Poetic Obituaries: [Eva] Touster received her Ph.D. in English

from Vanderbilt University in 1951 and went on to a long career as professor of English at Peabody College. In 1981, she became a founder and long-time editor of the Cumberland Poetry Review. Touster's poems were published in poetry magazines in England, Canada and the United States and in Homewords, an anthology of Tennessee writers. A collection of her poems, The Wind, the Rose, and the Stone, was published in 2005.

A group of poets met at Touster's home every other week for 40 years, sharing and critiquing one another's poems.

from Vanderbilt University: myVU: Eva Touster, poet, professor of English, dies

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