry magazine, The Forge, The Dial

The Dial

The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. In the 1880s it was revived as a political magazine...

and Book Notes.

Campbell taught English and humanities in Chicago from 1922 to 1957. Hyde Park's Poetry Society met in her apartment.