George Elliston (1883 - October 7, 1946) was an American journalist.

Biography

George Elliston was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. She graduated from Covington High School. Elliston worked as a reporter for the ''

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'' and later as the Society Editor for that newspaper. She married Augustus Coleman in 1907 and lived briefly with him in

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. She and Coleman separated, and Elliston lived simply and alone in

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for the remainder of her life. Upon her death in

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, on October 7, 1946, Elliston bequeathed to the

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to establish a chair "to promote the cause of poetry". The university inaugurated the Elliston Poet-in-Residence Program in 1951. Composer

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set many of Elliston's poems to music.

Notable Elliston poets

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* Philip Levine *

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* William Stafford *

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References

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