Poetic Obituaries: [Adele V. Holden] studied poetry with

Elliot Coleman during the earlier days of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars (on full scholarship, no less). She published Figurine and Other Poems, her only other book, in 1961. She often lunched with Josephine Jacobsen, counted Ruby Dee among her friends, and sustained correspondence with Langston Hughes. Nikki Giovanni called Down on the Shore "a moving testament to the human spirit."

Adele taught hundreds of students, many of whom went on to great things, such as Robert M. Bell, the first African-American man to serve as the Maryland Court of Appeals' chief judge. The Enoch Pratt Free Library decorated one of its prime Cathedral Street display windows in her honor when Figurine published.

from Baltimore City Paper: Black Infiniti

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