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Lucia Trent (December 19, 1897 - January 27, 1977) was an American poet In the

1930s some considered her to be the best female poetry reader of the time. in: Original Penny's Poetry

Pages articles, George J. Dance articles, Signed articles,  Trent was born in

Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of Alice (Lyman) and William Peterfield

Trent (1862-1939). Trent married Edward Ralph Cheyney around 1926. Trent and Cheney (also

a poet) edited literary magazine Contemporary Vision.  For some years Trent was the book editor

of The Nation.  An activist like her husband, Trent published

many works intended to raise the consciousness of the middle and working

classes, including Children of Fire and Shadow (1929)

and Thank You, America! (1937). The couple's son, Trent Cheney (who was writing and

reciting his own poetry at 12), was called both a child prodigy and "the

greatest child poet of today." After Ralph Cheyney died, Lucia Trent

married Ernest Glass, and lived with him in Austin, Texas. She was bedridden for the last decade of her life after

a stroke. She is buried with Cheyney in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio,

Texas. Trent's sonnet "To John Steinbeck" was published in

Davis's Anthology of Newspaper Verse for 1939: 21st annual edition (New

York: Henry Harrison, 1940). Her work was

included in the Modern American Poetry anthology.

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“Penny’s Poetry Pages” Lucia Trent Hand Written Letter on Letterhead

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