Poetic Obituaries: [Edna Wilmington] wrote wonderfully too.

Here is a poem she composed on a Madison bus, an impromptu response to another poem given her by her friend, fellow Madison student and later artist and professor Dudley Huppler. Dudley had whipped up some doggerel, in which he called her by a pet name, "Loon" and defended "selling out" in art, because "to a peacock, spraying feathers unobserved would he absurd."

She responded:

I am appalled.

from Movie City News: Edna Wilmington (1915-2009)

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