The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet graduated from this former women’s college in Poughkeepsie.
by Rich Watson
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a poet from the early twentieth century. Her poem “Ballad of the Harp-Weaver” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, the first time the award went to a woman poet.
She achieved notoriety early in life, which led to an education at a distinguished school: Vassar College.
